"Perhaps the clear lack of objective conceals a darker agenda: many experts believe that Israel and the United States would be satisfied with a ruined country fractured by civil war." (via @lilylynch.bsky.social) www.lilyslynch.com/p/the-us-att...
Lily Lynch (@lilylynch.bsky.social) on Sanna Marinβs memoir:
βThroughout Hope in Action, Marin invokes βthe collectiveβ β sometimes to illustrate the qualities of the Finnish soul, at others to give her lust for power an egalitarian sheen.β
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Very interesting one
@lilylynch.bsky.social @johnalechner.bsky.social
www.lilyslynch.com/p/the-yugosl...
This is such a great review of Indignity by @lilylynch.bsky.social in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social - I really enjoyed reading her discussion/critique of the questions around social class, do check it out!
Loved this review of Lea Ypi's new book Indignity by @lilylynch.bsky.social - on class, communism, and family in Albania's twentieth century
jacobin.com/2025/10/lea-...
Interesting to read "...the cocktail of heightened geopolitical tension, sudden acts of violence, intensifying ethno-nationalist rhetoric, and irresponsible politicians with large media platforms does warrant elevated concern."
From @lilylynch.bsky.social's substack. 1/2
π₯Hard News Feature, General News for βChasing Utopia, Startup Styleβ by @lilylynch.bsky.social: www.noemamag.com/chasing-utop...
Ecstatic to see so many commissions of mine among this great list! Congratulations @lilylynch.bsky.social, Nina Strochlic, Brian Stone Jr. and Stephen Robert Miller!
Wrote about the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords on my Substack, along with Rust Belt decline in Ohio and the Trump administration's new foreign policy rhetoric
lilylynch.substack.com/p/daytonific...
Nice, concise write-up from @lilylynch.bsky.social on the ongoing protests against corruption in Serbia, by some estimates the largest student-led movement in europe since the 1960s.
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Armas para pensar
π·πΈ SensaciΓ³n de punto final para VuΔiΔ en Serbia
El nepotismo, la corrupciΓ³n, el clientelismo y el autoritarismo del Partido Progresista Serbio de Aleksandar VuΔiΔ, se enfrenta a una movilizaciΓ³n a gran escala
βπΌ @lilylynch.bsky.social
In post-Cold War CEE/Eurasia, there hasn't been a popular protest movement as important as the current one in Serbia that wasn't cultivated and coopted by outside powers. Which explains why the latter are literally speechless about it. By @lilylynch.bsky.social
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A must-read - whether or not you care about this part of the world. There is also a lesson here for America (and beyond), it's easy to slide into total corruption and impunity, but takes ages, and is really, really hard to exorcise it.
"This is not a revolution but an exorcism."
I wrote about protests in Serbia newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
on the list, ty
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hi david! π
Oh, absolutely!
The two top tier breakfast experiences are US diner and Turkish
Thank you, Tibor π
Bluesky is very suburban, very Zone of Interest
Checking in with Green Eyes, one of the most beautiful neighborhood cats here in Istanbul
A Bosnian-Serb commander convicted of aiding and abetting genocide at Srebrenica supports the UN resolution establishing an international day of remembrance for the victims of the 1995 massacre. "I committed an unthinkable and inadmissible criminal act... never again".
n1info.rs/region/glasa...
Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors' warning.
one of the better things about this place so far
hugs, Tibor!! π
Would be better if it was called Red Sky
fresh audio product:
β’ Anatol Lieven on the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden/Harris foreign policy
β’ Lily Lynch on the emptying out of the Balkans
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
I log in perhaps once a month but maybe that will increase soon....
Moldova as part of the demographic Balkans.
Thinking of this great article by @lilylynch.bsky.social:
thebaffler.com/salvos/go-we...
