COVID-19 has already killed 2.9 million people. But health experts I spoke to told me the coming antibiotic resistance pandemic could make the coronavirus look minor in comparison.

Thread on my new report for @MintPressNews:

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Between 2000 and 2015, antibiotic use increased by 77% on developing countries, driven partially by pharma giants offering cash incentives to unlicensed health workers to prescribe them.
Many in the Global South are so poor that they cannot afford a full course of them, thus accelerating the growth of resistant superbugs. The WHO estimates that 10million people will die each year by 2050 from this- almost 4x the number that have died of COVID in the last 12 mnths
Health experts I spoke to said common treatments like cesearean sections, chemotherapy or cosmetic surgery could become life threatening if bacterial infections cannot be treated.

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9 Apr
Support the Tropes: How media language encourages the left to support wars, coups and intervention

My latest article published today for @FAIRmediawatch

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Liberals are always more conflict skeptical than conservatives. So corporate media have come up with a number of ways of selling them wars. These include appeals like "think of the women" and "we must intervene to save democracy" or "he's attacking his own people."
Wars and interventions are almost always preceded by talk of human rights violations in the press.

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9 Apr
My new @MintPressNews article exploring Bellingcat's close relationship with Western states and how it helps further government interests (thread)

mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-int…
Bellingcat is filled with ex-military or ex-intelligence officials. It's senior investigator jumped from being a UK army officer to a Bellingcat man.

One other former contributor spent 10 years at GCHQ (Britain's NSA) before joining Bellingcat.
There are plenty of US spooks too: 1 BC writer worked for National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency- an intelligence combat support unit under the DoD.

Meanwhile, another writer spent 6 years in the Secret Service + 6 more as program manager for the White House Military Office
Read 8 tweets
13 Mar
Former Bolivian dictator @JeanineAnez has just been arrested.

If you don't know her, let me fill you in on some of her crazier moments (thread)

1. Shes a hardline fundamentalist Christian who thinks the indigenous majority are "satanic" & shouldn't be allowed to live in cities.
2. Her party received just 4% of the vote in the 2019 election. The military hand picked her from obscurity to be president.

She arrived clutching an oversized leather bible announcing that Christ had returned to government.

3. She pre-exonerated all security forces of all crimes during the "restoration" of order. Everyone understod this to be a license to kill.

They immediately used it, carrying out a number of massacres.
Read 8 tweets
18 Jan
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own Government, I can not be silent” - Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
There are just so many of them I couldn't fit them into one tweet.
Read 4 tweets
8 Jan
George W Bush says that "this is how elections are disputed in banana republics."

He would know, he engineered a coup in Haiti in 2004, and attempted them in Venezuela in 2002 and plotted one in Palestine in 2006. Image
The man who lied us into the Iraq War with talk of non-existent weapons of mass destruction is apparently denouncing "falsehoods" spread by elected officials. Image
After Bush left office, the US was the most hated and feared country in the entire world, and considered the greatest threat to world peace.

web.archive.org/web/2017051610… Image
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21 Dec 20
There's only $600 for you in the Coronavirus Relief Bill, but there's $33 million for the overthrow of the Venezuelan government. 🤡🇻🇪
There is also over $3.2 billion set aside just so the army can buy more missiles.
Getting their priorities straight: the COVID relief bill also sets aside over $19 billion for the procurement of Navy aircraft.
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