Friday Interesting Links

• Op-ed on radical left politics in the West in 2015, via Vice News

• Reflections from Latin America on recent electoral defeats of “progressive hegemony”, via Viewpoint Magazine

• In-depth piece from Washington Post Donald Trump and a resurgent/resurrected white supremacist movement

• Seymour Hersh on coordination between elements within the US military and the Assad regime; and a rebuttal from Vox

•  Older piece from this summer from Der Spiegel on the secular/Ba’athist core of ISIS

• Interesting analysis of ISIS as a state, and as their state-building strategy compares with various separatist and revolutionary movements

• It’s practically impossible to define “GMOs”

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