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2 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
New @PopularFrontCO podcast episode out now: We speak to @jacklosh about the largely under-reported conflict currently raging in the Central African Republic.

> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-b…

> patreon.com/popularfront
Listen in your browser. soundcloud.com/popularfrontca…
Support Popular Front. patreon.com/popularfront
Check out some of @jacklosh's photos from his time working in CAR.

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3 Feb
Watching breakfast tv news in the UK this morning felt very odd. It was full pelt jingoism for Captain Moore (who is in my opinion a hero, don’t get me wrong). There wasn’t a word about how appallingly our government has handled the pandemic, nothing about the cruel.. Image
...irony that Moore should have to raise £30million for an NHS the Tories have systematically been trying to gut, only to die of covid. It was non-stop uncritical thinking and thinly veiled praise of what is a catastrophic mishandling of the covid pandemic by inept leadership.
It felt like I was watching Fox News. I get that Captain Moore’s life should be celebrated, but his death should also place a bigger spotlight on the government and journalists should be further scrutinising the Tory failure, not “holding back” fake tears at 8am.
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27 Jan
Spent a week reporting in #Karabakh / #Artsakh, covering it from the Armenian side (Azerbaijan refuses entry to independent journalists: rsf.org/en/azerbaijan).

Some thoughts on the frontlines...

My first impressions were just how desperately sad and eerie it is out there.
Brave young men are stationed at vulnerable outposts often with inadequate equipment. They received little training before being drafted. They have done and will do everything they can to keep fighting, but I don’t think the government has done enough for them to be honest.
On one of the frontlines in Martuni (which was roughly 2km away from an Azeri outpost, that’s on higher ground no less) the soldiers had equipment mostly donated to them via the Armenian diaspora. Some weren’t even issued boots by the government.
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1 Jan
I’ve been reading up on the #Nashville suicide bomber Anthony Warner. Possibly wrong here, but I think this could be kinda “post-ideological militancy” more than the 5G theory. Kind of like the 2018 Austin bomber, kind of like Sky King, kind of like Killdozer even...
What I’ve been half-heartedly calling “post-ideological militancy” is roughly pointless physical violence as a desperate response to an age of pointless abstract violence.

There does not need to be a political ideology or a crime feud behind urban guerrilla violence anymore.
Examples...

The 2018 Austin #Texas bomber, Mark Anthony Conditt, killed two people and injured several others in a series of parcel bombs. Why? This is what he said himself: “I am doing this simply because I want to watch the world burn.”

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
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28 Nov 20
Clashes in France as the first phase of a deeply authoritarian new law is passed in the lower courts. The law will make it illegal for citizens to film police at certain times and give the police the power to decide on a whim who is and isn't a reporter.
Luckily (for the sake of freedom and democracy), the people of France are not as pacified as the rest of Western Europe. They have been protesting this diabolical new law all over #Paris tonight.
About this draconian new law Macron is trying to bring in.
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7 Oct 20
Today is a good day.

RIP Pavlos🌹
Fuck Golden Dawn: Greece Golden Dawn Neo-Nazi leaders guilty of running crime gang bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
The moment in #Athens when the Golden Dawn verdict was in.
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27 Sep 20
Clashes have broken out between #Armenia and #Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with at least one Azerbaijani helicopter shot down. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
Have a listen to the @PopularFrontCO episode on the region. soundcloud.app.goo.gl/KPDAWWeaEkJvqG…
Also, recently we did an episode on the tension between #Armenia and #Azerbaijan proper. Have a listen to these two if you need a primer on what’s going on. soundcloud.app.goo.gl/6vXoA85rCR45sY…
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