On August 25th, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At the forefront of this shift were organizations such as Amnesty International, and Helsinki Watch—the forerunner to Human Rights Watch. Supposedly...

December 23rd marks the 35th anniversary of an independence referendum in Slovenia, then a Yugoslav republic. In all, 88.5% of registered voters—95.7% of participants—said “da” to secession from the multi-ethnic socialist federation. The plebiscite prompted Ljubljana’s formal declaration of independence, and ensuing Ten-Day War between Slovenian territorial defense forces and...

On March 24th, this journalist exposed how London was at the forefront of efforts to launch a ground invasion of Yugoslavia, during NATO’s illegal March-May 1999 bombing campaign. Mercifully, this noxious project never came to pass, but declassified files show there was a further, secret component to Britain’s war effort...