“No, that’s not a tree.”
People getting paid thousands of euros each month to slip “Truth” into the shrinking gaps between ads think people practicing journalism out of conviction are untrustworthy, lol.
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Kurdistan
Nowhere Is Safe
A brief, though rich, glance into a Yezidi refugee camp near Diyarbakir in early 2016.
Silopi in Ruins
When we told the two co-mayors how shocked we were at the destruction in Cudi, they laughed bitterly: “Cudi? That’s nothing compared to Zap, Basak, and Barbaros.”
Life Is Beautiful
“What we experienced in Bakur, how it feels and how it will change us, has to do with real people and their stories.”
Rojava Caught Between Fronts
It is conceivable that any movement towards Russia would sharply reduce sympathy in the West for Rojava, without anything about its political and social project having changed.
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Democratic Self-Administration Also For Iran
Considering the danger of a true third world war, the opportunity to take a serious, radical step in the struggle for democracy in the Middle East must be recognized and seized.
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Suruç: The AKP and the Turkish “Deep State” Are Also Guilty
“Both reactionary forces–Daesh and Turkish fascism–have to be combated in order to hope for a radical change in Turkey.”
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Comparing Emancipatory Struggles in North and West Kurdistan
It is not easy to overturn the influence of 500 years of Turkish authority during which people have been marginalized, isolated and treated with utter disrespect. To change all of this requires a lot of work on the ground, and on the individual level as well. But what is promising is the zeal and determination of the activists in the area.
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„Das ist eine echte Revolution“
Man kann den Kapitalismus nicht loswerden ohne den Staat abzuschaffen, man kann den Staat nicht loswerden ohne das Patriarchat loszuwerden.
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Rojava Versus the World
The people in Rojava actively oppose capitalism as an economic system. They oppose the premises on which the international order is built, such as the state, such as patriarchy.
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