“Sooner or later we’re all going to have charges.”
Federal legal repression of ICE watch in Minnesota: transcript of the Outlaw podcast’s interviews with four arrestees
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Structural Violence
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on the control and justification of brute force.
Dispatch from Iraq: In Defense of Civil Society
Amidst growing regional war, a call for international solidarity with Iraqi civil society, feminist and secular movements, trade unions, and grassroots organizers.
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Syria’s Islamized Armenians
The massacres in 1915 were followed by forcibly deporting Armenians to the Syrian desert. Many of the survivors of this deportation were small children who were adopted into local Arab and Kurdish families. After that, the story ends and these people disappear.
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When Do Villains Become Heroes?
“Reverse moral exceptionalism” is a nationalistic tendency to insist on oneself as central to every event of significance on the world stage and thus positions the United States as a singular source of evil in the world. This rhetoric sets the groundwork for an anticolonial discourse that paradoxically justifies oppressive regimes.
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Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights
By reading these creative works of literature, the ways they tell stories, the ways they show humanity and inhumanity, the ways they show human beings—can they help us conceive of an alternative system of human rights?
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Zine: This Can’t Become the New Normal
We need forms of solidarity we may not be able to understand or imagine right now, but will be indispensable to having a world worth holding together.
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Genocide in Syria, Gaza, and Beyond
Using the term “war” in the Syrian context is as innocent, biased, and lazy as using the term “war” to name the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Instead of coming up with new ideas to name a rare situation, we keep reiterating the same old terms.
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Protests in Turkey: Perspectives from the Periphery
On 23 March 2025, the president of Turkey arrested Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, alongside dozens of others, sparking a wave of protests that in turn saw yet more police repression, arrests, and mass confusion.
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Killing Is Killing: Yarmouk and the “Squeeze” of Being Palestinian-Syrian
Look what happened to the Palestinians in Syria! Yarmouk camp is a case study the left should be focusing on, to expose the hypocrisy of the regime Hafez and Bashar al-Assad built.
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“We will continue until they’ve all been held accountable.”
We fought Assad and his regime—and we’ll keep fighting as long as it takes, until Syria has become a democracy with respect for human rights. We will not replace one dictatorship with another. Syrians will never accept that.
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