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In the balance – The on-going debate on anti-Semitism in the UK Labour Party raises wider issues of censorship and free expression For the past few weeks, there has been one overwhelming topic of conversation in the UK. It has not only dominated the media – television, radio, and social networks – but has been […]
The armed conflict that plagued Syria for seven years has created a serious humanitarian crisis and plunged the Syrian population into great suffering. A population of 20.6 million in 2011 and still 17.1 in 2016 because despite the war the birth rate remains high. The average age of the population is 23.7 years for men […]
Hugo Pratt, horizons lines Exhibition from April 7, 2018 to March 24, 2019 Museum of Confluences, Lyon Immerse yourself in the world of Hugo Pratt, an artist who left a lasting impression on the comic books landscape by giving birth to Corto Maltese, the romantic sailor, the perfect embodiment of the anti-hero, but also to […]
The Cambridge Analytica case. The British company is accused of recovering and using personal data from 50 million Facebook users to weigh in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the United States. Cambridge Analytica refutes “firmly” any accusation. The problem however is not limited to Facebook. All major internet operators have a wealth of personal data […]
“A Wonderful Human World” competition (see Libex of 23rd of January) is now closed and the Jury will have the very difficult task to select the best cartoons in a brunch of stupendous ones. Members of Jury for the International Cartoon Contest & Exhibit in Norway dubbed as A Wonderful Human World has been announced on […]
The murder of two journalists in the EU in the past six months has alerted the European media to the growing threat of censorship For most of Europe – or what a Bulgarian journalist calls the ‘so-called Western democracies’ – censorship is something that happens ‘out there’. Murdered journalists, writers and commentators ‘disappeared’, newspapers closed […]
23. INTERNATIONAL CARTOON EXHIBITION ZAGREB 2018A. PARTICIPATION The organizer of the 23rd International festival of cartoon ZAGREB 2018 is the Croatian Cartoonist Association. The festival is opened for everyone regardless of nationality, age, sex, or profession. B. THEME: METEOROLOGY (weather, climate, forecast, etc.) C. ENTRIES Conditions of entry: 1. Original works and digital artworks will […]
So, without surprise and without serious opponent, Vladimir Putin has won, for the fourth time, the Russian election. He will be President for 6 more years, with a Constitution drafted by himself for himself. Although many irregularities seems to have been testifica, as well as the elimination of his real opponenti Navalny, before the election, […]
The Italian Championship of Lies was born in 1966. The reasons that led to the creation of this competition are to be found in the traditions of our little village over the Pistoia’s mountains, on the Italian Apennines, when in last century people used to meet in front of a fireplace to tell stories that […]