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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…it might look like there are organizing themselves and creating announcements outside of the elections, or is it harder than before? And Erdogan was the first foreign embassy to visit Cairo after Newark sat down. And I was lucky enough to be invited to…
…on Twitter that the U.S. would no longer provide military cover for the Syrian Kurds, and the White House has confirmed with Erdogan that Turkey could, and this is in the words of the state, the White House press officers move forward with its…
…actually want to secede from Turkey, it's that they want to have a bigger, say, democratized Turkey, and that's a threat to Erdogan. Yes, and it's also a political threat. I mean, Erdogan is essentially a fascist. He's a right-wing populist, if you want…
…to have a bigger, say, democratized Turkey, and that's a threat to Erdogan. Yes, and it's also a political threat. I mean, Erdogan is essentially a fascist. He's a right-wing populist, if you want to use that kind of language, tied with various islamist…
…was essentially created so as to ensure that Kurdish-based parties could never be in parliament. And it was at that point that Erdogan broke his ceasefire with the PKK and started the war again when it became a credible left-wing threat in the country…
…suppose. Why have the United States withdrawn their support now? And what will the consequences be? Well, I think that essentially Erdogan was pushing and pushing and pushing. And he knew that America is fairly inconstant. Eventually, you know, Trump has a…
…of remaining within Syria. So I don't know what was going on with those negotiations. What seems to have happened was that Erdogan was demanding some sort of zone, called it a safe zone, which is about as hypocritical a term as you could possibly…
…from has to be neutralized i mean it happened once before it wasn't as bad last time You know, he had a phone call with Erdogan. He was like, oh, we'll just let them fight ISIS. And, you know, the generals talked to him. The thing you have to bear…
…says it doesn't mean it's true. Seems to be the attitude. And one reason why this seems to be happening is, as I say, Erdogan keeps pointing out like, you know, I've got all these refugees that you really don't want in Europe. And he's gotten to the…
…what to put in them. And then they have to make up the bullshit jobs. Modi's doing this kind of thing all over India. Erdogan is doing this kind of thing all over Turkey. I mean, the Shah. The Shard locally, right, in London, the sort of vacancy rates…
…Is there any route to getting it? And what would it be? It's just, you know, they've got to be just as patient as Erdogan. The reason Erdogan got to a point where he's not poised to invade is he was utterly single-minded. He knew what he wanted and…
…route to getting it? And what would it be? It's just, you know, they've got to be just as patient as Erdogan. The reason Erdogan got to a point where he's not poised to invade is he was utterly single-minded. He knew what he wanted and he just kept…
…risk corridors, and the Affordable Care Act premiums are set to skyrocket. Meanwhile, in Turkey, under a never-ending state of emergency, Erdogan fires 18,000 people. And lastly, Jim Jordan, a victim of a Democrat time travel plot as the seventh Ohio State…
…is like just totally unprovoked aggression on civilians with people who said they were going to commit war crimes. I mean Erdogan like announced in advance, oh, this place isn't really Kurdish. This place is 95 percent Kurdish, right? It's really just 40…
…them, but they're definitely ethnically cleansing them. They're committing crimes like crazy, driving people from their homes. And because Erdogan said, and he did announce this, Erdogan being president of Turkey, he said, you know, after we drive these…
…cleansing them. They're committing crimes like crazy, driving people from their homes. And because Erdogan said, and he did announce this, Erdogan being president of Turkey, he said, you know, after we drive these guys out, we're going to take the refugees…
…democratic and federalist structures there and built barricades and moats around the cities and Turkey rather assumed they assumed basically after Erdogan had sort of played the long story Erdogan when he came in tried to actually engage in peace talks with…
…barricades and moats around the cities and Turkey rather assumed they assumed basically after Erdogan had sort of played the long story Erdogan when he came in tried to actually engage in peace talks with the PKK. And the PKK, at that point, was…
…grab hoping for advantageous negotiations so we can finally get the autonomy we've been fighting for all these years. And sure enough, Erdogan said, no, actually, I'm gonna just blow up my own cities. So large parts of Kurdish towns and cities were just…
…Kurdish population. It's now below 50. And he said he was going to do this. At the beginning of the attack on Afrin, Erdogan declared, well, Afrin isn't really a Kurdish place. It's really a Turkmen and Arab place where some Kurds came later and took…
…PKK gave up their demands for a separate state, when they tried to do a Zapatista strategy and enter into negotiations, suddenly Erdogan went on this huge campaign to get them designated as terrorists. which they had not been before. When there was an…
…on Twitter that the US would no longer provide military cover for the Syrian Kurds, and the White House has confirmed with Erdogan that Turkey could, and this is in the words of the state, the White House press officers, move forward with its long-planned…
…actually want to secede from Turkey, it's that they want to have a bigger, say, democratized Turkey, and that's a threat to Erdogan. Yes, and it's also a political threat. I mean, Erdogan is essentially a fascist. He's a right-wing populist, if you want…
…to have a bigger, say, democratized Turkey, and that's a threat to Erdogan. Yes, and it's also a political threat. I mean, Erdogan is essentially a fascist. He's a right-wing populist, if you want to use that kind of language, tied with... various Islamist…
…was essentially created so as to ensure that Kurdish-based parties could never be in parliament. And it was at that point that Erdogan broke his ceasefire with the PKK and started the war again, when it became a credible left-wing threat in the country…
…suppose. Why have the United States withdrawn their support now? And what will the consequences be? Well, I think that essentially Erdogan was pushing and pushing and pushing. And he knew that America is fairly inconstant. Eventually, you know, Trump has a…
…commit war crimes. I mean, this is not just we think that they will do so. Like before the invasion of Afrin, Erdogan said, we will return Afrin to its rightful owners. This place was 98% Kurdish, right? And they cleaned out 160,000 people immediately.…
…who were like just a year or two ago, like ISIS guys, are now basically working for NATO to suppress a feminist revolution. As Erdogan continually says, well, go do what I like. Bombs are going to be going off in Europe. It's safe to walk the street.…
…do advocacy on this issue. And I really, just to add to what David said, I think that what is going on with Erdogan and his incredibly hostile efforts towards Rojava should really concern all of us, not just for the sake of preserving Rojava, which is…
…of remaining within Syria. So, I don't know what was going on with those negotiations. What seems to have happened was that Erdogan was demanding some sort of zone, called it a safe zone, which is about as hypocritical a term as you could possibly…
…has to be neutralized. I mean, it happened once before. It wasn't as bad last time. You know, he had a phone call with Erdogan. He was like, oh, we'll just let them fight ISIS. And, you know, the generals talked to him. The thing you have to bear…
…says it doesn't mean it's true. Seems to be the attitude. And one reason why this seems to be happening is, as I say, Erdogan keeps pointing out, like, you know, I've got all these refugees that you really don't want in Europe. And he's gotten to the…
…what to put in them. And then they have to make up the bullshit jobs. Modi's doing this kind of thing all over India. Erdogan is doing this kind of thing all over Turkey. I mean, the Shah. the shard locally right in london the sort of vacancy rates…
…Is there any route... to getting it? And what would it be? It's just, you know, they've got to be just as patient as Erdogan. The reason Erdogan got to a point where he's not poised to invade is he was utterly single-minded. He knew what he wanted and…
…route... to getting it? And what would it be? It's just, you know, they've got to be just as patient as Erdogan. The reason Erdogan got to a point where he's not poised to invade is he was utterly single-minded. He knew what he wanted and he just kept…