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‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right – bellingcat

‘Our Songs are Manifestos’: Why Music Matters for Belgium’s Far-Right – bellingcat

Organisers claim there’s nothing far-right about next month’s Frontnacht festival. But the lineup suggests otherwise.

via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/07/28/our-songs-are-manifestos-why-music-matters-for-belgiums-far-right/

skinhead carrying a guitar takes his place in front of the microphone in a Budapest park. A few hundred metres away, a police cordon and steel fence buffers the crowd of about 600 people, mostly men dressed in black, from shouting protesters. Flanked by the flag of the Hammerskins — an international white supremacist gang — the man performs a cover of ‘The Snow Fell’, a song by a notorious British neo-Nazi band.

July 28, 2022
Eastern Europe Tests New Forms of Media Censorship – The New York Times

Eastern Europe Tests New Forms of Media Censorship

With new, less repressive tactics, countries like Serbia, Poland and Hungary are deploying highly effective tools to skew public opinion.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/world/europe/serbia-media-censorship.html

Serbia no longer jails or kills critical journalists, as happened under the rule of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s. It now seeks to destroy their credibility and ensure few people see their reports.

January 17, 2022