Tag: politics
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‘This rhetoric has resulted in genocide’: Bosnian community speaks out against Dodik’s speech in Budapest
CN: this article contains discussion of genocide, war, Islamophobia, xenophobia, misogyny and violence REPORT Last week at the Fourth Budapest Demographic Summit, the Serb member of Bosnia’s Presidency, Milorad Dodik, called for European leaders to protect a “Christian Europe” from “migrants from the Middle East”. The Bosnian-Serb leader also claimed that “Muslims will never leave…
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Montenegro’s struggle for sovereignty ‘was never an internal issue’: an interview with political analyst, Ljubomir Filipović
INTERVIEW Up to 40 citizens were left injured after riots erupted in Montenegro earlier this month. Protesters sought to prevent the inauguration of Bishop Joanikije as the new head of Montenegro’s branch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC). The decision to hold the Bishop’s inauguration in Cetinje – Montenegro’s old royal capital that is considered…
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Re-thinking July 1974: problematic discourse in Cyprus’ Greek-speaking diaspora
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this video contains discussion of trauma, displacement, and war VIDEO As Cypriot communities commemorate the events of July 1974 (as well as the decades prior) that led to Cyprus’ partition, Politika News Editor, Georgio Konstandi and From Root To Vine creator, Maria Christodoulou, sit down to discuss problematic discourses…
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Divisive politics and Northern Ireland’s obsession with flags
Support Politika News on Patreon. OPINION Northern Irish citizens, whichever side of the political spectrum they find themselves on, have an undeniably unhealthy obsession with flags, or ‘flegs’. While these pieces of coloured cloth are used as symbols of cultural or political identity the world over, in few places have they provoked such controversy and…
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Monitoring human rights violations in the Aegean: an interview with Mare Liberum
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of anti-refugee violence and trauma INTERVIEW Evidence of human rights violations continue to mount against Greek and Turkish border forces, whilst both the EU’s Frontex border force and NATO are accused of facilitating or ignoring violence against refugees headed for Greece. As the presence of…
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Power grabs, conservatism lite and fake justice: six years of no opposition in Poland
Support Politika News on Patreon. OPINION In a Poland still divided across multiple lines (West and East, city and country…), how has one party come to dominate national politics? One explanation can be found in Law and Justice (PiS)’s monopolisation of both the press and the justice system. Another is the right-wing zeitgeist of the…
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No pride in apartheid: Israel’s pinkwashing and the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians
With special thanks to Anastasia Gavalas Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of trauma, genocide, homophobia, racism and pinkwashing OPINION To us, to liberate our country, to have our dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human right is something as essential as life itself. Ghassan Kanafani, speaking to Richard…
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£13,000 per refugee in TUI-Home Office deportation contract: an interview with SOAS Detainee Support
Support Politika News on Patreon PODCAST CN: this interview discusses deportation, the mistreatment of refugees, and trauma Last year, TUI Airways, the UK subsidiary of the German airline, TUI, became the UK’s top deportation profiteer after signing a deportation contract with the Home Office in November 2020. TUI executive chairman, Friedrich Joussen, earned €1.7 million…
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Years of appeasing Lukashenko are backfiring: assessing Warsaw’s policy towards Belarus
Support Politika News on Patreon. OPINION Poland’s foreign policy as regards Aleksander Lukashenko’s regime has not been subject to much change since he became president in 1994. Relations between the two countries have tended to be warm, with Poland at times being the regime’s only ally West of Russia. This was the case until Belarus’…
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‘I’m terrified of what might come next’: an interview with Middle East academic and ‘the fire these times’ host, Joey Ayoub
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains detailed discussion of physical violence, murder, maiming, and warfare INTERVIEW As scenes of Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians continues to fill our newsfeeds, long-time Palestinian rights activists are pushing for the latest wave of media attention to produce humanitarian results. Politika News (virtually) sat down with…
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