Eviction: Enraging Causes and Enduring Consequences
Poverty isn’t just a reflection of lower incomes; it’s also an expression of extractive markets.
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TOXICOLOGY: lethal forces
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.
Die Schuldgefühle, die syrische Revolutionäre umtreiben
“Ich fühle mich nicht schuldig, denn ich weiß, dass das Aufbegehren gegen ein Regime, das gewillt ist, beliebig viele Menschen zu töten das Richtige ist.”
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Outside Humanity
As we see the razor wire fencing being fixed this week on Samos, we fear that the authorities are preparing for a tough strategy of removal. It is what we have come to expect.
Nowhere Is Safe
A brief, though rich, glance into a Yezidi refugee camp near Diyarbakir in early 2016.
The Counterrevolution Never Ended
“I was shocked to hear people speak about asking the military to come in, as if the military is not there already anyway.”
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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.”
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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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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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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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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