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“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth”

  • Florin E. Platon Florin E. Platon
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"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth" Julian Assange Nothing short of George Orwell description of his dystopian society of 1984. On the day of ‘Press Freedom’, Julian Assange, the journalist...

Thumbs up and thumbs down: Ukraine’s war, militarism, and a failing left

  • Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
  • Democracy
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This our thumbs up and thumbs down session with Your Smouter of 1+1: 01:40 Slovenian elections - Youri Smouter (interview with Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat about Slovenian elections) 05:10 Your Smouter on censhorship in the internet and...

Instead of promoting human rights, US money and NGOs sow corruption and abuse

  • Maria Cernat Maria Cernat
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This is the second part of a conversation between Maria Cernat, host of "On the Barricades," and Marxist activist and historian Pat Byrne. The topic is the weaponization of concepts such as democracy and human...

“Human rights” as a weapon vs. human rights as social progress

  • Maria Cernat Maria Cernat
  • China
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On the Barricades tackles the issue of human rights in its current episode with labour activist Pat Byrne being the guest of the host Maria Cernat. Pat Byrne distinguishes between human rights which provide for...

Privatization of humor — post-April Fool’s Day reflections

  • Maria Cernat Maria Cernat
  • Democracy
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When we're all laughing, humor is nice. And when we make fun of those in power. It's pretty sad humor when we laugh at the weak and at others. In some ways, humor is similar...

Bulgaria: Between pro-war consensus and the need for an anti-war movement

  • Stanislav Dodov Stanislav Dodov
  • Bulgaria
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As the reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have shown, Bulgaria is not ready for a new anti-war movement, despite the urgency of the task. The majority of people with some access to the public...

Notes from Lviv in times of war

  • Aliona Lyasheva Aliona Lyasheva
  • Citizens Movements
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I am writing this text on the night of 7-8 March in Lviv. This is the fourth year of my living in Lviv, and I met the war here. It seems that my whole life...

To end the Ukrainian war, we must know how to prevent new wars

  • Riccardo Petrella Riccardo Petrella
  • China
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Ukraine needs an immediate ceasefire. Arming Ukraine and imposing harsh sanctions on Russia will only exacerbate the conflict. Instead of ‘liberating’ the Ukrainians, they are used to defeat and even kill Russia through economic suffocation...

The contemporary beginning of Czech McCarthyism

  • Jan Klán Jan Klán
  • Czechia
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The new Czech government, which consists of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the Mayors and Independents (STAN), the Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), the Liberal Democratic Party (TOP 09), and the Czech Pirate Party, has a very broad concept...

Women’s day 2022. Do we fully know what we want?

  • Maria Cernat Maria Cernat
  • Democracy
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Feminism has always been a movement for liberation and progress. Frequently confronted with hatred, violence, and general reluctance. Over the last two centuries, the same arguments have been used to oppose it. The most heinous...

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