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[Link] Monsters, Inc: The Taliban as Empire’s bogeyman

Read: 22/8/2021 www.aljazeera.com

The dominant narrative on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan erases the decades of imperial violence Afghans suffered.

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[Link] Republic of Guria

Read: 18/8/2021 en.wikipedia.org

The Republic of Guria or the Gurian Peasant Republic was an insurrection that took place in the western Georgian province Guria (then part of the Imperial Russia) prior to and during the Russian Revolution of 1905.

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[Link] The faux anti-imperialism of denying anti-Uighur atrocities

Read: 17/5/2021 www.aljazeera.com

Why are some Western ‘anti-imperialists’ determined to whitewash China’s well-documented crimes against the Uighurs?

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