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Shon Meckfessel

Shon Meckfessel

Shon Meckfessel is an English professor at Highline College and the author of “Suffled How It Gush” (2009) and “Nonviolence Ain’t What It Used To Be: Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance” (2016).

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Why the US Far Right Loves Bashar al-Assad

Why the US Far Right Loves Bashar al-Assad

Some on the far right envisage Assad as a secular leader fighting Islamic extremists. Assad’s own racial and religious affiliations matter less than his willingness to use racialized dehumanization as a justification for murder; this willingness qualifies him as effectively white in the eyes of his Western fascist followers.

Leila Al-Shami,
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