The Barricade

22 June 2021 Vladimir Mitev

Anti-Iranian sanctions can be reduced, but will not be lifted completely

An interview with the Iranian political scientist Mehdi Motaharnia following the recent presidential election: on the legacy of Hassan Rouhani, on the future economic policy of the newly-elected Ebrahim Raisi, on the low turnout and on the expectations from the ongoing nuclear negotiations in Vienna.

21 June 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell

How corporations seek to control civil societies through political “influence” and monopolies

Corporate elites are in contradiction with democracy and tax rules

21 June 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link

Covid-19 and global working conditions

How has the coronavirus influence work globally – from India, via Romania, to Germany and other countries?

21 June 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell

The global COVID-19 inequality virus

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer in cosmic proportions

20 June 2021 Frank Myonk - Maria Cernat

Socialist realism! Let’s be serious about it w/ Jérôme Bazin

“On the barricades” — s02e35

19 June 2021 Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J.S. Davies

Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership

The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels.

17 June 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link

The good-doing elite

By governing the “to be governed”, the good-doing elite means an elite-led, market-led, market friendly, keep-the-winners-safe sort of social and environmental change.

17 June 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link

An ordinary german neo-nazi death squad man

The story of Franco Albrecht

16 June 2021 Soma Ábrahám Kiss

“You don’t own a business; you own a bike or a Suzuki”

The realities of forced self-employment in Hungary.

16 June 2021 Alan Macleod

How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press

For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies.