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@Vinncent
Apr 23, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I woke up to the terrible news that @raviopatra has been arrested in Indonesia. Ravio Patra is a policy researcher in Jakarta, he has been critical of President Jokowi's response to COVID-19, and the circumstances of his detainment are extremely worrying

en.tempo.co/read/1334727/c…
I haven't seen Ravio this year, since I haven't been back to Jakarta in 2020, but he is a wonderful man and a valued member of the community of smart Indonesians working hard to improve the country. More information on his bizarre arrest, in English:

coconuts.co/jakarta/news/r…
From the Tempo article: "Some of Ravio’s recent activities [also] include...criticizing a presidential staffer for alleged conflicts of interest due to the staffer’s continued role in his private company despite his public service role.” #bebaskanravio

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Oct 13, 2023
From my new book, If We Burn: the beginning of the section on the Egyptian revolution Image
I am being asked about Palestine, understandably, in book interviews, and this is the answer. Whether you like it or not, it was pro-Palestine solidarity that helped put together the movement that became the most inspiring scene in the "Arab Spring" - Tahrir Square in Cairo
Many of these individuals were very surprised, to say the least, to see their movement being portrayed in global media as pro-Western. Pro-democracy yes, and in the Egyptian context real democracy would mean real opposition to Washington's partners in the region
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Oct 16, 2022
Presidential debate in Brazil - Lula asks Bolsonaro, twice, how many universities and schools Bolsonaro opened - no answer. Then Lula said that Bolsonaro delayed the arrival of the covid vaccine, and made jokes while hundreds of thousands of people died
Things heating up now ! Bolsonaro says "stop lying," and Lula responds, "you are the king of fake news - the king of stupidity!"
Really hard to hide how much these guys absolutely hate each other
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Oct 3, 2022
With 95% counted I think the situation is clear - Lula beat Bolsonaro today, but by less than expected. Regardless of what polling indicated, this is a remarkable turnaround for Brazil compared to the situation in 2021. On to the second round - Oct 30 resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/in…
Part two of the news tonight - in congress, and at the state level, the results so far have made it clear that Bolsonarismo is very much alive and well
And here are the final numbers. The highest surveys gave Lula 50% - he got 48.5%. Not sure if you can really be upset at him (or the polling firms) for a discrepancy of that size. The surprise (?) is that incumbent Bolsonaro apparently pulled voters away from minor candidates
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Jun 20, 2022
O Método Jacarta - edição brasileira - chegando no começo de julho autonomialiteraria.com.br/loja/historia-… Image
Já saiu! E estou saindo do país um pouco, de novo, agora. Mas estou feliz que conseguimos falar um pouco do livro na imprensa nacional este mês. Juntando aqui. O @eduardosombini apresentou a obra muito bem, nesse podcast da @ilustrissima que participei - www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2…
E aqui com a minha cara visível, uma conversa curta com a Talita Galli na TV dos Trabalhadores / @redeTVT -
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Feb 6, 2021
China is big, complicated, and very important. Its rise is a fact, whether you like it or not. For these reasons, we must think carefully, and speak honestly, about the country and its diverse characteristics. Reducing the entire nation to a strict good / bad binary is infantile
Imagine if someone said "US companies created the smartphone" and you replied "what about the Iraq War!?" Or if you said "the US has by far the world's largest prison population" and you said "the universities are very good!" Yet we routinely speak this stupidly about China.
Really I don't mind summaries, nor moral judgments. Fine if someone weighs everything up, and says "I think on balance their rise is good / bad." What really gets my goat is the tendency to interpret any given phenomenon in light of something very far away and totally unrelated
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Jan 13, 2021
So that piece was largely about US historical amnesia, and the false line between the "civilized" West and the rest, but I want to talk about this part here, since there is a lot of debate about the use of the word "coup"
If the Supreme Court had found a way to give the election to Trump, that's a "judicial coup" or lawfare. Flynn's martial law plan, if it re-engineered the election, would be a military coup. Congress denying the results would be "parliamentary" coup. And all would be "autogolpes"
It seems to me that very specifically, what happened on Wednesday Jan 6th is that Trump ordered his supporters to violently pressure Congress to carry out a "parliamentary coup" - which was never going to happen - but then they broke inside, and defiled the symbols of the state
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