history – The Barricade

Tribute to Navalny – a less flattering portrait

Maria Cernat
Global affairs
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Alexei Navalny, a prominent figure in the Russian political landscape, has passed away. In recent days, countless words have been spoken about him, and articles in the specialized press have substantially contributed to shaping the...

Kazakhstani Chessboard — Part 1 — The setting

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Labour
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Last week, a stunning series of events occurred in Kazakhstan, a major Central Asian country. In comparison to many other states with a similar history of ties to the USSR, this post-Soviet republic was largely...

The Origins of Murdochracy

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Democracy
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Perhaps one of the first times Murdochracy appeared was in a 2012 article by one of the world’s most eminent journalist – John Pilger. Pilger wrote about the $22.5bn-man and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch controls most of...

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...

Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

Vijay Prashad
Analysis
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On March 11, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter that his government has “approved the Strategy for Deoccupation & Reintegration of Crimea.” What he referred to is a new strategy driven by Ukraine’s...

Ioannis Armakolas: Historical issues raised by Bulgaria may spiral out of control

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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On November 17, Bulgaria announced that it would block the opening of North Macedonia's accession negotiations with the EU. Sofia believes that Skopje is not complying with the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation...

Golden dusk? Greek Nazis finally convicted

Boyan Stanislavski
Greece
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On 7 October, the day of the court ruling to decide the fate of the fascist organization Golden Dawn and its leaders, a mass demonstration of 50,000 protesters gathered outside the Athens Court of Appeals....

Another ‘war hero’ honored in Lithuania: A nazi-collaborating priest, of course

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Baltic states
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[caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignleft" width="300"] Efraim Zuroff, source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] The scandalous act was first reported in the Jerusalem Post by Efraim Zuroff. He is an American-born, well-known Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played...

The Greens in Germany – from left-wing fundamentalism to neo-liberal “centrism”

Bogdan Gradinaru
Analysis
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A large black sea with small, green, urban islands, while in the middle of nowhere red ones, and a peripheral blue area, towards the East – this is what Germany’s election map looks like after...

Tribute to Navalny – a less flattering portrait

Kazakhstani Chessboard — Part 1 — The setting

The Origins of Murdochracy

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

Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

Ioannis Armakolas: Historical issues raised by Bulgaria may spiral out of control

Golden dusk? Greek Nazis finally convicted

Another ‘war hero’ honored in Lithuania: A nazi-collaborating priest, of course

The Greens in Germany – from left-wing fundamentalism to neo-liberal “centrism”

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