Peel Back Tulsi Gabbard’s “Progressive” Veneer
By Stanley Heller (a version of this appeared on the blog Economic Uprising) Tulsi Gabbard is getting a pass from people who should know better, first from Glenn Greenwald and then from the folks at Democracy Now. They describe her as...
Publication of Adopt a Revolution: Reconstructing Syria: Risks and side effects Strategies, actors and interests
Summary The reconstruction plans of the al-Assad regime largely ignore the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. The regime’s reconstruction strategy does not address the most pressing needs of over 10 million Syrian IDPs and refugees. Instead it...
Exposing Tulsi Gabbard’s Ties to Hateful Politics
Recently, Tulsi Gabbard, a representative for Hawaii in the U.S. Congress, announced that she is considering nominating herself as a presidential candidate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Shiyam Galyon and Sina Zekavat, members of the Alliance of Middle...
Understanding the Travail of Change in Sudan
Sudan revolts. Many people have read this short sentence many times in the past few years, but the fact is Sudan never stopped revolting since the coup of June 1989 that brought the ruling National Islamic Front party (later the National Congress Party; NCP) and the...
Los Angeles Screening & Discussion of Play About the Israeli Occupation
"It's What We Do" is a recorded play that dramatizes Israeli soldiers' testimonies, exposing their day-to-day interactions with Palestinian. It takes you behind the headlines to see what the Israeli occupation looks like on a daily basis, how if affects the soldiers...
Alliance Statement on Threat of Turkish Planned Military Invasion Against Northern Syria: Internationalist Solidarity Needed
Donald Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw 2000 U.S. troops from Syria is a green light to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to decimate the Kurds in what remains of Rojava in northern Syria. Earlier this year, Turkey invaded the Afrin area with the assistance of Syrian...
An idea called Daraya
Five years on from the kidnapping of the ‘Douma 4’ activists, Joey Ayoub pays homage to another Damascus suburb symbolic of Syria’s peaceful, democratic revolution. By the time Huda was arrested by regime soldiers in 2013, the siege of Daraya, a suburb of Damascus,...
In memoriam: Raed Fares and Hammud Junayd, giants of Syrian civil society
Remembering the larger-than-life personalities and legacies of Raed Fares and Hammud Junayd, two iconic Syrian democracy activists assassinated Friday. In Aleppo in early 2012, at a discussion between opposition activists, the banners used in demonstrations in a small...
Repudiating the Stalinist Legacy
Editors' note: Below, we reprint part I of a three-part series by Javier Sethness, libertarian socialist, activist and author. The links to parts two and three of this series can be found at the end of this article. This series was originally published by Notes...
