West – The Barricade

The dangers of dehumanization

Florian Nowicki
Global affairs
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There is nothing more pitiful than beating one's own breasts in vain. And I'm saying this because a common theme in current Western propaganda is that of Western guilt. And what does the West have...

Propaganda is entirely political and does not change the events on the ground. Its purpose is to prevent the understanding of the events, promoting conclusions instead of explanations. It proclaims singular ‘truths’, instead of multiple...

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...

Byshok: “The sanctions will make Russians rely even more on the state and its authorities..

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Economy & finance
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This is the second part of our interview with Russian political scientist Stanislav Byshok, who decided to sit down with the hosts of "On the Barricades" and discuss the crisis and how the Russian public...

History didn’t start 10 minutes ago! Here’s how US-Russia conflict developed [special ..

Boyan Stanislavski
Democracy
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This is the second of six parts in which Boyan Stanislavski, one of the hosts of "On the Barricades," sat down with Pat Byrne, a political analyst, longtime socialist activist, and historian of the European...

June’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs: Sex education in Romania — a storm in a teacup!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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“On the barricades” and 1+1 invite you to an interesting discussion on the law that would introduce sexual education in Romanian schools. We, Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, are happy to announce that from now...

Eastern European leftist journalists dissect the Belarus situation

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Analysis
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Aleksander Lukashenko has been the undisputed leader of Belarus for over 25 years. How is this even possible? Is it truly only through the plethora of dictatorial measures he employed during that time? Certainly not!...

On the barricades — May’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs pt. 2

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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We cover the most important events of the previous few weeks in this episode, which we usually release at the end of the month. Unquestionably, a major shift in international relations is taking place right...

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...

Erdogan has no influence over Bulgarian Turks

Yuliana Metodieva
Bulgaria
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Mehmet Űmer is a former correspondent in Bulgaria for the Turkish newspaper Zaman, which was banned after the failed coup d’etat of 2016. Before that he was a professor of Turkish language in the high...

The dangers of dehumanization

The Kursk report 2022

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

Byshok: “The sanctions will make Russians rely even more on the state and its authorities..

History didn’t start 10 minutes ago! Here’s how US-Russia conflict developed [special ..

June’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs: Sex education in Romania — a storm in a teacup!

Eastern European leftist journalists dissect the Belarus situation

On the barricades — May’s thumb-ups & thumb-downs pt. 2

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

Erdogan has no influence over Bulgarian Turks

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