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Act Out! [160] - Illegal Recycling, The Framing of Iran & The Woman at Starbucks You Didn’t Hear About
Water wars in the West are heating up – and did you know you could go to jail for more than a year for recycling? Next, Iran is on our shit list now more than ever, but why? And who actually deserves that prime spot?
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Escaping Assad: A Syrian Kurd's Story
“The revolution began as a peaceful civilian movement for all Syrians, Kurds, Arabs, everyone," says Sami. "And I look at where we are now and it is so depressing. The revolution has been stolen.”
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Act Out! [118] - Syria: Let the Kurdish Women Lead the Way + Team Internet & Israeli Arms
Given the ongoing wars, the refugee crisis and multiple players for profit such as the U.S., you might not think that in northern Syria, in what's known as the Rojava region, there is a revolution happening.
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20 Million Muslims March Against ISIS and The Mainstream Media Completely Ignores It
In one of the largest organized marches in the history of the world, tens of millions of Shia Muslims made an incredibly heartening statement, by risking their lives to travel through war-stricken areas to openly defy ISIS.
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Trump’s Refugee Ban is Causing Chaos And Confusion at Airports Around The World
"The rules keep changing by the minute. We’re not sure what’s going on.”
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Revolution In Rojava, Part II: Another Middle East Is Possible
Kurdish freedom fighters have shifted from trying to gain their own state to living beyond the state – in a bottom-up democracy of their own making.
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Revolution in Rojava: An Antidote to the Crises of Capitalism
The story of Rojava, the autonomous, predominantly Kurdish non-state that has arisen out of the ashes of northern Syria, defiantly shows that another world is not only possible, but that it is happening.
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Turkey At A Crossroads—From the July Coup to ISIS, A Country In Turmoil
If Erdogan manages to re-establish stability, he will have ensured the rise of a new brand of aggressive radical Islam – one fueled by the edicts of Wahabi dogma that promotes absolute theocratic control.
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Acronym TV 2015 Year in Review: War, Protest and Politics
A look back on some of the biggest stories of the year – from what to do about the threat of ISIS, to the unlikely rise of a socialist Senator from Vermont.
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Acronym TV [49] - #Cop21 – A Hail Mary for Humanity + 5 Things We Can Do About ISIS
2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Swanson joins host Dennis Trainor, Jr. to discuss five things we can do about ISIS. And we look at the COP21 climate talks currently underway in Paris.
