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Feb 1, 2020 โ€ข 7 tweets โ€ข 6 min read โ€ข Read on X
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: president Barham Salih has appointed pro-Sadr politician Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as prime-minister, replacing al-Mahdi. Image
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: protesters in #Baghdad are already rejecting the appointment of Allawi, because of his pro-Sadr/IRGC sentiments.

They state that in the even Sadrist will try to kick them out of Tahrir Square, they will move the epicenter of the movement to #Nasiriyah in the south. Image
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: protests against the appointment of #Allawi already taking place in #Basra tonight
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: anti-government protests in #AlSamawah tonight
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: hundreds of protesters maching towards Tahrir, thr Square was largely taken over by Sadrists earlier this evening
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: protesters return to Tahrir Square today to protest the nomination of #Allawi as caretaker PM ImageImageImageImage
#Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ: the holy city of #Karbala today

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Aug 7
I've just come back from #Venezuela ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ช where I spent 2.5 weeks, witnessing the run-up to the presidential vote, and what was arguably the most outrageous election steal in the modern history of Latin America.

I'll share some thoughts below ๐Ÿงต Image
First off before going into the political situation I just wanted to stress how great it was to be reminded how easy it is to fall in love with Caracas, and how amazing the Venezuelan people are.

Someone I'd met briefly 7 years ago, would greet me again as if we were family.


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I was never big about celebrating my birthday, so I figured I'll just arrive in Venezuela that day, do some work and let the day pass quietly, no big deal.

Well that wouldn't fly when I told my Venezuelan friends there. They insisted on celebrating, and even brought friends. Image
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Apr 10
I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar).

During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders.

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Karenni state (also known as Kayah state) as around the size of Qatar, which makes it the smallest of Myanmar's different states and regions.

Yet because of its proximity to the capital Naypyidaw (120 km) it is still a very strategic region.
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After three years of anti-coup resistance and armed struggle around 90% of Karenni is under resistance control.

Karenni is divided into 7 townships: Loikaw (capital), Demoso, Hpruso, Bawlakhe, Hpasawng, Shadaw, Mese.
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Nov 16, 2023
Strong indication from this Fox News report that the IDF is moving guns around in order to "proof" that Hamas was using al-Shifa hospital.

IDF video claims that "minutes ago" they found a single gun behind the MRI machine, same spot in the FOX report: two guns were added.



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Seriously watch the original IDF video (re-uploaded minutes ago). At 1:48 the IDF spokesman literally said they found a single gun "just minutes ago", same room as where @TreyYingst walks through in his report. Yet Trey's report shows two extra guns placed in the exact spot
Although it doesn't disprove that the guns are from Hamas or that there are any guns in the hospital. It is a very clear sign that the IDF is moving guns around the hospital and places them in suspicious locations.

This puts everything they show about the hospital into question.
Read 6 tweets
Nov 14, 2023
#Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ BREAKING: AJE reports that Israeli forces have informed the staff of al-Shifa that they will storm the #Gaza hospital tonight. Image
#Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ: multiple reports now that Israeli forces are INSIDE al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza city and are "carrying out operations" within the facility.
#Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ: the #IDF has released footage of their troops supposedly dropping off medical supplies at al-Shifa hospital.

But everything that's important is missing here. Where are the patients? Where are they alleged #Hamas tunnels?
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Oct 23, 2023
The dry season is starting in #Myanmar ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ. The drier weather and more accessible roads will mean an intensification of fighting between the junta and resistance across the country.

In the north the #KIA as already taken initiative & seized three bases irrawaddy.com/news/burma/kiaโ€ฆ
#Myanmar ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ: junta warplanes have repeatedly targeted the village of Nyaung Kone in the Mogok Township (#Mandalay region) as fighting between junta forces and #TNLA & #PDF resistance groups is ongoing in the region.

Source: fb.watch/nTkbFARwmj/
#Myanmar ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ: junta forces clashed with local #PDF resistance in the Tabayin Township of #Sagaing region, after the soldiers ventured out into the countryside and tried to enter a resistance-controlled village.

Source: fb.watch/nTmjbw5tyf/
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Sep 19, 2023
#NagornoKarabakh BREAKING: Azerbaijani military forces have launched an artillery assault on the city of #Stepanakert.
#NagornoKarabakh: the sounds of artillery fire and air raid siren s fill the air over #Stepanakert this clouded Tuesday afternoon.

Azerbaijani rethoric strongly suggest they're intending to start another war to finish off Armenian self-rule in the region.
#NagornoKarabakh: Azerbaijani artillery is slamming into the hills around #Stepanakert as heavy fighting is ongoing in the region.
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