Putins breda stöd i Ryssland förklaras ofta med att landets befolkning har indoktrinerats med propaganda i generationer, att folket är passivt och inte törs forma och uttrycka egna åsikter av rädsla för att begå Orwellianska tankebrott. Det sägs att de inte känner sig berättigade till åsikter om saker som är…
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By Alejandra Lucia Figueredo Rodríquez Once hailed as a great force for human empowerment and liberation, social media and related digital tools have rapidly come to be regarded as a major threat to democratic stability and human freedom.” ― Larry Diamond, in “The Threat of Postmodern Totalitarianism” This phrase opens…
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By Lovis Lindquist On the 21st of February 2012 some members of the feminist punk rock and performance art group, Pussy Riot, performed a protest song inside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The protest was aimed at the Orthodox Church and its support for Putin. Despite only…
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By Sofia Fujiwara When Netflix released the documentary Seaspiracy by 27-year old director, Ali Tabrizi, the recurring thing I heard from people was “you have to see this movie, it’ll make you never want to eat fish again”. Curious, I popped a bag of popcorn into the microwave, logged into…
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Jag har alltid varit intresserad av att bättre förstå förhållandet mellan EU och Sverige och de två frågorna låg alltid i kärnan av min “forskning”. Då hade jag turen att hitta en bok som försöker ge några av svaren.…
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By Anja Holgersson Just when you thought the Brexit madness had reached its peak and couldn’t get any weirder – Rhodri Marsden releases his disco concept album “The Hustle: A Brexit Disco Symphony”. Yes, it’s exactly as strange and funky as whatever you are currently imagining. Marsden himself describes the…
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Warning: this will contain mild spoilers As the Machiavellian Frank Underwood has become the leader of the free world, the pursuit of power continues. One of the most prevailing clichés in politics today is Lord Acton’s, often slightly incorrectly quoted, pronouncement that: ”Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts…
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