Freedom of speech is a really tough cookie, isn’t it? Do we want it? Do we not want it? When is it a good idea, and when is it a bad, terrible, horrific idea? …

For one and all — Being published is the best cure for writer’s block. There is nothing like it. It’s like someone saying, “You can do this.” Seeing your words in print, being read and promoted by someone other than yourself, is the cheer that every writer needs. …

Citizen Activism vs Lobby — In the previous article, I showed that democracy is NOT a bad idea. Sure, it might be harder to put into practice than dictatorship, where you have one guy giving out orders, and anyone who disagrees is simply removed. It doesn’t take a genius to make that happen. And you…

Democracy The only president I remember in my childhood was a guy called Josip Broz, also known as Tito. He died few months after I was born, and we must have had a president during the first ten years of my life, however, I do not remember ever hearing about…

Dayton Peace Agreement — I do not want to bore you with details of the actual agreement (and oh my goodness, those are dull) since that wouldn’t add to the article. Besides, we are planning to make a documentary about ‘paper’ vs ‘reality’, i.e. show the boring details of the document with the very…

Introduction — Many people think of war when they hear ‘lessons from Bosnia’. They think about genocide, mass murder, bombs, hunger, mass graves, identifying bodies, memorials, and so on. They think about the brutality of crimes against humanity. Well, not this time. This time we’d like to talk about the post-war, even…

It seems I’m no longer a Member of the Medium Partner Program and I don’t know why?

As you can see from my profile, I was born in Bosnia. The war of 1992–95 started when I was 12. I came to the UK before I turned 13, as a refugee, a kid who wanted to play the flute and make cookies. The flute and cookies were quickly…

And I still can’t believe they turned out to be scams — Christmas 2022 was upon us. The rise in the cost of living meant real and serious cutbacks, yet the demands of life seem to be constantly increasing — so not only were things getting more expensive, but we need more and more things. Kids these days need computers. They need…