Anton Chekhov on hopepunk

Fires keep raging in parts of Eastern Serbia where the Canadian mining company Dundee Precious Metals has secured exploration rights. Locals keep reporting that the fires are the result of arson aimed at clearing out lands Dundee wants and that authorities are not responding to

Where the green transition: main government media stated if Vučić (Serbia's president) is gone, quite probably due to anti-lithium protests, "the age of Lucifer will come". The same newsreel also invited people to pray for Vučić, as that is "the most Christian thing to do."

Komplet zaboravio usled svega, održao sam nedavno par predavanja. Jedno od njih je bilo u istraživačkom telu Evropskog parlamenta na temu mogućnosti da EU usvoji određen pristup ekonomskom planiranju od jugoslovenskih instituta za planiranje (snimak dole) epc.eu/en/past-events…

Sažetak izveštaja o konkurentnosti EU koji je danas objavio M. Dragi. Predlaže da EU počne da vodi "spoljnu ekonomsku politiku": co-ordinating preferential trade agreements and direct investment with resource-rich countries. Struja i gas su nekoliko economist.com/by-invitation/…

The town of Gornji Milanovac in Serbia has been without water for 62 days. Neither the local government nor the Vučič administration has done anything about it. This is the government which promises that lithium mines requiring entire rivers worth of water will have no impact on

There is a lot of praise for Mario Draghi's report on EU competitiveness from all the wrong places (Von der Leyen, many US-financed Think Tanks, Elon Musk, etc.), which should set alarm bells ringing to anyone with any common sense. At first glance the report's stated objectives

After five months, I managed to submit a Marie Curie application. In any case developing a post-doc project on environmental planning while receiving death threats in the name of a multinational mining corporation was definitely a unique experience I would not repeat. #academia

Die deutsche Ausgabe von Jacobin schrieb darüber, was derzeit in Serbien in Bezug auf Lithium-Bergbauprojekte und die deutsche Automobilindustrie passiert nach dem Besuch von Scholz. jacobin.de/artikel/serbie…