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How a small group of geeks led the Syrian refugee surge
In September 2015, President Obama raised the ceiling of refugees, many of them Syrian, who would be welcomed to the United States in the coming year from 70,000 to 85,000. While a wonderful...
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VIDEO: Tension mounts as French forces try to halt progress of suicide truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CNWbqmhDw&feature=youtu.be We interrupt your growing anxiety at America's emergent cyberpunk dystopia for a tense missive from the Syrian War. In this video, an...
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How governments and cyber-militias attack civil society groups, and what they...
The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's leading research centers for cybersecurity analysis, and they are the first port of call for many civil society groups when...
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Want to help Syria war victims in Aleppo? These NGOs and charities need your...
As the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo continues to grow, many people are looking for ways to help. (more…)
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'Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC,' says Obama in final 2016...
U.S. President Barack Obama met with reporters today for the final press conference of 2016, before the new administration is due to take over. Live tweets below. (more…)
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Pentagon may propose that Trump send U.S. ground troops to Syria
The Defense Department is expected to propose that the United States send ground combat forces into northern Syria for the first time, expand the assault on ISIS, CNN's Barbara Starr reports. (more…)
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City of Paris deploys "anti-refugee boulders" to prevent camping while...
The city of Paris has installed "anti-refugee boulders" beneath a highway overpass in Porte de La Chapelle in a bid to stop Syrian refugees from sleeping in the flyover's shelter while they wait for...
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Anarchist bitcoin hacker flies to Syria to join a 4-million person anarchist...
Amir Taaki is a well-known anarchist bitcoin hacker whose project, Dark Wallet, is meant to create strong anonymity for cryptocurrency transactions; when he discovered that anarchists around the world...
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Syria just gassed its own people. Trump blames Obama's 'weakness and...
How does the President of the United States respond to news that the Syrian government of Bashar-el-Assad has just gassed its own people, leaving untold scores of innocent people dead? That's right....
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Trump orders missile strikes on Syria. Russia calls it 'aggression,'...
You knew it was coming. Trump's first war. It ended up being Syria. (more…)
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Dan Rather: The number of press praising Trump's Syria air strikes “as...
Veteran American journalist Dan Rather says he is “concerned” by how many in the U.S. press are praising Donald Trump's whimsical missile assault last night on Syria as “presidential.” Dan Rather is...
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A primer on the war in Syria
Though, of course, an international conflict is too complex to fully explain in just a seven-minute video, this one from Vox at least serves as a starting point to learn more about the war in Syria....
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Sassy Trump Remembers Cake He Ate While Bombing Iraq Or Syria or Something
God Bless America, God Bless Sassy Trump, and God Bless Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)
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Leaked transcript: US soldier and security advisor aghast at Trump's reckless...
In April, Donald Trump ordered a massive strike against Syria to retaliate for an alleged chemical weapons attack against civilians, despite widely circulated US intelligence that said that no...
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RIP, Bassel Khartabil, Syrian free culture activist executed by the Assad regime
Syrian Creative Commons lead Bassel Khartabil disappeared in 2012, snatched off the Damascus streets by Syrian authorities; in 2015, he was secretly executed by the Assad regime, a fact that has only...
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The brilliant life and brutal death of Bassel Khartabil, killed by Assad for...
Bassel Khartabil was a Syrian free software, free speech and Creative Commons activist who was jailed and tortured by the Assad regime, which eventually secretly sentenced him to death, then executed...
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American fighting ISIS returns home to have gunshot wound patched up in Chicago
We don't hear as much about ISIS as we used to, but the fight against their particular brand on evil is still being waged. In Syria, for example, a Kurdish militia group called YPG is still waging war...
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The fashion boutiques that line the "Champs-Élysées" of a massive Syrian...
Sara Elizabeth Williams' long, beautifully written profile of the merchants who established illegal storefronts on the Champs-Élysées, a stretch of road in Jordan's Za’atari refugee camp -- home to...
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RIP Anna Campbell, a British woman who joined an all-woman Kurdish Protection...
Anna Campbell, from Lewes, England, has died fighting in the Kurdish Women's Protection Units ("YPJ") in Syria; she was likely killed by a Turkish airstrike. She was 26. (more…)
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Meshing, rugged, free/open wifi routers for refugee camps
Meshpoint is a Croatian open source hardware company that turns out rugged, meshing, battery-powered wifi hotspots that get their backhaul from cellular networks; they're based on the widely used Open...
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US AIR STRIKES HIT DAMASCUS - Trump announces Syria air strikes in response...
President Donald Trump appeared on television tonight to announce that the United States military is now striking 'chemical weapons sites' in Syria by air, with coordination from the military forces of...
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For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for...
It's not uncommon for legal opinions from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to be classified; whenever the President wants to do something nefarious -- like authorizing the CIA's...
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Bombing makes great propaganda, but not for the side that's doing the bombing
Josh Quiggin argues persuasively that the easiest way to seem "presidential" is to drop bombs on someone else, and reminds us that Americans only recognize bombing people as "cowardly and evil" when...
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United Nations: ISIS is regrouping
It’s been a while since we’ve heard a lot about the so-called Islamic State. Since the "defeat" of ISIS in Iraq and the majority of Syria, much of the focus in the war-torn regions of the Middle East...
View Article'Donald's Right.' Putin praises Trump Syria withdrawal tweet as 'the right...
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria, calling it “the right decision.” Nice to know the boss approves! Putin made the...
View ArticleAmerican tourist released from Syria
An American tourist has been released from Syria, report multiple news outlets on Friday. Negotiators from Lebanon brokered the deal, led by Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim. The detained...
View ArticleTurkey attacks Syria, UN Security Council to meet in northern Syria on Thursday
Trump gave Erdogan green light, Putin nods in approval from Moscow. Turkey has launched an attack against US-allied Kurds in Northern Syria, after Donald Trump expressed his support for the military...
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A True Story, the 2nd century space opera you'll likely never read
Over the years, I've certainly heard of the 2nd century work, A True History, by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. But I've never heard a Cliff Notes-like summation of what this novella, considered by...
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U.S. seizes $300 million superyacht owned by "Russian Warren Buffett"
Don't be sad for sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov that the U.S. is seizing his $300 million superyacht. He is worth over $10.7 billion, so he could afford to buy 30 more and still have...
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Hamas terrorists used synthetic amphetamine to "suppress fear and anxiety"...
Semafor reports that some of the Hamas terrorists who attacked southern Israel last month had taken a synthetic amphetamine drug called fenethylline (brand named Captagon), "which U.S. and Israeli...
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