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  Propaganda: Nobody Does ItBetter Than America. Paul WeberOver the years, I have had the privilege of meeting and having discussions with people who came to America from countries known for their adherence to totalitarianism: China, Russia, and former east European satellites of the Soviet Union. When we discussed how the state managed to control public opinion under totalitarianism, these people would usually produce a weary, knowledgeable, cynical smile and point out that propaganda in those countries was really done quite incompetently. If you really want to know propaganda, they said, you need to study American propaganda technique. According to...

America at War in Macedonia Michel Chossudovsky,  July 24, 2002 Washington's covert war in Macedonia purports to consolidate America's sphere of influence in southeastern Europe. At stake is the strategic Bulgaria-Macedonia-Albania transport, communications and oil pipeline "corridor" which links the Black Sea to the Adriatic coast. Macedonia stands at the strategic crossroads of the oil pipeline corridor. Michel Chossudovsky explains: To protect critical pipeline routes, Washington's goal is to install a "patchwork of protectorates" along strategic corridors in the Balkans.  The promise of  "Greater Albania" used by Washington to foment Albanian nationalism is part of the military-intelligence ploy.  Amply documented,...

The August 11 will be the moment when the renewed Temple of Saint Kliment in Plaoshnik in Ohrid will be sanctified and open for believers, thus becoming real sanctuary to whole Macedonian nation. It is not only the radiance of new temple but also the place itself which Saint Kliment chose in 11 century and built his church dedicated to the protector of health, Saint Panteleimon, which hides in itself invaluable treasure related to the marvelous history of this area. The team that has been working on archeological excavation in the huge space of Saint Kliment sanctuary practically went crazy...

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries said on Friday it was prepared for a price war unless Russia took steps to curb its rapidly growing production. A senior Opec official said the cartel, which supplies about a third of the world's oil, was becoming increasingly frustrated by Russia's improving relationship with the US and its growing share of the world market. "The Russians are playing a dirty political game with Opec and it is becoming very hard to trust them. If they are keen on having a price war, so be it. It is time we abandoned the soft approach...

NATO's peacekeeping mission in Macedonia will be prolonged to allow a truce between government forces and the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) to be consolidated, the force's German commander announced. General Heinz-Georg Keerl said, in an interview published Wednesday in the paper of the German army in the former Yugoslavia, that a new NATO mission would amount to a prolongation of the current NATO-led operation Amber Fox. "How that mandate will be prolonged is under discussion at all levels of NATO in Brussels, military and political, as well as in the European capitals which may assume leadership," of the ...

Tetovo during World War II, 1941-1944: Introduction The practical implementation of the Greater Albania ideology was achieved during World War II when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini established a German/Italian sponsored Albanian state which incorporated Western Macedonia, Illirida, Kosovo-Metohija, Kosova, and southern Montenegro. Hitler and Mussolini set the historical and political precedent for the creation of Greater Albania which existed from 1941 to 1944. The Orthodox Slavic populations, the Roma and Jewish populations were to be exterminated and deported. Albanian was made the official language in Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and southern Montenegro. The Albanian Lek was introduced as the official ...

The Borgating Court of Appeal in Norway acquitted NATO captain Westley Christian of the responsibility for the car crash on the Veles - Skopje highway of three years ago, killing the then minister without portfolio Radovan Stojkovski, his wife, one of his two children and the chauffeur. The accident happened when the NATO vehicle driven by Christian in the unpermitted direction on the one-way highway, violating thus all international traffic regulations, collided directly with the minister’s car. The Norwegian soldier will not be held accountable even for negligence. The NATO notification sent to the Macedonian ambassador to Oslo relates that ...

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The Venice critics agreed on how to welcome the film two days before they got to see it! An English critic – Alexander Walker - comes up with a brilliant thought: he claims that the goal of “Dust” is to block Turkey’s admission to the EU! The German Der Tagespiegel declared the film anti-Albanian and Neo-Fascist, saying: “Instead of the Albanian Muslims we have here the Ottomans as the ‚untermenschen‘ and the Macedonians are as innocent as lambs, which are slaughtered during the film numerously. And the black boy whom the old woman explains the Balkans to, is nobody else ...

Belgrade, 21 January: A deputy chairman of the Democratic Party of Serbia [DSS, President Kostunica's party], Dragan Marsicanin, said today that the DSS was proposing, in its basic principles for a new Serbian constitution, that Serbia should be divided into five regions whose centres would be Belgrade, Kragujevac, Nis, Novi Sad and Uzice. "Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Yugoslavia and thereby Serbia and it would be the sixth region in Serbia after the issue of its status is resolved," Marsicanin said at a news conference. Another DSS deputy premier, Zoran Sami, added that Vojvodina, according to the DSS's concept, ...

Skopje, Macedonia – Last Summer, rumors of an unstated connection between NATO and the NLA persisted in Macedonia. Two occasions in particular drew attention. First, the Battle of Aracinovo, in which German and Macedonian sources alleged that 17 "advisors" from MPRI took part on the Albanian side; Macedonian security sources claim that three Americans were among those killed. Second, was a mysterious airdrop by a US helicopter over the NLA stronghold of Sipkovice, filmed by a Macedonian television crew. They claimed that a "container," perhaps of weapons, was being given to the Albanians, for use against the Macedonian security forces. ...

Milcho Manchevski's movie "Dust" tells two tales, one happening in today's New York City, and the other in Macedonia in Ottoman times. If you carefully watch it you can notice antique photographs and newspaper pages. The items are prominently displayed in the beginning of the movie, while Afro-American Edge, one of the main characters, searches through Angela's room. Edge discovers the photos and pages in a locked chest belonging to the Macedonian-American old lady. Few people know that the newspaper clippings used in the movie are archived originals from The New York Times, published in 1901, 1902 and 1903. For ...

The level of adherence to principles of the International Community is obvious in the example of their treatment of Serbs in Kosovo compared to the treatment of Albanians in Macedonia. In Macedonia, despite the fact that Albanian population in Macedonia is acknowledged civil rights guaranteed by a Constitution that is recommended and praised by the International Community itself, the International Community requires more and more up to the point of disintegration of Macedonia. Allegedly, for the promotion of “human rights” . Meanwhile, in Kosovo the election day approaches, and in order to participate the Serbs request from the International Community ...

We can rarely use Macedonian language in public and the only ten minute radio show on a local radio station has been terminated" - complain the inhabitants of Mala Prespa, in fear that they will forget their mother tongue. By Vesna Ivanovska Translation by Darxide "Wellcome Macedonians! How beautiful it is when a person can sing in Macedonian and dance Macedonian dances. - said our fellow Macedonians from Mala Prespa, while "Macedonian Land" echoed in the lake village of Prespa, on the second folk festival "Prespa 2001" More than 500 Macedonians from the area of Mala Prespa in Albania gathered ...

“If you kill our star Osama, he will last and live in our hearts forever, and there would be another Osama to come. If you insist to kill our hero, then I have no choice but to go and fight with him side by side and die for the cause of our people, and children. Mr. President, be sure that what I am thinking about right now is what every and each Muslim is thinking. Make no mistake about it. When I was a little child my mom used to tell me stories about Aladdin and his adventures, I was ...

Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. Now he is protesting his innocence from Casablanca, Morocco. ...

Macedonian Interior Ministry top official Zoran Drndarovski said there were evidences of Osama bin Laden's fighters' participation in terrorist actions in Macedonia's north and west, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Speaking on the Radio Skopje, he specified that the Islamic fundamentalists were in the ranks of the so-called National Liberation Army, the Albanian armed unit, and participated in terrorist acts in Macedonia and the Interior Ministry had strong evidences of this fact. These people used to act in the crisis regions near Kumanovo and Tetovo and organized the most bloodshed slaughters, the Interior Ministry official said. Referring to the intelligence data, ...

A link has been discovered between the humanitarian organization Jeta operating in Macedonia and Osama bin Laden’s Jeda-based bank Well-trained mujahedin groups are prepared to strike U.S. facilities in this region in case the United States attacks Afghanistan, Dnevnik reports relying on well-informed sources. Part of those groups is located in the Debar region and Kosovo and is put on stand-by to attack the U.S. bases Able Sentry in Petrovec near Skopje and Bondsteel in Kosovo. Anonymous sources say the threat has come from “Commander Beard” (or “Mjekra” in Albanian). “Commander Mjekra” is one of the key persons in the ...

“Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday”. This was said by the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Anatoli Kornukov. “We had such facts too”, - said the general straightforwardly. Kornukov did not specify what happened in Russia and when and to what extent it resembled the events in the US. He did not advise what was the end of air terrorists’ attempts either. But the fact the general said that means a lot. As it turns out the way the terrorists acted in America is not ...

“Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday”. This was said by the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Anatoli Kornukov. “We had such facts too”, - said the general straightforwardly. Kornukov did not specify what happened in Russia and when and to what extent it resembled the events in the US. He did not advise what was the end of air terrorists’ attempts either. But the fact the general said that means a lot. As it turns out the way the terrorists acted in America is not ...