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Sanitising imperialism — The problem with The Daughters of Kobani

It was announced in January, that Hillary Clinton would co-produce a mini-series on the book alongside her daughter Chelsea, raising eyebrows in some corners, cheers in others, and outright disgust in many more. The fact that Clinton, a former United States Secretary of State and 2016 presidential nominee, is poised to dip into the world of television to tell the story of Rojava s Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) appears at first glance a baffling move. That is, unless one understands that the point of her decision is to present a sanitised and revisionist version of US policy in Syria, and the Middle East more generally.

The disgraceful spectacle of Hillary Clinton s YPJ mini-series

IN MARCH 2017, I made my way through the streets of the northern Syrian city of Kobani, just over two years since it had been liberated from the Islamic State by fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).  Although some of the city had slowly seen reconstruction taking place, other areas made it appear that the war was still being fought.  Burnt-out cars used as vehicles for suicide bombings. The stench of yesterday’s corpses buried under rubble not yet removed. Graffiti marking the sight of legendary battles and martyrs lost in combat, adorning walls riddled with bullet holes.

Celebrating the power of ideas: a tribute to Murray Bookchin

Author In the years before his death, my father wrote a series of books entitled The Third Revolution. In them, he analyzed transformative revolutionary moments in history, beginning with the late-medieval uprisings and German Peasant Wars of the 16th century, and ending, four volumes later, with the Spanish Civil War. Studying this revolutionary history gave my father solace it took him back to a time when revolutionary ideals animated everyday life, when utopian cries lived on the lips of ordinary people. It also gave him immense hope, best exemplified by his choice to dedicate each of the four volumes of

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