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Global affairs

June’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs: A week of summits demonstrates Europe’s geopolitical im..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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The G7 summit, the Biden-Putin summit, the EU-US summit... Isn't that a lot of summits for just a week or so? What does Eastern Europe stand to gain? Is it going to have an impact...

Reading Žižek in Tehran

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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In a world of capital words easily become cliche-ridden and therefore devoid of power to change anything. Whom should we rely on to challenge the status-quo? Kamran Baradaran - an Iranian translator of Slavoj Žižek,...

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

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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Unlike other wealthy elites what have, for example, inherited wealth (aristocrats, great-grand-children of 19th and 20th-century robber barons, etc.) and elites that simply stole money (mafia) and obtained it semi-legally (Russian oligarchs), the corporate elite...

Covid-19 and global working conditions

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Analysis
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By June 2021, the world of work had changed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. We have seen about 180 million Coronavirus cases and almost four million deaths. The Coronavirus pandemic has not only caused death and misery...

The global COVID-19 inequality virus

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Analysis
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By early June 2021, the world was about one and a half years into the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic had not only a tragic human cost when millions of lives were lost, but it...

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

Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J.S. Davies
Analysis
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The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for President Biden to rally the leaders of the world’s democratic nations in a coordinated response to the most serious problems facing the world, from...

How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press

Alan Macleod
Analysis
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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news...

Security and the Left in Europe – Perspectives from the European Parliament

The Barricade
Gender issues
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Security is a basic need and an urgent necessity for everyone, particularly for those affected by war, violent conflict, police brutality, hate crimes, or domestic violence. Yet, current debates on security are mostly co-opted by...

Eastern European leftist journalists dissect the Belarus situation

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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Aleksander Lukashenko has been the undisputed leader of Belarus for over 25 years. How is this even possible? Is it truly only through the plethora of dictatorial measures he employed during that time? Certainly not!...

To beat capitalism, you need innovation and competitiveness — Divided we fall w/ Pat Byrne s01e04

Boyan Stanislavski
Analysis
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We continue our series on the Left's weaknesses. Globally, the Left has failed spectacularly over the last few decades. Clearly, there are numerous factors at play, some of which we have already discussed in previous...