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Tag Archives: balkans
Literary Lunches: Rebecca West
Today we’ll kick off what will hopefully be a literary lunch series, in which I’ll showcase a (usually) simple meal from a great book. All I had time for today was a quick lunch — a couple of slices of prosciutto di … Continue reading
Face-to-Snout with Our Meat?
If you want to eat meat, do you have to kill it yourself? Some people say yes. I’m less convinced and explore the reasons why in this piece for the American Interest, out today.
Posted in Balkans, macedonia
Tagged balkans, bill buford, eating, food, macedonia, pigs, pork
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Organ Harvesting in Kosovo
It’s such a common urban legend that it’s almost the stuff of jokes. But organ theft is, apparently, alive and well, and right here in what’s loosely called “Europe.” Carla del Ponte caused a minor stir a couple of years … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, kosovo
Tagged balkans, carla del ponte, israel, kosovo, organ harvest
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Old Gold
Doing some research on Milosevic cheerleaders and Srebrenica deniers Living Marxism, I happened upon this debate in the 8 July 1993 issue of the London Review of Books. If you’ve been following the discussion on my post on Mladic you might’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, croatia, human rights, serbia
Tagged balkans, bosnia, croatia, living marxism, milosevic, republika srpska, serbia, yugoslav wars
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More on Bosnia
It’s turning out to be a Bosnia-focused weekend here. Marko Hoare has an excellent and sober assessment of Angelina Jolie’s Bosnia “imbroglio” up here. For those who don’t know, the British left often has an odd — to say the … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, bosnia, human rights, macedonia, serbia, the right in europe
Tagged balkans, bosnia, greece, macedonia, srebrenica
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The Importance of Being Serbian
Belgrade’s Gay Pride parade has been an opportunity for the its nationalistic and regressive right-wing youth to rebel against European values for as long as Serbia has been trying to rehabilitate itself after the Milosevic regime, i.e., the last decade. … Continue reading