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Meredith Tax has been a writer and feminist organizer since the late 1960s. Her book about the Kurds, A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, was published in 2016.
Through the corporate media's electronic collage of murders, sex scandals, celebrity sightings and Pentagon-generated fantasy can be heard a constant buzz--"war, terror, security"--but who know
"A war was about to start. Knots of wide-eyed people gathered in courtyards, in open fields, on street corners....
In the past ten years, nationalist, communalist and religious fundamentalist social movements have surfaced all over the world, moving into the power vacuum created as local elites have been over