Before I moved from Bosnia to Sweden in 2003, I played the PC game “Delta Force — Black Hawk Down” based on the movie with the same name and the UN operations in Somalia as in 1993 during the civil wartime.
Once, as I was playing the game, I got…
At the moment I am living in Barcelona for around one month. The city and the region of Catalonia is one of my favorite parts of Europe, partly due to my interest in history and political ideas.
Barcelona is, for several reasons, as regarding values, programs, and institutions seen as…
In my writings about ideas, tech, and political theory, I argue that cryptocurrencies can also be seen as anti-nationalist and cosmopolitan development for the following reasons.
- Challenges and creates an alternative to nation-centric systems and views on economics and finance, and facilitates global trade and economic interaction between individuals directly…
For most of my adult life, I have been interested in and felt very existential concerning topics as identification, history, and democracy. This has been the case mainly due to my own experiences growing up in Bosnia during and after the war (1992–1995).
It was not easy to grow up…
I recently walked in Stockholm at Hollaendar Street (Holländargatan) and saw several stickers with political messages placed on a drainpipe. As you can see in the photo, one of them is Monero — a cryptocurrency famous for integrity and anonymity as its main idea and characteristic.
Last weekend, a debate about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, energy efficiency, climate change, and institutions took place in Sweden. …
Last weekend, a debate about Bitcoin, climate, and energy efficiency took place in Sweden. It was started by director generals of the Swedish Financial Supervisor Authority and Environmental Protection Agency writing in daily media paper Dagens Nyheter arguing that mining of Bitcoin should be forbidden in the EU. …
At the end of August, public and private media in Sweden published information about how two artists with connections to far-right organizations have presented their creations at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art ( Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej) in Poland, Warszaw. …
This post is based on the article The prospects of an EU-level Universal Basic Income written by François Denuit via the European Green Foundation.
Denuit defines European Universal Basic Income (EUBI) as a periodic and partial cash payment paid by the EU to all legal residents living within its borders…
In their article “Global Trends in 2021. How COVID-19 is Transforming International Development” Mikaela Gavas and Samuel Pleeck are writing for the Center for Global Development about recent economic, social and technical trends in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic.
