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“Why [#journalism’s] sudden clarity becomes utter fog when the subject is an Arab child torn to shreds by shrapnel or a Black motorist shot dead in a traffic stop or an Indigenous activist beaten at a pipeline #protest is a function of the preemptive deference to power”
— Omar El Akkad (2025)
#books #biography #politics #ethics #racism

VelEx Politics 14h ago

16 Mar 1930 | Miguel Primo de Rivera died | France

#OnThisDay #History #HistoricalFigure #PoliticalHistory #WorldHistory #Spain #SpainHistory #Biography #CoupDetat #MilitaryLeader #VelExPolitics #VelEx

World History Encyclopedia 16h ago

Keith Michael Baker's comprehensive biography of Jean-Paul Marat is highly recommended. #History #FrenchRevolution #Biography #Jean-PaulMarat #Paris #Populism #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-555-en/

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror

Keith Michael Baker’s Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror is a 27-chapter comprehensive biography of one of the men identified with the French Revolution’s most violent period. While mostly known today...

World History Encyclopedia

Lumière et Sous-Titres!1d ago

📝 Plot: In mid‑1840s Europe the young philosopher Karl Marx meets Friedrich Engels after political exile forces him to Paris. Their collaboration sparks insight into class struggle and leads toward writing *The Communist Manifesto*. Against censorship, debates and upheavals, Marx and Engels forge their ideas on workers’ rights and political transformation.

#LeJeuneKarlMarx #Biography #Historical #Drama #FrenchCinema #PoliticalStory #MarxEngels #19thCenturyIdeas

Lumière et Sous-Titres!1d ago

🎬 Le jeune Karl Marx (2017)

Subtitles available:
🇳🇱 Dutch
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🇪🇸 Spanish

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🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699518/

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#LeJeuneKarlMarx #Biography #Historical #Drama #FrenchCinema #PoliticalDrama #MarxEngels #RaoulPeck

micchiato 🎋1d ago

“The only serious, nuanced position [in centrism] is to plant oneself firmly halfway between what is assumed to be the standard left and standard right. Should one party propose stripping immigrants of all rights and the other proposed stripping them of only some rights, the intellectually rigorous thing to do is to consider that what’s best is stripping immigrants of most rights. To compromise.”
— Omar El Akkad (2025)
#books #biography #politics #immigration

Lumière et Sous-Titres!1d ago

📝 Plot: Based on the life of Jeannine Deckers, a young Belgian nun who astonished the world in the early 1960s by composing and singing the global hit “Dominique.” The film follows her rise from convent novice to international music sensation, the tensions between spiritual devotion and personal desire, her struggles with fame, identity, love, and the challenges that followed her success…

#SoeurSourire #Drama #Biography #Music #LifeStory #TrueStory #ClassicFilm #2000sCinema #BelgianCinema

Lumière et Sous-Titres!1d ago

🎭 Cast: Cécile de France, Sandrine Blancke, Chris Lomme, Marie Kremer, Jo Deseure, Jan Decleir, Filip Peeters, Chris Lomme, Tsilla Chelton, Johan Leysen, Bernard Eylenbosch, Raphaël Charlier, Christelle Cornil…

#SoeurSourire #sousTitres #cinemaFrançais #ClassicFilm #2000sCinema #BelgianCinema #Drama #Biography #Music