Is there a reason for Rojava and the YPG not getting enough (or barely any) media coverage? If so...

Generally, leftist causes are suppressed out of the media. Have any of you heard of how the French government used its state of emergency to undo labor laws, environmental regulations, and corporate regulations, and arrest leftists? Which of you saw the largest prison strike in US history reported as organized by the IWW? For that matter, plenty of sources reported it as an anti-Trump strike.

The media never even calls them YPG or PKK, just Iraqi Kurdish forces, US backed kurdish forces or Peshmerga.

I think it's cause the media understands Turkey is planning on invading YPG territory and the West will do nothing. The media doesn't want to say " we betrayed our allies in Syria after they beat ISIS and took Raqqa" I guess they prefer to just say nothing.

It fucking hurts that no one knows about the state-sponsored terrorism in Turkey. It so efficiently covered up. I haven't seen any western media outlet, in the three languages I speak, talk about TAF airstrikes, indiscriminate jail-time, or the countless massacres like in this video youtube.com/watch?v=2XF8JvWs_zg

This is why I am disgusted by the west. A bunch of fucking entitled assholes living in bubbles. People in the west don't matter, not even to their own states, what matters is the revolutionary spirit and support in the kurdish people.

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She's still a cutie.

in America the national political scene dominates every media cycle
it's a feature of the trump era

Fuck Turkey. Can't wait to see Erdogan hang like Saddam did.

Can you not post neoconservative shit with that flag?

Why doesn't the media cover them? Hmmm…

They renounced communism decades ago.

If it isn't neoliberalism it's badwrongtripleevil gommunazism.

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what is this

Wont happen.

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turks are basically a mix between mongols and arabs and roaches so you're not completely wrong
I think his whore wife might be arab but I am probably wrong

Take off that flag

The media do not talk about Rojava or YPG, let alone their far left ideals. They choose to talk about Peshmerga, Iraqi Kurds, or US-backed Kurds, as already described here , all to avoid the awkwardness of giving positive publicity to the creepy left-wing group that worships a leader of the PKK.

The last time I read an article in a mainstream newspaper about the Syrian Kurds, it was very obviously NEGATIVE. It discussed the possibility of YPG greedily annexing all this territory after they're done defeating ISIS in Raqqa, and subsequently setting off ethnic conflicts in the region. Only briefly did the article mention the proposed model of decentralized control (without namedropping communalism) before quickly dismissing the whole thing as an empty promise. Basically, the writer sounded a lot like the tankie assholes on this board. He even brought up the fact that the destruction of ISIS will make Trump look good, as though YPG has the fucking time to worry about these side-effects that might make liberals uncomfortable.

When you are fighting against an enemy that has sworn to eradicate commie Kurds, that happily uses suicide trucks filled with dynamite on your checkpoints and that decapitates your female soldiers to show off the bloody trophies on social media then you too will want to obliterate them as soon as possible using all available resources. They are not going to wait for the Pentagon to drop air support, for the Kremlin to give it to them instead, for Assad to cheer them on, for Trump to be impeached or for your personal fucking approval on the internet.

The YPG have to kill ISIS and then regroup before Erdogan launches a full-scale assault from behind, and regardless of what happens they will try to implement communalism and continue to praise Öcalan, a man who was imprisoned with help from the CIA and the Mossad and who will be killed immediately as soon as Turkey gives up on EU membership and reinstates the death penalty. If you have seen any mainstream articles that discuss these prospects then I would be really goddamn interested to see them.

Uphold the communalist revolution and Bookchin thought!

Sometimes they show up incidentally in this or that news footage. I always point them out when they do.

The media only gives a shit about Syria or the kurds if it's to shit on Assad/Putin.

10/10 fuck tankies