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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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@markoah.bsky.social
ยท Nov 15
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 Karaฤorฤe's First Serbian Uprising, though independence, the Balkan Wars, World War I and Yugoslav unification up to conquest by Nazi Germany.
Trumpโs Greenland Threats Spill Into Another Danish Territory
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Trumpโs 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 โEast Timor was worse than Bosnia or Kosovoโ ?
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. Inย each case, โฆ
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Is it really true that โEast Timor was worse than Bosnia or Kosovoโ ? - 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: 'โThatโs 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.โ'
'...for prostitution โ and months before he would reportedly die by suicide while in federal custody awaiting sex-trafficking charges. โThe best way to proceed is to ignore it,โ 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 Chomskyโs 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 โthe horrible way you are being treated in the press and publicโ. That was 11 years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl..'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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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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ht Adam Jones, Facebook
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
YouTube video by New York Post
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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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..., in sometimes openly anti-Semitic terms, as an evil Jewish puppet-master seeking to prevent a legal precedent that could apply to Israeli commanders. Today, he and his colleagues are smeared the other way, by apologists for Israel's genocide, as engaged in some sort of anti-Semitic blood libel.
The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahuโs arrest warrant
Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC
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Theodor Meron is a Holocaust survivor and part of the ICC panel that issued Netanyahu's arrest warrant. When his ICTY Appeals Panel acquitted Croatia's Storm generals in 2012, he was systematically smeared by some of the worst members of the Balkan commentariat...
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Europe's leaders could end the war in Ukraine victoriously in weeks if they had a fraction of Ukraine's bravery. Zelensky should rub the European leaders' cowardice in their faces at every opportunity he gets.
Zelensky was absolutely right to bash Europe in his Davos speech. For four years, his country's young men have been dying alone on the battlefields to defend Europe from our common mortal enemy, and Europe won't fight alongside him or even confiscate Russia's assets or seize its ships.
Zelensky is right to go after weak, divided Europe
If the Ukrainian president canโt get the continent to listen to him, no one can
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Zelensky is right to go after weak, divided Europe www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
..., Islamophobic one-party tyranny running one of the world's two most populous countries, that is becoming the world's leading economy. It is patiently pursuing a strategy to replace the US as the global hegemon. It is ultimately much more dangerous than the buffoon Trump or the paper tiger Putin.
China holds scary puppets in its right hand to drive us to embrace its left hand.
2) China threatens its democratic neighbours - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. The democratic world must absolutely stand with them as they defend their freedom and independence.
3) China's regime is a genocidal...
2) China threatens its democratic neighbours - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. The democratic world must absolutely stand with them as they defend their freedom and independence.
3) China's regime is a genocidal...
It's all very well Macron and Carney pivoting to China to counterbalance the demented Trump regime; there has to be some realpolitik. But:
1) Trump is Putin's useful idiot. And behind Putin stands China, which sustains him and his tinpot imperialism.
1) Trump is Putin's useful idiot. And behind Putin stands China, which sustains him and his tinpot imperialism.
Trump and Vance threaten and insult Denmark, whose losses in Afghanistan were among the highest. They never said thank you to Ukraine for its 18 soldiers killed in Iraq. Trump and Vance are moral degenerates.