Greece's media crisis
An 8 minute video from Al Jazeera’s ‘Listening Post’ discussing Greek mainstream media’s role in the current economic crisis and more broadly, the media’s political role in Greek society and their upper class biases. Mainstream media have been propagating the … |
Barcelona March 29th: General Strike
On March 29, 2012, millions of people across Spain went on strike. The strike, which was the first general strike since September 2010, brought the country to a near halt. The situation in Spain has grown increasingly difficult with 1 … |
On the State of Press Freedom in Greece
On Thursday, 5th April 2012, Marios Lolos, a photojournalist, was hit on the head by a police truncheon while covering a peaceful protest in response to the recent suicide of a 77 year-old man in protest to austerity measures. … |
Slavoj Žižek – interview for Catastroika
Slavoj Žižek speaks about the new, post-democratic era of capitalism, in an excerpt of the upcoming documentary Catastroika. He claims that …what it shares with authoritarian east regimes is the cancelling of democracy. …the technocratic model (when things get … |