Gunpowder Chronicles

Gunpowder Chronicles

Home
Official Dispatches
The Arms File
Weekend Dispatch
Archive
Newsletters
About

The Hague

A Republic Built on the Silence of Thaçi’s Dead
Beyond the bullets, a year-long investigation reveals Hashim Thaçi’s chilling method of selective violence and narrative engineering used to consolidate…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Violent Reflexes of Hashim Thaçi's Dying Political Order
By unmasking the "assassination manual," we triggered a dormant predator. The PDK’s subsequent campaign of dehumanisation is the sound of Hashim Thaçi's…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Decoding Hashim Thaçi's ‘Assassination Manual’ in Modern Pristina
VOX Kosova functions not as a newsroom, but as a predatory annex, laundering Thaçi's "Assassination Manual" tactics into televised hits to facilitate…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Man Who Survived the Assassination Manual
Following our report on "Thaçi’s Assassination Manual," a new witness emerges. He doesn't just theorise about power, he details the prison cell and the…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
A Nation Forced to Look at the Blood on Its Hands
Kosovo’s independence celebrations turned into a roar of defiance this February, as the trial of Hashim Thaçi forces a painful reckoning with the…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
How an Investigation Triggered a Campaign, Not a Debate
When scrutiny becomes danger and journalism invites sanction, the response does not weaken an investigation; it completes it, revealing the coercive…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Response That Confirmed the Reporting
By triggering punishment instead of debate, the War Veterans Organisation validated our reporting, behaving not as critics but as participants in the…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
What Happened After the Investigation Was Published
An investigation traced how postwar power in Kosovo hardened through intimidation and narrative control, arguing that patterns, not verdicts, best…
 • Michael Sheppard and Vudi Xhymshiti
Inside Berat Buzhala’s Media Playbook Against the Hague Court
We place the transcript beside Nacionale’s claims and expose how Berat Buzhala’s newsroom replaces facts with suggestion to erode trust in courts and…
 • Michael Sheppard, Rodrigo Hammond, and Vudi Xhymshiti
Why Edlira Qefalija’s Attack on the Gunpowder Chronicles Cannot Stand?
Instead of answering evidence on Zeka’s networks, assaults and Serbian funded deals, Edlira Qefalija resorts to insult and distraction, mirroring the…
 • Michael Sheppard and Vudi Xhymshiti
The Thaçi Trial and the Editorial Manipulations Led by Berat Buzhala’s Nacionale
Kosovo’s media twist truth into comforting fiction, shielding those who forged our present crises while masquerading propaganda as journalism and…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Prime Minister and the Spy Suspect
Rama’s courtroom pageantry meets Sheholli’s street mobilisations: a duet of posts, rallies, and insinuations that flatters Belgrade’s script while…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
© 2026 The Frontline Media Group · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture