Posts tagged: war

The Performance of Legitimacy: On the Syrian Missile Strikes

Missile strikes against Syria have set the stage for future military intervention around the world.
The Origins of Atlantic Liberalism

The philosophical roots of rights-based liberal individualism lie in efforts to legitimate imperial expansion.
Henryk Szlajfer: Why I Will Not Take Part in Poland's Official Observation of the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

In an open letter to the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, Professor Henryk Szlajfer explains why he will not take part in the official celebration of the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
From Afrin to Ghouta

While Erdoğan's tyranny is tolerated by "the West," "democracy" is no longer even an empty slogan where poor nations of the periphery are concerned.
Video: Étienne Balibar — Democracy and Liberty in Times of Violence

Étienne Balibar delivers the 2018 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul.
“Little Rocket Man”: The Anti-Asian Racism of US Empire

Like US violence in Asia, the symbolic infantilization of Asians has a long history.
After Saleh

Ali Abdullah Saleh is dead, but his politics are very much alive in Yemen.
Like Chopping Onions: At the World’s Largest Security Expo

Tear Gas author Anna Feigenbaum visits Milipol.
The Colonial Gas Machine: Teargas Grenades, Secular Humanist Police, and the Intoxication of Racialized Lives

For the privileged, tear gas is an event; for the colonized, it composes a fundamental aspect of life.
The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.
Video: Susan Buck-Morss — Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy

In the twenty-first century any world war is a civil war, and any civil war affects the world. Does this mean the end of the Age of Revolutions, or a whole new understanding of what revolution entails?
Murder of Naji al-Ali to be Reinvestigated

Naji Salim al-Ali was Palestine’s preeminent political cartoonist. In more than 40,000 cartoons, al-Ali provided sharply critical commentaries on Palestinian and Arab politics. Naji al-Ali was shot by unknown assailants in London on July 22, 1987 and died 5 weeks later. No one was convicted of the murder, but as the BBC reports, the murder is now being reinvestigated.