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At DIPG Advocacy Group Congressional Briefing for HRes 114 (dipgadvocacy.org) to designate May 17 as National DIPG awareness day. DIPG is the deadliest childhood cancer. So many amazing families, kids, doctors and advocates, united in grief and hope. I’m here for Elijah.
Go to dipgadvocacy.org to find out more about DIPG and pediatric brain cancer and call your Congressional Representatives and encourage him/her to co-sponsor. Raising awareness is key to increasing research funding to #DefeatDIPG.
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I was once stuffed into a car at gunpoint in Baghdad by an Iraqi Republican guard officer and two machine-gun wielding soldiers and driven around town while they asked if I was a CIA agent and threatened to kill me. I survived.
1/2 It was during my Dec 1998 Iraq trip, which I wrote about earlier here on Twitter. We were bombing them, so it was natural they’d be suspicious about a young American guy out in the streets. They had me for two hours(?).
2/2 In the car I had images of movies where the guy rolls out of a moving car, but I was sandwiched between two guys with AR-15s and the officer in the front seat screaming at me in perfect English (trained in US, naturally). Little did they know I had $3000 sewn into my pack.
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1/9 I am one of a tiny handful of Americans who is in Iraq in December 1998, the last time a president tried to bomb another country and start a war to distract from the zone impeachment. I’ve visited the victims In hospitals, their insides shredded from shrapnel.
2/9 I visited the main Children’s Hospital in Baghdad, where women spontaneously aborted their fetuses in the midst of US airstrikes, from terror and the concussive force from nearby US cruise missiles which destroyed an Iraqi Defense Ministry building.
3/9 Most Americans don’t know anything about Iraq and don’t give a shit about the people there, but they have endured 30 years of unrelenting warfare at the hands of and because of the United States, and now face it again, along with their Iranian neighbors.
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1/12 As a longtime activist and historian of US foreign policy , glad protests are taking place today against possible war with Iran. But we must grapple w/ this: US antiwar movement has been singularly ineffective in preventing war. We need to ask why, and what to do about it.
2/12 In 2003 I worked full-time as an antiwar activist, helping to plan the global Feb 15, 2003 protest against the Iraq war. 660 cities in the US, more than 12 million people globally. Largest day of coordinated protest in world history. And it failed, utterly, to prevent war.
3/12 The anti-Vietnam war movement’s history is relevant here. Historians hotly debate whether or how much it constrained US warmaking in Indochina, or whether broader war weariness (since a majority of public opposed antiwar movement) mattered more.
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I'm often asked whether there's a hidden cure for #cancer being suppressed. A common narrative is that a cancer cure would ruin the profits of "big pharma", and so they'd use their power to suppress it. Certainly it's a popular belief - but it's wrong. Here's why: THREAD (1/10)
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I am one of 17M Americans with #cancer right now.
Some of us will survive, some will not.
Our survival should not be predicated on our health insurance.
#M4A is an imperative step toward universal coverage and keeping us all living as long as possible.
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1) Starting a near-midnight thread, basically to help me collect my thoughts on a variety of related topics.
2) I would really prefer to just do research and then go out with that. But oh well
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Went to Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan today. Official population at 53,967, according to @UNHCR as of February 2018. All Syrian #refugees.

In many ways it was not what I expected.
First thing you notice is how remote the location is — some 100 kms east of Amman; 20 kms from Azraq town; 75 kms to Saudi Arabia; 255 kms to Iraq; and 90 kms to the Syrian border — from which its inhabitants fled.
At the same time, the harshness of the setting — a hardscrabble, sprawling 15 square km patch, scratched, etched and stretched out of endless rolling desert.

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