Doesn’t That Make It a “Death Camp?”
I thought it was just another detainee holding facility. But we knew that it was not on the map; this was not on the books.
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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.
The False Friends of Rojava
The significance of the struggle in Kobanê cannot be overstated. But real international solidarity won’t come in the form of military intervention.
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Police Violence from Ferguson to Rio
The police will argue that they have to be heavy-handed with criminals because they’re under attack, because it’s a ‘war.’ But they won’t admit that they’re creating a climate of terror.
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Syriza and Social Movements: Risks and Opportunities
We are entering a period of really dense political time, the decisions of all political players will generate drastic results that will define the future.
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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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Hungary: Social Catastrophe in the Making
AntiNote: This article first appeared in December 2014 on the Böll Foundation website, with link citations that we have not reproduced. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Social Catastrophe In the Making by Bálint Misetics It is not only constitutional democracy that Viktor Orbán’s regime treats as its enemy; the Hungarian
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“There Were Just Too Many”
“The neo-Nazi ideology of the attackers is completely ignored, and the whole incident is trivialized as a bar fight instead of a cold, calculated racist attack by people who vocally promote genocide.”
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Meet a Syriza Candidate: Yanis Varoufakis
Unless somebody says “No” to this Ponzi austerity where we keep borrowing while cutting, we are going to end up in a postmodern 1930s. And we know very well who benefits from that kind of depression.
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Storytelling: “Borderline”
AntiNote: This story was told in December 2014 to a live audience in Seattle at one of the RISK! Tour’s many live storytelling performances. RISK! describes itself as a platform for people to tell stories they “never thought they’d dare to share.” We hope many more will dare to share the kind of story that
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