Reposted by youssef bouchiThe BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 15/05/2025USAID has a complicated history. Its destruction represents an extension of, rather than a break with, decades of US foreign policy. @uselessbouchi.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1) 021
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025just finished reading @leninology.bsky.social’s Disaster Nationalism. if you’re trying to wrap your head around the countless forces and contradictions that make up the not-yet fascism of our times, this book is an essential read. critical, sharp, yet somehow humble and self-reflective. 151
Reposted by youssef bouchiThe Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 25/04/2025“We are on the front line of environmental harm caused by government decisions made without us.” Xatśūll First Nation challenges B.C.’s decision to approve the dam raising at Mount Polley mine, which had a catastrophic dam failure in 2014. New by @sevawood.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/xatsull-firs...thenarwhal.caFirst Nation asks court to halt infamous B.C. mining site expansion | The NarwhalXatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent. 013156
Reposted by youssef bouchiThe BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Issue 1 is HERE! 📖 Our first print issue launches on May 7 - join us for a LIVE podcast & party 🎉 Join @adriennebuller.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social & @quinnslobodian.com to discuss RIGHT TURN — on the afterlives of neoliberalism & climate politics in the age of the new right... 26232
Reposted by youssef bouchiNew International @newintermag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Emre Öngün (@emreongun.bsky.social) writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism. newintermag.com/turkeys-poli...newintermag.comTurkey’s Political Crisis & Democratic MovementSince the stated goal is now an inclusive republic, it becomes necessary to reinvent a past that supports it. 044
Reposted by youssef bouchiNew International @newintermag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Youssef Bouchi writes on the importance of American socialism from his perspective as an Arab immigrant in Canada: "Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this [...] Our task from the outside is to support them." newintermag.com/the-world-ne...newintermag.comThe World Needs American SocialismWhen the American state makes our lives its business, we have to make its life our business. 073
Reposted by youssef bouchililian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Hicham Safieddine and @uselessbouchi.bsky.social are two people I really enjoy listening to - especially when they talk about history, financial colonialism and (non)borders open.spotify.com/episode/0Zdw...open.spotify.comA state without borders; borders without states w/ Hicham Safieddine: zionist border regimes, tools of empire, and McCarthysim on campusgeopolitical ecology · Episode 011
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 15/03/2025happy to have contributed to Beirut Today. here are some reflections from the diaspora. beirut-today.com/2025/03/15/w...beirut-today.comWhere to from here? Reflections of an Arab in the diaspora - Beirut TodayWe live in a world where crisis is here and now for some but elsewhere and not yet for others. Diasporic reality lives somewhere in between, suspended in a state of mourning and a state of survivor’s ... 010
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I interviewed the brilliant scholar Hicham Safieddine. Check out his insights here. open.spotify.com/episode/0Zdw...open.spotify.comA state without borders; borders without states w/ Hicham Safieddine: zionist border regimes, tools of empire, and McCarthysim on campusgeopolitical ecology · Episode 131
Reposted by youssef bouchiAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/03/2025Palestinians in Gaza fear starvation during Ramadan after Israel blocked aid following Hamas’s rejection of extending the first phase of the ceasefire, which expired Saturday. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage:aje.ioFears of ‘famine, chaos’ in Gaza as Israel cuts off all aid during RamadanNetanyahu says new weapons will help ‘finish the job’ as Israel blocks all ‘goods and supplies’ from reaching Gaza. 8384227
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025brilliant discussion: open.spotify.com/episode/7eCF...open.spotify.comEpisode 18: Legacies of Empire w/ Kojo KoramThe Break Down · Episode 010
Reposted by youssef bouchiThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/01/2025‘I watched every video to see my father’s face’: the woman who became the voice of Syria’s missing on why she isn’t giving up hopetheguardian.com‘I watched every video to see my father’s face’: the woman who became the voice of Syria’s missing on why she isn’t giving up hopeAssad’s notorious prisons may have been opened, but Wafa Mustafa and thousands of others feel abandoned in their struggle to find loved ones When insurgents threw open the doors of Aleppo central prison in northern Syria as they overran the city in… 014722
Reposted by youssef bouchiHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 27/01/2025Please sign and share the petition in solidarity with Palestinian journalist, @intifada.bsky.social executive director, and Haymarket author @aliabunimah.bsky.social, who is being held in administrative detention in Zurichchange.orgSign the PetitionRelease Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention 411680
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I just sat down with a brilliant political thinker and activist, Karim Safieddine to discuss recent developments in our region. He’s a PhD student in sociology researching non-sectarian progressive movements in Lebanon after the end of the war in 1990. Here’s the episode:open.spotify.comThe Present Moment in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine w/ Karim Safieddine 120
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025today zionist forces were supposed to have completed their withdrawal from lebanese soil according to the ceasefire agreement. citizens who had been displaced from their homes returned, only to face these occupiers with nothing but their bravery, putting their bodies in front of tanks. 111
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025what musk said in a nutshell: multiculturalism is a cancer you should embark on a mass deportation plan just like us and forget about that guilt thing your ancestors have passed on to you. superemacy is totally OK. your nation is above all else sieg heil and goobye. am i getting this wrong? 000
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025one tiny example of the long-lasting impacts of genocide/urbicide. in a year and a half they destroyed capacities to sustain generations into the future. 110
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025israel plans on keeping it forces in the south of Lebanon beyond 60 day ‘deadline’ after already violating the ceasefire 630+ times. this move adds pressure on the new lebanese president and PM in how they ‘deal’ with hezb & the broader issue of an abandoned shi’ite community across the country. 110
Reposted by youssef bouchiShiri Pasternak @shirip.bsky.social · 24/01/2025As they wait for Nazism to pass, “they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices..." 111
Reposted by youssef bouchiThe Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 24/01/2025“As a fragile ceasefire takes hold in Gaza, the Israeli military now turns its attention to Jenin, whose residents have been targeted with lethal force again and again," says accountability director of Defense for Children International-Palestine electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-b...electronicintifada.netIsrael's genocidal war orphaned 40,000 childrenIsraeli forces besiege Jenin, settlers attack Palestinians across occupied West Bank. 28044
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025This series is sooo good! Policing the Crisis is trump saying ‘law and order’ and deploying troops to the border to orchestrate a mass deportation of ‘criminal aliens’. it’s when he refers to his victory as ‘revolution of common sense’ and creates all sorts of panics in the US and across the world. 071
youssef bouchi @uselessbouchi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025not Gramsci crawling out of his grave to write Cemetery Notebooks after hearing Trump say ‘revolution of common sense’ 🫠 000
Reposted by youssef bouchililian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025check out the latest episode of my dear comrade's @uselessbouchi.bsky.social podcast series 'geopolitical ecology'. It's about multifaceted anti-establishment movements in lebanon, palestine and syria w/ Karim Safieddine open.spotify.com/episode/0F22...open.spotify.comAnti-Establishment Positions in Lebanon and Beyond w/ Karim Safieddinegeopolitical ecology · Episode 021