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Retrospektivë, 1992. Zyrë dhe apartament banimi falas për fondacionin OSFA/SOROS. Suksesi ka qindra baballarë, dështimi është jetim. Ndaj shoqëria shqiptare është ende një fabrikë e madhe e prodhimit periodik të miteve. Faji gjithnjë është te Tjetri. linkedin.com/posts/afrim-kr…?

I get it

VOA/RFE was a voice in the dark for my grandparents’ & parents’ generation living under a Communist dictatorship. They have been an important source of journalism in countries where courageous journalists are harassed. Taking a hammer to things is easy. Building is hard.

I once received an electric shock during torture only for writing for Radio Liberty: I was told that it was "a CIA structure and an enemy of Russia", and for that reason alone I was already guilty. Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture

This man might be the only ambassador in the modern world who actually understands what his job is and how to do it.

The striking Brutalist architecture of Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger designed by Paul Herbé and Jean Le Couteur (1956) 📍Algiers, Algeria

Started from “it’s because of NATO expansion in the 90s” now we’re here

Marija Šerifović - Molitva

On March 24, 1999, NATO officially launched Operation Allied Force, commencing 78 days of airstrikes, a painstaking military intervention that put an end to the last genocide of the 20th century and helped pave the way for a free, sovereign, and independent Kosova. Twenty-six

A photographic essay on Tirana, 🇦🇱, a city I grew up in & spent years documenting, opening tomorrow (6-8pm), a story of architectural transition across political systems, of Western marketability pressures, of urban creativity; Harriman Institute RSVP below: harriman.columbia.edu/event/exhibit-…

Started from “emails on a private server!!” now we’re here

Open up history classes, please.

It’s hard to put in words how epic the contribution of Cold War Project has been for our understanding of history and the world. Mountains of declassified documents, decades of translation, serious work of the highest caliber, a public, free archive. All under attack. Madness.

Albania in the 70s was a kind of Mecca for Marxist-Leninist guerrillas from around the world seeking to overthrow regimes in their home countries - back then in the name of staunch anti-Americanism; now as a favor to the ally US.

Désolé

Nike and Communism on the line.

"Democracy will never be strong in our Latin American countries as long as it is a privilege for one sector of society and an incomprehensible abstraction for all the others." Mario Vargas Llosa, “Inquest in the Andes.”

Prishtina mrekullia

After 35 years, a dictator’s villa opens to the public as an artists’ residency. On usable and unusable pasts—in the West, and there: