Interview: Agir Cudi – Kurdish Anarchist
Keith Preston and Todd Lewis interview Agir Cudi a Kurdish anarchist and pacifist who has resists the tyranny of the Turkish regime.
This Women-Only Village Was Built to Be a Feminist Utopia. Now It’s Under Threat.
Infoshop.Org via Elle By Jessica Roy In the Kurdish region of northeast Syria, a female-only ecological commune has sprung up as a place for women displaced by the Syrian revolution and the rise of the Islamic State. The cooperative is called Jinwar—Kurdish for “Women’s Land”—and it’s home to […]
No longer the Kurdish Question, but the Kurdish Alternative
By Dr. Hawzhin Azeez No longer the Kurdish Question, but the Kurdish Alternative – Hawzhin Azeez It is either a fallacy, or a pure symbolic violence, to continue to assume the “Kurdish Question” as unresolved. For scholars, policy experts and political bureaucrats the Kurdish Question, with its complex […]
The Syria Withdrawal: Three Cheers
Scott Horton is interviewed by Tom Woods. Predictably, this is the best overview and discussion of Trump’s withdrawal from Syria so far, including a discussion of Rojava and Chomsky’s endorsement of US intervention on behalf of the Kurds. Listen here. ——————————————————————— Scott Horton joins me to discuss the […]
Turkish Ambassador Summoned by Iraqi Government Over Airspace Violations
Kurdish PKK and YPG’s Hidden Notorious Crimes: Kidnapping, Murder, and Narcotics Trafficking
Part of the problem is that the Kurds are caught between a rock and a hard place. The Western axis within global capitalism is trying to coopt the Kurds as a tool to be used against the Eastern axis, and the Eastern axis realizes this and is trying […]
Why the Kurds Must Have Independence
By Tim Black Spiked Online And so, once again, it looks as if regional and international powers are set on betraying the Kurds. It’s a familiar narrative. Think back to the Treaty of Sevres in 1920, for example. Then, in the aftermath of the First World War, the […]
A Hello to Arms: A New Generation of Steely-Gazed Anarcho-Communists Head Off to Syria
By John Knefel Village Voice Illustration by Matt Mahurin Billymark’s is the most working-class bar in Chelsea, if not all of Manhattan. On a Thursday afternoon in early March, union guys play darts as both TVs air a CBS report on the early days of Syria’s fragile cease-fire. […]
Keith Preston: U.S., Turkey Have “a Conflict of Interest”
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/02/14/450245/US-Turkey-kurds-ISIL-DAESH The United States has long viewed the Kurds as allies, while Turkey has viewed them as a threat, says Preston. There is ‘a conflict of interest’ between the United States and Turkey over the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the affiliated forces, […]
Beyond Social Justice
A discussion with Ian Mayes, Nexus X Humectress, and Keith Preston about how social justice activism has led anarchist movements astray and lots of other stuff. Topics include: Anarcho-pacifism Intentional communities Beyond Social Justice: how historical opposition to valid injustices has now evolved into something absurd. How totalitarian […]
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