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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...

IMMIGRANT CHILDREN TORTURED IN AMERICAN FACILITIES -NYTIMES ICE Minion Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter REPORT: Major Violations Of Freedom Of Expression And Activist Protest By Trudeau At G7 Quebec Summit Globalisation Is Unravelling: Preparing For A New Economic Order CORBYN: I Will Root Antisemites Out Of Labour – They Do Not Speak For Me Corbyn’s Capitulation: Lessons For The Left From UK Labour’s “Anti-Semitism Crisis" Standing With Corbyn And Weathering The Storm Of Lies And Slander RussiaGate Think Tank Funded By Neoliberals Claims #WeAreCorbyn Boosted By Bots EXPOSED: Influential Tory Peer Has Board Membership On Islamophobic, Anti-Refugee Think Tank Run By John Bolton Chomsky: US Trump-Connected Far-Right Marketing Firm Meddled In 2017 German Election, Helped AfD Owen Jones: The Far Right Is At Its Strongest Since The 1930s, And The Media Is Helping #FreedomFlotilla: Israeli Forces Hijack Second Civilian...

ICE Still Holds Thousands Of Children In Their Captivity As Family Reunification Deadline Passes ICE Coerced Dozens Of Immigrant Parents To Give Up Their Kids, ACLU Says ICE Detainee Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Spent 21 Days In Solitary Confinement, Then Took His Own Life UN REPORT: 1,500 Refugees Have Died In Mediterranean in 2018, Italy Deadliest Route Italy: Police Forcibly Clear Huge Roma Camp, Salvini Hails "Law And Order" Ismail Khawari, 26-Year-Old Migrant Elin Ersson Protected, Has Now Been Deported. Germany's New Culture Wars: Artists, Theatres Face Off Against Anti-Refugee AfD As It Threatens To Cut Their Funding, End Reign Of "68ers" The International Movement Of Human Beings And The Racist Backlash The Extreme Right Radicalised The US Public. Now They're Doing The Same To The FBI. PODCAST: Paul Mason On How To Defeat The Rising Fascism In Europe And The US EU-US Soybean Deal Means GMOs Will Be Pouring Into Europe Wi...

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 ...

#Seebruecke: Thousands Took The Streets Across Germany To Protest Against Drownings And Border Closures #Zurich: No Borders! Against The Criminalisation Of Lifeboats And Aid Workers! #Ventimiglia Open City: 10 Thousand Marched Against The Borders After Italy Allows 450 to Dock, EU Members To Share Migrants USA: Just 57 Of 3,000 Separated Children In Cages Reunited With Parents Trump's America Only Nation To Vote Against Migrants Rights Bill In UN Assembly, Passed 192-1 Thousands Protest Through Central London Against The Far-Right And Tommy Robinson Trade Unionist Attacked By White Nationalist Mob At Demo Beating Back The Far-Right: For A Humane And Tolerant Politics- Except Towards Fascists American Fascist Bannon Sparks Outrage With BBC Farage Interview EXPOSED: Robinson Bankrolled By Arch-Racists Daniel Pipes, Gaffneyites Helsinki: Mass Protests Against War, Right-Wing Repression Of Trump And Putin Journalist Wielding "Nuclear Weapon Ban...

#TrumpNotWelcome: 250,000+ People Manifest Against Donald Trump In London In Biggest Weekday Protest In UK History #CarnivalOfResistance: Protestors Fill The Streets En Masse As Baby Balloon Flies Overhead "Take Boris Back With You!" "No To Trump, No To War" - Slogans And Banners Against Trump Protests Biggest In UK Since Bush-Blair Iraq War Britons Incensed Over Trump-Boris Johnson Brexiteer "Coup Plot" "United Against Fear" - Corbyn Addresses Huge Crowd Opposing Trump Visit Owen Jones DESTROYS BBC Interviewer Painting UK As Fans Of Trump Trump Plots "Shock Doctrine" Disaster Capitalist Trade Deal As He Stokes Plans For Hard Brexit Anti-Trade Deal Activists Appear In Chlorinated Chicken Suits Antifascist Blocs Mobilise With Flares, Smoke Against Trump In Brighton EXPOSED: The US-UK Think Tank Network That Pushes Climate Denial, Lobbies #NuclearBan Considered By Trump In Rare Move For Peace Home Office ...