Welcome back to geopolitics and empire.

Joining us for the very first time is Blas Kavchich.

He's co-founder of Slovenia's Institute for National Sovereignty.

He's an author as well.

He's served one term in the first chamber of the Slovenian parliament from 2000 to 2004.

He was also president of the second chamber of the Slovenian parliament 2007 to 2012, since he's

become an anti-globalist activist dissident welcome blush. Hi, Herwe. Nice to see you. You know, it's

interesting. I've been aware of your work. I've seen you on different platforms for years, and we just, just now recently connected. And I've been, you know, it's interesting. I've been aware of your work. I've seen you on different platforms for years.

And we just now recently connected.

And I thought, I got to have Blajan just because I think it's extremely useful to get

perspectives from different parts of the world.

And in this case, Slovenia, I don't believe I've had a Slovenian on if i'm not mistaken but for people who are not aware of your work

whatever you want to tell us about your background and then your current work in

activism and trying to raise awareness okay thanks for having me herrve. Well, as you have suggested, let me first share some basic information about me, where I'm coming

from where I am now, both geographically and, let's say, paradigmatically. I was born not far from here, where I'm speaking

now, Yubiana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, 1951, grammar school, faculty of economics in Yubiana,

later also master's degree in business sciences.

Then I worked for some 20 years in Iskra.

At that time, 30,000 people strong industrial giant in electrical equipment, electronics,

telecommunications. Those were my formative years.

Yugoslavia was rather positive environment to get education, to work and to enjoy life then.

It was a world of something in between Western market economy and Soviet bloc.

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