The Man Who Knows No Boundaries
Featured translation: investigative reporter Hannes Grassegger’s 2022 longform profile of “the Swiss man who built the global passport industry and turned citizenship into a commodity.”
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.
Featured translation: investigative reporter Hannes Grassegger’s 2022 longform profile of “the Swiss man who built the global passport industry and turned citizenship into a commodity.”
Denying chemical massacres is a form of cognitive violence against us Syrians who strive for freedom, justice, and democracy. It hinges on a complete disregard for the truth and the lived experiences of communities subjected to political oppression.
Agreements between the EU and Tunisia on migration control contribute directly to the escalation of racism, migrant hunts, and mass deportations.
The same energy is there today in Russia. There’s a pride in imperialistic, genocidal ambitions, and there is casual, proud use of genocidal language, cheering on the Russian bombs killing civilians and leveling towns.
I understand the appeal for peace. We did the same thing. Madame, people are fighting for Rémi, for their dignity, and for their ideals. They are fighting for you, for all of us.
The Assad regime’s open genocidal policies against its own people are enviable to people on the far right. For people whose politics come from identification with the state, this completely unrestrained killing is the highest form of freedom.
The idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued. The left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.
The Assad regime is finding the earthquakes quite useful: they came to help with the destruction. And on a political level, the Syrian regime is weaponizing the aftermath to get out of international isolation.
After the fire in Moria in 2020: Six young migrants are made scapegoats of a failed EU migration policy – Call for fair and transparent trial for the Moria 6 on 6 March 2023 in Lesvos!
Syrian-British journalist Robin Yassin-Kassab on the connections between the wars in Syria and Ukraine, the failure of the Western left, and ways to deepen democratic institutions.