Inside Yemen: Poverty, Power, and Arms
The country was poor before, and right now there’s no room and they’re just being squeezed even more with the attacks that are being waged.
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Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
At the Core of the War in Syria
The Syrian population’s will to govern itself, to not lose heart when faced with military superiority, and to create alternative civil structures is exceptional. For that, many Syrian activists have paid with their lives.
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Culmination of a Counterrevolution
Many of the elements of fascism that have taken a new form in American society were already present there. This is not just about Trump.
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This
Spending time among Russian antifascist punks taught me a political—and very personal—lesson. Benjamin Herbert
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Fear Makes Us Dumb, and Possibly Doomed
There is now a political constituency being crafted at the highest level that has fear as a motivating factor. Once the limits are taken off, we end up in this Mad Max world where whatever is politically profitable will be used, no matter how destructive it is.
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Chronicle of a Deportation
One deportee’s firsthand account of this traumatic and humiliating experience, in all its enraging detail.
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Justice Over Order: Antifa in Depth
There’s a lot of antifa work that people aren’t giving credit to. It has been important in revealing Venn-diagrammatic circles that go all the way to the white house, and how these groups are organizing together.
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Climate Change and Social Upheaval
We have to fundamentally alter society if we don’t want to disappear as a civilization, or even perhaps as a species. And we have very little time—in the best case, a generation.
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On Struggle, Suffering, and Meaning
Exiled Syrian dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh in conversation with Loubna Mrie and Mustafa – The Irrelevant Arabs
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Universalizing Resistance to Capitalism
As long as all these different movements are segmented into their own silos, they are likely to be contained. But when you bring them together…
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