Ratko Mladic and Srebrenica: memory loss of massacres by all sides and the role of Alija Izetbegovic Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The trial of Ratko Mladic will be sweet music to the American agenda, the “Muslim victim card,” to cover-up the international terrorist ratlines which allowed terrorists to enter Bosnia, [...]
Greece and ongoing crisis: Alexis Tsipras points the finger at the EU and Germany Joachim de Villiers and Walter Sebastian Modern Tokyo Times The political stalemate in Greece means that a new election will take place and clearly the leader of the Syriza bloc, Alexis Tsipras, believes that the momentum is with him. This can [...]
Greece and the ongoing political crisis Joachim de Villiers, Walter Sebastian and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times President Karolos Papoulias of Greece has begun crucial political talks with the three main parties of this nation in order to solve the current crisis. If he fails then another election will take place and given the [...]
Greece: changing political environment and European Union crisis Joachim de Villiers and Walter Sebastian Modern Tokyo Times The recent elections which took place in Greece have solved little because the political landscape remains extremely divided. At the same time, unemployment is hurting a sizeable minority of people in this country and the future looks uncertain. [...]
The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks: The First Academic Publication on the Greek Genocide Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Book Review of The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks Studies on the State Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor (1912-1922) and Its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory Edited by [...]
Syria: continuing ratlines of terrorists and outside meddling Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The history of the United States supporting right-wing death squads in Central America and Latin America is documented for all to see. Similarly, the utter devastation reeked on Vietnam by France and then America, is a firm reminder [...]
Economic crisis and Greece: protests in Athens & media views in Germany Walter Sebastian and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The European Union and the tangled web of Greece isn’t going away and with unemployment of around 20% then not surprisingly many people are at the end of their tether. More demands [...]
Kosovo: Orthodox Christians fear to walk because of America and Albanian nationalism Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In history books you can read about the Armenian genocide where Armenian Christians, Greek Orthodox Christians, Assyrian Christians, and other minorities, were massacred in the millions in 1915 and the following years. They were [...]
Review of 2011 internationally and events in Japan (March 11 and brutal tsunami) James Jomo and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In 2011 many political convulsions have challenged nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The optimism of the so-called “Arab Spring” remains to be unfulfilled because you have so much uncertainty in [...]
Siege of Mecca and Juhayman al-Otaibi: CIA and GIGN operatives converted to Islam Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Juhayman ibn Muhammad ibn Sayf al-Otaibi believed that an Islamic uprising was needed in order to create a more fundamentalist Sunni Islamic state. From an outside point of view this may appear rather strange [...]
Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Kosovo Capital Julia Gorin Republican Riot Jewish cemetery in Kosovo capital desecrated: ‘Jews out’ spray-painted on memorial for Jewish families who perished during World War II. (AP, via Israel News, Dec. 1) Police in Kosovo are investigating who sprayed swastikas on dozens of tombstones in a Jewish cemetery recently restored by [...]
Germany Must Decide How Much it is Willing to Pay to Save the Euro By Vojin Joksimovich, PhD Modern Tokyo Times After my first two articles published by the Modern Tokyo Times: Eurozone Crisis: Bail-Outs, Haircuts and Pandemonium/Papandemonium; and Greece and Eurozone: Greeks Should Behave as the Swabian House-Wife, my intent was to write about [...]
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