Special and Alternative
News Sources on Kosovo

NATO links below

ABCNews.com: A Beginner's Guide to the Balkans

A timeline, who's who, clickable map brings up brief sketch of each country in a small text insert and a separate interactive atlas showing ethnic areas, alliances, geography, etc.

 

CBC News Onlinke - Kosovo Krisis

Intro. History. Rise of Milosevic. Milosevic Profile. Current Impasse. Peace Talks. Timeline. Video. Links. Letters from Kosovo

 

Christian Science Monitor - Kosovo

Background, current news, maps and interactive features on historic ties between Russia and Serbia, an analysis of what's at stake for NATO allies and more.

 

Central Europe Online

European Internet Network, Inc. publisher of Russia Today and Inside China Today maintains this "Kosovo Crisis" page of current news and background features as well as links to various European media.

 

Common Dreams News Center

"Kosovo Crisis: Drumbeats of War" is more balanced than its title suggests. This page is chock full of backgrounders, breaking news and opinion from various sources

 

Global Beat - Balkan Conflicts

Documents, analyses, and commentary on the conflicts in the Balkans.

 

Jay's Leftist and "Progressive" Internet Resources

Scroll down a few screens to the "Special Balkan Crisis Section." Includes some unique items such as the "Targets" from the Belgrade rock concerts and a leaflet being circulated to NATO troops in Italy and other graphics and documents.

 

Out There News

KOSOVO - Albanian free zone?. Features: "Why does the government of Serbia care so much about Kosovo?" A sketch of Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo's president, and a clickable map with town by town details of Serbia's campaign to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo.

 

Kosovo and Metohija

A Canadian anti-war site, provides many links and news.

 

Los Angeles Times - Crisis in Yugoslavia

Background, Timeline, Diagrams and graphics, Maps, Key players.

 

Mother Jones - Must Reads

Links to several different viewpoints. Some are given lengthy introductions by the MoJo editors that contextualize and describe the linked stories.

 

New York Times - Crisis in Kosovo

Analysis, Related texts, Archives of stories, Maps, Slide shows, Video, Weather in Europe

 

Radio Netherlands - Kosovo Links

Link categories: General, Military, News, Independent military-strategic information, Humanitarian organizations, Albanian sources, Serb links, Information Servia and Yugoslavia, and NATO member information links.

 

ZNet's Emergency: U.S./NATO Bombings

Analysis and views from Noam Chomsky, Michael Albert, Edward Said, Diana Johnstone and others on the left.

NATO & Related

New York Times - NATO 50th Anniversary

A special Web page which includes a chronology and NATO birth documents, background articles and links.

NATO at 50 -- CNN

This special features an interactive map and timeline, a gallery of Secretaries-General and stories.

NATO at 50 - The Washington Summits -- USIA

The official USA government site

NATO: The 50th Anniversary

NATO's own site featuring "A photographic database, containing over 900 images, has been created depicting 50 years of NATO history."

NATO At Fifty -- Brookings Institution

Press and Policy briefings

15 Years of NATO Workshops on Political-Military Decision Making

Speeches by participants presented by the Center for Strategic Decision Research

NATO - What For?

Over 1000 articles classified by dates and regions by a Russian organization, Robust-East Network.

United States European Command

"The United States European Command is responsible for all U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Special Forces activities in more than 13 million square miles of Europe, Africa and the Middle East." Includes a NATO page with a large collection of documents.

Stop NATO in Kosovo

A US site featuring links to other anti-bombing organizations and articles.