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In
@ForeignPolicy
, I argue that the generosity Europe has shown refugees from Ukraine is admirable, but the more important thing the west has done is to give Ukrainians the means to defend themselves, so they— unlike Syrians—still have a home to return to.
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There are people sitting in London and New York cheering this on, lionising the killers, while complaining about how oppressed they feel by the sight of a keffiyeh.
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This is Dr. Mae Jamison, engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut. She, not William Shatner, was the first Star Trek cast member in space. And she actually orbited the earth for over a week. She also spend two years in Liberia and Sierra Leone as a Peace Corps field doctor.
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This is why journalist should always assume that Israeli government claims are lies until proven otherwise. This official government account has overlaid a fake date on an old video from a bakery it destroyed in Oct 2023 to deflect attention from its ongoing starvation of Gaza.
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Noam Chomsky, who spread disinformation about wars from Cambodia, Bosnia, Syria to Ukraine, has been commissioned to deliver a
@MasterClass
how to “fight disinformation”! I first thought it was satire.
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This Su-34, serial
#24
, bombed Syrian cities extensively. It was piloted by Major Krasnoyartsev, who earlier posed for photos with Putin & Assad. Today, while bombing Chernihiv, its flying days ended. The plane is now scrap, its co-pilot dead, & Krasnoyartsev is in custody.
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@MKarnitschnig
@BasharZapen
No, you halfwit. Perpetrating a genocide didn't turn them into moral authorities on genocide. It merely showed they are INCAPABLE of understanding the evil, or even the attributes of genocide.
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This was literally the reply Chomsky gave to a Syrian friend who spoke about Assad's brutality.
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@jordanbpeterson
You know that to have a point you also need to show that she's unwilling to pay the tax she is demanding of others?
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The world saw Grozny and shrugged. The world saw Aleppo and shrugged. And now this is at Europe's gate. To quote the old anti-fascist slogan: If you tolerate this, your children will be next.
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@Cobratate
@GretaThunberg
LOL! Dude, that's not a mere burn. That was seared into your skin. You are forever owned.
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@CherylWroteIt
Has it occurred to you that you may be a racist in need of urgent psychological evaluation? Carrying all that hate and prejudice around can’t be good for anyone’s soul.
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Lachlan Murdoch wants to sue
@crikey_news
for this sentence.
“The Murdochs and their slew of poisonous Fox News commentators are the unindicted co-conspirators of this continuing crisis.”
It'd be a shame if people started simply retweeting it.
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Meet Dmitry Utkin. He is the head of the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary organisation (or "private military contractor" according to American euphemism) which is in
#Ukraine
to support Putin's mission to "denazify" the country. Do you see a problem?
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This is how you use your platform.
@macklemore
defies German censors, speaks up about Gaza, denounces German complicity & rocks an arena with a song named after Hind, 6, who was murdered by Israeli soldiers with her family & the medics sent to save her.
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Messi deserved to win but Mbappe didn’t deserve to lose. He almost single-handedly took France to the edge of victory. And in his complete disdain for the dictator-loving
@EmmanuelMacron
, he shows that he’s the king even after the final whistle.
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People don't "love" Liz Cheney. They respect her willingness to go against her party to defend democracy. They don't "hate" Susan Sarandon. They scorn her for failing to appreciate the threat Trump posed not just to American democracy but its very social fabric.
The same people who LOVE Liz Cheney HATE Susan Sarandon and 🤷🏾♀️
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“Hamas colors”!
Tells you all you need to know about who they are starving and liking when they say they are targeting “Hamas”.
Dear Cate Blanchett,
Wearing Hamas colors wouldn’t have saved you at the Nova Music Festival.
The actress held out a green and light pink part of her dress and when juxtaposed with the red carpet and the black dress appears like the Palestinian flag.
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This leads people like Chomsky into a kind of moral bifocalism. They rightly condemn human rights abuses committed by the US or its allies like Israel & Saudi Arabia using moral categories; but they always use political categories to rationalise the crimes of others.
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Morales has been in power 13 years. He lost a referendum on a fourth term. He ran regardless and won an election rife with irregularities. He was forced to resign amid mass protests. Even Bolivia's main workers' union asked him to step down. But sure, lest call it a "coup".
To see
@evoespueblo
who, along with a powerful movement, has brought so much social progress forced from office by the military is appalling.
I condemn this coup against the Bolivian people and stand with them for democracy, social justice and independence.
#ElMundoConEvo
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Hamza al Khatib, 13, was arrested by Assad's regime at a peaceful protest. A month later, when his body was returned to his parents, his jaw & kneecaps had been smashed; his flesh was covered in cigarette burns; his genitals had been severed; and he had been shot 3 times.
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The main problem with this worldview is that, as Chomsky and his comrade Tariq Ali said, they believe that Russia can't be imperialist. They think imperialism is what the US does—ergo, anti-imperialism is anti-Americanism. See, for example.
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This could be a Monty Python sketch. A group of white Americans is occupying the Venezuelan embassy in "solidarity with Venezuelans". But when
@democracynow
asks
@ArielElyseGold
“Are there any Venezuelans here?”, turns out
@codepink
has shut them all out.
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George Galloway may exploit Gaza for his Youtube moments but when Bashar al Assad besieged, starved, and slaughtered Palestinians for 5 years in the Yarmouk refugee camp, he was justifying it using language similar to Eylon Levy's. He is no friend of Palestinians or Muslims.
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Thread on Kremlin
#disinformation
tactics:
By now you've probably seen this infographic doing the rounds. Looks innocuous, doesn't it? It is pouring righteous scorn on those who are fixating on
#Ukraine
and ignoring other wars.
Now let's look at what's happening here:
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"I've been on this rocket with millions of pounds of thrust and not once was I afraid," said Melvin. "It's when I've been stopped by police officers that I didn't even know ... I was starting to sweat and just holding the steering wheel really hard."
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@elonmusk
@EvaKBartlett
She's a well-known crank from Canada who moved to Russia (after years of doing propaganda for the Syrian regime) and now produces disinformation for the Kremlin regime.
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@IlhanMN
As a former refugee, it is unfortunate that you'd try to tar all of Maduro's opponents this way. Have you no concern for the millions that the regime has impoverished and displaced?
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I hope at least now
@democracynow
will draw a line and stop inviting this reactionary asshole to defame dissidents in Syria, Russia, Venezuela, etc.
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@PollySamson
@rogerwaters
I just read his interview with the German paper. He has completely lost it. To think that a man whose father died fighting fascists would spend his years of dotage as a mouthpiece for fascists! It's a depressing spectacle.
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@naomiosaka
Dear Naomi: You have nothing to apologise for. You made the right call: your physical and mental well-being comes first. And you owe them nothing. They merely provide the stage for you to display your excellence. This should be an occasion for THEM to search their souls.
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Because the concept of "imperialism" has been divorced from a set of practices and reconceptualized as the innate condition of a particular state, when others carry out actions that meet the definition of imperialism, they are instead approached with realist solutions.
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My friend Daniel Levy used to be an advisor to the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. In an interview with the BBC, he calls out the media’s parroting of official claims and credulity in accepting the rationalisations for collective punishment.
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So much stupidity here.
1. Students are protesting in solidarity with Gaza, not "for Hamas".
2. Hamas last won an election in a small enclave of the Occupied Territories in 2006, with less than 50% of the vote.
3. The 15,000 children killed in Gaza weren't even born in 2006.
VIDEO 🔴:
Acclaimed novelist
@SalmanRushdie
to the German tabloid
@BILD
:
“If there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas, and that would make it a Taliban like state. …and it would be a client state of Iran. Is that what the progressive movement of the western left
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"No justice, no peace" used to be a popular leftist slogan. The statement is profound. In the absence of justice, there can never be lasting peace. But when it comes to anti-western regimes, "anti-imperialist" insist that the demand for justice is an obstacle to peace.
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Glenn Greenwald using baby voice to mock
@AOC
for talking about the danger to her life on January 6 and for rejecting an alliance with Ted Cruz. “She ruined that movement. Because all she wants to do is attack Republicans and fortify the Democratic Party”.
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Here's the second part of the article I wrote after a long exchange with him, in which I found him dogmatic and petulant, and utterly incapable of admitting error, even after I showed him the factual accuracies in his statements.
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I try not to give oxygen to far-right provocateurs—the milos, katie hopkins, faith goldys—you know, the entire, interchangeable units of the hate industry—but when someone's response to a mass killing start with "LOL" and "HAHA", the inhumanity forces your attention
#christchurch
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According to the FBI’s analysis of 63 mass shootings, only a quarter of the shooters were diagnosed with mental illness, and in only three cases was mental illness the probable cause for the shooting. Mass shooting is NOT a mental health issue.
Stop weaponizing mental illness to excuse inaction regarding common sense gun legislation.
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How do you turn a mass shooting by a white supremacist in Buffalo into propaganda for a far right regime in Moscow waging a war of aggression in Ukraine? Let the boys from Grayzone show you.
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@LaurenWitzkeDE
"Third World" migrant with a PhD in sociology. I write for the New York Review of Books and teach English to British university students. I also teach ethics. You can erase a couple of your handicaps by enrolling in my class.
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Over time I noticed patterns in Chomsky's writings that made me wary. But it was this extraordinary exchange between Chomsky &
@GeorgeMonbiot
that really opened my eyes. George approached him in good faith with thoughtful questions. See how he responded:
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@IlhanMN
What about the women of Venezuelan who have had to flee to the Caribbean, forced into prostitution by the regime's kleptocracy? Also "far right"?
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This is why he can't relate to dissidents abroad—unless they are fortunate enough to be persecuted by a US client...Such dehumanising binaries erase struggling peoples if the regime oppressing them is seen as an objective ally by virtue of being in the bad books of Washington.
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I might add that this gives me no pleasure to write, since I used to be a big Chomsky admirer. I have read over a dozen of his books, and in my youth found his ability to hold a mirror to the west for its hypocrisies quite refreshing.
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So where "imperialism" (as understood by them) is seen as an inherently evil category worthy of moral condemnation, imperialism in practice is treated as a political problem calling for a "realist" solution, without the distorting influence of morality.
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@benandjerrys
This is a terrible statement. You prevent war by discouraging the aggressor and imposing costs. Otherwise you aren't de-escalating, but granting impunity to the belligerent party.
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The same mag that assigned 6 hacks to defame
@GretaThunberg
is now complaining about Palestinian births—not deaths—in Gaza (and uncritically promoting IDF’s false claims for targeting children).
Germany is a deeply racist country and this is an unserious publication.
Mehr als 180 Geburten, jeden Tag, mitten im Krieg: Die Uno mahnt eine humanitäre Feuerpause in Gaza an. Die israelische Armee hat dort derweil Sprengstoffgürtel gefunden – offenbar für Kinder angepasst.
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@ian_tears
Yes, you are. That's the cross of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Now delete the tweet.
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Great job,
@metpoliceuk
. I feel so much safer now that you’ve taken
@GretaThunberg
off the streets.
@SuellaBraverman
’s boys are restoring pride to the nation.
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His “hero” besieged, starved, tortured, & bombed Palestinians in the Yarmouk refugee camp. If you are one of the half million people who started following Hinkle in the last week, you aren’t supporting Palestinians, you’re just helping a white supremacist profit off their pain.
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Ukraine has voted in favor of a UN resolution asking the ICJ for an opinion on the legal status of Israel's "occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967." (Well done,
@ZelenskyyUa
!) Somehow this upset Israel.
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On the left is Scott Ritter, who spent four years in prison for pedophilia, and on the right is Richard Medhurst, who has been accused by a young girl of using a mental health forum to groom her. Together they are complaining about being “censored” for their pro-Kremlin views.
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I have no time for people who say "Why are Ukrainians getting all this attention when other conflicts didn't". Instead of turning this into a contest between the oppressed, we should welcome this precedent and demand that this become a model for how the west treats all refugees.
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If you are quoting or promoting any of the following, you are doing Palestinians a disservice. Because they habitually defend mass crimes & collective punishment elsewhere.
Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Rania Khalek, Aaron Mate, Dan Cohen, Sana Saeed, Louis Allday.
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On this day in 2013, Assad massacred over 1,400 civilians around Damascus using Sarin. He crossed
@BarackObama
's red line but suffered no consequences. In
@newlinesmag
I reconstructed the events of the day and described the consequences of inaction.
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@tmorello
Posting a friend’s response to this: “Mississippi is getting $37,800,000,000 in federal aid this year, 2.5x what it sends in federal taxes.”
Even Fox News is more honest than the tankies you are amplifying.
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There is a Borat quality to this. He sees a baby's milk bottle and diapers in the basement of a children's hospital where many families took shelter and concludes "Terrorists!"; and he sees a calendar on a wall and says its a "terrorist guardian's shift list".
Special footage from the Rantisi hospital in Gaza - on the basement floor, a room was found with signs indicating hostages were held there, underground headquarters and a room full of weapons inside the hospital:
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This was beautifully done. In a firm but respectful manner,
@sethmeyers
gets Meghan McCain to reconsider her demagogic comments tying Ilhan Omar to the synagogue shooting. This is the opposite of the 'crossfire' approach—amiable, honest and productive.
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This genocidal twerp smeared Hamzah Dahdouh with the false accusation that he was hitching a ride "with a drone-operating terror operative". Now his own government admits that it was merely a photojournalist who used a consumer drone for filming.
Pro-tip: Hitching a ride with terrorists in an active war zone is a bad idea and you might get hurt.
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Chomsky instead got irritable and combative and challenged me to write about it and "embarrass yourself". So I did. A few months later the OPCW confirmed my assertions. Chomsky never apologised and remains decidedly unembarrassed.
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Jim Clyburn, who helped
@JoeBiden
win the 2020 election is the co-chair of his reelection campaign, will be skipping the Netanyahu speech and has contributed to
@JamaalBowmanNY
's campaign.
via
@politico
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Why do so many otherwise well-meaning people end up sharing Kremlin propaganda? I spoke to
@VICENews
about how RT's offshoots annex the language and concerns of the left to advance self-serving tropes that deflect attention from Putin's actions.
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US didn't "bomb Syria"—it bombed foreign fighters who're in Syria to kill Syrians. On the same day, Russian Ministry of Defence posted a video of one of its SS-26 short-range ballistic missiles blowing up a fully-staffed hospital in Syria and no lefty has uttered a peep. .
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Secondly, the manufacturing of doubt around major atrocities is not just an epistemic issue. It has real consequences in the conduct of war. When responsibility for one atrocity remains unresolved, it gives the perpetrator room to commit more. And so it happened in Syria.
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@guardian
“Angus Roxburgh is a former BBC Moscow correspondent and consultant to the Kremlin.”
And someone at
@guardianopinion
thought why don’t we foist this on our readers anyway.
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This thug assaulted three people, including a child, on the Crescent Trail, Bethesda, MD, for putting up signs commemorating
#GeorgeFloyd
. Please help identify him.
We are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the below individual in reference to an assault that took place this morning on the Capital Creacent trail. Please contact Det. Lopez at 301-929-2774 with any information. Pease reference case number 20001297.
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@AllahGreatQuran
He committed genocide in Chechnya and Syria, you servile, soulless morons. And Putin’s television networks have demonised Muslims across Europe and incited violence against them.
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@cbouzy
You are very stupid man, Christopher. You also had many Arabs and Palestinians in the US protesting for George Floyd. Neither Hamas nor the Israeli government were in the streets doing BLM protests because they don't live in the US.
Also, what are your views on Apartheid?
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🧵A post by a leftwing professor has gone viral on Facebook & Instagram denouncing the Ukrainian first couple's photos in
@voguemagazine
as "vile". Others have called them "in poor taste". They are neither. Here's my response to such shameful commentary.
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No, you pillock. A Russian state propaganda event organized in space rented from the UN doesn't become a "UN panel"
A UN panel revealed that the White Helmets in Syria, the subjects of an Oscar-winning documentary, were engaged in criminal activity including:
-> Organ theft
-> Staging rescues
-> Stealing from civilians
Corporate media SILENCE!
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These are Palestinians of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria. They were subjected to 5 years of siege, starvation and slaughter by the Assad regime. Many of the people who supported this are suddenly concerned about Palestinians being subjected to siege, starvation and slaughter.
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@SenWarren
Don’t do that “human shields” nonsense. Israel bombed a REFUGEE CAMP. You don’t need to build an excuse for it even into a supposed condemnation of people being murdered in their homes.
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It's like the ISIS Caliphate. Every country gets to export its religious zealots and violent extremists to it.
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@Kaepernick7
Dear
@Kaepernick7
. I remember you met
@AlabedBana
once. Guess who besieged and destroyed her neighbourhood and forced her into exile? It was Qassem Soleimani. You are talking about the death of someone who tormented and terrorised masses of brown people. Please delete your tweet.
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This reactionary sack of manure has spent three days slandering a dead man who was killed along with his entire family (that is the ones that survived earlier Israeli bombings). If you in anyway associate with this troll you tarnish your cause.
Can you read? I said Refaat did not deserve to die over his Tweets. I am just saying he was not a kind hearted person considering his numerous attempts to defend atrocities against Israeli civilians
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From IRS filings we know that in the year of its founding,
@theintercept
paid Greenwald a salary of $518,000 (through a shell company). For the price of one Greenwald it could have retained at least 10 crack journalists and fact checkers on an average salary higher than Vice's.
The Intercept laid off several staffers today, per multiple sources.
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The jokers at
@MiddleEastEye
are promoting Clare Daly as a champion of refugees. Daly is a proud supporter of the Syrian regime, which created the largest flight of refugees of the past half century.
“My God, [Afghans] must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant. Is it the colour of their skin?”
@ClareDalyMEP
, Irish Member of the European Parliament, questions the lack of media coverage on Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis
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A distressed homeless man with mental health issues shouts in the subway about his life's hardships. He is not violent. A white dude puts him in a chokehold and strangles him to death. The Police lets him walk free without charges.
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She is the John Aziz of Drew Pavlou's.
The person who gave you "houthini" and "kafaya" is back with another flash of insight.
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Most barrel bombs that terrorised Syrians for a decade were dropped by just one squadron of Mi-8 helicopters. A handful of MANPADS could've taken them all out. But Obama vetoed their supply and placed the CIA in southern Turkey to interdict any attempts to smuggle them in.
Just a couple dozen of these would have saved tens of thousands of Syrian lives and prevented massive, permanent displacement
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Russia and the regime's immediate response was predictable: denial and deflection. There were the usual slew of mutually contradictory claims, whose aim is to bury the truth under the weight of competing claims. But what was less predictable was how westerners responded.
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