This is part of a special two part series transatlantic blog post about Occupy Wall Street. Come check out my cross-branded blog post on Grega Stritar’s stritar.net. The situation isn’t peachy. The global economic system is collapsing, the middle class is disappearing, and financial institutions have taken control of the fate of many countries and corporations. [...]
A few weeks ago, while en route to idyllic White Beach on Mindoro Island in the Philippines, I met an Austrian around my age. He seemed cool and we had a pleasant enough chat, though my opinion of him quickly changed at his reaction to my mention of going to Malaysia next. “Malaysia – isn’t that [...]
While I realize it’s a somewhat controversial thesis and you are free to disagree by commenting directly on this post, I believe it to be true! By far the biggest breaking story at the moment is WikiLeaks releasing tons of confidential US diplomatic communications to news organizations around the world. The service, founded by secretive [...]
In an interesting twist of fate, I am leaving my other motherland in a few days to explore the spiritual, material and aesthetic dimensions of Asia. Not that there’s anything wrong with Slovenia, in fact the period of time I’ve been privileged enough to spend here (again) and the experiences I’ve been through add up [...]
Today I kept coming across quirky articles about more or less ”rogue states” and decided maybe it was time for a political post for a change. The U.S. originally classified five countries, including North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Libya as falling under that definition. After dual invasions and Libya’s ”diplomacy”, all that was really [...]
“That government is best which governs least’’ Henry David Thoreau The flames of anarchy are apparently spreading worldwide… Only if you had been chained to your bed with no TV for the past few weeks, would you have failed to notice that protesting and rioting seems to be making a global comeback, of sorts. From Slovenia [...]
A lot of people lately have been asking me about the new and highly controversial immigration law in Arizona, which has drawn massive media coverage all over the world… The bill encourages police officers to engage in racial profiling by ordering them to check the status of people they merely suspect of being in the [...]
Every problem is an opportunity in disguise – Deepak Chopra As we near the end of the year and thoughts turn to new hopes and prospects for the future, I’m battling with the notion that it is nevertheless important to keep things in perspective… and perhaps poke a little fun at some popular notions… I [...]
I recently attended a seminar for a European non-profit organization in Ljubljana, where I was working as a simultaneous interpreter… When I went out to have a well deserved cigarette, I was happened upon by an interesting young lady, who could’ve been a member of any of the nationalities represented at the seminar… I asked [...]
Most of you are by now well familiar with the recent effort by US President Obama to push through universal health care for all Americans… an effort that will undoubtedly fail, just like the Clinton effort spectacularly crashed & burned years ago, so I will spare you the details… So why bother talking about this? [...]
