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There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth

Right to City (Timişoara, România)
Human rights and civic liberties
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With the increasing militarization of the Croatian-Bosnian border and in an overall hostile environment towards migrants, the Balkan route has been shifting in recent months towards Romania. Since October 2020, there has been a sharp...

What Is the Hungarian “Pedophilia Act” and What Is behind It?

Rita Béres-Deák
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On June 10, 2021, the Hungarian parliament made public the contents of a proposed “Pedophilia Act,” to be voted on less than a week later, on June 15. The bill has caused general outrage among national and...

Capital, Profits and Wages in 2021

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
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Long before Karl Marx and Jenet Yellen, some might have suspected that there are three elements that define the core of capitalism. These are, of course, capital. But capitalism is also a system that is defined...

Notes from the precariat

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
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Less than ten years ago, a new word entered the world of work. By now, it has risen to stratospheric popularity with 400,000 Google hits, articles, books, lecturers and educational videos: the precariat. Many see the...

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...

June’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs: Sex education in Romania — a storm in a teacup!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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“On the barricades” and 1+1 invite you to an interesting discussion on the law that would introduce sexual education in Romanian schools. We, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, are happy to announce that from now...

Germany’s Parliamentary Police Salutes Adolf Hitler

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
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Germany is not a country known for having a shortage of police. In addition to each of its sixteen states having a police force, there is also a federal police (BKA & BGS) and even...

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,...

Anti-Iranian sanctions can be reduced, but will not be lifted completely

Vladimir Mitev
Economy & finance
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Mehdi Motaharnia (born 1965, Kashan) is a university professor with a background in sociology, political science, communication, futurology and security. He is a professor at Islamic Free University in Gom, central Tehran; in North Tehran...

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

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
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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...