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Kurdistan

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The Mastery of Non-Mastery

A report and reflections from Kobane

August 7, 2015 • by Michael Taussig

As I write, the plug is being pulled on the steady-state.

Violence and tragedy take revenge on humanity through routinization. Sooner or later we become immune.

But is there a reverse process, such as Freud writes about in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, where the ...

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Gray is Beautiful: Israel/Palestine, Turkey/Kurdistan

October 14, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Along with most, if not all, the contributors to Public Seminar on the war in Gaza, I am critical of the actions of Netanyahu’s policies and the actions of the IDF, and I am concerned about where the center of gravity is in Israel. I see fundamental problems with the ...
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Europe & Central Asia

The Overlooked Besieged Alternative in the Middle East

The Rojava Cantons

October 13, 2014 • by Hakan Topal

In my previous article I wrote about how both soft and hard Islamists render a very dark future for the Middle East. I finished my article by stating that the Kurdish Movement may provide a salient alternative for the whole region. However, this alternative is currently under attack by ...

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The Overlooked Besieged Alternative in the Middle East
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