A Spotlight on Rumors
Handmade transcript of a 2025 faculty award lecture by Kate Starbird at the University of Washington, laying out a decade-plus of disinformation research findings
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Syria’s Islamized Armenians
The massacres in 1915 were followed by forcibly deporting Armenians to the Syrian desert. Many of the survivors of this deportation were small children who were adopted into local Arab and Kurdish families. After that, the story ends and these people disappear.
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Rediscovering a History of Jewish Anarchism
Handcrafted transcript, including presentation slides and images, of an information-rich March 2025 online event hosted by Firestorm Books exploring Joseph Cohen’s monumental history of Jewish anarchism in America
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Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights
By reading these creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?
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Protests in Turkey: Perspectives from the Periphery
On 23 March 2025, the president of Turkey arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, alongside dozens of others, sparking a wave of protests that in turn saw yet more police repression, arrests, and mass confusion.
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Listening to Syria
It’s an overwhelming moment, it’s a huge opportunity—as 2011 was. I would just tell people to listen to Syrians as much as possible, as opposed to people who would speak on their behalf.
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Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
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On Chemical Attacks and Genocide Denial
If people would accept not knowing much and were willing to learn, we’d be in a much better place. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, so here we are fighting chemical weapons denialism, which is probably the worst place we could be.
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Destroy Fascism, Embrace Complexity
Leftist theory has not been updated with advancements in complexity theory, information theory, the modern technically interconnected world, cybernetics, or all these other things that have happened since the industrial revolution.
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Abandoned Solidarities: Street-Level Politics in Israel-Palestine
“Our space to be Palestinian, to be political, and to be equal partners in building the new left in Israel, is crucial.”
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