Justina Poskeviciute

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Palestine? Part 3: Media Silence

What is the role of the media in portraying what’s happening in Palestine? Can its role be “neutral”? Definitely not.The media is not a part of the debate; it is the debate.

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Palestine? Part 2: Hypocrisy

What might we find at the very core of debates surrounding this conflict?
Certainly not always, but sometimes, there is a layer of hypocrisy we need to cut through.

Belarus, Chile, and the Never Agains

This episode is on the concept of Never Again and how we’ve failed at it. How to analyse conflicts in the first place? What tools do we have?

It’s Time For Your Political Attitude Checkup!

This is my attempt to do a deep dive into concepts like political ideology, economic systems, and, ah, the focus of my rather dense episode, political attitudes. What does it mean to be liberal or conservative according to the framework of political attitudes? Is it always straightforward? (You’ve guessed correctly: no). In this episode, IContinue reading “It’s Time For Your Political Attitude Checkup!”

In Insurrection We Trust?

Just when we thought 2021 might be the new beginning we were all waiting for, the insurrection happened in the U.S. To see an attempted coup in established democracies is, thankfully, rather rare, which makes it very much podcast-worthy.

What Good Happened in 2020?

I talk about political changes that took place in Argentina, Bolivia, and Belarus. Why the women in Argentina can breathe more easily, why the indigenous population of Bolivia is hopefully feeling safer, and why what the people in Belarus are engaging should inspire us all.

Political Changes (or Comebacks) in Bolivia

Bolivian general election of 2020 was more than just about Bolivia itself. It was one of the stories of hope in 2020.

Silence Is Not Context, Silence Is a Choice

When it comes to media, erasing contexts is a choice that serves a purpose.