Nowhere Is Safe
A brief, though rich, glance into a Yezidi refugee camp near Diyarbakir in early 2016.
Idols & Mass Deceptions
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on control through charisma: lies, conspiracy theories, false consciousness, false binaries, historical revisionism, hero worship, scapegoating, dehumanization, and media manipulation.
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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Analyzing a Picture
In the end, breaking through cynism and apathy implies not only to feel something but also to react. Which means taking sides and understanding that the ecological disaster is about us as a bunch of people who have already figured out that something isn’t quite right.
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The Anti-Imperialism of Fools
A “One Year Ago” special to remind us where we are is where we’ve been, and that In the Information Age, ignorance is a choice.
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Violence, Humiliation, Spectacle, and Fascism
When we see the specter of fascism rising around what this guy is doing, then the stakes are much higher than simply calling him a loon.
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Behind Islamophobia, Fascism, and Complicit Antifascism
Alliances are built under pressure and within power relationships and we must create our own political existence and imagine our allies.
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Novorossiya’s ‘Leftist’ Friends
European countries have yet to see in action the “red-brown” synthesis, which is so popular in the post-Soviet space.
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Russian Avant-Garde in the Age of Disinformation
Imagine Alex Jones were running your TV—your national TV stations, all of them at the same time. Then you get the world we’re talking about.
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The Worst Direction for Politics
A neofascist economic vision would aim to reconstitute the nation as a fully integrated organic unity capable of fighting for supremacy in global competition–a zero-sum struggle among states (and militaries) aiming to secure adequate markets and resources that they alone can exploit.
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The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field.
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