Places Archives: Middle East

Movement Building & Support

Make Rojava Green Again: Support the Ecological Revolution in Northern Syria

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     by Internationalist Commune of Rojava Presentation of the campaign in cooperation with the Democratic Self-governance of Northern Syria Introduction Five years have passed since the beginning of the Rojava Revolution. Beginning with the heroic resistance of Kobani, the YPG/YPJ have pushed the reactionary gangs of ISIS back again and again. At the same … Continue reading Make Rojava Green Again: Support the Ecological Revolution in Northern Syria →
Strategy & Analysis

Book Excerpt: Russian Collapse and Iranian Birth Control

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Featured image: ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images Editor’s note: The following is from the chapter “Other Plans” of the book Deep Green Resistance: A Strategy to Save the Planet.  This book is now available for free online.     by Lierre Keith / Deep Green Resistance Russia is a country with a negative population growth caused by “a collapse of the … Continue reading Book Excerpt: Russian Collapse and Iranian Birth Control →
Colonialism & Conquest, Noncooperation

Dezeray Lyn interviews Khaden Adnam, Palestinian resister

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Dezeray Lyn just returned from Palestine where she was working as an international observer, activist, and author. She defended Palestinian families’ homes scheduled to be demolished, assisted with the olive harvest, documented human rights abuses, and witnessed the atrocities and the ongoing Israeli occupation. Khader Adnan, a baker with a degree in Mathematical economics currently … Continue reading Dezeray Lyn interviews Khaden Adnam, Palestinian resister →
Colonialism & Conquest, Noncooperation

Radical analysis of the war in Iraq

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The March 25, 2013 episode of Liberation Radio focused on the war in Iraq, in commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of the US invasion. Alla Baker shares her perspective moving from Iraq to the US and feeling shocked by the ignorance people displayed of conditions in Iraq, and especially of the effects of US … Continue reading Radical analysis of the war in Iraq →
White Supremacy, Worker Exploitation

Adon Apamea: Dubai and the Fantasies of Civilization

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By Adon Apamea / Deep Green Resistance Middle East & North Africa Dubai is an interesting city. A thriving futuristic metropolis in the heart of the desert considered to be the crown jewel of modernity with indoor ski resorts, gulf courses, fully computerized metros, giant air-conditioned shopping malls, and the tallest skyscrapers in the world. … Continue reading Adon Apamea: Dubai and the Fantasies of Civilization →
Colonialism & Conquest, Male Supremacy

Peace Talks: New Chapter, Old Book

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New negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians may begin next week, with much talk of a “new chapter” in the seemingly intractable conflict. A new chapter, perhaps, but who is writing the book? Any public discussion about the “peace process” is tense, in part because there is no widely shared understanding of the history and politics … Continue reading Peace Talks: New Chapter, Old Book →
Colonialism & Conquest, Protests & Symbolic Acts

Palestinian activists set up protest camp across from illegal Israeli settlement

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By Saleh Hijaz / Amnesty International In the small hours of Sunday, more than 500 Israeli police surrounded around 130 Palestinian activists at a protest camp on the hills opposite the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. The camp, which the activists called the village of Bab … Continue reading Palestinian activists set up protest camp across from illegal Israeli settlement →
Property & Material Destruction, Strategy & Analysis

Time is Short: Cyber-sabotage in Saudi Arabia

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Civilization is not a static force. It has metastasized across the world by accelerating its own development, by transforming the blood and corpses of its victims into new weapons with which to wage its relentless war against all life Grasslands become grain monocultures feeding armies, conquering forests and mountains that become ships and swords that … Continue reading Time is Short: Cyber-sabotage in Saudi Arabia →
Colonialism & Conquest, Noncooperation

Palestinians celebrate as Israel capitulates to hunger strikers’ key demands

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By The Morning Star Palestinians celebrated today after the Israeli government caved in to imprisoned hunger strikers’ key demands. The Palestinians won key concessions on Tel Aviv’s notorious “administrative detention” policy and family visits in a deal mediated by Egyptian officials. Israel agreed to allow some 400 prisoners from Gaza to receive family visits for … Continue reading Palestinians celebrate as Israel capitulates to hunger strikers’ key demands →