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Don’t look up! – a cheap political satire or a brilliant mockumentary?

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Art & culture
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The end of 2021 was marked by vivid discussions around political satire. Whether you liked it or not, Don’t look up! is one of the most debated movies of all time. However, is this truly...

Germany’s declining middle class

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Coronavirus
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Even though Marx’s well-acknowledged truth that capitalism creates two classes is over 160 years old, class remains a much debated issue. Marx’s idea is relatively straightforward. In capitalism, there are two classes: firstly, there are workers or proletariat. Workers...

“Capitalism’s deadly threat” — transform!Europe’s 2021 Yearbook is out

Boyan Stanislavski
Ecology
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The 2021 "Yearbook" of transform!Europe examines capitalism's impact on the global ecosystem and the accompanying economic crisis, as well as the effects on logistics and borders, the structure of work, healthcare systems, European integration, geopolitical...

On capitalistic information monopolies and freedom of expression w/ Patricia Gorky

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Facebook was recently engulfed in a major scandal related to the release of internal documents proving things we already knew: the algorithm makes highly emotional content go viral, it pays no attention to combating human...

No ivory tower – a discussion on capitalism in education – part 2

Maria Cernat
Analysis
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Maria Cernat continues the discussion with the Bulgarian-born US-based academic Arto Artinian, who will analyze the current trends in academia from initiatives such as Black Lives Matter to #metoo and their progressive potential. Our discussion...

No ivory tower – a discussion on capitalism in education – part 1

Maria Cernat
Analysis
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Arto Artinian is a Bulgarian-born US academic teaching at the City University of New York. Maria Cernat invited Arto Artinian to the podcast On the Barricades to discuss his experiences as an intellectual laborer in...

Porn workers as labor force

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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Today, Sylvester “Stallion’s” net value is about $400 million. But that was not always the case. In 1970, the appropriately named “Stallion” appeared in an American “soft-core pornography romance film” (Wikipedia) called The Party at Kitty...

Understanding US foreign policy w/ Paul Jay

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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On this edition of “On the Barricades” we welcome back Paul Jay - the Canadian-American journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker, the host of Analysis.News. With Paul we discuss the nature of the American empire, and how...

Capitalism and its pathologies

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Economy & finance
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Perhaps ever since ironmonger and Baptist lay preacher Thomas Newcomen applied his newly invented steam engine in 1712 to pump water out of a coal mine to increase profits, we were doomed to live in an economic...

The chance of truth surviving the onslaught of power is very slim

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Analysis
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Even before the timely political demise of Donald Trump and the unfortunate persistence of British prime minister Boris Johnson (BoJo), the issue of lying and liars has been hotly debated. Our time may well be...