propaganda – The Barricade

Kant and the current Ukrainian conflict

Boyan Stanislavski
Democracy
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Has a rational person the right to declare that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an act of unprovoked aggression? Yes and no. It all depends on how you look at it. The systematics of...

Thumbs up and thumbs down: Ukraine’s war, militarism, and a failing left

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Democracy
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This our thumbs up and thumbs down session with Your Smouter of 1+1: 01:40 Slovenian elections - Youri Smouter (interview with Malgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat about Slovenian elections) 05:10 Your Smouter on censhorship in the internet and...

The Pro-War Attitude and Its Dangers, part 2

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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As the war continues in Ukraine, more and more people, intellectuals, journalists, and artists are drawn into the pro-war narrative. The slightest deviation from the official line is deemed to be “pro-Putinist Russian propaganda”. There...

Fallacies – the Perfect Tools to Fight the War, part 2

No war can be fought today without powerful narratives based on persuasive discourses. The war in Ukraine is no exception to this rule. In an era when we have the most formidable tools of communication,...

Fallacies – the Perfect Tools to Fight the War

On Russian and Ukrainian propaganda efforts, and how the media responds to them /w Pat Byrne

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Journalism and Media
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Of course, this edition of the program is dedicated to the war in Ukraine, as have nearly all of our programs over the last three weeks. And this time, we'll focus on the media war,...

Massive escalation in the Donbass, or a new propaganda campaign? /w Andrei Buzarov

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Global affairs
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In the midst of the escalating tensions in and around Ukraine, the hosts of "On the barricades" have invited a special guest who is a political scientist, security analyst, and academic currently residing in Kiev....

Don’t look up! – a cheap political satire or a brilliant mockumentary? – part 2

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...

Elite Cooperation

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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Perhaps ever since C. Wright Mills, we know the elite recognizes one another. It does so from the self-assigned but also lofty position they have been allowed to occupy in society. In general, the elite accepts...

How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press

Alan Macleod
Analysis
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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news...