A Spotlight on Rumors
Handmade transcript of a 2025 faculty award lecture by Kate Starbird at the University of Washington, laying out a decade-plus of disinformation research findings
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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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Rediscovering a History of Jewish Anarchism
Handcrafted transcript, including presentation slides and images, of an information-rich March 2025 online event hosted by Firestorm Books exploring Joseph Cohen’s monumental history of Jewish anarchism in America
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Listening to Syria
It’s an overwhelming moment, it’s a huge opportunity—as 2011 was. I would just tell people to listen to Syrians as much as possible, as opposed to people who would speak on their behalf.
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Reportback from a Racist Antiracism Demo in Austria
This protest exemplified so many things in terms of white supremacy—not of the fringe, but of the majority, of most white people.
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Climate Change, COVID, and the Global Movement for Health Justice
How do we think about health justice without addressing the fact that millions of Black and Brown people’s lives and health have been impacted for centuries by colonialism? What does it mean to look at reparations?
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For Generations: Genocide and Information Warfare in Ukraine
The same energy is there today in Russia. There’s a pride in imperialistic, genocidal ambitions, and there is casual, proud use of genocidal language, cheering on the Russian bombs killing civilians and leveling towns.
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The Earthquakes: A Gift to Assad
The Assad regime is finding the earthquakes quite useful: they came to help with the destruction. And on a political level, the Syrian regime is weaponizing the aftermath to get out of international isolation.
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Ukraine and Syria: War and Resistance
The violence is there, it’s in the news: here are the numbers dead, here are the potential war crimes, the hospitals bombed, the markets bombed. We’ve become desensitized to this, globally. And yet there is so much that people are doing on the ground, and a lot of creative actions.
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Winston Smith and the Narrative War in Minneapolis
We had a political dissident in Winston Smith. He was an influencer on social media, getting the message out about different tactics than nonviolent protest. You can’t have millions of people getting ideas like that, you know what I’m saying?
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