John Laughland is a British journalist and self-avowed http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/conspiracies.html critical theorist who has criticised Western support for the Serbian opposition to Slobodan Milosevic, and condemned the November 2003 revolution in Georgia as a "coup d'état".

He has condemned the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague on the grounds that the UN Security Council resolution that created it was 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 his alleged actions http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/mil-2ai011029e.htm but NATO for its intervention 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=opi
nion.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 .

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.

He is also the European director of the European Foundation, a Eurosceptic group associated with Bill Cash MP.

Books by John Laughland

• [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/071810028X/qid=1104717641/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/026-6238406-7013227#product-details"The Death of Politics: France Under Mitterrand"] (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-21/402-0168561-732894
  2 " (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 [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/8495407388/qid=1104717641/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_10_4/026-6238406-7013227"La Fuente Impura],

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-21/402-0168561-73
28942 " (François-Xavier de Guibert, 2001).

Articles by others about John Laughland

• "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