(Terror) Warning: Angry Teenagers
Does understanding ISIS as a dynamic vanguard attractive to rebellious, thrill-seeking youth make it more, or less, scary?
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The Balkan Route: Winter Is Upon Us
Self-organized solidarity and mutual aid initiatives have for months been the only thing preventing complete breakdown and disaster along refugee routes through the Balkans. Now with winter coming, officials in many countries are making it harder for refugees to find relief, or it to find them.
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Rojava Caught Between Fronts
It is conceivable that any movement towards Russia would sharply reduce sympathy in the West for Rojava, without anything about its political and social project having changed.
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The Fight to Expose Closed Systems of Brutality
People have had to struggle, have had to mount a movement, because the police fights tooth and nail against any monitoring.”
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Vacation in Rigonce
I look at her. I don’t have any more blankets. I cannot stop the toxic smoke. I cannot make her warm. We all look around ourselves. The kids are crying, some are sleeping, some people are standing at the fence and looking at the other side. I am so sorry, I say.
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A Different Kind of American Revolution
We always think of the war. But the war masks and hides the revolution. Those aren’t the same. You can have a revolution without a war.
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Meanwhile in Montenegro
The responsibility of the institutions that You represent is to protect the citizens, according to conscience and the law. If such postulates of a society do not exist, then we ask – why do institutions exist?
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“No Different Than Slavery”
“My message to those who think the situation in Eritrea “has improved” is that right now, at this very moment, thousands of innocent Eritreans are suffering silently in jails and prisons, while their best years slip away.”
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We Are Not Afraid
Persecution by the state keeps people on edge, which is one of the reasons people are so afraid to speak out. The fact that some are doing so now is really remarkable.”
On the Syrian Tourism Boom in Lebanon
Much needed, myth-exploding context from the region, essential to understanding the Syrian refugee crisis
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