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Rebel Cities 2: Rojava Shows Pathway Towards A Common Humanity
Rojava is a world-leading experiment in democracy emerging from the ashes of the Syrian War, where Kurds have created a new political model based on participatory local councils holding sovereignty.
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Escaping Assad: A Syrian Kurd's Story
“The revolution began as a peaceful civilian movement for all Syrians, Kurds, Arabs, everyone," says Sami. "And I look at where we are now and it is so depressing. The revolution has been stolen.”
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Revolution In Rojava, Part II: Another Middle East Is Possible
Kurdish freedom fighters have shifted from trying to gain their own state to living beyond the state – in a bottom-up democracy of their own making.
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A Failure To Integrate: The Darker Picture of Europe's Refugee Crisis
The European Union has had a long history of conditionally welcoming refugees – Germany and France being prime examples in the 1950s – but an equally long history of failure to integrate them.
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Teargas Fired As Refugees Try To Breach Greek-Macedonian Border
Chaotic scenes have intensified across Greece as the embattled government edged closer to declaring a state of emergency to deal with tens of thousands of migrants and refugees trapped in the country.
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Why Paris Reveals the Horror – and the Hypocrisies – of Global Terrorism
If the objective is to oppose or prevent terrorism, the most logical strategy is not to dismantle civil liberties at home and send militaries and weapons abroad, but to stop participating in terrorism itself.
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Syrian Refugees March and Occupy to Demand Asylum in Switzerland
Syrian refugees impatient with foot-dragging by Swiss authorities to grant them legal status have been braving the autumnal chill in an improvised camp out front of the migration office in Bern.
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How Big Media's Greed Is Strangling Accurate Coverage of Syrian Civil War
For Bashar al-Assad’s atrocities to be fully understood by the world, reporters must be on the ground. But corporate media have decimated newsrooms and foreign bureaus.
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Anti-War Demonstrations in San Francisco Add to Growing National Protest Against Syria War
The Bay Area protests joined other demonstrations Monday in a unified call against war that resonated across the country, from New York and DC to Seattle and LA, as Americans took to the streets to support peace and diplomacy.
