Emran Feroz
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Austro-Afghan. Journalist. Author. Upcoming books: Vom Westen nichts Neues @chbeckliteratur . GRAVEYARD EMPIRE @interlinkbooks . Anfragen: emran_feroz @hotmail .com
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Ich habe ein neues Buch geschrieben, und da ich Musk kein Geld geben will, teile ich hier einfach den IG-Beitrag. Es geht um 🇦🇫 & 🇦🇹, Andreas Hofer, die Taliban, afgh. Musik, Hanau, um meine Familie uvm. Ja, ist wirklich alles drinnen. Erscheint im Frühjahr bei
@CHBeckLiteratur
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It's incredible how language is shifting. I just listened to a BBC report talking about "Taliban forces" and "militants in Panjsher". Do these journalists even reflect what they are saying?
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Grosny, 1999. In einer gerechten Welt hätte man Putin schon vor 20 Jahren für seine Verbrechen verurteilt.
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According to reports, 71yo Daoud Nabi was the first victim of
#Christchurch
and the man who welcomed the terrorist at the mosque. He was a refugee from Afghanistan and wanted to live peacefully in NZ, and he died as a hero.
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Mein Freund Jahanzeb wurde gestern mit Gewalt nach Kabul abgeschoben. Er lebte 11 Jahre lang in Innsbruck und arbeitete zuletzt als Schichtleiter bei Burger King. Ein feiner Kerl, den mal wohl als "gut integriert" bezeichnen würde. Ich fühle mich grässlich.
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It's ridiculous that in 2022, you still have to explain to people that not a single Afghan was responsible for 9/11. I grew up with all this shit. It turned me into a journalist. But nothing has changed.
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Gestern musste ich mir bei
@Markus__Lanz
nicht nur die Beschönigungen der deutschen Bubble bzgl. Evakuierungen anhören, sondern
@MarkusBlume
und Co. auch noch erklären, dass nicht jeder abgeschobene afghanische Geflüchtete ein Straftäter ist. Deutschland 2021.
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Just a reminder that all the Haqqanis which are now part of the Taliban's government have been declared dead multiple times after US drone strikes during the last years. Again my question: Who were all the people who have been killed instead of them?
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I was a 9yo kid when 9/11 happened. When I went to school the next day, my teacher asked me why "they" had done that. "I'm asking you because you are from Afghanistan", she said. All of that including following events made me to what I'm today.
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Very sad to hear that my friend Zabulon Simentov left Afghanistan. Jewish life within the country doesn't exist anymore. Zabulon didn't leave for decades and is one of the bravest Afghans I know.
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"Europäer mit blauen Augen werden getötet."
"Das ist nicht Irak oder Afghanistan. Hier war es zivilisiert."
Ja, es tut weh, wenn man solche Dinge in den fucking Nachrichten, auf BBC oder CNN, hört.
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Imagine drone bombing, torturing and murdering a people for 20 years and afterwards, you steal their money while they are starving and suffering. Not a single Afghan was responsible for 9/11 but Washington still wants them to pay the price.
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I covered countless US drone strikes and civial casualties during the last years. Not a single time, Washington acknowledged that it murdered civilians. Why? Because strikes mostly took place in rural Afghanistan and not in Kabul.
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Liebe
@tazgezwitscher
,
entweder ihr stellt euch nun geschlossen hinter
@habibitus
gegen Seehofer oder ihr überweist mein letztes Honorar und das war's dann mit uns.
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Bitte alle herhören: Mein Freund Jahanzeb steckt in einem Kabuler Distrikt fest. Vor seiner Haustür liegt ein toter Soldat. Wer kann garantieren, dass Jahanzeb dort nichts passiert? Richtig. Niemand. Ich pack's grad einfach gar nicht mehr.
Mein Freund Jahanzeb wurde gestern mit Gewalt nach Kabul abgeschoben. Er lebte 11 Jahre lang in Innsbruck und arbeitete zuletzt als Schichtleiter bei Burger King. Ein feiner Kerl, den mal wohl als "gut integriert" bezeichnen würde. Ich fühle mich grässlich.
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I am in touch with Afghan refugees who try to leave Ukraine. They fear that Poland and the EU will not welcome them like Ukrainian refugees.
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Yesterday, I talked to my friend Zabulon Simentov, Afghanistan's last remaining Jew. He told me he would not leave Afghanistan despite the Taliban takeover. "I don't fear them. Afghanistan is my country", he told me many times.
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Wir brauchen einen landesweiten Migra-Streik, damit Leute wie Merz endlich ihre Fresse halten.
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Ja, ich weiß. Afghanistan schwindet wieder aus den Schlagzeilen. Corona, Wahlen usw. Aber es wäre doch trotzdem eine große Nachricht wert, dass heute Hunderte von Menschen, darunter Frauen und Kinder, gegen die Taliban (+ISI, Pakistan) demonstriert haben. Mitten in Kabul.
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A reminder: We DON'T know who was killed by the recent US drone strike in Afghanistan. Taliban leader Khalil Haqqani was "killed" many times during the last years. Today, he is very alive in Kabul. Drones aren't precise weapons. Don't participate in "officials say" journalism.
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Vielleicht sollte man mal hierzulande ernsthaft über Polizeigewalt sprechen wenn sogar die Taliban versuchen, solche Szenen zu instrumentalisieren.
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Never forget: In Germany, leading "security experts" kept justifying such crimes months before they happened. "We will see ugly images but Israel has to do that", they told us.
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Afghanistan was bombed and destroyed by the US for two decades. Afghans witnessed drones, death squads, the Mother of All Bombs and all kinds of horror every day. In a just world, reparation payments for all that would be trillions. That's the actual truth.
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Also, let's not forget that large parts of the Afghan diaspora were busy protesting against imaginary Pakistani drone strikes recently while they were absolutely silent when real US drones killed 1000s of people and Afghanistan was the most drone bombed country in the world.
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Ich finde es schlimm, wie zurzeit in den sozialen Medien x-beliebige Bilder von bärtigen, afghanischen Männern gezeigt und ohne jeglichen Beweis als "Taliban" bezeichnet werden. Das ist purer Rassismus & Orientalismus und hat im Kontext des War on Terror eine längere Geschichte.
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.
@BayStMI
hat sein widerliches, rassistisches, antimuslimisches PR-Video, das aus dem "Stürmer" hätte sein können, kommentarlos gelöscht. Wird es Konsequenzen für die Verantwortlichen geben?
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Let's not forget that NATO troops aren't just leaving Afghanistan. They also run away from their countless war crimes against Afghan civilians. Australia, which is even closing its embassy in Kabul, is a pretty good example. Germany, which bombed 150+ civs in Kunduz in 2009, too.
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Recent Afghanistan coverage is pretty problematic, imo. Many journalists and analysts focus on Taliban gains and the Afghanization of war while withdrawing troops are portrayed as the "good forces" who should have saved the country. Truth is many of them are war criminals.
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People like this guy ACTUALLY were on the ground in Afghanistan and murdered countless villagers in cold blood. It was fun and sports for them.
"I don't want to be in charge, but if I was ... give me 9 guys, I'm gonna walk through the streets [in Afghanistan] and I'm gonna kill everyone I see, and I'm gonna grab the Americans. It is not difficult" -- Rob O'Neill
This is the sort of commentary Fox News platforms. Yikes.
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Ashraf Ghani made fun of King Amanullah Khan who left Afghanistan almost a century ago. Now, it's him and his deeply corrupt circle that is gone. History is written badly in my beloved Afghanistan.
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Für
@uebermedien
habe ich versucht, den Rassismus der aktuellen Ukraine-Berichterstattung zu dekonstruieren.
"Der Tenor war etwa: So gehört sich das! Nicht wie bei den anderen, den muslimischen Feiglingen aus irgendeinem shithole country."
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You are totally lost if you believe that tankies who supported
- Assad's and Iran's crimes in Syria
- Chinese oppression of Uyghurs
- Russian war crimes against Chechens, Syrians, Ukranians and many others
honestly care about Palestinians.
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The laborer in this video understands much more about Afghanistan failed occupation economy than many woke Afghans from privileged families in Western countries.
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Taliban senior and five-million-bounty guy Khalil Haqqani took over Kabul and leads Friday prayers in the middle of the city. During the last two decades, hundreds of drones and death squads hunted this guy. Who were all the Afghans killed instead of him? Will we ever know?
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That's 8yo Nawaar al-Awlaki. Obama's drones killed her brother. Trump's soldiers shot her. I wonder which news papers will print her pic.
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Oh. What a surprise. Germany's favourite "Islam expert" seems to be a total fraud. Warum erscheint sowas nicht auf Deutsch, liebe Kolleg:innen? Was werden die Folgen für Mansour sein?
I spent months digging into Ahmad Mansour, visiting Tira, spoke to classmates, family, and his college. Much of his backstory is an exaggeration or a fabrication. He was never a Muslim Brother, the Imam wasn’t an Imam, he didn’t study psych @ Tel Aviv Uni
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Your "dear friend" is an anti-Muslim fascist.
My dear friend and the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, called this afternoon to congratulate me on winning the preliminary results and the Afghan people on the successful presidential elections.
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Jahanzebs Asylansuchen wurde stets abgelehnt. Ihm wurde auch kein Schutz gewährt. Die Region, aus die er stammt, gilt als extrem umkämpft. Vorgestern wurde er brutal verhaftet und in Schubhaft gesteckt. Jeglicher Kontakt zu Anwalt, Freunden usw wurde ihm verwehrt.
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Hulk is pro-Palestine.
Watch
@markruffalo
condemn Israel's "assymetrical warfare" against the Palestinians & argue "there is no reason that an ally of America should not be held to the same standards as any other nation. He slams "that kind of oppression, that kind of apartheid."
On the
@mehdihasanshow
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Ich weiß ja nicht, ob es überhaupt noch jemanden interessiert, aber eine "meiner" Ortskräfte steckt weiterhin in Kabul fest, bekommt Drohanrufe und traut sich nicht mehr aus dem Haus, weil er denkt, die Taliban würden dahinterstecken. Er war für die Bundeswehr tätig.
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Er wurde gemeinsam mit weiteren Afghanen wie ein Schwerkrimineller behandelt und in einen Flieger gesteckt. Währenddessen herrschen in Afghanistan Krieg, Chaos und Pandemie. Soldaten ziehen ab, westliche Botschaften schließen, doch Afghanen werden abgeschoben.
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Many Afghans, like some of my close friends and family members, haven't seen Afghanistan for decades. Some haven't ever been there in their entire lives. They just see it burning from far away. Over and over again.
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Seems that some Taliban fighters in Sheberghan took Dostum's uniform from his promotion to Marshal and posed with it. If there is a picture summarizing all the failed policies of the last 20 years, it's maybe this one.
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I am getting more and more evacuation stories of Afghans who were 'rescued' by Westerners but were left alone in the middle of the trip without any documents etc. Many of them are hopelessly stuck in different countries while their 'saviours' got their feel-good-stories.
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In Afghanistan hat Jahanzeb niemanden. Auch wir haben den Kontakt zu ihm verloren. Niemand kann garantieren, dass ihm dort nichts passiert. Ich habe in Kabul zahlreiche verzweifelte Abgeschobene getroffen. Nun ist ein weiterer Freund einer von ihnen.
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People who live close to Kabul airport just told me that crowds of families still try to leave the capital. They say that both American soldiers and Taliban shot Afghan civilians during the last hours.
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Also, many people obviously have no idea what happened im large parts of rural Afghanistan, a field I focused on, during the last years. Drone strikes and death squads radicalized 10.000s of people. The few who pointed at this were attacked and defamed.
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Der gegenwärtige Fokus auf Afghanistan wird in den nächsten Tagen abnehmen. Jahanzeb, Maiwand, meine abgeschobenen Freunde, und andere Menschen werden dort bleiben müssen. Wir sprechen jeden Tag und diese ganze Hilflosigkeit macht mich verrückt und bricht mir das Herz.
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My latest for
@TheProspect
about the ongoing war whitewashing: "Too many Western journalists and analysts are contemptuous of and insensitive to the people of the country that the U.S. had invaded. Their eyes focus only on the violence of the “other”."
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I spent a lot of time for this piece. First I visited Afghanistan's last remaining Jew, Zabulon Simentov. The Taliban took his Torah in the 90s. It's still gone, so I went to Doha to ask former GTMO detainee Khairullah Khairkhwa about its whereabouts.
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Was mMn bei der Causa Relotius untergeht: Wer aus Ländern wie Afghanistan berichtet, weiß, dass es immer wieder einige Kollegen gibt - meist weiß, westlich und männlich - die krampfhaft Geschichten suchen. Sie sind mit Dolmetschern, Fixern & Orientalisten-Brille unterwegs.
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Wir werden ihn nicht vergessen. Und wir werden auch nicht vergessen, wer ihn in den Selbstmord getrieben hat. ()
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If her killer had a beard & cried Allahu Akbar, the whole world would already know this picture.
#ChapelHillShooting
http://t.co/5Xx7A7Yb6G
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Many Afghans on Twitter are part of the diaspora and have a privileged role. They could use this platform in constructive ways, especially in these days. Unfortunately, it seems that half of them is too busy with enabling fake news while the rest turned into ethnic facists.
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During the last 24 hours, I had many interviews about the situation in Afghanistan. Often, I felt I had to confirm that the Taliban are absolute evil and man-eating monsters. Also, it's amazing that in 2021, so many people still know nothing about Afghanistan.
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Warum triggert es eigentlich immer wieder so viele, wenn man feststellt, dass selbst Mörder, Vergewaltiger usw. laut unserer Rechtsordnung keine Folter und keine Hinrichtung verdient haben?
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Zebulon Simentov, Afghanistan's last remaining Jew, is watching TV. But he doesn't want to serve me tea 'because it's Shabbat'.
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One of the results of the War on Terror: The Americanization of the Taliban.
Meet the new Taliban teams, American car, American weapons, American costume.
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Afghan people: "We suffer from starvation."
Taliban:
This is Herat where the Taliban authorities have asked clothing shops to behead all “female mannequins” calling them “un-Islamic”. Herat was called “the pearl of Khurasan” by Rumi and has been considered the cultural capital of
#Afghanistan
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If you think it's just the Taliban celebrating US withdrawal (b/c you cannot take off your filter), you are wrong. In many Afghan provinces, locals disliked foreign soldiers. In some provinces, people celebrate with both the Afghan national flag and the Taliban flag.
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This is a scandal. German public TV suggests that a Hamas weapons warehouse made Rafah burn and only uses one IDF spokesman as a source.
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A couple of time ago, I think it was Abbas Stanekzai who said Taliban could take most of Afghanistan, including Kabul, within two weeks. It's absolutely nuts that this turned out to be true. The total majority of intelligence analysis was so wrong that it's almost unbelievable.
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It's ridiculous that after 20 years of failed War on Terror, some folks seriously try to convince us to let's do all of it all over again.
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A few weeks ago many Afghans in Western countries demonstrated against all kind of stuff. Now Afghanistan is facing hunger, a harsh winter and an existential crisis but many are silent. I wonder what happened.
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So Kurdish militants sent an African woman from Syria to conduct a bomb attack in Istanbul? Is this the dream scenario of all the Turkish fascists and racists to continue expressing their hatred towards refugees and displaced people? I guess they'll add some Afghan links either.
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US drone strike kills civilians in the middle of Kabul while many worldwide protests yesterday demanded what exactly? More drones and more flawed "War on Terror"?
"Victims of today's US airstrike close to Kabul airport were all members of a family: 4 children, one woman (mother of the children), and a man (childrens' uncle)."
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This is fascist India today. Where is the backlash from all the moralists and alleged human rights defenders?
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This is Baghlan, Afghanistan, in the 1970s. The woman on the left, Saira, is my grandmother, a school principal. All the men in the photo used to work under her. Many people from this area, including those who turnt into Talibs decades later, learnt reading and writing from her.
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Dear Manzoor Pashteen, Najib and his KhAD thugs would have tortured and killed you if you did your kind of political activism in the 1980s in Afghanistan. Your mother would still search for your body.
Dr. Najibullah sacrificed his life for bringing lasting peace in the region. He even gave up his authority for peace. He made efforts for ending the war. He is alive in People's hearts for working selflessly for peace. Today is his 24th anniversary.
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For years, some people were writing about the brutal crimes of CIA-backed Afghan militias in Afghanistan. A lot of people ignored it. Many defended them. Now you see what they used to do during the last years. Shooting at civilians. Live. In front of cameras at Kabul airport.
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Just a few days before my arrival, I have suddenly been denied entry to the United States. Seems that the gov doesn't want me to discuss my book and talk about American war crimes in Afghanistan. That's the state we live in. But we'll not accept it. Never. More details soon.
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Pretty ugly to see this Afghan gov official participating in such a propaganda act to whitewash the disastrous situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
#WATCH
Afghanistan Envoy Tahir Qadiry, in Srinagar, on 25 Foreign envoys visit Kashmir: It is great to come to Kashmir.We've been here only a couple of hours but can see shops open, children going to school etc. Met civil society members also,they really want peace in Kashmir.
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In Afghanistan ereignete sich in der letzten Nacht eines der schlimmsten Erdbeben aller Zeiten. Dieses Kind hat seine gesamte Familie verloren. Ich habe für all dieses Leid keine Worte mehr, und für die Ignoranz und das Desinteresse ebenso.
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Die politisch-mediale Blase in Berlin ist nicht meine Realität. Wir haben schlicht nichts gemein, und das betrifft wohl nicht nur meine Person. Es ist erschreckend, was für eine Ignoranz, Arroganz und Unwissenheit hier vorherrscht. So baut man sich irgendwann selbst ab.
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"Diskurs" in Deutschland. Keine einzige palästinensische Stimme. Hauptsache, IDF-Sprecher Shalicar ist dabei.
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I mainly just see hawkish right-wing 'analysis' or left-wing 'anti-imperialist' propaganda. If you wanna bomb Iran, you are nuts. If you think mass murderer Soleimani was a 'hero', you are nuts. Just shut the fuck up if you have heard his name today for the very first time.
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Mein Nachbar ist Russlanddeutscher. Er beklagt sich über die zunehmende Russenfeindlichkeit. Im Geschäft eines Freundes wurde randaliert. Er selbst wird regelmäßig dumm angemacht. "Was habe ich mit Putin zu tun?", fragte er mich. Krieg und Propaganda sind widerlich. Überall.
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I am so glad to hear that most Afghan refugees from Ukraine I am in touch with could enter Poland without many problems.
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Facts.
"Amrullah Saleh was a CIA-trained hawk who backed coalition troops’ use of drones, air strikes, and night raids, policies which killed and maimed thousands of Afghan civilians and, ironically, made them more sympathetic to the Taliban."
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My all time favourite pic from Afghanistan. Made in a time when foreigners used to visit my country without weapons.
http://t.co/qhDOIyRhU3
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Most Ukraine coverage is dominated by a lot of Eurocentrism. Go and talk about a "new era", "new timeline" etc. with Afghans, Chechens, Syrians or Iraqis.
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Hinweis: Während die Sendung lief, war mein Handy im Flugmodus. Es gab, wieder einmal, mehrere verpasste Anrufen von Abgeschobenen, Ortskräften usw., die weiterhin in Afghanistan feststecken. Surreal, mit was für einen BS ich mich zeitgleich auseinandersetzen musste.
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Final presents of the US in Afghanistan: Soldiers shooting at a panicked crowd and killing Afghans. Drones bombing civilians from Kabul to Nangarhar.
The empire's face was ugly until the very end.
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In Germany, you'll find Ukrainian language classes for Germans (!) while Afghans, Syrians and others who speak German (Germans aren't interested in learning savage languages) are still facing constant discrimination, deportation and other hostile policies.
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More bullshit and propaganda coming. Still waiting for the movie about the horrors of Bagram, CIA death squads and drone massacres.
Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy have been cast in an untitled drama about
3 former special forces team members who go back to Afghanistan to rescue families and allies left behind amid the rapid fall of Afghanistan last August.
(Source: Deadline)
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Yesterday, Daesh killed more than 40 students in the middle of Kabul. Also yesterday, deported Afghan refugees from Germany reached Kabul because Berlin pretends that there are 'secure' areas. The world is such a rotten place.
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Zur Erinnerung: Afghanistans geflüchteter "Präsident" Ashraf Ghani hat 2016 einen Abschiebedeal mit der EU unterzeichnet und sich mehrmals abfällig über afghanische Geflüchtete geäußert. Nun ist er weg, mit Säcken voller Geld, während meine abgeschobenen Freunde festsitzen.
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For
@newlinesmag
, I have written a 3,000 words essay deconstructing some myths and Cold War revisionism, including the widespread whitewashing of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and how Stinger missiles actually saved Afghan lives.
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I would like to see one of those Western vloggers who had fun while drinking tea with some Talibs to go to some universities today and interview young women who are denied to enter their classes. Go. Now.
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This might be an unpopular opinion, especially amongst Western pseudo-intellectuals who "analyze" all historical events through the same ideological prism, but Stinger rockets actually saved Afghan lives.
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Exactly 30y ago, the last Soviet soldier left Afghanistan. During the almost 10y-long occupation, far more than 1 million Afghans were murdered by the USSR and its Communist regimes in Kabul. Afghans will never forget.
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Question: Did Australian soldiers who murdered Afghan civilians end in prison?
Australian PM urges Trump that Afghan man who killed three Australians should not be released
#AFG
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I had a couple of interviews where I had to explain that not every anti-Taliban individual is a human rights defender or democracy champion. Former NDS boss Amrullah Saleh was a torturer-in-chief. Dostum executed 1000s of people in Dasht-e Laili. Same mistakes were done in 2001.
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