The Intercept, “Will Aaron Bushnell’s Death Trigger Anarchism Witch Hunt?”
Sen. Tom Cotton demands the Pentagon root out leftist extremism. By Ken Klippenstein, March 7, 2024 Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington last month has provoked nationwide soul-searching about the war in Gaza. For the U.S. government though, the airman’s death excites a different kind of search: for so-called […]
The U.S. Sun, “Fire & Fury: Inside the ‘Vulkan Group’ anarchist ‘terrorists’ going to war with Elon Musk & Tesla as they spread chaos across Germany
By Aliki Kraterou, March 6 2024 A twisted far-left militant group has been spreading chaos across Germany for over a decade – with its most recent focus being Elon Musk. The extremist Vulkan Group claimed responsibility for the arson attack in Tesla’s gigafactory in Brandenburg which followed other strikes on Tesla cars and charging stations. The Vulkangruppe, or “Volcano […]
Kelly Hayes: Aaron Bushnell Died for Palestine
February 27, 2024 Aaron Bushnell died for Palestine. Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. Sunday afternoon after declaring that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide.” As the flames consumed him, a police officer pointed a gun […]
The Guardian, “US airman who burned himself to death at Israeli embassy had anarchist past”
By Richard Luscombe, Feb 27, 2024 A uniformed airman who burned himself to death in protest over the US’s role in Israel’s military strikes in Gaza was an anarchist who grew up in a strict religious sect with links to a school in Canada that “controlled, intimidated and humiliated” students, it was reported on Tuesday. Aaron Bushnell, […]
Margaret Killjoy: In the Land of Burning Children or: Aaron Bushnell in Context
Feb 26, 2024 Yesterday an active-duty Air Force soldier named Aaron Bushnell self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy. His last words were “Free Palestine.” Of the cops responding to the scene, some pointed guns at him while others sought to extinguish the flames; the image of a cop pointing a gun at a man […]
Public Books, “John Plotz on Earthsea, Anarchism, and Ursula K. Le Guin”
By John Plotz & Elizabeth Ferry, February 21, 2024 John Plotz’s work has always had an eclectic and interdisciplinary slant: his scholarly career started with a book on the crowd in Victorian fiction and another on the aesthetics of virtual experience in Dickens, William Morris, and Buster Keaton, which he describes as semi-detached. More recently, […]
Reuters, “Thai journalists arrested for news coverage of anarchist graffiti on temple”
February 13, 2024 BANGKOK – Two Thai journalists have been arrested for their story about an activist spray painting an anarchist symbol and a symbol critical of “lese majeste” laws on a Bangkok temple wall almost a year ago, the police and their lawyers said on Tuesday. Nattaphol Meksobhon, a reporter from an independent online […]
CrimethInc.: Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza
An Anarchist from Jaffa on the Necessity of Anti-Colonial Strategies for Liberation February 13, 2024 Four months into the assault on Gaza, the Israeli military has forced over a million refugees to the edge of the Egyptian border and is now bombing them while threatening to mount a ground assault against them. In the following text, Jonathan Pollak, […]
CBC, “Northvolt says it faces ‘sabotage’ at site of future Quebec EV battery plant”
Nails, metal bars inserted into trees, company says by Stéphane Blais, January 23, 2024 Swedish manufacturer Northvolt says the site of its future electric vehicle battery plant near Montreal was sabotaged after nails were driven into trees that are set to be cut down. Northvolt spokesperson Emmanuelle Rouillard-Moreau says nails or metal bars were inserted […]
The Orcadian, “From Spanish assassination plot, to Sanday’s anarchist publishing empireThe Orcadian”
By Staff, January 22, 2024 Did you know that Sanday was once home to “Britain’s most famous anarchist,” Stuart Christie? If not, you’re in luck, because The Orcadian has spent months researching the man who was surely one of the most interesting characters to call Orkney home. Moving to Sanday in the mid 1970s with his wife […]