Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Balkan historian. Associate Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.
Marko Attila Hoare is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Hoare is Associate Professor of History at the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, in Sarajevo. .. more
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My book 'Serbia: A Modern History', is now out ! The product of 17.5 years of research and writing. Explains in just under 600 pages Serbia's path from Karađorđe's First Serbian Uprising, though independence, the Balkan Wars, World War I and Yugoslav unification up to conquest by Nazi Germany.
My reply to Bojan Aleksov’s review of my book ‘Serbia: A Modern History’
Südost-Forschungen, the journal of the Regensburg-based Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, recently published an extended review essay, entitled ‘Old and New in Histo…
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My reply to Bojan Aleksov’s review of my book ‘Serbia: A Modern History’
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
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China used Russian technology to build world's largest navy capable of challenging US - Euromaidan Press
China now operates the world’s largest navy, having absorbed and modernized key Russian-designed ships and submarines.
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China used Russian technology to build world’s largest navy capable of challenging US
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...she might as PM be even more subservient to the US in practice, owing to the right's tendency to view Trump as its ally if not leader.
Britain is in a dark place, along with much or most of the rest of the world.
Britain is in a dark place, along with much or most of the rest of the world.
...there is nothing significant that is positive about his domestic policies.
But I cannot think of a single Labour politician who would be any better. Yvette Cooper maybe, but only marginally. Kemi Badenoch seems to have a bit more of a spark, and maybe more integrity. But...
But I cannot think of a single Labour politician who would be any better. Yvette Cooper maybe, but only marginally. Kemi Badenoch seems to have a bit more of a spark, and maybe more integrity. But...
Keir Starmer is a mediocre prime minister: an unprincipled, vacillating, authoritarian control-freak and apparatchik. He deserves some credit for not being as utterly subservient to Trump's US as he might be - over Ukraine, Greenland, Palestinian statehood. But...
Starmer's moment of reckoning
Where is the competent boring government we were promised?
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Why, despite everything, the UK's political classes have not sunk as low as the US's political classes
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The Coming Conservative Turn Against Israel Goes Much Deeper Than You Realize
It’s not just about politics. It’s also about theology. And it’s going to have a massive impact on Zionism, U.S. foreign policy — and even the place of Jews in America.
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Trump’s Greenland Threats Spill Into Another Danish Territory
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Trump’s Greenland Threats Spill Into Another Danish Territory www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
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Trump really did post a racist video portraying the Obamas as monkeys:
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Is it really true that ‘East Timor was worse than Bosnia or Kosovo’ ?
vs East Timor and Bosnia are two countries with parallel tragedies. Both were attacked by vastly more powerful neighbours as they tried to establish themselves as independent states. In each case, …
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Is it really true that ‘East Timor was worse than Bosnia or Kosovo’ ? - on Noam Chomsky's and John Pilger's attempts at downplaying the mass violence in Bosnia and Kosovo by comparing it to East Timor (2008)
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Part 2: The Guardian, Noam Chomsky and the Milosevic lobby
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Chomsky's Genocidal Denial - Congress of Bosniaks of North America
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Chomsky’s Genocidal Denial - from 2005
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Chomsky: '“That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”'
'...for prostitution – and months before he would reportedly die by suicide while in federal custody awaiting sex-trafficking charges. “The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote, according to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist...'
Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship
Latest communications undermine Chomsky’s earlier claims that he primarily had financial dealings with Epstein
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'In late Feb. 2019, Epstein represented to an associate that he had got advice from Chomsky over how to navigate “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public”. That was 11 years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl..'
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I expect it is. But to understand better the whole Trump phenomenon...
I want to watch the Melania movie as I'm genuinely curious.
Yes, which is a fact that disgraces NATO. Kallas would have been so much better. Can't imagine her crawling on her belly before Trump, the way Rutte does.
NATO chief wishes 'good luck' to those who think Europe can defend itself without US help
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be ...
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Trump sycophant Mark Rutte is wholly unfit to be NATO secretary-general. Time to remove him. Democratic Europe, with its wealth, population and technology, is more than capable of defending itself, if the will is there.
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It's all well and good to have King Joffrey on the Board of Peace, but I won't take it seriously as an institution unless the Night King also joins.
Even by the standards of former-Yugoslavia genocide deniers, Michael Parenti, who has just died, was shallow and vulgar. His arguments echoed those of the Holocaust deniers. As I wrote twenty-odd years ago:
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National figure Juraj Dobrila laid to rest in Croatia after 140 years
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National figure Juraj Dobrila laid to rest in Croatia after 140 years www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-rebu...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Activates National Guard After Armed Man is Fatally Shot by Federal Agent
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I fear the US is headed toward either civil war or fascist dictatorship. Anti-fascist Americans may need to fight and win the first if they want to avoid the second.
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