Dağhan Irak

@daghan
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Dr., Senior Lecturer in media&communication at the University of Huddersfield. He/him. Cat person. Immigrant. Istanbulite. Toots in EN/TR/FR/GR.
Websitehttps://www.daghanirak.com
Right now, the realfeel outside is -9C and we're buried under snow. It's reported that it'll be 13C around 4pm today. Nothing to worry about, yeah.
The Neoliberal Takeover Was More Insidious Than you Realize - Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPOMWjJpk5c
The Neoliberal Takeover Was More Insidious Than you Realize

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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ adını duyunca akla ilk gelenin "aydınlanmacı Türk aydını" mı, yoksa "12 Eylül'ün işkenceci vakıf başkanı" mı olduğu, Türkiye'deki siyasi pozisyonlar açısından bayağı isabetli bir kerteriz noktası.
"slop" will be the word of next year.
MUBI Cancels Turkey Film Fest Over Daniel Craig ‘Queer’ Drama Censorship

The arthouse streamer said it pulled the MUBI Fest in Istanbul in the “name of protecting freedom of expression and artistic expression.”

The Hollywood Reporter
Even to this day, "Biden has been a good president, except he's enabled and financed a genocide" is the dominating narrative among American leftist talking heads. That EXCEPT does quite the heavy lifting, eh?
When you take a step back, the legacy of Bernie, AOC, Corbyn and the likes becomes microscopic. The Western radical left operating within the system is an experience that failed.

We need to discuss how the American/Western progressives abandoned the global justice/alter-globalisation movement in the post-9/11 world and became accessories of mainstream lesserevilism.

We need to revive the Seattle/Genoa/Porto Alegre WSF spirit, and build a global, decolonising/decolonised, progressive social justice front.

Meanwhile...
Dear America, how did you manage to fuck up so colossally?