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

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.

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.