youssef bouchi
@uselessbouchi.bsky.social
Geography PhD student @ UBC
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USAID 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)
@uselessbouchi.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)
May 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
USAID 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)
@uselessbouchi.bsky.social writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)
just 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.
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.
May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
just 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.
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.
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“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...
First Nation asks court to halt infamous B.C. mining site expansion | The Narwhal
Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.
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April 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“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...
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Issue 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...
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...
April 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Issue 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...
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...
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Emre 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.
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newintermag.com/turkeys-poli...
Turkey’s Political Crisis & Democratic Movement
Since the stated goal is now an inclusive republic, it becomes necessary to reinvent a past that supports it.
newintermag.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Emre 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.com/turkeys-poli...
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Youssef 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."
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"Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this [...] Our task from the outside is to support them."
newintermag.com/the-world-ne...
The World Needs American Socialism
When the American state makes our lives its business, we have to make its life our business.
newintermag.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Youssef 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...
"Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this [...] Our task from the outside is to support them."
newintermag.com/the-world-ne...
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Hicham Safieddine and @uselessbouchi.bsky.social are two people I really enjoy listening to - especially when they talk about history, financial colonialism and (non)borders
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A state without borders; borders without states w/ Hicham Safieddine: zionist border regimes, tools of empire, and McCarthysim on campus
geopolitical ecology · Episode
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March 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hicham 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.com/episode/0Zdw...
happy to have contributed to Beirut Today. here are some reflections from the diaspora.
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Where to from here? Reflections of an Arab in the diaspora - Beirut Today
We 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 ...
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March 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
happy to have contributed to Beirut Today. here are some reflections from the diaspora.
beirut-today.com/2025/03/15/w...
beirut-today.com/2025/03/15/w...
I interviewed the brilliant scholar Hicham Safieddine. Check out his insights here.
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A state without borders; borders without states w/ Hicham Safieddine: zionist border regimes, tools of empire, and McCarthysim on campus
geopolitical ecology · Episode
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March 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I interviewed the brilliant scholar Hicham Safieddine. Check out his insights here.
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zdw...
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zdw...
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Palestinians 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.
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Fears of ‘famine, chaos’ in Gaza as Israel cuts off all aid during Ramadan
Netanyahu says new weapons will help ‘finish the job’ as Israel blocks all ‘goods and supplies’ from reaching Gaza.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Palestinians 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.
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Episode 18: Legacies of Empire w/ Kojo Koram
The Break Down · Episode
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January 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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‘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 hope
‘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 hope
Assad’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…
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
‘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 hope
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Please 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 Zurich
Sign the Petition
Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention
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January 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Please 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 Zurich
I 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:
The Present Moment in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine w/ Karim Safieddine
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January 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I 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:
today 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.
January 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
today 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.
he’s been reading samir amin
January 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
he’s been reading samir amin
what 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?
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?
Musk speaking to the far right German party, the AfD, today. Best picture angle, ever! 😂
January 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
what 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?
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?
one 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.
“Winter and displacement have taken a heavy toll.”
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says at least seven children died of cold in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, amid a drop in temperatures and heavy rains.
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says at least seven children died of cold in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, amid a drop in temperatures and heavy rains.
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January 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
one 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.
israel 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.
January 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
israel 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.
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As 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..."
January 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
As 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..."
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“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...
Israel's genocidal war orphaned 40,000 children
Israeli forces besiege Jenin, settlers attack Palestinians across occupied West Bank.
electronicintifada.net
January 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“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...
This 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.
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.
New Dig: it's Michael Denning on Stuart Hall and co's Policing the Crisis. Marxist conjunctural analysis of generalized crisis that paved way for neoliberalism's rise; a model for asking questions about our world that provide us w/ knowledge we need to change it. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/poli...
Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the U...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This 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.
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.
not Gramsci crawling out of his grave to write Cemetery Notebooks after hearing Trump say ‘revolution of common sense’ 🫠
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
not Gramsci crawling out of his grave to write Cemetery Notebooks after hearing Trump say ‘revolution of common sense’ 🫠
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check 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
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Anti-Establishment Positions in Lebanon and Beyond w/ Karim Safieddine
geopolitical ecology · Episode
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January 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
check 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.com/episode/0F22...