Ferien in Rigonce!
Da war ein Spinnennetz auf einem Panzer. Da war ein Panzer. Ein Panzer. Kinder gehen in die Ferien, sagen die Eltern.
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People’s History
World events explained, unfiltered, by those who experienced them.
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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“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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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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A Glimpse into the Jungle: IWS Report from Calais
These are brave people who will not give up no matter how many pounds or euros are invested in fences, police forces or in European racist regimes. The refugees are slowly changing the world as we know it.
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Refugees and the “Death of Europe”
“We grew up in the ruins of one empire and maliciously anticipated another empire’s fall. I was not a racist, quite the contrary. But I had almost no doubts that a Munich caliphate would soon be fighting a Bavarian Kurdistan.”
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By the Side of the Road
Are we involved enough yet? Are we making this our very own problem? We share a bit of the responsibility for their deaths, and those of thousands of others like them.
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The “Lottery of Life and Death” in Revolutionary Syria
“If you hear the rumbling of a plane, go down to the basement. If you smell something foul, climb up to the roof. If you run out of time to do any of the above, just know that I love you but there is nothing I can do.”
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Why I Left Crimea
The only thing left is to take each person by the hand, serve them tea, put a plaid throw over them and say, “That’s it. This shit is fucked. We’re going to kill you now.”