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Gorbachev turned 90

Cecilia Capanna
Interviews
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Mikhail Gorbachev is undoubtedly the most important positive historical figure of our time. From 1985 to 1991, in just six years, he changed world history by contributing to the fall of the Berlin Wall in...

Capitalism Profits From the Promulgation of Disinformation

Thomas Klikauer - Nadine Campbell
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We do not just live in a time of too much information. We live in a period of intense but often somewhat accidental misinformation as well as deliberate disinformation. Misinformation is false information. But it...

The Mass Deception Machine of Computational Propaganda

Thomas Klikauer
Democracy
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A mass deception machine is a socio-technical apparatus that broadcasts deceptive claims like falsehoods, lies, accidental misinformation, deliberate disinformation, untruths, conspiracy fantasies, etc. It works in the service of right-wing ideology. A mass deception machine uses computational propaganda,...

February’s thumbs-up and thumbs-down

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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On 28th February 2021 the planned episode with the participation of the American psychoanalyst Hariet Fraad was posponed for April. What the hosts of the podcast On the Barricades proposed instead was their subjective review...

Misogyny – the other pandemic!

The socio-economic crisis triggered by the pandemic disproportionately affects women. On March 8 - International Women's Day - we protest in front of the Government to raise awareness for the way authorities have handled the...

Aurelian Giugăl: The Romanian government is underfunding public services to discredit them

Vladimir Mitev
Economy & finance
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In Romania, social tensions are rising after the centre-right government of Florin Cîţu began cutting social benefits. Trade unions of health workers, public sector workers, police and other professions have been protesting for more than...

The largest strike in human history explained

Noémi Lehoczki
Citizens Movements
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On June 5, 2020, amidst the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of India hastily passed three ordinances, namely the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers (Empowerment and...

What’s wrong with Left? Learning from past mistakes

Boyan Stanislavski
Analysis
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Last month, “The Barricade” launched a new series of podcasts under the title “Divided we fall,” where we discuss the Left’s ideological confusion, various strategical mistakes, its complete lack of courage, and sometimes its plain...

The expendables: Romanian medics’ work is undervalued by Cîțu’s right-wing government

Radu Stochiţa
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On 30th December 2020, the current neoliberal Government (comprised of PNL, USRPLUS and UDMR) led by Florin Cîțu initiated the debate about Bill 226/2020, which was symbolically named the Train Bill - an allusion to...

The increasingly grotesque anti-Russian hysteria

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Baltic states
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The most recent decision of the Latvian authorities to ban all Russian media on the territory and the promise to sanction individuals enjoying ‘unsanctioned media,' along with the fact that the international media was rather...

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