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September 11, 2012

Assad's Useful Idiots

Jess Hill, The Global Mail

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How prominent commentators from the ‘anti-imperialist’ left have twisted the public discourse on Syria and, in the process, provided intellectual cover for the Assad regime.

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TAGGED: Syria, Bashar al-Assad

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