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What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a moun- tain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible direction, and then leap to the next stalk and do the same thing.
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Whole bunch of Guardian pieces
Way over a dozen pieces in The Guardian
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Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin?
Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the Syrian town of Kobane, most armed only with Kalashnikovs, hold off a vast army of Islamist militants with tanks, artillery and overwhelming logistical superiority.
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Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria?
In 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic.