Here is what James Grant wrote in the New York Times on October 26 this year, commenting on the choice of Ben Bernanke as the new Fed Chairm...

Today on LRC, Anthony Gregory admonishes those who avoid seeing the forest from the trees: The state is not about laws on pieces of paper...

I've considered Thomas Friedman scum since way back in the spring of 1999, when he was baying for Serbian blood as NATO bombers pounded ...

Gene Healy wrote an interesting piece in Reason online, concerning Americans' love affair with the Imperial Presidency, as manifested ...

After almost five years of Thursdays, Balkan Express (est. October 19, 2000 ) is moving - by a day. From this week onward, it will appear o...

Natasa Kandic, the foremost peddler of atrocity porn in Serbia, is to become a honorary citizen of Sarajevo. So says her "Humanitarian ...

"Once you've been to Serenity, you never leave." Television is often seen as mind-numbing poison - and in most cases, that...

Since the news, rumors and images started coming in from the lost city of New Orleans, I've seen many interesting opinions about the man...

It isn't often that I can laugh uproariously upon reading what is supposed to be a serious quote from the legacy media. Usually, their s...

My criticism of the Empire has frequently been mistaken as criticism of America, as if they are somehow one and the same. In the eyes of the...

In the run-up to the 2004 U.S. elections, I pointed out the lack of difference between a Democratic and a Republican empire, drawing a paral...

Rudyard Kipling's poetry, though good, was in the service of promoting the Empire of the day - in his case, the British. Richard Cumming...

I was reading today's LRC , and I caught this fantastic quip by the always wise Bill Bonner: "Watching the news is a bit like wat...

According to the Belgrade daily " Srpski Nacional ," the commander of Zagreb riot police, one Zvonimir Vitjak, threatened the Serb...

I'm sure all the faithful readers of Balkan Express have already donated to Antiwar.com, to help keep it going for another quarter. I m...

It has long been obvious that the Serbs are the Empire's designated culprit in the Balkans. But it now appears they are becoming the whi...

Writes Charles Featherstone , of LewRockwell.com: "We are at war with Muslims, but not all Muslims. In fact, the struggle is only wi...

Apologies for the lack of posts. Between certain personal obligations and the blistering heatwave rolling across the United States, it's...

I'm backdating this post to July 13, when it should have appeared. That I forgot to post it does not mean its message is any less import...

At Monday's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, a column of Bosnian Muslims marched in wearing T-shirts wit...