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The World is Burning: Your Guide to the Current Uprisings

Behind the Bastards

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Catalonia Crisis: China Offers Support to Spain's Foreign Ministry

Dictators and authoritarian powers around the world, whatever ideology they claim to hold dear, will always stand together. This is why turkish dictator taip erdoan and president donald trump were able to come to such a chummy arrangement about the future of northeast syria known as rosava. The syrian democratic forces, or s TF, an alliance of militias who protected the left us Revolution in that area, fought alongside us for years. More than 11 thousand of them died in the battle against isis but when push came to shove, the american president felt more affinity for his fellow autocrat than he did for the revolutionaries of rojava so he abandoned them.

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