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...Macedonian conflict borders on the absurd - at least through the prism of NATO's wishful thinking. The troubled Balkan nation appeared to accelerate down the slide towards full-blown civil war Monday as ethnic-Albanian rebels fought government forces for control over Tetovo, Macedonia's second city which is claimed as an unofficial capital by the rebels. At the same time, Macedonians driven out of their villages by rebel forces in a familiar spectacle of Balkan "ethnic cleansing" vented their rage on Western embassies - and, inevitably, a McDonalds - in the capital overnight. The facts on the ground suggest a rapid...
...government rejects the proposal as a device that will turn Macedonia into a binational state, and ultimately lead to partition. The rebel National Liberation Movement insist they are simply an armed civil rights movement - think Dr. King with a Kalashnikov - whose ultimate objectives are simply to effect constitutional changes. On the ground, of course, they're behaving a lot more in line with their name, "liberating" chunks of territory from government control and effecting a de facto partition into rival zones of control. And that's why Macedonians on the street and in government are venting their rage not only...
...Washington has no appetite for direct involvement in heading off the looming civil war in neighboring Macedonia. He simply urged all sides to return to the negotiating table and urged Kosovo?s Albanians to stay out of the fray. But renewed fighting in the town of Tetovo, sparked by rebel forces taking advantage of a Western-brokered cease-fire to occupy new territory, underlined doubts that NATO?s diplomacy - preemptive nation-building, if you like - will be sufficient to stop the slide into civil war. And that would likely force NATO in to pick up the pieces in yet another...
...last week from Rome, where he is under house arrest, serving the balance of a prison sentence imposed for his "moral responsibility" in the actions of left-wing activists in the 1970s. Globalization, he said, had a dual nature: subordinating men while also "providing them with the opportunity to rebel against capitalism." In fact, you don't have to endorse Empire's authors' broadly Marxist perspective (I don't) to find the book fascinating. For Hardt, a professor at Duke University, the modern world is characterized by the absence of a power center. The U.S. may be mightier than...
...well as destroying the country's health-care system, the war has provided the fuel - widespread rape, massive movement of people, the arrival of foreign troops - for the disease to spread more quickly. Revolutionary United Front rebels, for instance, routinely kept women as sex slaves and used rape as a shock tactic in their bloody campaign. Drug use, especially among teenage soldiers, was also common. "These are high-risk people," says Moses. "But they just don't know it." Sierra Leone's army says it has been too busy fighting to worry about the disease. "This is a war situation...