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.
Protests in Turkey: Perspectives from the Periphery Read More »
Featured translation: investigative reporter Hannes Grassegger’s 2022 longform profile of “the Swiss man who built the global passport industry and turned citizenship into a commodity.”
The Man Who Knows No Boundaries Read More »
The global police state involves a convergence of global capitalism’s need for social control and its economic need to perpetuate profit-making in the face of stagnation.
Dimensions of the Global Police State Read More »
Police unions represent the most powerful yet reactionary and racist aspects of police departments and police officers.
Police Unions, Politics, and Power Read More »
Something changed in 2011, and despite the massive repression that protest movements have faced, something has changed within people. That’s going to have a massive impact on the future. There’s going to be a lot of change happening in the region, and we’re only at the start of that process.
Struggles for Justice in Syria and Lebanon Read More »
I refuse to belong to a family with a thousand faces, which doesn’t know right from wrong, which doesn’t know God and conscience, and which God and conscience don’t know.
“Between me and you is the blood of five hundred thousand poor Syrians.” Read More »
We have been alerted, we have been warned: three significant outbursts of indignation and information from an overlooked flashpoint in Fortress Europe’s worsening border crisis: the Bosnian-Croatian border.
The Balkanroute in 2019: Camps, Cops, and Corruption Read More »
We are never expected to be active in shaping our lives. We are like shadows which don’t really exist. People do things to us without asking. Open Doors is just a small step to show what we are capable of.
Tents and Drones, Open Doors Read More »
It’s something I ask every cop I question: Is there a code of silence in the Chicago police department? “Oh, no.” Have you ever testified against a fellow cop? “Oh, no.” Have you ever seen any police misconduct in your thirty years on the job? “Oh, no.”
A Pattern of Torture and a Code of Silence Read More »
Iranian politics and society surprises all of us over and over again, so why limit the options and the possibilities for a bottom-up protest to only two possible narratives?
“The politics of the moment are open.” Read More »
