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Bäst i test-partiet! Inför #val2022 placerar 12 oberoende organisationer @vansterpartiet på ensam 1:a plats i 4 fall, delad 1:a plats i 5 fall och 2:a plats i 3 fall. 
Thread: I’m as guilty as anyone of admiring Pity the Nation when it was the first book I’d read on #Lebanon and I knew nothing else about the place, and little else about its author Robert #Fisk, who has died at 74 (1)
The first thing to say is Lebanese readers themselves were never so easily impressed by the book, as @emile_hokayem reminds us, and as @aelghossain, @faysalitani, and many others will also remind you if you prompt them (2)
Fisk died with his once-envied reputation largely in ruins, having spent the better part of the last decade peddling inexpiable untruths for this century’s leading mass murderer, Bashar al-Assad. See, e.g., @im_PULSE’s extensive documentation of this (3) pulsemedia.org/2016/12/03/rob…
Robert Fisk’s latest “EXCLUSIVE” reveals just how little he knows about #Syria's opposition, its foreign relations & support networks.
Gloss over inaccuracies & he’s “revealed” what we've known for yrs - #Saudi backed the multilateral MOC, arming #FSA.
independent.co.uk/voices/syria-w…
Gloss over inaccuracies & he’s “revealed” what we've known for yrs - #Saudi backed the multilateral MOC, arming #FSA.
independent.co.uk/voices/syria-w…
