Hope Versus Bombs
Everyone is asking themselves when it will finally be enough, when the people here will have suffered enough. Erdoğan’s answer: not for a long time yet.
Structural Violence
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on the control and justification of brute force.
Isolation and Exposure in Iraq and Germany
A documentary team from the International Women’s Space (Berlin) met with an Iraqi refugee who has been forcibly separated from her family, both by her husband and by the German state.
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Refugee Testimony in Northern Serbia
“Nobody asked if we were okay, if we had been beaten. All our clothes were ripped, and we slept outside. The next day we walked back to Subotica.”
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Syria is the World, the World is Syria
No one in the whole world, except a few people here and there, acknowledge that this is a genocide of the Holocaust type. Why not? Because no one is willing to see the Nazi when he looks in the mirror.
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The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
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“There will always be another Jungle.”
Observations of a visitor to the (in)famous refugee encampment the week of its “eviction.” It’s not what you think; it’s worse than you think.
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Winter Is Coming Again, and Everything Is Still Fucked
Each day rolls into the next, and SNAFU remains the reality. We must all pull together.
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Slave Labor in Lugansk
The context for slave labor is a war – ostensibly between eastern Ukrainian separatists and the Kyiv government, but in reality fueled by huge quantities of weaponry and volunteers that have poured over the border from Russia – that has cheapened human life and made torture, murder and forced disappearances the norm.
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How to Build an Invisible Prison
People issued bounding orders are being criminalized and humiliated, receiving a punishment amounting essentially to indefinite detention.
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