politics

Marx Reloaded and the revolutionary turn

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This entertaining and thought-provoking German documentary starring Slavoj Žižek features interviews with some of the world’s most renowned thinkers, written and directed by British writer and theorist Jason Barker If you had your ear to the underground last year then

Utopias of Democracy – 6th Subversive Festival in Croatia

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From May 4-18, the 6th annual Subversive Festival in Zagreb will feature high-profile guests such as film director Oliver Stone, philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, and even Che Guevara’s oldest daughter, Aleida Guevara

Arab Spring vs European Fall: Interview with war correspondent Boštjan Videmšek

Boštjan Videmek in Helmand, South Afghanistan, July 2008_photo by Jure Erzen

Battlefield reporter, football lover and self-proclaimed media junkie Boštjan Videmšek speaks to Bturn about jogging in war-ridden countries, personality-building traits of three-chord punk music and connections between the Arab Spring and European austerity measures Boštjan Videmšek has been a war

The ultimate guide to buffoon philosophers

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If everybody says Slavoj Zizek is a buffoon, what about the rest of the gang? Here’s the enlightening Bturn guide to buffoon philosophers It has become a standard practice among many scholars nowadays to take the piss out of old

Hey politician, what’s so funny?

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The documentary photo collective Kamerades have put together a little photo collection of Serbian politicians laughing their asses off, despite failing to form a government a month and a half after the May elections, plunging the country deeper in recession

Whitefaces and Augustes: Albanian politicians laughing their asses off, but nothing is funny

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Albanian politicians survive election after election, only because of their sense of humour: with the country’s natural resources deteriorating every day, buffoon trials that fail to deliver criminal high officials to justice, political games that only serve the interest of

Sitting in the dark

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The Huffington Post blogger writes for Bturn, offering her personal, wrist-slashing account of the lives of ordinary Greeks in times of economic downfall Teaneck, NJ: In the card section at Walgreen’s, there are no Sympathy cards labeled ‘Loss of a

Silence of statues: inside Memento Park and House of Terror in Budapest

House of Terror, Budapest / Photo: Johann Sebastian Hanel

Could things have been different for Hungary today if it had a revolution back in 1989? Fluffy patches of clouds drift over a windy hilltop at the outskirts of Budapest. There is little urban settlement out here and the scenery

McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history

Kosovo: a DIY McDonald's

From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans In March of 1988, Belgrade, Yugoslavia became the first city in the communist world to open

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In pictures: the siege of Sarajevo 20th anniversary

A Bosnian woman does her laundry in Dobrinja River in the Sarajevo front-line district of Dobrinja, in this picture taken August 2, 1993 (top), and the same river is seen April 1, 2012. Twenty years ago this Friday, April 6, 2012, the West recognised the Yugoslav republic as independent and Serb gunmen fired on peace demonstrators in Sarajevo, the opening salvo of a siege on the capital that would last for 43 months. Photo: REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh and Dado Ruvic

Twenty years ago this Friday, April 6, 2012, the West recognised the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as independent and Serb gunmen fired on peace demonstrators in Sarajevo, the opening salvo of a siege on the capital that would