Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu (Mongolia), Floating in the Wind, 2023. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1919, Winston Churchill wrote, ‘I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes’. Churchill, grappling at the time with the Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq as Britain’s secretary of state for war and air, argued that such use of gas ‘would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected’. Gas warfare had first been employed by France…
