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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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thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
That’s why the band’s music resonates so powerfully today when authoritarian populism is driving us headlong into the past. I’ve been a huge fan of Stereolab from the moment I first heard them. Come to think of it, I was already sold on their aesthetic as soon as I heard about them. But their music surpassed my expectations by a wide margin. What explains this devotion, one I share with many people of my generation?
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1 month ago |
thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
The Oscar-winning documentary shows how precarious life is for the residents of Masafer Yatta, a collection of 19 Palestinian hamlets in the southern West Bank, and contrasts it with the more privileged existence of Israelis. Throughout the film, we see how the Palestinian community responds to the systematic destruction of their homes. Because there is no hope of challenging Israel’s military might directly, they must engage in asymmetrical resistance.
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thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
When Richard Linklater’s 1990 film hit theatres, it was largely treated as a humorous novelty, distilling the character – and the real-life characters – in the state capital of Texas that would later inspire a campaign to “Keep Austin Weird.”As that slogan poignantly underscores, the high-tech boom of the 1990s and the high-income but low-curiosity white-collar workers who came with it soon threatened to deprive the mid-size city of the alternative culture that had made it special.
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thebattleground.eu | Charlie Bertsch
Even the most beat-forward tracks, “Oneironaut sei wachsam” and “Die Ratten”, sound like they are being ripped apart by centrifugal force. Others, such as “Souterrain” and the finale “Nichts”, feel like dispatches from the ruins mentioned in the album’s title, pieced together from fragments that exhibit magnetic repulsion. Once you know that Das Kinn (The Chin) is the name Frankfurt sound artist Toben Piel chose for his one-man band, this makes a lot of sense.
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thebattleground.eu | Ari Paul
Young men are seen taunting and harassing her while a police officer escorts her. Shot on the evening of 24 April, the recording only tells part of the story. The woman, who spoke with me on the condition that she remain anonymous, has lived in the neighbourhood for a decade. She is neither Arab nor Jewish and was not participating in the protests against a nearby talk by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister.
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