Robin Yassin-Kassab

@Qunfuz1

author of The Road From Damascus (a novel). Co-author (with Leila al-Shami) of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War.

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    Jun 11

    I still believe Assad will fall, despite Russia, Iran, the Sauds, the PKK, the US, the hard right, the left, and everyone else.

    After 6 weeks, 's regime has recaptured ~1% of NW & lost almost the same. Its underperformance has sparked a punishment air/artillery assault =…
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    It's not just the US either, it's a Russo-American partnership/contest in support of oppressors. The only thing any of them care about is the resources, the people are "collateral damage". Putin's heavily backing Haftar & the new-old regime in Sudan too.

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  3. 17 minutes ago

    Today the Sisi regime, funded by the US, is backing the warlord Haftar in Libya, supporting the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen, sending weapons and fuel to Assad, and encouraging the Sudanese regime to violently crush the Sudanese revolution.

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  4. 30 minutes ago

    in Egypt, a more savage dictatorship than ever before, the silencing of all dissenting voices, liberal and secular as much as Islamist, and a constantly worsening economy. Democracy is difficult. The first winners may well be problematic, but the alternative is always much worse.

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  5. 34 minutes ago

    Rather than build their own democratic alternative, 'liberals' collaborated with the Sisi regime to commit this crime. Trump and the Sauds declared the Muslim Brothers - a party which accepts democratic process - terrorists. The result of all this is vastly increased terrorism...

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  6. 37 minutes ago

    President Morsi was incompetent, the wrong man the for the revolutionary moment. His incompetence played into the hands of Egypt's military regime. But he was Egypt's only democratically elected leader, and his deposition, imprisonment and now murder were terrible crimes...

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    49 minutes ago

    Rory Stewart voted against letting refugee children in to Britain. Stop hailing this man as some new compassionate conservatism. If it was there, would be in his voting record.

    A gentle reminder as makes his pitch for compassionate, sensible Conservatism, that he voted against the Dubs Amendment, which offered safe haven to lone child refugees fleeing war in Syria.
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  8. 47 minutes ago

    If the question is Johnson or Corbyn, my answer is Scottish independence.

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  9. 50 minutes ago

    This is an English nationalist party, not the 'party of business' and the union.

    So committed to Brexit are members of the Conservative and Unionist Party that they would be willing to see Scotland (63%) and Northern Ireland (59%) leave the UK in order to secure it.
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    3 hours ago

    How many Tory members still believe the Scots and Irish would return on their knees to England just as many in Moscow in 1991 thought the Ukrainians and Kazakhs would return crawling on their knees to Russia?

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    Jun 10

    Because housing, land and property will be THE story of Syria's future, I've been researching it in detail for quite a while. Including the enormous scale of property demolitions described in this article. A thread:

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    22 hours ago

    Suwaida factions rebel against Assad regime in shocking response to intelligence services

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    23 hours ago

    Fellow Remainers. It doesn't matter if around 60% oppose . If around 35% unite behind a Johnson led Tory party in a snap election then the Tories will win a clear majority. We face a disaster if Remain parties don't cooperate.

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    Jun 16

    Extraordinary times in Hong Kong - 2 million people on the streets protesting a controversial law and police crackdown on protestors & Yan Zhao covering:

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    Jun 17

    How astonishing that making the case today for the European Union makes him unique among all senior figures and leaders of our two major political parties.

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    Jun 16

    Protecting civilians should be at the heart of any and all policy discussions, not protecting dictatorships. Nobody doing the latter has any business pretending to be neutral or objective on this conflict.

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    Jun 16

    Accepting Assad is not “realism”, it is a political choice, one that is built on the murder of a million Syrians, we will never know the true scale, given that the UN stopped counting at half a million casualties nearly 5 years ago now.

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  18. Jun 16

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    Rosen, Malley, Samaha, Heller pose as journalists or analysts, yet are explicitly lobbying for profoundly pro-Assad policies, yet their work is rarely scrutinised in this way except by Syrians themselves, who are silenced from this debate. …
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    Jun 16

    Both the left and right have seemed to forget that racism is not something that can be triangulated away, but a matter of basic political hygiene. You don't support racists. No matter how much you want to renationalise the railways or leave the EU. Have some fucking principles.

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    Jun 16

    Regime Axis Forces have brought massive reinforcements to North Hama Countryside Fronts from other places in Syria

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    Video: Spring 2011, no armed opposition, no al-Qaeda, Daesh, Jabhat Nusra, Tahrir al-sham or any foreign groups! Only civilians armed with flowers & demands for reforms!!!

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