Beginning a Sketch of Accumulation by Dispossession in Contemporary Cambodia

Beginning a Sketch of Accumulation by Dispossession in Contemporary Cambodia

Accumulation by dispossession is on a freight train in Cambodia. Protected from capitalist economic development under the tutelage of Vietnam from 1979 to 1989,... More

Comprehensive Immigration Policy . . . for Whom?

Comprehensive Immigration Policy . . . for Whom?

Last week, I interviewed Adam, an undocumented day laborer from Mexico, who has been in the United States less than ten years and who is now sheltered after liv... More

On Accidental Recoveries and Predictable Disasters: The Haitian Earthquake Three Years Later

On Accidental Recoveries and Predictable Disasters: The Haitian Earthquake Three Years Later

On Saturday, January 12, 2013, I found myself in a traffic standstill on the outbound lanes of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. As the wind and th... More

Night Falls Silent in Damascus

Night Falls Silent in Damascus

It’s 2 a.m. and the night falls silent outside his window. Finally the sounds have stopped. The computer screen shimmers brightly with a stream of Twitter feeds... More