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The Battleground is a non-profit news organization created to challenge misinformation and propaganda that undermine trust in politics and the media. Our primary focus is on Europe and how it connects with the rest of the world. We delve into important topics like migration, climate change, populism, and globalization, going beyond the surface of news stories to offer insight and understanding in times of uncertainty and disagreement. Our main goal is to protect and promote democracy.

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To Shoot or Not to Shoot

1 day ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

A documentary directed by the married team of Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, it chronicles the quixotic attempt by Crane and his fellow actor Mark Oosterveen to stage a production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy within the video game Grand Theft Auto Online during the pandemic. It soon becomes apparent that this seemingly extreme circumstance is distressingly similar to what passes for normal these days. Finding people who have the time, interest, and ability to make any play a success is hard.
Primal America

1 week ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

That’s what I kept telling myself this past Friday as I fought to stay focused on my first concert experience since Donald Trump returned to the White House. I was thrilled when an online acquaintance who recently moved to my home of Tucson, Arizona, suggested that we meet in person for the first time at a concert.
Populist Hate Machine

1 week ago | thebattleground.eu | Josh White

Young right-wingers are ravenous for content these days, and the mainstream press just won’t do it for them. It’s not news content they want, but infotainment. The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters fits the bill. It offers its audience a concentrated hit of political commentary, drawing on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and alt-right memes. Lengthy recordings are chopped up into manageable 25-minute chunks. The podcast’s lurid aesthetic might be described as baroque space pimp.
Sonic Warfare

2 weeks ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

Protests that began in response to the fatal collapse of a train station roof in Novi Sad last November have mushroomed into something much bigger. Because Serbia’s population is less than 7 million, the fact that upwards of 300,000 people may have participated in the 15 March event is remarkable. Fifteen people died at the scene of the Novi Sad tragedy, which has been blamed on shoddy workmanship and a corrupt government inspection process.
A Populist for Progressives

3 weeks ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

Rather than hammering the last nail into its coffins, as many pundits feared, AI opened the lid. Evidence of this increasingly forceful haunting abounds.
Warfare Not Welfare

3 weeks ago | thebattleground.eu | Josh White

Some political events cut closer to home than others. The sight of Labour going after the sick and the disabled should be particularly difficult to stomach for centrist dads who were Starmer fanboys. This wasn’t a sudden shift. Labour politicians like Wes Streeting have been laying the groundwork for some time. The targeting of mental illness is one favourite tactic. Depression is widely “over-diagnosed,” they argue, a drain on resources and sick pay.
Warning From the Franco Era

4 weeks ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

Adolescent Ofelia and her pregnant mother travel to a remote area of Spain in the summer of 1944 to join the girl’s stepfather, Captain Vidal, whose unit is hunting down resistance fighters holding out in the surrounding mountains. As soon becomes apparent, Vidal isn’t just a functionary of Francisco Franco’s Falangist regime, but someone who takes both pride and pleasure in doing his job as cruelly as possible.
Silencing the Opposition

1 month ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

He surely wasn’t expecting to be the subject of a criminal investigation as a consequence. After all, making that kind of declaration has been standard fare for musicians since the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” denounced the late monarch and “her fascist regime” nearly fifty years ago. But, the right to criticise public figures within democracies can no longer be taken for granted.
American Democracy is Dead

1 month ago | thebattleground.eu | Ari Paul

I think about this line a lot when confronted with what appears to be the “all at once” phase of the destruction of American democracy. The Trump Administration has deported a Lebanese visa holder on the grounds that she sympathises with Hezbollah and sent alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador against court orders. Thus, we have an executive living in defiance of its own constitution and the rule of law.
Learning From the Black Panthers

1 month ago | thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch

Assembled from footage shot for Swedish television during that period, then found in storage three decades later, the film combines interviews conducted at the time with voiceover segments in which prominent African-Americans reflect on the legacy of Black Power. The persecution of people who protested the war in Gaza and the demonisation of the Black Lives Matter movement demonstrate that the state no longer feels the need to mute its power, transporting us back to the Watergate Era.