Kosovo

"Eleven O'clock Meeting"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Politics, Media, Al Gore, White House, Abc, Eleven O'clock Meeting, Mass Grave, Lewinski, Al Franken, Mitt Romney, Nightline, John Markus, Kosovo, Lateline, Media News
Earl Pomerantz

I visited the Nightline production offices and sat in on the "Eleven O'clock Meeting," a daily routine, during which staff gather to decide which topic Nightline will focus on that night.

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Previously Unknown Hagel Letter Warns Rice of Russia Collision

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abkhazia, Serbia, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, US Foreign Policy, South Ossetia, Russia, Stephen Hadley, Chuck Hagel, Balkans, Kosovo, Blowback, Politics News
Steve Clemons

This letter warns the administration that its actions in the Balkans ran the risk of triggering blowback from Russia -- it seems it was ignored.

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Catholic Priest Officiates at Fully-Uniformed Nazi's Funeral

Julia Gorin | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Nazi, Terrorism, Croatia, Thaci, Balkans, Serbia, Catholic, George Bush, Yugoslavia, Kosova, Serbs, Bosnia, Cheney, Albania, Karadzic, Vatican, Politics News
Julia Gorin

Commander of the second-largest concentration camp complex of World War II -- Croatia's Jasenovac -- passed away last week and received a burial in hi...

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Why Doesn't Media Ask McCain: "You Have Served Your Country Honorably, Sir, but Exactly Which Wars Have You Won?"

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain Vietnam, John McCain, John McCain Iraq War, John Mccain Afghanistan, War With Iran, Obama McCain, Mccain, War, Kosovo, Afghanistan War, McCain Iraq, John McCain Iraq, McCain War, John McCain 2008, McCain Afghanistan, John McCain Vietnam, McCain 2008, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."

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Par For the Course: Purported Serbian Killer of Muslims Arrested; Confirmed Muslim Killers of Christian Serbs Acquitted, Embraced

Julia Gorin | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Julia Gorin, Serbia, Karadzic, Kosovo, Bosnia, Bush, Serbs, Terrorism, Balkans, Politics News
Julia Gorin

When will Americans finally ask what is happening when the U.S. is embracing China, North Korea, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, "Palestine", "Kosova" -- while isolating Serbia?

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Gangster Lunch: Kosovo Godfather Thaci Hosts U.S. Congressmembers

Julia Gorin | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jihad, Congress, Bosnia, Kosovo, Bush, Thaci, Kosova, Clinton Kosovo, Engel, Independent Kosovo, Politics News
Julia Gorin

Prime Minister Thaçi gives lunch for members of the U.S. Congress at his house in Burojë Prishtina, 15 June 2008 -- The Prime Minister of the Repu...

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In Albania

Mona Gable | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Kosovo, The Maternal Is Political, Nato, Albania, Living News
Mona Gable

In May of 1999 I flew from Budapest into Tirana, the desiccated capital of Albania. I had come to this city at the edge of the Adriatic to follow a group of American doctors and nurses as they journeyed to the refugee camps.

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Do the Clintons Feel Our Pain, or Do They Cause It?

Julia Gorin | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Funny, Kosovo, Clintonisms, Gorin, Julia, Humor, War, Monica, Obama, Clintons, Amazon, Hillary, Bosnia, Barack, Eliot, Spitzer, Lewinsky, Elliot, Comedy, Bill, Politics News
Julia Gorin

That's the question that Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing and Suspect Musing of Billary attempts to answer. Dating back to the 1960s and through b...

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WaPo Fact Checks Hillary's Kosovo Adventures

Washington Post | Michael Dobbs | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sinbad Kosovo, Hillary Clinton Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton National Security, Kosovo, Hillary Clinton Commander in Chief, Hillary Clinton Kosovo, Politics News

Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retellin...

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Kosovo: The Hypocrisy of the U.S. Cries to Respect International Law

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Serbia, Nato, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Kosovo, President Bush, Belgrade, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

The Bush administration's quick recognition of an independent Kosovo has given us a powerful reminder that empire is bipartisan, as are the tactics and rhetoric and bombs used to defend and expand it.

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Hillary's Other Foreign Policy Judgment Call

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas Primary, Kosovo, Hillary Clinton Kosovo, John Laughland, Serbia, Austin Texas Debate, Cnn Texas Democratic Debate, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Texas Debate, Kosovo Independence, Hillary Foreign Policy, Serbian Riots, Texas Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton Texas Primary, Hillary Iraq, Politics News
Andrew Gumbel

By the time Hillary took the stage at the University of Texas last night, it was more than apparent that her vision of peace for the Balkans was, to coin a phrase, a big fairy-tale.

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Obama Calls Plagiarism Flap 'Best of Times, Worst of Times'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Kosovo, Andrea Mitchell, Susie Essman, Jeffrey Toobin, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Andy Borowitz

Mr. Obama's somewhat cryptic remark came at a fundraiser in Houston in which he dared his rival to tell the truth about the brouhaha, declaring, "You can't handle the truth!"

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Superpower Divide Over Kosovo Widens

AP | ROBERT WIELAARD | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Kosovo Independence, Serbia, Russia, European Union, Europeans Nations, Superpower Divide Kosovo, Kosovo Independence Declaration, Politics News

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The U.S. and the European Union's biggest powers quickly recognized Kosovo as an independent nation Monday, widening a split...

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Unbridgeable: The Ethnic Divide In Kosovo

International Herald Tribune | Dan Bilefsky | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Kosovo Independence, Serbians, Kosovo, Kosovo Declares Independence, Kosovars, Serbia, Albanians, Ethnic Tensions Kosovo, Politics News

A day after Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leadership declared independence from Serbia, 7,000 Serbs took to the streets of this divided city, waving Serbia...

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Defiant Kosovo Celebrates Independence

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE and NEBI QENA | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Serbia, Kosovo Independence, Politics News

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Revelers fired guns, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed ...

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Independence Hangs in the Balance: What Do Kosovar Women Think?

Zainab Salbi | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Women for Women International, Kosovo, Balkans, Women in Kosovo, Politics News
Zainab Salbi

Once again, negotiations impacting the future of an entire region have failed to include women's voices.

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Kosovo Nightmares

Al Eisele | Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: Gazmend Syla, Kosovo, Serbia, Albania, Politics News
Al Eisele

My student's dramatic account of what could happen when Kosovo declares independence brought several of my other students to tears.

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Republicans Vote to Cut Off Funding for Our Troops

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Timetables, Exit Strategy, Cutting Off Funding, Somalia, Vietnam, Iraq, Withdrawal, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Republicans are saying that cutting off funding for our troops is never acceptable. That's the obvious lie that must be exposed.

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Hillary was NOT Boring on Meet the Press: She Raised a Critical Issue of Presidential Power

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Sunday Talk Show Marathon, Hillary Clinton, Kosovo, Bosnia, Nafta, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Senator Clinton asserted the right of the President, in non-emergency situations, to take the US to war without prior approval by Congress.

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A Grand Bargain for Kosovo - and Europe

Jon Levy | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Kosovo, Serbia, Politics News
Jon Levy

A new round of talks on the status of Kosovo began on September 18. A key piece of the deal is creating incentives for Serbia.

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