The poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves … categorized according to Graeber and Wengrow’s three basic forms of domination. See our About page for more info.
Even before the Bush administration had time to mobilize support for bombing other countries, it was obvious that what had happened would blow back on lots of innocent people.
Twenty-Five Years of Grief and Fury Read More »
Federal legal repression of ICE watch in Minnesota: transcript of the Outlaw podcast’s interviews with four arrestees
“Sooner or later we’re all going to have charges.” Read More »
Amidst growing regional war, a call for international solidarity with Iraqi civil society, feminist and secular movements, trade unions, and grassroots organizers.
Dispatch from Iraq: In Defense of Civil Society Read More »
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
A Spotlight on Rumors Read More »
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.
Syria’s Islamized Armenians Read More »
“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
When Do Villains Become Heroes? Read More »
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?
Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights Read More »
We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
Zine: This Can’t Become the New Normal Read More »
Using the term “war” in the Syrian context is as innocent, biased, and lazy as using the term “war” to name the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Instead of coming up with new ideas to name a rare situation, we keep reiterating the same old terms.
Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond Read More »
Arab liberation from authoritarian regimes is interconnected with Palestinian liberation from Zionism.
Zine: Where Are the Arabs? Read More »
