I’ve posted here before about the Kurdish experiment in social-ecological-feminist radical democracy that’s been unfolding in the unlikeliest circumstances in the northern Syrian region of Rojava. Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of a complete U.S. military withdrawal from Syria now leaves that experiment extremely vulnerable… which puts anti-war* activists into an uncomfortable position. (I add that […]
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Rojava at risk
Posted in Politics, tagged anti-war, Bookchin, foreign policy, Kurdistan, Kurds, Rojava, social ecology, Syria, war on December 19, 2018 | 2 Comments »
The ecology of Syrian/Kurdish freedom
Posted in Politics, tagged anarchism, eco-anarchism, eco-decentralism, ecopolitics, Kurds, libertarian socialism, Murray Bookchin, PKK, Syria on February 16, 2015 | 5 Comments »
Eco-theorists may recognize the title of this post as a variation on the title of Murray Bookchin’s audacious and deeply influential (for many, including myself) 1982 book The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (pdf here). What’s little known to anyone following recent news about the war in Syria is that an 18,300 sq. […]
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