Valery Perry
@valeryperry.bsky.social
Thinking about accountable governance, the flavors of state capture being innovated & how people can learn the good from each other & not just the bad… an unexpected life journey from Buffalo to Sarajevo....my dog keeps me human...
The Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes published a brief today on threats facing Bosnia and Herzegovina & steps the UK Govt can take to reaffirm the rule of law & human rights, and enable the country to make progress that would benefit its citizens www.atrocitystandinggroup.org/news/special...
Policy Note - Critical Preventative Measures: Maintaining Bosnia’s Sovereignty, Peace, and Security — Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes
Policy Note: Critical Preventative Measures: Maintaining Bosnia’s Sovereignty, Peace, and Security. On 16 Oct 2025, the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes published a policy briefing on the critical ...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes published a brief today on threats facing Bosnia and Herzegovina & steps the UK Govt can take to reaffirm the rule of law & human rights, and enable the country to make progress that would benefit its citizens www.atrocitystandinggroup.org/news/special...
I was honored to be on a panel at the NATO Defense College Foundation Conference, “Building bridges: diffusing hybrid threats for regional stability” in Rome yesterday - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtt5...
BALKANS AND BLACK SEA PERSPECTIVES 2025
YouTube video by NATO Defense College Foundation
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October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I was honored to be on a panel at the NATO Defense College Foundation Conference, “Building bridges: diffusing hybrid threats for regional stability” in Rome yesterday - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtt5...
If you're in or near Sarajevo be sure to stop by tonight for this show- great new talent---
See you tonight (Saturday, September 13th) for the promotion of BEZ's debut single "Ljetno Popodne" followed by a full concert of this up-and-coming band from Sarajevo!
September 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If you're in or near Sarajevo be sure to stop by tonight for this show- great new talent---
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...
Meet the New ICE Recruits
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September 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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...
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-...
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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.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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-...
www.wired.com/story/model-...
Just saying that this explains my tendency to support the underdog: www.buffalobills.com/video/bills-...
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.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Just saying that this explains my tendency to support the underdog: www.buffalobills.com/video/bills-...
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...
Why is democracy backsliding around the world?
Podcast Episode · Connections Podcast · 09/03/2025 · 51m
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September 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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...
"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.......
Well those days are over, Mickey.......
August 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"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.......
Well those days are over, Mickey.......
Imagine the reaction by POTUS if USAID got it….
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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:
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“Sharpie Geopolitics” in a Time of Complexity – Democratization Policy Council
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August 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
www.democratizationpolicy.org/sharpie-geop...
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...
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...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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:
August 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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!
Live Music at the Ex-Yu Rock Centar!
URAGAN & EHOTON
TONIGHT!!! ---- Monday, 11 August
Doors: 8pm
Music starts at 9pm
Entrance: KM 5
URAGAN & EHOTON
TONIGHT!!! ---- Monday, 11 August
Doors: 8pm
Music starts at 9pm
Entrance: KM 5
August 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
What better way to start the week than with some live music!
from the mouths of babes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDm...
Kids Pitch: "Bulbo and the Strange Villain" - Part 1
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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August 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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 a new addition at the EYRC thanks to a recent donation from Boro Kontić -- a key radio, television and cultural figure in Sarajevo.
The item includes the phone numbers for many of the biggest names from the Yugoslav rock scene at the time. The item is from the early 1980s.
The item includes the phone numbers for many of the biggest names from the Yugoslav rock scene at the time. The item is from the early 1980s.
August 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Another reason to check out the EYRC when in Sarajevo - an amazing collection of original artifacts---
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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.
July 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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.
July 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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.
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...
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 ...
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July 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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...
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...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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...
July 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Come on Wirecutter, expand your horizons.... the best ice cream sandwich is definitely from Plazma....worth every calorie www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
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...
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...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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!
A look back on opening night from November 2022 & the launch of our first exhibition "Šokiraš me, majke mi"! It's only gotten better since then.....The EYRC is located on the Skenderija plateau (south wing of Dom mladih) and is open Wednesdays to Sundays, 11:00-16:00. See you there!
July 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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
By me and @tobyvogel.bsky.social. Will the EU stick with Vucic - thereby licensing his continued violent crackdown against the student-initiated civic movement in Serbia, or will it finally take the opportunity to change its long-failing policy, w/ the chance for real progress?
"Vučić’s increasingly brutal repression of peaceful protests has put the EU’s policy at an inflection point..." Latest by @tobyvogel.bsky.social and @kurtbassuener.bsky.social for @euobserver.com
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July 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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
WTF, Oslobodjenje? The "RS and BiH" frame is Dodik's. It seems it's caught on with people who ought to know better. Grrr.
July 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
good point Kurt.... another example of the power of repeated narratives and language, and what happens when that goes unchecked
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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!
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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!