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Syria After Assad

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Dissent Magazine
Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses.

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'Syria: Only Now Can We Speak Out'

Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.

Tulsi Gabbard, Bashar al-Assad and Me

Michael Isikoff SpyTalk
Trump’s DNI pick and I were both in Damascus in the winter of 2017 to meet with the dictator of Syria. We came away with very different takes

11 Years of War in Syria

Farrah Hassen Common Dreams
What started as an anti-authoritarian uprising became a brutal international proxy war. However many years pass, the solution remains the same.

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Supporting Dictators is NOT Anti-Imperialism

Meredith Tax Roar Magazine
Fed -up with the imperial adventures of their own western capitalist governments, some radicals wrongly side with foreign dictators in the name of anti-imperialism. The book under review aims to move beyond a disabling “the West and the rest” binary.
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