Tidbits - June 11, 2015 - Kalief Browder, Criminality of Prisons; Fight for...
Reader Comments: Kalief Browder and Criminality of Prisons; Fight for $15; Edward Snowden - Hero; Ronnie Gilbert; Walmart Anti-Labor Activity; Suicide in Young Women; The Audacity to Win - Left...
View ArticleTurkey's AKP Doomed by Poverty, Growing Inequality and Its War on Trade Unions
Backdrop to Turkey's elections: Turkish workers have seen their unions dismantled under the AKP government, and many have lost collective bargaining rights. The percentage of unionized workers fell...
View Article'The Trials Of Spring' Documentary Project Amplifies Voices Of Women In The...
Six short films profile nine women across Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, with each detailing their journey through uprisings and crackdowns. While each story is unique, they often...
View ArticleThe Destruction in Syria
As part of a series on the devastating civil war in Syria, Jacobin spoke to Rabie Nasser, a Syrian economic analyst who works with the Syrian Center for Policy Research. We discussed the social and...
View ArticleThe Kurdish Elephant
In their latest deal to fight ISIS, Washington and Turkey are treating the Middle East's largest stateless minority like pawns. That's a huge mistake.Let’s mix some metaphors in the Middle East, all of...
View ArticleThe U.S./Turkey Deal-Disaster in the Making
The “plan” will also toss the Kurds, one of Washington’s most reliable allies in the fight against the Islamic State, under a bus. “The Americans are not very clever in calculating this sort of thing,”...
View ArticleEurope's Refugee Crisis Was Made in America
Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The numbers keep on growing. The authorities are overwhelmed, as are the solidarity networks. The refugee crisis has...
View ArticleA Guide to the Worst Refugee Crisis Since WWII
Here is a guide to the worst refugee crisis since World War II, with information about every country you need to know. The world is witnessing the largest refugee crisis since the horrors of World War...
View ArticleThe Kindness of Strangers: The Refugees in Budapest, and my Father's World...
The refugee influx struck a strong emotional chord with me, as a Hungarian-American visiting my parents' homeland. I had arrived in Hungary on August 25 with my wife Debi, to visit my late Catholic...
View ArticleTidbits - September 24, 2015 - Refugee Crisis, Solidarity; Jeremy Corbyn,...
Reader Comments: Refugee Crisis, Solidarity and Worker Rights; Radical Roots of Great Grape Strike and the United Farmworkers; Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders; Woman Held in Mental Health Facility...
View ArticleWhy Obama and Putin are Both Wrong on Syria
So Obama wants al-Assad to stand down as a prerequisite for effective US action against Daesh in Syria (a few air sorties and even fewer air strikes are ineffectual). Putin thinks al-Assad is key to...
View ArticleWhy Syrian Refugees in Turkey are Leaving for Europe
Anti-Syrian sentiment, along with economic hardship and a growing sense that the civil war will rage on for years to come, helps explain why many refugees are willing to risk everything by leaving...
View ArticleA New Snowden - Documents Reveal Assassination Policy - Whistleblower Leaks...
Newly released documents are chilling revealing murder-for-order - assassination ordered the highest levels of our government. Hiding behind terms like basics of manhunting and tyranny of distance, or...
View ArticleAre the U.S. and Russia Forming 5 New States in the Middle-East?
The Middle-East map is being redrawn in Syria and Iraq by Moscow and Washington. The Obama Administration is co-leading with the Kremlin to help slice the Syria-Iraq area into five or more political...
View Article'Gasoline on the Fire': Obama Orders Ground Troops To Syria
Since Obama first announced the bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria in 2014, critics have warned that such tactics would likely lead to "mission creep" in the two countries. As the number of troops in...
View ArticleBombed Planes, Bombed Cities, Bombed Countries as Syria War Goes Global
It's not a world war—at least not yet— but the increased regional and global focus on the Islamic State militant group that currently holds territory in both Iraq and Syria is brewing an increasingly...
View ArticleBombing ISIS Isn't Enough. 6 Steps to Achieving a Diplomatic Solution in Syria
The Syrian civil war was generated by the collision of the ideals of the Arab Spring and the totalitarian regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. If all we do is destroy the Islamic State other...
View ArticleWin the War? No, Put an End To It
The chaos in the Middle-east which has led to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing ISIL’s barbarous rule is the result of fifteen years of Western interventionism. How can France ever take a...
View ArticleJets and Predators - Report from Germany
Germany is constitutionally barred from foreign missions but that never bothered anyone in the government. Germany's rulers, in coalition armchairs or skulking in lobbies behind them, are very...
View ArticleWhy Syrian Refugees in Turkey are Leaving for Europe
Anti-Syrian sentiment, along with economic hardship and a growing sense that the civil war will rage on for years to come, helps explain why many refugees are willing to risk everything by leaving...
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