Author Archives: Plamen Miltenoff
languages of Ukraine
German Right
How the German Right Wing Dominates Social Media
y Jörg Diehl, Roman Lehberger, Ann-Katrin Müller and Philipp Seibt
April 29, 2019 https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-afd-populists-dominate-on-facebook-a-1264933.html
A comprehensive analysis has revealed the degree to which German right-wing populists from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are dominating the social media landscape. They might be getting help from abroad.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bild-1264933-1421716.html
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more on social media in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/refugeesandmigrants/?s=social+media&submit=Search
climate change
This claim – that climate change is ‘fueling’ the migration and refugee crisis in Central America – has appeared a lot in the last year. Unfortunately, there is relatively little data to support this. Thread … 1/ https://t.co/ht9RHUu2YK
— Kevin Anchukaitis (@thirstygecko) April 3, 2019
Refugees Mediterranean
The battle for the Mediterranean
The gulf between two very different worlds has turned the Mediterranean into a graveyard. Thousands of people die each year trying to cross it. We traveled to the coast of Libya and the black hole of this humanitarian crisis.
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/01/30/inenglish/1517324343_006179.html
Carne y Arena
When you premiered at the Cannes film Festival in early 2017, it was housed in an airplane hangar; viewers were a shirt, barefoot, into a room with a sand-covert floor, where they could watch and interact with other people trying to make it over the border. Arrests, detention centers, dehydration-the extremity of the human condition happening all around you. India announcement, the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences called the peas “deeply emotional and physically immersive”
From Rubin, Peter. Future Presence.
Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected
How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/how-a-slovakian-neo-nazi-got-elected
Thu 14 Feb 2019 01.00 EST Shaun Walker
In 2013, the far-right politician Marian Kotleba won a shock victory in regional elections. Four years later, he was voted out in a landslide. But now he’s running for president.
an advocate for refugees
A Private War (2018), movie about Marie Colvin
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2368254/
Covering 2001 until Colvin’s death in Syria in 2012, Arash Amel’s occasionally bumpy storytelling (based on a 2012 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner) jumps uneasily from one war zone to another.
Malala Yousafzai on life in the UK
‘It felt as if we had landed on the moon’: Malala Yousafzai on life in the UK
hose early days in Birmingham reminded me of being internally displaced in Pakistan – except the faces, the food, and the language here were foreign.
We were comfortable, we were being well taken care of – but it had not been our choice to come here and we missed home.
Orban’s Russian connection
Today, Viktor Orban announced Hungary’s candidate for member of the European Commission: Minister of Justice Laszlo Trocsanyi.
Trocsanyi is the one responsible for helping two Russian arms dealers escape US justice by extraditing them to Moscow instead.https://t.co/n6wQmPohLP
— Szabolcs Panyi (@panyiszabolcs) January 10, 2019