“I froze in fear,” the victim of police violence described the moments when police officers – as described by the witnesses of the incident – came at him like animals. “One of the enforcers picked up a baton, another one stood guard, they knocked my legs out from under me, and six heavy policemen picked …
[Exclusive Testimony] They Beat Him Until He Lost Consciousness, Then Fined Him! Read More »
By increasing the minimum wage and social transfers, the government of Robert Golob has created a situation that drastically reduces the creditworthiness of young families with parents earning an average wage and completely removes the creditworthiness of those parents who have three children and earn an average wage. The good times when the Janša government …
At Wednesday’s press conference, where she broke her silence on her flight to the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s concert, the Speaker of the National Assembly was caught in at least two lies. The first was that she went to a state bilateral meeting that lasted four hours. This is, as you will see below, a …
The Speaker Of The National Assembly Has Lied At Least Twice About Her “Vienna Trip” Read More »
“The most bizarre presidential task since the establishment of Slovenia, the drawing of lottery balls for the length of the terms of office of the Programme Council of Radio-Television Slovenia, is done,” Nataša Pirc Musar, President of the Republic, wrote after her first presidential task – the drawing of lottery balls for the length of …
The sanctions against Russia should be working, but in reality, the opposite is happening. The value of European Union countries’ imports from Russia has risen when comparing 2022 with the previous year. And Slovenia is the one country that is far ahead on this list. The next time you “have a stroke” because of the …
Golob’s Government Bailing Out Putin With High Energy Prices Read More »
If we thought that there was no interest in saving and prudent use of money allocated for healthcare under socialism, judging by the work of the Golob government, there is even less or no interest in that in Slovenia today. Why else would 72 percent of the people with the degree of urgency marked as …
“I stared at the screen for a long time to see if it might be a double or a deep fake because I did not expect such a downgrade of the role of President of the Republic. Especially after all the mockery of Pahor by her voters. Who, let’s admit it, remained statesmanlike throughout his …
Nataša Pirc Musar Has Downgraded The Presidential Role Right At The Start Read More »
As we mark the transition from Autumn to Winter on our calendars, we know that we are well into the Christmas season. And anyway, you would not need to look at the calendar to know that. The decorations in our villages and towns, the Christmas markets, the smell of mulled wine, the concerts, and the …
In the spring, shortly after the elections to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister announced a new era in Slovenian politics. With him would come the “era without godfathers from the background,” to paraphrase the headline of one of the main transitional media outlets. The headline, of course, lacked an explanation – the godfathers will …
We cannot claim that the current government did not warn us in advance that it would cut everyone’s salaries. In the pre-election debates, Golob already clearly announced that he would destroy Janša’s amendment to the Income Tax Act, which promised to significantly lower the labour tax burden for all employees, from the poorest to the …
How The Media Are Gradually Making Us Accept Lower Wages Read More »
The basic political platform of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) is “freedom from the anti-covid measures.” The essence of the convincing victory, apart from the demonisation of Janša and the ferocious polarisation, was to make people feel that they were being wronged during the epidemic – not allowed to go for a coffee, not …
They Promised Us Freedom, But Instead, We Got Repression Read More »
The 26th of December marks an event that is considered to be a landmark and unique in the history of the Slovenian nation because we wrote our own judgment at that time. On the 26th of December 1990, the result of the plebiscite on independence was announced, in which Slovenians voted FOR a free and …
Dr Jože Pučnik 32 Years Ago: “Yugoslavia Is No More. Now, It Is About Slovenia!” Read More »
