Boštjan Videmšek

Journalist and author of Plan B.

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Boštjan Videmšek (b.1975) has reported from major wars over the last 25 years. His articles were published in international magazines, including New York Times, GEO, Der Spiegel, Le Figaro, Sydney Morning Herald, Aftenposten, El Periodico, Terra Mater, and others. He’s the author of six books, including Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity and Plan B: How Not to Lose Hope in the Times of Climate Crisis (Book of the Year in Slovenia). He is the recipient of numerous national and international awards and one of the European Young Leaders. He is also the author of theatre plays and an Ambassador of the EU Climate Pact. 

Climate Change on the Geopolitical Front Line in the High Arctic 

Boštjan Videmšek investigates how wartime has shifted relations between Russia and Norway in Svalbard   The upper deck of the beautifully…

Cold War at the Bottom of the Sea 

Norway, considering itself one of the world’s most eco-friendly countries, is well on its way to becoming the first country…

Elephant Poaching Continues in Kenya

African elephants are back on the list of endangered species – the pandemic’s opened doors for poaching again. Bostjan Videmsek…

Douzinas: On the Crisis and Resistance

Excerpts from an interview by Slovenian journalist, Boštjan Videmšek, about the European crisis and popular resistance, with Greek philosopher, Costas…

Greece: At Austerity’s End?

The glory of Greek philosophy and poetry is as distant a dream as Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, but the elections…

Secession of South Sudan

The United States supports the independence of South Sudan and China controls its oil industry, but the most explosive issue…

Libya: Bye-Bye Brother Leader

Bombed a convoy of vehicles containing Qaddafi loyalists fleeing the imminent fall of the city. A few loyalists managed to…

Afghanistan: Kalashnikov Society

After a decade, nowhere in the world has the western model for exporting democracy failed more spectacularly than in Afghanistan….