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A Winner Take All System

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
Democracy
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For some years, the global financial elite has established a money power apparatus that not just increases the elite’s wealth but also acts through lobbying and corruption in the field of political elites. Many top...

Vijay Prashad explains the recent events taking place in India

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Coronavirus
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The Indian version of the Corona Virus was covered extensively during the past weeks in the mainstream media. The terrible images of people being cremated in the fields because the Indian crematoriums were no longer...

Rant and rave about Belarus and the West’s monumental fiasco

Boyan Stanislavski
Belarus
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Of course, any rational person who follows international news even casually and understands that history does not start anew every day recognizes that the outrage over Belarus' grounding of a Ryanair plane is selective, to...

The G20 Rome Declaration on health is a mixture of hypocrisy, cynicism and indecency

We did not expect innovative proposals, but we did expect a little more breath of change. Well.... there was no breath. Worse still, in its place there were strong ugly winds. 1. First, the Declaration...

Medvedchuk’s prosecution, or is Ukraine looking for a way to end itself?

Boyan Stanislavski
Analysis
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The ongoing political prosecution in Ukraine far outweighs the recent prosecution of Alexey Navalny in Russia, which has been completely overblown to grotesque proportions by the international media. Even some of them, such as the...

The Freedom of the Press – A Value Worth Fighting for or a Geopolitical Tool?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Bulgaria
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The Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index has released its annual report on the freedom of the press. Its findings prompted Philip Burov, a member of the editorial board of the Barricade, to write a...

This safety asphyxiates us: the banal border in Barcelona

Last month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning to set up patrols to attack immigrants. In Barcelona, citizen patrols, without confirmed ties to...

Zeman’s repentance

Radosław Czarnecki
Analysis
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić paid a visit to Prague a few days ago. Miloš Zeman, his Czech counterpart, greeted him at the Hradčany castle. This would be nothing out of the ordinary; hundreds, if not...

Blackmail, racketeering, oligarchs and violence in Bulgaria. Discussing Borissov’s legacy w/..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Anti-corruption
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A heinous scandal is brewing in Bulgaria, with wealthy businessman and landowner Svetoslav Ilchovski at the center, who recently testified before a parliamentary commission about the Bulgarian PM's gangsterism. "The Barricade" has published a lengthy...

The Protests of Serbian Freelancers and the Possibilities of Digital Labor Struggles

Slobodan Golušin
Analysis
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2021 witnessed an unprecedented mobilization of online freelancers in Serbia. Thousands of people, doing various online jobs on different digital platforms and organized around a common association, marched on the streets of Belgrade to protest...