Beyond the human rights violations, the investigation must expose the exorbitant amount of money poured into this detention industry – a sophisticated torture machine that has cost billions. Just published my latest article for The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

10 most controversial exposé by WikiLeaks founded by Julian Assange. Thread🧵

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📢Join us THIS SAT, 7/20 (1pm EST) as we launch our new study series: Radical Ecology and the Rojava Revolution! Our 1st session (hosted by Debbie Bookchin and Sheelan Qader) will focus on Social Ecology and the Kurdish Freedom Movement. 📚RSVP here: defendrojava.org/events/study-s…

📢Join us Monday August 26th (7:30pm EST) for the next discussion session of our radical ecology study group! 📚 This month’s topic: #Degrowth. We’ll be be joined by special guest aaron vansintjan 🐙, co-author of The Future is Degrowth. Register here to join: defendrojava.org/events/ecr-stu…

Since yesterday evening, Turkey has carried out airstrikes on Qamishlo, Kobane, Amude, and Derik among other locations in NES. The strikes are still ongoing, and included several power stations, 2 bakeries, a health center, and grain silos.

As foreign powers look to shape Syria's political landscape after the toppling of the Assad regime, the country's Kurdish minority is being threatened by the Turkish government. We take a deep dive into the region with Kurdish scholar @ozlem_goner, a member of @DefendRojava.

What if a better world is one where women, Indigenous communities, and the oppressed reclaim the power that was always theirs?... I explore this idea in my latest piece here platform.coop/blog/revolutio…

Azizan, I'm working on my MS research about Kurdish farmers and land dispossession near the Turkey-Syria-Iraq borders (from WWI to today). If you or someone you know has relevant insights, please reach out. Supas! #twitterkurds #Kurdistan #Border #Bakur #Başûr #Rojava #Rojhelat

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Friends, I will be presenting the findings/analysis of my final capstone research project on May 13 at 4pm for MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management The New School ou can attend virtually or in-person (register here event.newschool.edu/spring2025epsm…)

my film photograph print is now on display at 72 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan as part of The New School's Cities and Landscapes Exhibit, where it wlill remain for a year. Check it out if you're in the area

The project required developing a custom methodology tailored to the unique Ecological, historical and political dimensions of my topic.lpresented my analysis as a transmedia that includes a short documentary, an originally compilec. historical timeline, and a research paper >>

This is an extremely disturbing study. According to new research reported here, the probability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapsing due to climate change is much higher than previously believed. One author said: "We found that (on our current