Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺

It was always a treat to receive an email from him; he always had wise comments and advice. I shall truly miss him.

I am very sorry to learn of the death of Andras Riedlmayer, with whom I corresponded for over twenty years. A great fighter against genocide, its perpetrators and its deniers; a true expert who did as much as anyone to catalogue the cultural destruction caused by the genocide in Bosnia.

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…

My reply to Bojan Aleksov’s review of my book ‘Serbia: A Modern History’
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Is Russia’s Imperial Phase ending? And is Putin accelerating the collapse with his forever wars?

Is Russia’s Imperial Phase ending?
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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

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.

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.

...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...

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?

Why, despite everything, the UK's political classes have not sunk as low as the US's political classes
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ht Yevgenij Mikhlin, Facebook

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.

The Coming Conservative Turn Against Israel Goes Much Deeper Than You Realize www.notus.org/perspectives...

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Jeffrey Epstein took a leaf from Vladimir Putin’s playbook Amassing embarrassing photos and damaging information was strikingly similar to Russian kompromat operations

Was Epstein a Russian agent ? www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Trump’s Greenland Threats Spill Into Another Danish Territory

Trump’s Greenland Threats Spill Into Another Danish Territory www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/w...

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

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, …

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 Dr. Marko Attila Hoare

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

'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.

💯 he got the role because Kaja Kallas was seen as too much of a Russia hawk FFS 🙄

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 ...

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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