Valery Perry

If you're in or near Sarajevo be sure to stop by tonight for this show- great new talent---

Meet the New ICE Recruits

So what happens to these newly employed (mostly) men enjoying well paying jobs if & when the country decides that it does not want a huge federal domestic paramilitary force? Will they be disposed of as easily as lab researchers & educators? www.nytimes.com2025/09/08/us/pol...

Should AI Get Legal Rights? Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

Even more importantly, there needs to be a policy on taxing robots / AI labor.... then if they decide to unionize, well, great...

www.wired.com/story/model-...

Bills vs. Ravens | INSANE COMEBACK By Buffalo | Full Game Highlights Week 1 The Buffalo Bills comeback from down 40-25 with 5 minutes remaining to stun the Baltimore Ravens 41-40 on a Matt Prater walk-off field goal.

Just saying that this explains my tendency to support the underdog: www.buffalobills.com/video/bills-...

Why is democracy backsliding around the world? In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on September 3, 2025, Valery Perry, Ph.D., senior associate for the Democratization Policy Council, joins us.

..and on YouTube at www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...

Why is democracy backsliding around the world? Podcast Episode · Connections Podcast · 09/03/2025 · 51m

Great chat with Evan Dawson today…. on how independent institutions & civil service are key to good governance, threats posed by the shadow docket & Trump's selective retribution, & future repairs to the US after this hacking of checks, balances & guardrails podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Opinion | Disney Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

"For most of the park’s history, Disney was priced to welcome people across the income spectrum, embracing the motto “Everyone is a V.I.P.” In doing so, it created a shared American culture by providing the same experience to every guest."

Well those days are over, Mickey.......

Imagine the reaction by POTUS if USAID got it….

As we wait to see what will unfold in Alaska today, beware of Sharpie geopolitics in a world that requires complexity… I explore this idea more in the latest DPC blog:

www.democratizationpolicy.org/sharpie-geop...

Građanski aktivizam Petera Lippmana: udruživanje i otpor Američki novinar i aktivist Peter Lipmann ima duboko znanje o Bosni i Hercegovini. Godinama prati političku i poslijeratnu situaciju u ovoj zemlji. U posljednje vrijeme posebno ga zanimaju ekološki po...

Very glad to see that Peter Lippman's work is getting attention among Italian audiences too - read a recent interview here: www.balcanicaucaso.org/bhs/zone/Bos...

Excellent live music?At the Ex-Yu Rock Centar tonight! Including some EKV:

What better way to start the week than with some live music!

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Kids Pitch: "Bulbo and the Strange Villain" - Part 1

from the mouths of babes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDm...

Another reason to check out the EYRC when in Sarajevo - an amazing collection of original artifacts---

Here's an original concert poster and ticket from Dino Dvornik's concert at Dom mladih in Sarajevo on 13 March 1991. The concert was part of the 1990-1991 tour promoting the album "Kreativni Nered" which was released in 1990 on Jugoton.

I picked up this flyer at the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade in May. "The struggle for the University autonomy is becoming increasingly fierce." From a speech by Veljko Vlahovic, 1936. Important thinking at a time when unis are under increasing pressure, everywhere.

YouTube video by Patagonia Blue Heart Full Film | The Fight for Europe’s Last Wild Rivers | Patagonia

A reminder of this informative film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmH...

Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part VI: Two, Three, Many Rivers: The Open Veins of Central Bosnia - Lefteast Editors’ note: This article is the last of a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. It seems that at every place in Bosnia-Herzegovina where ...

The final part of Peter Lippman's six part series on environmental threats and civic activism in Bosnia & Herzegovina is up… It explores the issue through a number of rivers that are being destroyed, a huge loss in a country that has some of Europe's last wild rivers: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

Pressman suggests Americans learn from the young people who took to the streets in Budapest; they should also learn from the students in Serbia who have been at it since November: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Come on Wirecutter, expand your horizons.... the best ice cream sandwich is definitely from Plazma....worth every calorie www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part V: Coal Poisons the Environment and Fuels a Criminal Economy - Lefteast Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 6. On my way to Majevica, I stopped for the night in Ugljev...

Part 5 of Peter Lippman's extensive field research on extraction & the environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is now published..... he explores the negative impact of the coal economy in terms of ecological threats, but also stoking corrupt practice: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

A must visit cultural space whether it's your first visit to Sarajevo or your 10th!

Strong overview, insight and guidance - hope people read and reflect

good point Kurt.... another example of the power of repeated narratives and language, and what happens when that goes unchecked

30 items from the Ex-Yu Rock Centar are on display in Opatija at the exhibition "INDEXI u svemu naj, naj, naj". The temporary expo on the legendary Sarajevo band is part of 'Retro Opatija" & is ongoing til July 27 at the Croatian Museum of Tourism on Vila Angiolina. If in Opatija, check it out!

Kudos to Bulgaria National TV for doing this story - the tour represented Ex-Yu Rock at a time of peak creativity

This was a good discussion on EU security & enlargement perspectives that considers both the Western Balkans as well as the countries in the Eastern Partnership. Comprehensive security underpinned the spread of human rights, good governance & economic opportunity – the EU should remember this.

Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part IV: Majevica - Lefteast Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. International corporate invasion and the resista...

Part 4 of Peter Lippman's series takes the reader to the Majevica part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the north-east, where lithium prospecting has raised citizen concern that has echoes of the protests in Serbia: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

In part 3, Peter Lippman writes about the people he met in Maglaj & other towns and villages around Mt Ozren, where people are resisting a nickel mine that would impact eco-tourism & other initiatives:https://lefteast.org/grassroots-resistance-to-environmental-destruction-bosnia-herzegovina-ozren/