Would anyone be interested in a Read-The-Classics bookclub?
We would pick a book by suggesting & voting in the comments section. Then we read about 10 pages a day and discuss what we read....
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We would pick a book by suggesting & voting in the comments section. Then we read about 10 pages a day and discuss what we read....
Most countries have a canon of Great or Classic national literature.
IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16565742 – Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The...
Total Trust is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing story of surveillance technology, abuse of power and (self-)censorship that confronts us with what can happen when our privacy is ignored. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film tells of the dangers of...
Whether Corona, the treatment of refugees or personalities like Trump, Orbán, Putin or Lukashenko - politics in Europe is under pressure. How representative and, above all, stable are our democratic processes in the face of these challenges? Where is there a need for action? Is democracy potentially becoming more "democratic"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joko%20Anwar%27s%20Nightmares%20and%20Daydreams...
Some people in my country of the Netherlands seem to think that all Dutch media is bad and most Dutch people consume mostly American media. I want them to give Dutch media a chance and to give global media a chance....
https://archive.org/details/DecolonisingTheMind...
I thought of this rare little sub when watching this. It's difficult to evaluate how much Yank (and western) culture have contaminated our expectation and knowledge of other cultures. This video explores some of that.....
Even the most difficult wishes can be fulfilled with just one call to the company Whatever, Whenever, which provides whatever you want, whenever you want. The price is low, but the cost is high: helping with another customer's order - no questions asked, whatever it may be....
It maps where in the world are different game development studios, so you can find 🎮🎮 by country
ILMU is a folk-trip-hop band from Karelia now based in Tampere, Finland. The lyrics are in Livvi-Karelian language....
An Iranian film directed by Bahram Beyzai. A dramatic retelling of the death of the Persian king Yazdgerd III amid the Muslim invasion of Iran.
I 🇨🇦 went to see this movie last night with my girlfriend 🇨🇳. I'm pretty sure I was the only white guy in the theatre 😅...
(Wikipedia isn't exactly American culture, but I'm posting Ecured because it's cool and interesting. Wikipedia doesn't have to be eliminated, but Ecured helps get a global polycentric perspective)
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29515560/...
e.g. if you execute vlc https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/countries/kp.m3u, you get channels from North Korea...
https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/feed/ – Long-form analysis of Ethiopian news....
Non-American films compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_100%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes on July 14, 2022...
First things first: this comm is about anti-imperialism....