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The Supreme Court’s Long March towards the Republic of Gilead

  • Thomas Klikauer Thomas Klikauer
  • Gender issues
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The Republic of Gilead is a fictional destination of a crypto-fascistoid state – showing signs of becoming fascistic without yet being fascist – where religio-fundamentalism has mutated into a Divine Republic. The Republic of Gilead is part of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The...

Capitalist society, not just attitudes, are to blame for social exclusion of the Roma population.

  • Boyan Stanislavski Boyan Stanislavski
  • Bulgaria
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The Roma population in Romania, 86% of whom live in appalling conditions that force children to beg and hunt through trash to survive, are the target of major, normalized racism by their non-Roma neighbors; similarly...

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

  • Florin E. Platon Florin E. Platon
  • Democracy
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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
  • Democracy
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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...

During a war, the Romanian military and police will not care about civilians

  • Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
  • Human rights and civic liberties
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Romania is one of the countries that spends a lot of money on its security apparatus, and the costs of the military's lethal toys are rising every year. There is a lot of talk about...

Polish Catholic fundamentalism has claimed another woman’s life

  • Boyan Stanislavski Boyan Stanislavski
  • Gender issues
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Another tragic victim of Poland's new anti-abortion laws died at the end of January 2021. Agnieszka died in the hospital as a result of twin pregnancy complications. Her life could have been saved if she...

Democracy dies in sunlight. On Human Rights Day!

  • The Barricade The Barricade
  • Democracy
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Human Rights Day? December 10th is Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. It is very cynical that today of all days it was announced that...

Poland’s response to the ‘migrant crisis’ is brutal, irrational, and repugnant

  • Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
  • Belarus
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To believe that the Polish response to the migrant gathering on the Polish-Belarussian border could be even remotely rational and meaningful, one would have to be completely insane. Let us begin by recognizing that those...

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