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Two days ago, a list of individuals who, in many cases have absolutely no other alleged connections to each other, was produced by an activist and student named Kester Ratcliff . The "International Assadists Reference Dictionary," comprised of 151 separate figures, is based on absurd premises and lumps together individuals across the left-wing political spectrum - from social democrats to anarchists to communists to ecologists - with alt-right trolls like Mike Cernovich and UKIP's Paul Joseph Watson. While it has become increasingly common to identify a small sector of (largely American) leftists such as Caitlyn Johnstone as in cahoots with the far right on some issues, this list goes above and beyond that, identifying nearly all prominent figures who could reasonably be described as "left-wing," including Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, Slavoj Zizek, Jill Stein, Vijay Prashad, Tariq Ali, Leila Khaled and countless others as Assadists before everything else...

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Activist outrage has exploded following the decision of Facebook, run by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, to remove pages and events related to the "No Unite the Right 2- DC," on the grounds that a page related to the protests may have been created by adversarial and inauthentic "bad actors," a term increasingly used to designate anyone online who promotes ideas outside the political consensus in the US and Europe. No real explanation is given at all for the removal of the pages, other than fear-mongering statements that a dastardly plot was supposedly unleashed to get people to attend a protest against white supremacists and alt-right frontmen who have been known to attack and even kill anti-racists like Heather Heyer. Promises to "release more data later," were foreshadowed by assessments that those involved in making them used VPNs and other tools, making them "more sophisticated" than previous alleged efforts by Russia to sw...

Europe Places Monetary Value On Africans As Plan To Pay Member States 6000 Euros Per Refugee Gains Traction Report Shows Growing Threats To Eco Activists And Land Defenders Globally By State And Corporate Goons Reflecting On The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, Ten Years Later Greek Wildfires Kill 74+ People Amid Climate Crisis As Migrants, Anarchists Help Rescue Efforts Also, The Arctic Circle Is Currently On Fire. (Voracious Consumption) x (Rising Population) = Planetary Crisis As Wildfires Rage and Heat Records Broken Worldwide, Corporate Media Urged to Cover Human Responsibility For Extreme Weather #AffaireBenalla: Macron Admits Role As 80% Of Public Expresses Outrage, No-Confidence Motion Tabled In Crisis Macron's Monarchal Worldview Means He Sees Any Protestors As Unruly Subjects Melenchon Defends CRS Riot Police Even As Students And Unionists Slam Violence Alexandre Benalla: Henchman At Centre Of French Watergate Tony Blair Institute Working ...

(Translated from Barrikade to highlight activism for refugees' rights and conditions facing migrants in Europe https://barrikade.info/Aktionsruckblick-Aktionen-gegen-Grenzen-fur-pol-Gefangene-und-Gedenken-an-Suruc-1286) On Wednesday night, we placed signs in various public baths and along the Aare, which forbid mooring with boats as well as the rescue of drowning people. In this way we want to draw attention to the inhumane and murderous policies on the European external borders Nationalist politics once again shows its murderous face! Europe's right-wing governments are tightening their foreclosure policy and causing thousands of people to die at European external borders. The depressing, temporary climax was reached when private rescue ships with fugitives were forbidden to break into a harbor or even set sail. The result was hundreds of dead refugees in June this year. Central to this policy are the new governments of Italy, Austria and Ger...

#JEFTA: Corporate Power Agreement Officially Signed By Japan, EU Over Wills Of Citizens, Will Go To Member States For Ratification From JEFTA To NATO, Rejecting Both The "Liberal Order" And Far-Right Conspiracies On "Globalism" WTO's Survival At Risk As Trade War Looms: Reports Helsinki Summit: 31 Left-Wing Protestors Against Repression Arrested, Beaten By Finnish Cops US Journalist Arrested Attempting To Ask Trump, Putin Questions On Nuclear Weapons Ban Intense Political Climate In US As Pro-War Democrats, Republicans Back Hearings, Claim "Treason" An Analysis Of The Summit Between US And Russia - Hysteria On All Sides BREXIT: FOUR LABOUR MPS DEFY WHIP, SAVE MAY FROM GENERAL ELECTION AS THRY BACK HARD LINE BREXIT Owen Jones: John Mann, Frank Field, Kate Hoey & Graham Stringer Must Be Kicked Out Of Party #London: A Quick Visit To The Home Office In Solidarity With Migrants Dijon: Large Refugee Squat Evicted By CRS (PHO...

Today, officials from the European Union plan to sign off on a major trade and investment agreement with Japan, known colloquially as JEFTA. The deal, which is multiple years in the making, has drawn intense concern from environmental and labour campaigners due to its lack of provisions on whaling (amazingly still a problem in 2018), weak commitment to sustainable development, and inclusion of rules that could facilitate the privatisation of public services, including water, in Germany and other EU states. In addition, the deal refuses to recognise the precautionary principle and includes restrictions on the right of states to regulate multinational corporations.  JEFTA, written behind closed doors by lobby shops, is only visible to campaigners because it was leaked to Greenpeace. Yet, bar a freak accident, it will be signed off tomorrow without a public referendum in any country.  The agreement, like its sister deal CETA and the WTO, should be reminders of the dark ...

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A process of ongoing high-level cooperation between European governments following the G20 in Hamburg this time last year has led to the creation of a "black bloc task force," as well as what appears to be a Europe-wide digital database of so-called "left wing extremists" based on a dubious and toxic ideological framework, according to a series of articles, activist commentary, and government documents. Over the past few months, a huge number of activists from Switzerland, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Belgium, Austria, France and Germany have been arrested by police in conjunction with the G20 protests. The raids in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland were conducted by a "black bloc task force," according to DW. The black bloc task force, DW says, has been "combing through terabytes of police footage, CCTV recordings, and private videos with the help of facial recognition software and geolocation data." It has been disclosed al...