balkanization

BFP Exclusive: A Nuclear Tinderbox in Ukraine?

To claim that war is the formula for prosperity and unity is to pledge allegiance to the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
The accusers
Europeans hardly had time to drink all the champagne left over from the New Year's Eve parties when George Soros declared to them (yet again) that they are "at war" with Russia and that "they need to start acting like it".[1]

BFP Exclusive- The Balkans Presidential December: A Test for the US-NATO Empire

Greece & Croatia: The clear presence of a political alternative to the hegemonic US-NATO Empire
 This month the presidential elections will take place in two Balkan countries: Croatia and Greece. The electoral systems in these two countries are different, but what they have in common is the clear presence of a political alternative to the hegemonic US-NATO Empire. This is yet another sign that the people of the region are beginning to resist and reject the imperial grip and are in the process of making possible a different, more autonomous political future.
Croatia

BFP Exclusive – “China & the Balkans: This geopolitical Battle in its Beginning Phases”

China, the Balkans and A Battle for Geopolitical Influence & Power
The presence of China in the Balkans is not new. During the years of the Cold War, China closely cooperated first with Albania and then with Yugoslavia. In fact, Albania was one of the key initiators of the UN resolution 2758 which led to the UN recognition of the People's Republic of China in 1971.[1]

BFP Exclusive- The Southeast European Times: The US Military Propaganda Operation in the Balkans

The Cracks in the US-Balkan Imperial Enterprise Are Already Showing
Under the innocuous and neutrally-sounding name of the web-based newspaper Southeast European Times, the US military is running a large propaganda operation in the Balkans. Its aim is to distort and twist the media interpretation of the political, economic and social events in order to make it fit with the interests of the US-NATO military industrial complex in this part of the world.

Syria Under Attack by the Mind Managers: The Dark Satanic Mills of Propaganda

Covering Syria: The Information War
By Aisling Byrne
Originally published in the Asia Times
July 12, 2012
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The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it is a narrative duplicitously promoted and

Michael Parenti asks: "Genocide" in Kosovo? Where are the Bodies Buried? (2000)

Where Are All the Bodies Buried?: NATO Commits Acts of Aggression
By Michael Parenti
Originally published in Z Magazine
June, 2000
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In March 1999, NATO forces launched an 11-week nonstop aerial attack upon Yugoslavia that violated the UN charter, NATO's own charter, the U.S. Constitution, and the War Powers Act. Yugoslavia had

"Humanitarian War" in the Balkans: Diana Johnstone Destroys NATO's Leviathan of Lies With Simple Truth (2003)

Diana Johnstone on the Balkan Wars
By Edward S. Herman
Originally published in Monthly Review
February 21, 2003
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Editors note: this article (and the book it highlights) is perhaps even more timely now than when it was published.

Fools' Crusade (2002)
Diana Johnstone’s Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions