Ratko Mladic, infamous for his role in the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, has died at 83.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Ratko Mladic, the former Yugoslav army and Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” has died in a United Nations (UN) prison hospital in The Hague at the age of 83. He was serving a life sentence, principally for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War, in which up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. The son of a communist partisan fighter and a career member of the League of Communists, Mladic previously denied being a Serbian nationalist, despite leading Serb forces against Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croat forces during the war, stating in 1991, “I serve the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with my brother officers, in order to…Open
On April 24, 2026, Max Blumenthal addressed a memorial for the late socialist scholar Michael Parenti at the Universal Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California.
Blumenthal emphasized to posthumous attacks on what he called Parenti's most courageous work: his book, To Kill A Nation, exposing the planned breakup of Yugoslavia and NATO's subsequent war on Serbia. Also speaking at the memorial event were former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, comedian Jimmy Dore, scholar Christian Parenti, and Marcie Smith Parenti. Watch the full stream here .Open
Christian Parenti joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the revolutionary life and legacy of his father, the dissident political scientist Michael Parenti, who died on January 24, 2026 at age 92.
Christian details how his father emerged from a working class family in East Harlem to become one of the country’s most outspoken Marxists, unapologetically defending socialist states across the globe while facing professional blacklisting and CIA surveillance. He surveys Michael Parenti’s major works, from “Democracy for the Few” to his groundbreaking study of corporate media, “Inventing Reality,” along with “To Kill A Nation,” which dismantled the Western propaganda deployed to justify NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia. They also discuss his clash with fellow leftists Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn, who glibly dismissed theories about a US intelligence role in JFK’s assassination. While Michael Parenti…Open