The No State Solution: Institutionalizing Libertarian Socialism in Kurdistan
ALEXANDER KOLOKOTRONIS- October 30, 2014 Contrary to what many might believe, the ideological shift did not take place in the last few months or even the last year. Rather, approximately a … Continue reading
US support, Turkish tolerance for Syrian Kurds adds to regional confusion
Aljazeera- October 20, 2014 – by Michael Pizzi @michaelwpizzi Turkey announced Monday it would allow Iraqi Kurdish security forces — or peshmerga — to pass through the Turkish border into Syria to fight … Continue reading
New Alignments: The Kurds’ Lonely Fight against Islamic State Terror
The terrorist group PKK represents the West’s last hope in the fight against Islamic State. Their lonely resistance to the advancing jihadists will result in lasting changes to the region. … Continue reading
Washington’s Secret Back-Channel Talks With Syria’s Kurdish ‘Terrorists’
FOREIGN POLICY– BY JAKE HESS: EXCLUSIVE: As the town of Kobani appears poised to fall to the Islamic State, exclusive, previously classified, State Department cables show how U.S. officials tried to both engage … Continue reading
Kobane Diary: 4 Days Inside the City Fighting an Unprecedented Resistance Against ISIS
BY HEYSAM MISLIM / OCTOBER 15, 2014 – NEWSWEEK- MICHEL SLONKA/SIPA/REX Filed Under: World, Kobani, Turkey, Syria, Islamic State, Kurds, Kurdistan I chose to stay to report about the reality on … Continue reading
IS’ SYSTEMATIC TARGETING OF MINORITIES IN NORTHERN IRAQ – Yazidis are main target
Amnesty International’s 2014 report SUMMARY The group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS)1 has carried out ethnic cleansing2 on a historic scale in northern Iraq. Amnesty International has found … Continue reading
Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? David Graeber
Guardian: In 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic. A would-be fascist coup had been temporarily halted by a worker’s uprising, … Continue reading
Four Things the Left Should Learn from Kobane
Re-Posted in full from The Disorder of Things The Kurdish town of Kobanê has recently become the centre of a geopolitical conflagration that may well change the course of Middle … Continue reading
Kurdish Female Fighters and Kobanê Style Revolution- Houzan Mahmoud
HuffingtonPost: The role of women in war, peace and revolution has long been portrayed in manifold, often contradictory ways. Images of women as victims, pacifist peace makers, protestors, and home … Continue reading
A ‘Revolution’ under Attack – the Alternative in midst the War in Syria- Ulrike Flader
The most recent pictures of thousands of refugees fleeing from heavy attacks of ISIS and making their way from Syria across the border to Turkey, come from the area of … Continue reading
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