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The dangers of dehumanization

Florian Nowicki
Global affairs
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There is nothing more pitiful than beating one's own breasts in vain. And I'm saying this because a common theme in current Western propaganda is that of Western guilt. And what does the West have...

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

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...

The Russians went from “appalled and stunned” to “understanding and accepting..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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This is part 1 of our conversation with Stanislav Byshok. The Barricade brings you a reasonable, balanced, and critical voice from Russia; the hosts of "On the Barricades" invited Stanislav Byshok, a Russian political scientist...

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

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...

Massive escalation in the Donbass, or a new propaganda campaign? /w Andrei Buzarov

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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In the midst of the escalating tensions in and around Ukraine, the hosts of "On the barricades" have invited a special guest who is a political scientist, security analyst, and academic currently residing in Kiev....

Ukrainians are far from unified on NATO. Let them decide for themselves

Volodymyr Ishchenko
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After weeks of media scare about a purported Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the conflict may get a chance to be solved in a negotiated way. The public conversation on the current escalation of the...

The Ukrainian crisis and possible future scenarios dissected in detail (pt. 1) w/ Mark Sleboda

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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The more tensions rise in Ukraine, and the situation is exaggerated by increasingly deranged media narratives, the more difficult it becomes to make sense of the entire crisis unfolding before our eyes. Nonetheless, many people...

“The Russian public has no appetite for war” /w Stanislav Byshok

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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Stanislav Byshok, a Russian political scientist, is our guest this time. He earned a PhD after graduating from Moscow State University, and he is frequently described as a scholar deconstructing nationalism and populism in international...

António Guterres’ hour

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Analysis
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There is a clear discomfort among international activists and commentators who follow the United Nations, as well as among former UN senior officials and special rapporteurs, with the organization’s growing irrelevance as the world is...

On the outcomes of the Summit for ‘Democracy’ w/ Pat Byrne

Boyan Stanislavski
Democracy
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The American government hosted a global conference called the Summit for Democracy in early January. We discussed it at the time with Pat Byrne, a long-time socialist activist and historian. Today, after a few weeks...

The dangers of dehumanization

The Russians went from “appalled and stunned” to “understanding and accepting..

Massive escalation in the Donbass, or a new propaganda campaign? /w Andrei Buzarov

Ukrainians are far from unified on NATO. Let them decide for themselves

The Ukrainian crisis and possible future scenarios dissected in detail (pt. 1) w/ Mark Sleboda

“The Russian public has no appetite for war” /w Stanislav Byshok

António Guterres’ hour

On the outcomes of the Summit for ‘Democracy’ w/ Pat Byrne

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