The Barricade

15 October 2020 The Barricade

Brexit and the UK’s future

The Other News’ founder Roberto Savio dissects Brexit’s causes and makes a bleak observation about the United Kingdom

13 October 2020 Vladimir Mitev

Farshad Golzari: Turkish-Iranian relations will not be affected by the tensions in the Caucasus

Russia and the United States are the main actors in the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh, with Turkey being a second-tier player and Israel still not having taken a position on the new tensions between Yerevan and Baku, believes the Iranian foreign policy analyst.

12 October 2020 Rositsa Kratunkova

Why we can’t expect support from the West

The police are not an institution which protects society. They are rather an institution that protects those in power from the people. France illustrates how the police enjoy complete impunity.

11 October 2020 Riccardo Petrella

COVID-19. Global public health remains “a private thing”

Thoughts on the developments at the 75th UN General Assembly

10 October 2020 Zlatko Jovanovic

The Bulgarian middle class wants to be getting empowered by the anti-corruption fight

The Barricade’s Vladimir Mitev was interviewed by the Danish organisation Democracy in Europe on the Bulgarian protests: their demands, the comparisons between the Bulgarian and the Romanian anti-corruption fights and protests, the role of the new left and its democratic innovations.

9 October 2020 Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski

EU’s East: It’s time to let the healing begin!

It’s curious how the serious personal deviations of some candidates doesn’t seem to prevent the people from voting for them in the Romanian local elections. Neighbouring Bulgaria is another example of that current. For a number of years Bulgarians have been electing an authoritarian gangster to the countrys’ top position.

8 October 2020 Maria Cernat

The Social Dilemma – a documentary about what we already know

The liberal paradigm of the media believes that we are rational, autonomous individuals, who can tell truth from lie. This is now being replaced by the understanding that we have to be protected from fake news. What is the new element here and what does it tell us about the

7 October 2020 Boyan Stanislavski

A right-wing extremist will head the Ministry of Education

Yet another disgusting nomination in Poland

5 October 2020 Maria Cernat - Vladimir Mitev

The first Biden-Trump debate – Gerontocracy and Wrestling in Cage

When you have one old man that can’t control his temper opposing one who cannot control his verbal tics, well, here’s the deal: you end up with a ridiculous and sad fight that resembles the constant bickering of the retired people in our Eastern Europe periphery block of flats.