Kareem Rifai 🌐 Profile picture
anti-authoritarian advocate | syrian-circassian | currently @aei + m.a. @georgetowncss | contributor @centerclipaudio | alum @umich | all opinions my own

Jun 9, 5 tweets

"The mass slaughter in Srebrenica, for example, is certainly a horror story and major crime, but to call it 'genocide' so cheapens the word."

Noam Chomsky on the Srebrenica Massacre, which left 8,000+ Bosniak Muslims dead.

"Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq."

Noam Chomsky on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"The US is living under a totalitarian culture much worse than Soviet Union."

Noam Chomsky on press freedoms in Russia as Russian demonstrators were being arrested for opposing the invasion of Ukraine.

"What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities..."

Noam Chomsky on refugee accounts of genocide by Pol Pot's regime, which wiped out 25% of Cambodia's population.

“You can hardly accuse Iran of illegal or criminal behavior by supporting the [UN] recognized government of [Syria]."

Chomsky on Iranian involvement in the Assad regime mass-murder of 500,000+ Syrians.

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