Unser Terrorismus-Tabu
Tabus sind wie Gespenster. Könnte es sein, dass Sie UNSER Terrorismus – Gespenst nicht gesehen haben?
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Systems of Enclosure
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination involving control, hoarding, concealment, and mystification of information, wealth, and power.
Remember “Making the World Safe for Democracy”?
The Arab Spring presented an enormous opportunity to put forward some of the ideals that we hold to be true, like democracy as a universal principle. Where were we in supporting that in Egypt when there was a military coup?
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After Gezi: Erdoğan And Political Struggle In Turkey
Political struggles over the future of Turkey have left the country profoundly divided. Former Prime Minister, now President, Tayyip Erdogan, has fueled growing polarization through his authoritarian response to protests, his large-scale urban development projects, his religious social conservatism, and most recently, through his complicity in the Islamic State’s war against the Kurdish people in
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“We Have to Understand the Game. We Are All Playing it.”
The mining companies involved in murdering people in the forest can also be running law schools, and in the law schools they have courses on the poetry of resistance.
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The Quiet Counterrevolution of Human Rights Idealism
The human rights movement, in its focus on atrocity, has been way too selective, leading us away from thinking about structural wrongdoing.
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Photo Essay: Sochi, the $50 Billion ‘Ghost Town’
AntiNote: Freelance photographer Alexander Belenkiy posted these photographs* on his livejournal this month, after a trip to Sochi. This is the ghost town he encountered there, only six months after the 2014 Winter Olympics. Alexander points out in his own commentary that the Olympic Village is not completely abandoned; indeed he took care to include
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Know Your Enemy: Debunking Neoliberal Mythology
Neoliberals don’t feel threatened by the fact that stuff just keeps getting worse, as long as they can convince people to keep doing the same things—more markets to fix markets.
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Democracy Promotion at Face Value
Improving livelihoods and education among people never helps authoritarian regimes, which is why they don’t do it. They know that their biggest threat is an empowered, educated populace that can read and feed itself.
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Intersecting Neoliberal Goals at the World Cup
The World Cup fits into the general strategy of the Brazilian government.
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Wer sind die Kommunisten wirklich?
Die Abdrift des Kommunismus wurde tragisch und zerstörerisch. Dies ist etwas, was wir wissen und worauf hinzuweisen sich unsere Feinde ergötzen, wobei sie die katastrophalen Folgen für die ganze Menschheit von dem auslassen, was sie selbst verteidigen.
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