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Dan Cohen
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The “___ is bad for meeting with Assad” neocon talking point was first used by Dick Cheney against @SpeakerPelosi in 2007 after she went to Syria. Now @KamalaHarris, @MSNBC, @andersoncooper, @ChrisCuomo and fake humanitarians use it against @TulsiGabbard. google.com/amp/s/www.lati…
Democrats recycling Cheney talking points encapsulates how the permanent war state normalized, the political spectrum shifted right and neocons returned to the Democratic Party.
Then-senator John Kerry made the same exact argument that Gabbard is making today. Meeting with political leaders, friend or foe, is basic diplomacy. But mainstream media and warmongering politicians have poisoned the very idea. google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…
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This thread doesn’t challenge the central points of my article:
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-Xenophobe media tycoon who just met with Pence and Bolton also a central figure
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Dan Cohen
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You'd think @RobertMackey might find the US government's huge role in organizing these protests worth reporting to his US American audience but he totally omitted that crucial information. Maybe he should've read @RealAlexRubi's report: mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-prot…
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Jewish leaders in EU/NATO-member Lithuania close the capital's only functioning synagogue amid right wing campaign to glorify Nazi collaborators jta.org/quick-reads/li…
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