Subjects Archives: Media

Media, Communications, and Literature

Filming in the most depressing city on Earth–Jakart

Filming in the most depressing city on the Earth: Jakarta

It stinks, it is the most polluted city on earth, but that is not the most terrible thing about it.

Daily Star Amazon Echo bot Alexa sat on a table

Amazon’s accent recognition technology could tell the government where you’re from

AT THE BEGINNING of October, Amazon was quietly issued a patent that would allow its virtual assistant Alexa to decipher a user’s physical characteristics and emotional state based on their voice. Characteristics, or “voice features,” like language accent, ethnic origin, emotion, gender, age, and background noise would be immediately extracted and tagged to the user’s […]

And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Yea r

Everything you thought you knew about Western Civilization is wrong

Yves Smith

A Review of Michael Hudson’s new book AND FORGIVE THEM THEIR DEBTS

Fascists in training: Ukraine’s nationalist youth camps

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The camps organised by nationalist parties train children as young as 8 to hate Russians, foreigners and gay people—and they now receive considerable government money to do so, reports YURAS KARMANAU

Drawing of the being from the Upside Down in control of Will Byers

The neoliberal Upside Down

David Ridley

When the Great Financial Crisis hit in 2008, there was a gasp of guilty excitement on the left at the sudden re-emergence of the conditions for radical social change, after 30 years of what has become known even by mainstream economists as ‘neoliberalism’: an obsession with privatisation and financialisation that has made the world more […]

Anti-racism protesters outside Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Edinburgh tells fascist Bannon to go back home

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Ex-Trump aide’s visit ‘legitimises racist views’

Magic imperialism and the great American wall

Andre Vltchek

You all know how the saying goes: “Poor Mexico–too far from God, too close to the United States.”

Long read: the neoliberal order is dying. Time to wake up

Jonathan Cook

In my last blog post I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives–supporting what we might loosely term our current “neoliberal order”–rather than in individuals.

“Graffiti is the voice of protest and popular anger that from the ghettos of the big metropolis demand being heard,” Jorit told teleSUR English. Photo:Jorit

Jorit, artist behind Che Guevara, Ahed Tamimi mural: ‘graffiti is the voice of protest’

teleSUR Desk

Italian street artist Jorit Agoch unveiled one of the largest and most impressive murals of the Latin American revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara days ahead of the 51st anniversary of his assassination at the hands of the Bolivian army in La Higuera, Bolivia.

A political seesaw

Victor Grossman

It would be a mistake to see Germany’s Greens as radical, well to the left. While the Greens stress environment above all, they have decided that this does not require conflict with big business, which must simply be convinced that ecology and profits can be combined.

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Did post-Soviet Russians drink themselves to death?

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Although initially obscured by The Economist, among others, the sudden and unprecedented increase in Russian adult male mortality during 1992-1994 is no longer denied. Instead, the debate is now over why?

Western media attacks critics of the White Helmets

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The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovanni titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.