“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation” In my last column, Of woes and joys, (Маки и радости) I wrote how Macedonia had faced a great deal of “woes” as I called them, both from the outside, and self-inflicted, but that, also there could be a lot…

Of woes and joys Life sometimes sucks. Life is often unfair. To us as individuals, to our families, to our communities, to our countries. Not always, but often. A lot of woes have befallen Macedonia, both as a modern-day nation-state and as an older, more ancient, land and people. You…

Time to say good-bye I do apologize if the song by the same name — recorded famously by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman in 1996 — is now in your head. That is not my intention though it is a more polite way, shall we say, of saying that Zoran…

Laughing at Zoran Zaev National Review writer and author Charles C. W. Cooke makes a good point in his column about US President Joe Biden becoming a joke. Cooke writes “Joe Biden is a joke. I do not mean this as a sharp criticism, but quite literally. Joe Biden is…

What do to when your own government calls you “evil?” This is what Zoran Zaev, the current prime minister of Macedonia and head of his leftist-socialist party, SDSM (formerly, the League of Communists of Macedonia prior to 1991) said about those voters in Macedonia who voted for the opposition in…

Pendarovski’s fantasy world Or, Meanwhile, in Greece…. On October 11, the Day of the Macedonian Uprising, Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski tweeted out the following: “If we forget that the foundations of this country are Ilinden and anti-fascist, then we will destroy the only place in the world that we can…

Rescuing a nation In my last column, “The dead, the unborn, the living, and a contract,” I made the Burkean case, (after Edmund Burke) that there is an unwritten contact between our ancestors who have passed on, the dead, those of us who are alive right now, the living, and…

The dead, the unborn, the living, and a contract So, here we are three years after the failed September 30, 2018 referendum that Zoran Zaev and his handlers in the US State Department, the EU, and NATO rammed through. …

The Republic of Macedonia at 30 — it’s about honor Happy Independence Day, Macedonia! While very old as a nation and as a people, you’ve just turned 30 years young as a modern-day nation-state. Congratulations! I’ve been with you for 25 of those 30 years, following you, living with you…