Freedom on the March

For ineluctable historical reasons (colonial legacies, postcolonial tyrannies, neoliberal immiserations, etc.) Syria is having the bloodiest revolution of the Arab Spring. The people of Syria are paying a terrible price for their freedom, but this is also the reason that their revolution has produced some of the most amazing citizen journalism, independent media, and innovative forms of democratic mobilization in the entire Middle Eastern region. Case in point: Malek Jandali's proposed post-revolutionary anthem. Such a strange paradox, that we human beings are sometimes at our best precisely when we're at our worst.