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The One And Only: More Scenes From The Milošević Trial

The entire exchange between Milošević and Jeri Laber should be watched. Milošević shows up the total ignorance of all things Yugoslavia on the part of Helsinki Watch's Jeri Laber, one of the founders of Human Rights Watch. Her cluelessness is truly staggering. "What was Tito's nationality?" "Er...um...I should know that."

Her ignorance only seems to fuel her arrogance, not to mention the ICTY's alacrity to protect its useless witness. The sum and substance of her testimony that she had written a report about the human rights abuses perpetrated against Croats in Croatia. She blamed the human rights abuses on the JNA and the Serbs--two entities deemed by liberals like her as interchangeable.

Laber claimed that she put the report in an envelope and sent it to Milošević who at the time was president of Serbia. To Milošević's (paraphrased) questions--"Why did you send this report to me? I didn't run the JNA and I had nothing to do with the SFRY presidency. What did the events in Croatia have to do with me?"--Laber replied (paraphrased): "Well, the consensus view was that you were running everything in the SFRY. And I haven't seen any evidence to disprove that."

And there it is. The ICTY considered this as dispositive evidence proving that Milošević was responsible for war crimes in Croatia. He ran Croatia. Laber sent him a report. He didn't bother to move heaven and earth to get to the bottom of Laber's ill-founded, unsubstantiated allegations.

As I have said before, the ICTY blazed a trail for the U.S. practitioners of lawfare out to destroy Trump. Law and the facts be damned. You make up the law and the facts as you go along.

https://archive.org/details/milosevictrial121102t1

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TG 1817: Team Trump And Zelensky--Is There A Way Back From The Rift?

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the growing rift between President Trump and his team and Ukraine President Zelensky, and speculate as to whether the split is irreversible.

01:35:50
February 19, 2025
TG 1816: Trump Excoriates Zelensky, Talks Nice About Russia

George Szamuely discusses the latest diplomatic developments involving the United States, Russia and Ukraine, and tris to make sense of Trump's fury at President Zelensky.

00:49:05
February 19, 2025
TG 1815: Trump & Nixon: The Gaggle Talks To Geoff Shepard

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle talked to former Nixon aide Geoff Shepard and compared the Nixon and Trump presidencies, wondering what either man would think of the other.

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The Gaggle Book Club

Each week, the Gaggle Book Club recommends a book for Gagglers to read and—most important—uploads a pdf version of it.

Our practice is that we do not vouch for the reliability or accuracy of any book we recommend. Still less, do we necessarily agree with a recommended book's central arguments. However, any book we recommend will be of undoubted interest and intellectual importance.

In the spirit of symbiosis, and in light of this week's conversation with former Nixon aide Geoff Shepard, today's book club selection is Jeffrey E. Garten's "Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy." Published in 2021, Garten's book delves into the pivotal moment when President Richard Nixon decided to sever the U.S. dollar's tie to gold, thereby ending the Bretton Woods system set up in 1944.

In the aftermath of World War II, the Bretton Woods Agreement established a global monetary system: currencies were pegged to the U.S. dollar, and the U.S. dollar was ...

Jeffrey_E._Garten_-_Three_Days_at_Camp_David__How_a_Secret_Meeting_in_1971_Transformed_the_Global_Economy_(2021,_Harper)_-_libgen.li.pdf
February 20, 2025
Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, Feb. 24. The theme is "cinema and business."

Please continue to vote after Feb. 24, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on March 3.

15 hours ago

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/federal-judge-ruling-blocks-trump-administration-dei-funding-00205585

Talk about total b*l sht. Insane that a judge appointed by Biden can block Trumps EOs.

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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