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Video: Beirut’s Hotel Commodore a Safe Haven for the Media in 1970s and 1980s
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Video: Maria Todorova on The Lost World of European Socialists at Europe’s Margin
12 June 2021Maria Todorova on the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, surveying the period of the Second International. It examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia, moving beyond traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology, into intersections of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.
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Sing Me A Song With Social Significance | Harold Rome and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
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Answering the call of the ocean: Artist Taloi Havini explores the sound of the sea
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Answering the call of the ocean: Artist Taloi Havini explores the sound of the sea by FRANCE 24 English https://youtu.be/iIkl9-6qINk -
Video: Fragments of a Past - Documentary on life & work of Comrade Mythili Sivaraman | Uma Chakravarti (2012)
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Music Had to Be in Tune With the Soviet Party Line: Composer Dmitri Shostakovich Paid A Price - a short note | Harsh Kapoor
29 May 2021, by Harsh Kapoorby Harsh Kapoor
Music at the service of ideology and party bureaucracy in the Soviet Union
The Russian music composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St Petersburg. In 1919, when he was 13 years old, Shostakovich joined the Petrograd Conservatory. After his graduation, he worked as a trained concert pianist and composer on contracts for all kinds of state entities that existed in the USSR.
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Video: Amitav Ghosh talks about cyclones, climate change | NewsToday - May 26, 2021
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Video: The Spiritual in Nehru’s Secular Imagination | Madhavan K Palat
29 May 2021Play
The Spiritual in Nehru’s Secular Imagination / Madhavan K Palat by Bibhu Prasad Mohapatra https://youtu.be/PLdLB195xxQ
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Israeli Human Rights Group B’Tselem: Israel Is Committing War Crimes by Killing Civilians in Gaza | May 18, 2021
22 May 2021"Israel has chosen a two-tiered society. Violence is the inevitable result" by Hagai El-Ad in Washington Post
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Audio: Boris Kagarlitsky on the shifting political terrain in Russia | Radhika Desai - TRNN April 16, 2021
22 May 2021With so much disinformation floating around, and with so many media outlets filtering their coverage through the geopolitical interests of the West, it’s often difficult for interested audiences to know just what is going on in Russian politics today. From the COVID-19 pandemic to mass protests and the return of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in January, who suffered a near-fatal poisoning attack this summer, major political and economic shifts are taking place in Russia. Add to that the (…)