The Syrian Quagmire
For many Syrians there can be no stability, much less peace, while those responsible for the country’s destruction remain in power.
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War & Empire
One Day in Hell
Staying there was not safe at all, because of the potentiality of the warplane’s return. I spent a total of ten minutes there; I felt during these minutes a severe exhaustion, I felt the heaviness of my body, the difficulty of breathing, the inability to think of anything.
Syria Endgame
Four heroes of today’s global alt-right – Assad, Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin – have emerged triumphant over the corpse of the Syrian revolution.
On the Syrian Revolution
An anarchist initiative – a comprehensive study and call to action – from within Korydallos prison, Greece
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What If We Still Haven’t Escaped the Dark Ages
Some converted happily. But many said things like, “We are being swept away by the torrent. We are men reduced to ashes. Everything has been turned on its head.” People were terrified.
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“All of these things have to be solved together.”
If we combine the ideas of ending tax cuts for the rich and cutting the military budget, we would have all the money we need for all these things we need for our survival.
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Eastern Ghouta: New Dimensions of Brutality
Eastern Ghouta is reminiscent of 2016 Aleppo: siege, starvation, bombardment, impending forced displacement. And twice as many people live there as were still in Aleppo at the end of 2016.
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Love in a Hopeless Place
The toughest battle we have to fight in Syria today is against the collapse of our own ideals, the fight against a mentality that subordinates everything to the exigencies of war.
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The Anthropology of Death
The Putin regime has a flagrantly necrophiliac tendency. Even under Stalin, there was nothing like this savoring of death.
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Only We Can Bring Peace to Syria
There will always be people who celebrate even the cruelest of tyrants, be it out of ignorance, sadism, fear, or being advantaged by these rulers. But does that make a tyrant’s regime “legitimate”?
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