Syria Retold
Bashar al-Assad wanted to remove the moderates so he could say, “See? It’s only me or the extremists.” But there are still moderate Syrians, many of them. If their numbers are fewer, we need to ask ourselves why. Where did they go?
War & Empire
Mosul: What a Waste. A Materialist Analysis of ISIS
The Islamic State is just another product of the capitalist barbarism which always provides fertile ground for religious violence—and therefore cannot be fought merely by military means.
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Hope Versus Bombs
Everyone is asking themselves when it will finally be enough, when the people here will have suffered enough. Erdoğan’s answer: not for a long time yet.
Syria is the World, the World is Syria
No one in the whole world, except a few people here and there, acknowledge that this is a genocide of the Holocaust type. Why not? Because no one is willing to see the Nazi when he looks in the mirror.
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War Stories: Art, Propaganda, and the Memory Industrial Complex
“Memories are not simply images we experience as individuals but mass-produced fantasies we share with one another.”
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Under Aleppo’s Rubble
Aleppo will be a bleak reminder of how costly and at times seemingly unattainable freedom and justice can be. We mourn our memories, our comrades, our loved ones. But make no mistake: this story has not ended.
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Slave Labor in Lugansk
The context for slave labor is a war – ostensibly between eastern Ukrainian separatists and the Kyiv government, but in reality fueled by huge quantities of weaponry and volunteers that have poured over the border from Russia – that has cheapened human life and made torture, murder and forced disappearances the norm.
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Politics in Turkey: the Elites and the Streets
The more allies Erdoğan loses in his state apparatus, the more he has to rely on radical groups on the street to secure his power.
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Aleppo Is Burning. Assad Must Go.
This man is responsible for countless people being murdered, raped, tortured, imprisoned, and starved to death. Accepting him staying in power is the same as saying we shouldn’t have brought Hitler down.
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Die Schuldgefühle, die syrische Revolutionäre umtreiben
“Ich fühle mich nicht schuldig, denn ich weiß, dass das Aufbegehren gegen ein Regime, das gewillt ist, beliebig viele Menschen zu töten das Richtige ist.”
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