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Trump has been exposed as a billion-dollar fraud — and his rabid base still won’t care

Donald Trump does not exist. He is a character who plays many roles simultaneously. Trump is a vigilante, professional wrestling villain, a TV pitchman and a reality TV star. He’s also a cad, a bully and a wannabe dictator. And yes, he is a billionaire. (Or rather, he plays one on TV.) Because of ...

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Trump humiliated by tax return revelations and panicked they will cripple him in the 2020 election: report

According to CNN, President Donald Trump feels humiliated by the bombshell New York Times story revealing that he lost over a billion dollars in bad business deals between 1985 and 1994 and used the losses to avoid paying income tax for eight years.

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Trump -- and Ivanka -- just got CRUSHED on Twitter

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Trump buried in scorn for ‘simple advice’ to manufacturers to make their products in the US: ‘Tell that to your daughter, idiot’

On Saturday, following a week in which it became clear that President Donald Trump’s tariff threats were not going to produce results with China and U.S. consumers could be slapped with ever-higher prices, the president took to Twitter to give everyone “simple” advice: you can avoid his trade ...

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BUSTED: National Rifle Association caught spending $275,000 at Beverly Hills boutique — on suits for Wayne LaPierre

Turmoil continues at the National Rifle Association (NRA) after the far-right political organization was caught spending $274,695.03 at a high-end fashion boutique on clothing for CEO Wayne LaPierre.

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SYRIA YPJ YPG KURDISH SDF BACKGROUNDERS IDLIB 

SYRIAN KURDS AS AU.S. ALLY
 Cooperation & Complication
CONTENTS 
Acronyms |
 IV 
Preface | Patrick Clawson 
V Making Rojava More like the KRG | David Pollock
 1 U.S. Ties with Turkey and the Syrian Kurds | Soner Cagaptay 12 
The Syrian Opposition and the PYD | Andrew J. Tabler 20
 Arabs in the PYD-Controlled Area | Fabrice Balanche 29 
Iraqi Kurds and Syrian Kurds | Bilal Wahab 39 
Russia, Syrian Kurds, and the Assad Regime | Anna Borshchevskaya 46 
U.S. Policy and the PYD | Patrick Clawson 52
  

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - Institute for the Study of War

Nov 22, 2016 - and PYD are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a ... approximately 25,000 fighters across northern Syria.2 ... The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is the U.S.'s most effective partner fighting .... 2017, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/. PolicyFocus150_Clawson.pdf.

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The Kurdish issue: the Kurds between the historical dream and the ...

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Jun 24, 2017 - ethnic minority, formulating around 2 million people or 8% of Syrian .... considers, ―The Syrian Kurds, the much-praised ally of the US and the ...... ―The reason for Washington'smove to support the Kurdish ..... http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/ ... 2.pdf (Accessed 23/06/17).

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The Road to ar-Raqqah: Background on the Syrian Democratic ... - CSS

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Nov 30, 2016 - www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/ PolicyFocus150_Clawson.pdf. 3 Roy Gutman, “New allies in northern Syria don't seem ...

Competing Interests in Shingal District: Examining the PKK-linked ...

www.academia.edu/.../Competing_Interests_in_Shingal_District_Examining_the_PKK-li...

Middle East Research Institute 1186 Dream City Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq T: +964 .... 2 The PKK-linked Armed Structures in Syria and Shingal District .

Northern Syrian militants action effects on the political order of the ...

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Turkey's actions shaped a new kind of relationship between militants and ... Article 2, Volume 7, Issue 1 - Serial Number 23, Spring 2018, Page 49-86 XML ... Syrian Kurds as a U.S. Ally: Cooperation and Complications, Policy Focus 150, the ... .washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus150_Clawson.pdf.

Syria: Current Developments Favour Assad - AIIA - Australian Institute ...

https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au › Australian Outlook

Feb 20, 2019 - The Kurdish YPG are one of the many factions that will have to be accommodated in ... general locations: the Kurdish-dominated north and northeast, Idlib province ... The presence of US forces ensured the SDF's protection.

Idlib Province and the Future of Instability in Syria | Center for Strategic ...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/idlib-province-and-future-instability-syria

Sep 21, 2018 - While some claim that an end to the conflict in Idlib marks the final stage of the ..... Soldiers from Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's .... (SDF) led by the People's Protection Units (YPG), the Kurdish armed ...

Syria, March 2019 Monthly Forecast : Security Council Report

https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2019-03/syria-5.php

Feb 28, 2019 - Divergences over the fate of Idlib became clear at a 14 February ... Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the Kurdish YPG militia, and the ...

The Battle For Syria's Oil Region | OilPrice.com

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Dec 24, 2018 - Only Idlib and the territories east of the Euphrates river remain out of the ... The Kurdish YPG is the backbone of the SDF and is linked to the 

An Analysis of Jaish al-Thuwar (The Army of Revolutionaries) – A ...

https://hasanmustafas.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/an-analysis-of-jaish-al-thuwar-the-army-of-revolutionaries-a-component-of-the-syrian-democratic-forces/ 

Nov 16, 2015 - The inclusion of YPG-aligned brigades such as the Kurdish Front and the .... When the SDF announced its formation in Idlib and Aleppo ...

Syrians in the US demonstrate against Trump’s declaration on occupied Golan

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Syrians in the US demonstrate against Trump's declaration on occupied Golan

New York, SANA- A number of Syrian expatriates in the US gathered in front of the UN headquarters in New York in condemnation of the US President Donald Trump's proclamation on the occupied Syrian Golan. Participants in the demonstration chanted slogans affirming adherence to the occupied Syrian

The Black Flags of Jihad continue to fly on Facebook even as the company touts its success in removing terrorist content from its platform.
BUT NOT THE BLACK FLAGS OF ANARCHY THEY GET THOSE OFF THE PLATFORM FASTER THAN FOX AND FRIENDS IT MUST BE BECAUSE THEY HAVE STATE IN THEIR NAME GIVES THEM POLITICAL LEGITIMACY 

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Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images

WASHINGTON (AP) — The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of...

In one city, it's a notebook. Another is a WhatsApp list. Still another has giant white boards with numbers.

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AP finds 13,000 asylum seekers on border wait lists

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — For thousands of asylum seekers, there are many ways to wait — and wait, and wait — at the threshold of the United States. Parents and children sleep in tents...