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Curious Case of Left’s Dark Money and the Metamorphosis of Iran’s Crisis

Let the Iranians decide the fate of their country. It is not the role of the American Right or American Left to intervene, justify or exaggerate what is happening in Iran. While we remain deeply complicit in a genocide that still shows no signs of subsiding, it is hypocritical to put spotlight on Iran with insincere agendas to justify yet another imperialistic aggression.

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Communism, History, Media, Political, Publication, Commentary, Saswat Saswat Pattanayak Communism, History, Media, Political, Publication, Commentary, Saswat Saswat Pattanayak

A Closer Look At “The Enemy of the People”

"With so much recent mainstream press evocation of Joseph Stalin and claims of “enemy of the people” comparisons to Donald Trump we thought it timely to share some recent thoughts on the subject from journalist, professor and writer Saswat Pattanayak. As an additional side note, and given what Pattanayak exposes about the nature and history of the association of a phrase, rather than with Stalin some of us would be more familiar with the play by Henrik Ibsen and further note that this is also where the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke got the inspiration for the spelling of his own middle name." (Dr. Jared Ball, iMixWhatILike)

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