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.
Mosul: What a Waste. A Materialist Analysis of ISIS Read More »
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.
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.
Syria is the World, the World is Syria Read More »
“Memories are not simply images we experience as individuals but mass-produced fantasies we share with one another.”
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There is something under Aleppo’s rubble to be mourned for everyone. By Taha Bali
Under Aleppo’s Rubble Read More »
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.
Slave Labor in Lugansk Read More »
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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This man is responsible for a very large number of people who have been murdered and raped and tortured and imprisoned and starved to death. To accept the idea of this man staying in power is the same as saying that we shouldn’t have brought Hitler down.
Aleppo Is Burning. Assad Must Go. Read More »
“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.”
Die Schuldgefühle, die syrische Revolutionäre umtreiben Read More »
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.”
