John Laughland (http://www.wsksim.edu.pl/images/laughland.jpg) is a British journalist and self-avowed (http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/conspiracies.html) conspiracy theorist whose commitment (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0751523240/026-9459103-6884454) to "national sovereignty" has led him to condemn Western support for democratic movements in the East, notably the Serbian opposition to Slobodan Milosevic, as well as the November 2003 revolution in Georgia as a "coup d'état". Serbia and Montenegro  – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    – Vojvodina  – Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area  – Total  – % water  88,361 km²  n/a Population  – Total (2002)     (without Kosovo)  – Density  7. ... Slobodan Milošević. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

He has condemned the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague on the grounds that the UN Security Council [resolutions] that created it were illegitimate and because he disagrees with its judicial procedures (http://www.un.org/icty/legaldoc/index.htm). He criticises it for trying alleged war criminals rather than upholding state sovereignty: by implication, it should have prosecuted not Milosevic for some of (http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/mil-2ai011029e.htm) his crimes but NATO for trying to stop them in Kosovo [1] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,651063,00.html).

Laughland asserts that Ukrainian supporters of Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, to whom significant elements of Ukraine's Jewish community have given support [2] (http://eng.maidanua.org/static/enews/1101681430.html), were linked with "neo-Nazis" (in The Guardian [3] (http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=55216&d=28&m=11&y=2004&pix=opinion.jpg&category=Opinion)) or "druggy skinheads from Lvov" (The Spectator); that no mass graves have been discovered in Iraq; and that concern for the massacres (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/24/wsudan24.xml) in the Sudan was driven by a lust for oil (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1273982,00.html). The Guardian was also the name of a U.S. television series. ... The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ...

Laughland appears on the list of trustees of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, to whose controversial (http://www.economist.com/World/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3446916) orientation he may have contributed, and has co-operated with the website antiwar.com, a group of libertarians which publishes investigations into the crimes of the US government and its allies. The British Helsinki Human Rights Group, often abbreviated to the British Helsinki Group, is an Oxford-based non-governmental organization which monitors human rights in the 57 member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). ... Antiwar. ... This article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. ...

He is also the European director of the European Foundation, a Euroskeptic group associated with Bill Cash MP. The European Foundation is a leading Eurosceptic think tank based in the United Kingdom. ... Euroscepticism is scepticism about, or disagreement with, the purposes of the European Union, sometimes coupled with a desire to preserve national sovereignty. ... William Nigel Paul Cash, usually Bill Cash (born 1940) is an English Tory politician, Member of Parliament and opposition front-bencher. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...

Books by John Laughland

• "The Death of Politics: France Under Mitterrand" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/071810028X/qid=1104717641/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/026-6238406-7013227#product-details) (Michael Joseph, 1994)
• "Le tribunal pénal international (http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/2868398677.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) : Gardien du nouvel ordre mondial (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2868398677/fraternet-21/402-0168561-7328942)" (François-Xavier de Guibert)
• "The Tainted Source (http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0751523240.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg), Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea"

In Spanish "La Fuente Impura (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/8495407388/qid=1104717641/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_10_4/026-6238406-7013227),

in French "La liberté des nations (http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/286839700X.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) - Essai sur les fondements de la société politique et sur leur destruction par l'Europe (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/286839700X/consciencepol-21/402-0168561-7328942)" (François-Xavier de Guibert, 2001).

in Polish, Zatrute zródla Unii Europejskiej (http://www.naszawitryna.pl/ksiazki_136.html) (Antyk, 2003)

Articles by others about John Laughland

• "A little Tory frisson over Mr Le Pen (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,711616,00.html) — Our rightwing press has oeuf on its face after the French election", Michael Gonzalez, The Guardian, 8 May 2002
• "Loons Look to Sudan" (http://www.nicedoggie.net/archives/004500.html), The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, 2 August 2004.
• "PR man to Europe's nastiest regimes" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1362616,00.html), The Guardian (UK), 30 November 2004