Two Refugee Camp Sieges
The Syrian regime has a long history of starving Palestinians, perhaps longer than any other Arab regime.
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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.
Egypt Cracking Down on Dissent
At least 16,000 people have been arrested, more than 2,500 killed and 17,000 wounded in the government crackdown since the ousting of Morsi. Down with the fascist military regime! Freedom for all the detainees!
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Die neue europäische rechtsradikale Welle und das syrische Regime
Es scheint, dass das Thema Syrien einen prominenten Platz in der Agenda der europäischen extremen Rechten einnimmt. Folglich versteht es sich von selbst, dass die Mehrheit unterdessen das Assad-Regime unterstützt.
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The European Far Right and the Syrian Regime
Nearly two decades ago, several parties and far-right groups started to weave relations with the Syrian regime. For example, communications began between some of the French right in France and the Syrian regime, since the nineties. Many visits then followed.
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Bulgaria: at Fortress Europe’s Postern Gate
A new form of nationalism is on the rise in Europe – one that is not founded in the nation-state but is instead fortifying wealthy core EU member-states by turning the periphery into an alert border zone.
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Lack of Diversity in Policy and Media has Consequences
The mistake people make is to say that there’s violence in Chechnya because Chechens are violent. Politics is what motivates ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts don’t happen because a particular ethnicity is inclined to violence.
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New World Water
We’re pulling water up so fast that it’ll be gone in our lifetime. The Ogallala Aquifer will be gone. There aren’t any ifs ands or buts; it’s just a case of when and how fast it goes.
What is Domination? What is Liberation?
I want to emphasize the face-to-face element. There’s no example of large-scale social change that does not involve thousands of one-on-one meetings, small group meetings.
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What Form Should Our Movement Take?
The best chance we have to challenge the dominant social structure is precisely from within it. Global systems of production, circulation, administration, etc., hold the means to provide material necessities for everyone on earth. Our ultimate goal is to make them serve humanity.
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Reading ‘World Systems Analysis’ in Tehran
Immanuel Wallerstein resonates in Iran because he not only combines all the great intellectual traditions of European and American social science, but he uses them to challenge the status quo.
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