Silopi in Ruins
When we told the two co-mayors how shocked we were at the destruction in Cudi, they laughed bitterly: “Cudi? That’s nothing compared to Zap, Basak, and Barbaros.”
Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
This Is Abrupt Climate Change
We’ve gone so far down the path that it doesn’t matter if we turn off the heat engine now or not. We’re destined for a loss of habitat for our species in the not-very-distant future, regardless.
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Life Is Beautiful
“What we experienced in Bakur, how it feels and how it will change us, has to do with real people and their stories.”
Geneva Or Bust
Everyone in the jungle was waiting for great news from Sarhang and Besh’s trip to the UN. Unfortunately they didn’t have anything to say.
Oh Balkan-Pioniere: Die Anatomie einer Fluchtroute
Freiwilligenarbeit entlang der Balkanroute wird immer aussichtslos bleiben, so lange die Nationalstaaten sich wie Nationalstaaten verhalten. Dazu ergibt es auch keinen Sinn, die Balkanroute als einen flachen Pfad mit einem Anfang und einem Ende zu sehen.
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For a New Communist Party
“The left’s embrace of cultural individualism has made it critical of discipline and collectivity. But that’s just a capitalist sellout. That is actually not a left position at all.”
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O Balkan Pioneers: Anatomy of an Escape Route
The Balkanroute is not a route, it is an ecosystem. It is an organism. It is a “constellation of vital phenomena.”
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You Can’t Have One Without the Other
In every helping hand there is a middle finger.
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Exposing the Chicago Police’s Cover-Up Culture
The code of silence, this narrative control that the department exercises, includes the press. The press, as a general matter, publishes the police blotter.
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Politics and Praxis on the Balkanroute
“It’s really clear that the states and the big NGOs are failing, so there have been lots of people who have decided to do something–and often very strong, direct actions.”
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