The intense, intoxicating and well-orchestrated worldwide demonization campaign against the FSLN government has inevitably influenced and obfuscated the vision of many individuals of goodwill who may have a healthy concern about the media-generated torrent of allegations of undemocratic behaviour attributed to the Nicaraguan government. Francisco Dominguez June 2016) […]
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Living in Nazi Germany
Jack Nicholson, in the 1975 movie “The passenger”, plays a character who switches his identity with that of someone recently deceased. Sean Sheehan A novel with the same title, “The passenger”, was written almost four decades earlier but remained virtually unknown for seventy years. Its main character is […]
The importance of trust
This article came about after reading a surprising source―an item by two young (early thirties) female investigative journalists on an investigative assignment to a nudist colony. Nigel Pocock At the end of their piece, the authors comment on a characteristic of the group that they clearly had not […]
Class and identity
Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race. Steve Latham Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It’s ironic that leftists criticise […]
What you gonna do when the world’s on fire?
Spurred by the police killings of Black people in 2016, Roberto Minervini decides to make a film about Black America. By slowly absorbing their life in New Orleans, and by formally approaching the Black Panthers he builds a picture. As a film-maker, he calls himself a ‘politically charged citizen’. […]
















