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Our blog recollects and recontextualises the events in the former Yugoslavia for a modern audience, who will no doubt see 21st century parallels in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and beyond.

The American century?

Welcome to our new blog. We hope this will become an exciting interactive experience, bringing to the fore the great knowledge and intelligence of our online community. Our only weapon is the proof we can show for what we know to be the truth. Collectively we know far more than we do individually.

 

The first post below is a 5-minute video blog we have made on what we regard as the huge significance of the ‘New American Century’ in the processes that destroyed Yugoslavia, causing massive damage to the Balkan area and, later, to other sovereign nations.

Please send us your thoughts, comments and contributions. They can be in just about any form. Text, audio, video – whatever works for you. Send them in to our email, info@bcr.com (with a download link for audio and video).

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Here is our first VLOG:

Europe And American Destabilisation Of The Balkans Contributed Directly To The Rise Of Islamic Terrorism And Consequently 9/11

Many writers have traced the formation of al-Qaeda to the war in Afghanistan in the 80s and 90s, linked with American backing of the the mujahedin. What’s less commonly considered is how those forces matured in Bosnia in the 90s, again with help from the Americans.

In ‘Intelligence and the War in Bosnia’ (published 2002) Professor Cees Wiebes of Amsterdam University complied a report called ‘Intelligence and the War in Bosnia’ in which he details actual alliances between the Pentagon and radical Islamic groups from the Middle East.

America allowed the movement of Islamic fighters into the region but once that genie was out of that bottle it wasn’t going back in. Subsequent events don’t require detailing, but the importance of these watershed years can’t be overstated.

Read what Brendan O’Neill has to say about this over here.

Bill Clinton’s 1999 Kosovo War Led To Abductions, Sexual Violence And Murder

Historically, it’s generally considered that American intervention in the Balkans during the troubles of the 90s was a good thing, that prevented more bloodshed than actually happened.

The counter-argument is quite different and quite convincing, and a further indictment of Western interventionism.

The violence didn’t stop. The innocent continued to die. America’s legacy, with regards the former Yugoslavia reaches far beyond those lands and in a modern globalised world, to this day touches us all.

Read Jonathan Marshall’s account of actual events over here.

A Former CIA Operative Confirms That America’s Aim Was To Destroy Yugoslavia

Former CIA agent Robert Baer, an operative in the Balkans, has written books on CIA activity abroad. His ‘confessions’ regards events in the former Yugoslavia provide further evidence of White House meddlings that went catastrophically wrong… or right, depending on your interests…

Hunting down ‘terror groups’ that didn’t exist in order to sow seeds of chaos by spreading panic amongst Bosnian politicians seemed to be standard practice. This was in the 1990’s and it’s pertinent to reflect on what successive U.S. administrations have cooked up in the name of peace…

Read more from Robert Baer over here.