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"Donny Diggins" is the twitter tag of Patrick Higgins who has a long pro-Assad article on the Jacobin website. Fascinating that two such seemingly disparate voices on the left can share such a deep affinity for a dictator that is now suspected of dropping thermobaric bombs on apartment buildings (https://news.vice.com/article/a-new-kind-of-bomb-is-being-used-in-syria-and-its-a-humanitarian-nightmare). Can you think of two people more unalike than Yoshie Furuhashi and Bhaskar Sunkara? I can't. It should be added, of courses, that Bhaskar probably hasn't given too much thought to what is going on in Syria and relies on the input of editorial board member Max Ajl, a "pro-Palestinian activist" like Patrick Higgins who somehow has talked himself into believing that Bashar al-Assad is a friend of the Palestinian struggle despite having tortured 168 Palestinians to death in his dungeons.
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