Johnstone on European fascists:
Johnstone describes the 2nd-generation French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen as
"basically
on the Left." Johnstone is one confused person. April
24, 2012
Chomsky, The Guardian, and Bosnia
The authors demonstrate Johnstone's ongoing denial of Serbian
war crimes and genocide at Srebrenica, in the context of a
critique of Noam Chomsky's endorsement of Johnstone's work.
By
David Aaronovitch, Oliver Kamm, and Francis Wheen,
March 20, 2006
Johnstone's Fools Crusade is
reviewed by Kirk Johnson, 2006. Several installments, linked from the
cited page.
Johnstone's
article "Srebrenica Revisited," is
reviewed by Eric Gordy, October 13, 2005.
Diana
Johnstone's Fools Crusade is rebutted at
Proving Genocide in Bosnia, by Alan Kocevic, July 8, 2005.
Johnstone's writings are reviewed in
The Left
Revisionists, by Marko Hoare, November 2003
Johnstone's Fools Crusade is
reviewed
by Richard Caplan in International Affairs, Vol. 79,
Issue 2, June 18, 2003.
Raçak - Mutation of a Massacre
This
review of a Diana
Johnstone article shows
that she uncritically repeats Serbian government propaganda on
Racak, and that
her work is
characterized by missing evidence, a paucity of sources, the spreading of
untruths, and conspiracy theories. By Peter Wuttke, November 18, 1999
(Translated from the German, March 2002.)
Josh Mason, a former editor at In These Times,
explains in an online
PEN forum (April 8,
1999) that the magazine stopped using Diana Johnstone's articles
on the former Yugoslavia because they didn't meet the
publication's journalistic standards:
We felt we couldn't publish her stuff not only
because she was insisting that there was no Serb role in the
slaughter of Muslims in Bosnia after the facts were long in, but
because her friendship with Milosevic's wife Mirjana Markovic, going
back to her time as student in Yugoslavia in the '60s, colored her
writing to the point of dishonesty. For instance, in a piece on the
Serbian opposition, she presented Ms. Markovic's party as Serbia's
main democratic opposition.
Markovic's Yugoslav Left party was actually
allied
with Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party of Serbia, and she was held as
intellectual mastermind of her husband's "Greater Serbia" ideology.