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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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#AffaireBenalla: Macron Roiled In Huge Political Crisis As Private Thug - CRS Links Hinted Government Covers For Macron And CRS Violence As Scandal Foments The Unholy Alliance Between The Liberal President And The Vichy-Derived CRS ICE Has Conducted Hundreds Of Raids In New York Since Trump Came To Power. Here’s What Those Operations Look Like. Feminists Must Fight Against ICE Racist Rape Culture And Fascism Migrant Kids In Detention Centres Are Being Drugged, Told Not To Hug, Forced To Bathe In Sinks Just 34 Democrats Vote Against House Resolution Hailing ICE Thugs Massive Viral Hate Against Immigrant Children In US By Far Right, Even Far From Border Trump May Now Begin Deporting People Already Granted US Citizenship Given What The US Has Done To The World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In Switzerland: Refugees' Rights Activists Place Signs Highlighting Brutality Of Euro Capitalist Policy Deaths At Sea Expose Flaws Of Italy-Libya Migration Pact Confin...

#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...

#HambacherForst: Eco Squat In Germany Attacked By Police & RWE Mining Corp With Chainsaws, Evictions Attempted Corporations, Cops Spreading Fake News - Click Here For Latest Updates #NoLine3 Direct Action In Front Of Public Utilities Commission Call For International Day Of Action Against Fracking And Pipelines - October 13, 2018 New Report Show Trans-Mountain Pipeline Will Destroy Pacific Marine Life, Regional Well-Being Canadian Oil Oligarchs Ask Trump To Crack Down On Anti-Pipeline Greens Major Climate Lawsuit Against Fossil Fools Tossed Out By Judge Under Courts' "Rule Of Law" #NoG20: New Wave Of Police Raids Sweep Germany As Activists Captured And Caged Germany Moves To Label Protests As "Criminal Associations" Following G20 Arrests Spain: Actions Against Banks For #NoG20 Repression Violence #G7 Communiques Against Technological Capitalism Released Trump Fearmongers Against Protestors, Anarchists, Waving Reactionary Banne...

The International Offensive Against Refugees Is An Attack On All Working People Greek Refugees Subjected To Rape And Other Forms Of Sexual Violence In Camps - Reports Spain: Roma Protest Planned On 26th In Solidarity Against Salvini's Fascist Legislation Italy's War On Migrants Sparks Fear For Country's Future Among Leftists Polls Show Neo-Nazi Sweden Democrats In The Lead With 29 Percent, First Party To Top Social Democrats In Over 100 Years Actions By Rubicon Activist Group In Greece Following Murder Of Worker Berlin, Germany: Actions Against Telekom, Deutsche Bahn, And Vodafone France: Bure Forest Struggle – House Searches, Arrests And Custodies Social Media Giants Choking Independent News Site Traffic to a Trickle Fracking PR Firms Regroup Gaslighting Efforts After Stinging Activist Defeat Artist Sued For Spoof Ads Targeting Shell Oil The Post-Growth Challenge: Secular Stagnation, Inequality, And The Limits To Growth The New Gentrification: Build...

The Dilemma Of The Russian Left: An Analysis Of The Players And The Problems For The Freedom Of The Caged Russian Leftists! Against The Terror Network Lie! Richard Pipes, Prosecutor of the Russian Revolution Italy Prepares Spanish Migrant Convoy, Clashes With France Emmanuel Macron Refuses Safe Harbour For Refugees... Plight Of Refugees A Flashback To Nazi-Era "Voyage Of The Damned"..... Latest Updates From 'Aquarius' Migrant Boat Seven Deaths Caused By UK Border So Far In 2018 - Reports Activist Graffiti Against Swedish Corporate Lobby Group (VIDEO) Has Spain's New Socialist PSOE Government Already Capitulated? Slavoj Žižek: EU Must Create A New World Order To Stop Donald Trump PFLP: Rallies in Ramallah: End The Palestinian Authority Sanctions On Gaza Major Protest In Ramallah Against Capitulation Of Palestinian Authority Knesset Foils Efforts to End Israeli Apartheid Why Antifascism And BDS Go Hand-in-Hand: Merger Of Zionism...