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Serbia's Truth-O-Meter

John Feffer | Posted 04.26.2013 | World
John Feffer

In American politics, the rigorous subjecting of political statements to fact-checking is a relatively recent phenomenon. Promoting accountability is never an easy task, particularly in countries just emerging from authoritarianism.

Kosovo, Gypsy Curse or PTSD: What Really Triggered Serbia's Massacre?

Sasa Milosevic | Posted 04.22.2013 | World
Sasa Milosevic

Many Serbs are not truly interested in the political fate of Kosovo, instead seeing themselves as hostages of Kosovo's drama for decades. It is arguable that these new pressures provoke old wounds and revive dormant traumas.

Serbia And Kosovo Reach Historic Deal

Reuters | Posted 04.19.2013 | World

By Aleksandar Vasovic and Justyna Pawlak BRUSSELS, April 19 (Reuters) - Serbia agreed to cede its last remaining foothold in the count...

The Orwellian Warfare State of Carnage and Doublethink

Norman Solomon | Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics
Norman Solomon

The same U.S. news media that are conveying the preciousness of children so terribly harmed in Boston are scarcely interested in children like Guljumma.

Life Under Sanctions

John Feffer | Posted 04.17.2013 | World
John Feffer

If you want the people of Iran to rise up against their leaders, why give the leadership an easy target to blame for the economic conditions that adversely affect the standard of living of average people?

Tea & Bosnia With Lady Thatcher

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey | Posted 04.17.2013 | World
Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey

Lady Thatcher invited me to her home as the Special Envoy as well as BiH UN Ambassador. The home, conversation, and the tea served was what one would expect: neat, direct, and English.

"Justice May Be Slow but It Is Inevitable"

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey

Nikolić's and Jeremić's promotion of historical revisionism that denies genocide and accentuates ethnic chauvinism negates what many in Washington and Brussels may wishfully want to see as a more politically progressive Serbia.

Whitewashing Genocide

Diana Jenkins | Posted 04.11.2013 | World
Diana Jenkins

The United Nations, which is supposed to represent the best of our collective aspirations for justice and human rights, yesterday represented the worst.

Re-living the Balkan Wars Through Serbian Eyes

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 04.11.2013 | World
Evelyn Leopold

The president of the U.N. General Assembly decided to hold an all day debate on whether international justice promoted reconciliation. But his real purpose was to undermine a war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia because of a perceived bias towards Serbs.

Denying Genocide Won't Promote Reconciliation

Richard Dicker | Posted 04.11.2013 | World
Richard Dicker

A public debate at the UN on April 10 will serve up a revisionist denial of the worst killings in Europe since the end of World War II: the ethnic slaughter in the former Yugoslavia that horrified the world in the 1990s.

Shooting Spree In Serbia Leaves 13 Dead

AP | JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 04.09.2013 | World

VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia -- He went from house to house in the village at dawn, cold-bloodedly gunning down his mother, his son, a 2-year-old cousin and ...

The Secret History of Yugoslavia

John Feffer | Posted 04.08.2013 | Books
John Feffer

The Secret History is a compelling account of the court intrigues of a treacherous emperor in a crumbling empire.

Courting Capital in Serbia

John Feffer | Posted 04.05.2013 | World
John Feffer

Established in 2006 by USAID but now an independent organization, NALED is devoted to promoting economic development in Serbia.

The Regime Changer

John Feffer | Posted 04.02.2013 | World
John Feffer

After 1989, some of the dissidents of East-Central Europe went back to their original job. Others threw themselves into politics, as Vaclav Havel somewhat reluctantly did. And then there was the smallest category of them all: the dissidents who turned professional.

Speaking Openly in Serbia

John Feffer | Posted 05.22.2013 | World
John Feffer

The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Serbia is comparatively low. Nevertheless, those who live with the disease report that they are stigmatized, ostracized, and have difficulties gaining access to treatment.

Two Cheers for Government

John Feffer | Posted 05.20.2013 | World
John Feffer

It's not easy to find people in East-Central Europe who will put in a good word for government. Danilo Vukovic currently works for an NGO in Serbia, but he has also worked in government. He has a more charitable view of the Serbian government than many of his colleagues.

Finding a Normal Path in Serbia

John Feffer | Posted 03.19.2013 | World
John Feffer

Even today, the country in Europe with the largest population of internally displaced persons (IDP) is Serbia. More than a decade after the end of the wars in former Yugoslavia, more than 200,000 people remain in limbo in Serbia.

Ten Years Without Zoran Djindjic

Jasmina Tesanovic | Posted 05.12.2013 | World
Jasmina Tesanovic

We can say all we want to say, in favor or against Djindjic's politics, but thanks to him, history advanced in big steps forward -- and without him, history limps and crawls back into the dark.

Five Years of Kosova Independence

Rep. Eliot Engel | Posted 04.21.2013 | World
Rep. Eliot Engel

February 17 marked the fifth anniversary of Kosova's independence. It has been a honor and a pleasure to stand by the people of Kosova as they have moved from tragedy to triumph over the last 20 years. But the struggle is not yet over.

Homeless Man Finds Shelter Among The Dead

AP | JOVANA GEC | Posted 02.15.2013 | World

NIS, Serbia -- To Bratislav Stojanovic, the best way to cope in the world of the living is to descend among the dead. The 42-year-old homeless man ha...

Ancient Bone Raises New Questions About Early Humans

Posted 02.07.2013 | Science

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 02/06/2013 05:24 PM EST on LiveScience Scientists have unearthed a jawbone from an ancient huma...

Balkan Soap Opera

Jasmina Tesanovic | Posted 04.08.2013 | World
Jasmina Tesanovic

Magnificent Century, the Turkish historical soap opera, has been renamed Suleiman the Magnificent for Serbian release. The relevance of this Turkish TV program couldn't be more obvious to a Balkan people striving to invade the Schengen Fortress of the European Union.

Ron Dicker

Homeless TV Weather Reporters?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.31.2013 | Impact

In Europe, the TV weather reporter might be closer to the outside elements than viewers think. Homeless people are being recruited to give the fore...

Human Rights in Serbia

John Feffer | Posted 04.02.2013 | World
John Feffer

One of the major problems plaguing the Balkans in particular is impunity. People commit crimes, and they get away with it.

Sundance Wrap-up: Magic, Magic, Circles and Everything I Missed

John Lopez | Posted 03.27.2013 | Los Angeles
John Lopez

As Sundance heads into its mythic second weekend -- of which many have heard but few dare endure -- all trappings of mainstream movie civilization fall away: plot resolution, reliable narrators, temporal continuity.