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28 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Executing search warrants on Giuliani and Victoria Toensing is phenomenal news in the world of counter-kleptocracy efforts.
Here’s everything on Giuliani’s history of failing to recognize his foreign lobbying work: newrepublic.com/article/155387…
And here’s everything on Victoria Toensing’s failures to register her work for foreign principals: gen.medium.com/rudy-giuliani-…
Pour one out for Dmitry Firtash today.
This would also (presumably) be the house of Toensing’s husband Joe DiGenova, Firtash’s other unregistered lawyer-cum-lobbyist.
For more on how Dmitry Firtash used Giuliani, Toensing, and DiGenova to try to upend American policy—and American democracy—pre-order AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY (out Nov. 16 from @StMartinsPress) here: us.macmillan.com/books/97812502…
‘One of the search warrants for Mr. Giuliani’s phones and computers explicitly stated that the possible crimes under investigation included [FARA] violations’: nytimes.com/2021/04/29/nyr…
Just a few weeks ago, @CooleyOnEurasia and I wrote in @ForeignPolicy on how Giuliani had become a case study in how U.S. lawyers have become kleptocrats’ key enablers: foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/23/u-s… Image
‘Firtash was of course their main focus, without a doubt.’ time.com/6020207/rudy-g…

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18 Apr
This is an exceptionally dumb analogy, not least because there is, and was, effectively zero Spanish-speaking secessionist sentiment in this territory—a complete difference from the Ukrainian SSR.
This analogy is made even dumber by the fact that the Americans actively agitated *against* Ukraine breaking off from the Soviet Union.

Basic historic illiteracy.

A *better* analogy to Ukraine demanding independence from the USSR would be those in Hawaii rising up against Washington, not some... random swath of the American Southwest that has no sense of distinct nationhood.
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11 Apr
Kind of ridiculous the 1870s Modoc War in California/Oregon isn’t better remembered in the US:

—The only Indian War where a US general was killed
—A tiny band of Modocs successfully held the US at bay for *six months*
—Saw the only Indian Wars trial/hanging for war crimes
Mapping out Klamath and Modoc territories before the arrival of the Americans: Image
Even stranger for why the Modoc War’s been largely forgotten: It was Manifest Destiny at its absolute worst.

American war crimes, a concentration camp, forced train transport nearly 2,000 miles from a home they refused to give up to an imperial power.
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9 Apr
'Yellen has signalled that the US is throwing its full weight behind a global minimum corporate tax rate – and framing this quite explicitly as an end to the race to the bottom.

'This is a powerful narrative shift, in favour of tax justice.'

taxjustice.net/2021/04/07/us-…
'If endorsed by other countries and the US Congress, the Biden administration’s proposals would be the biggest shake-up in corporate taxation in decades — and could put tax havens out of business.' ft.com/content/b358eb…
‘More hopeful is the proposal for a global minimum tax... Such a coalition could side-step resistance and sabotage by countries that have been captured by the tax avoidance industry, and break the vicious cycle of beggar-thy-neighbour tax competition.’ taxjustice.net/2021/04/15/the…
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30 Mar
NEW: Texas has an outsized history of carpetbaggers coming in, posing as cosplay cowboys, and racing the state off a cliff.

And that's exactly what's happening right now with the @TexasGOP—with no end in sight to the party's madness.

newrepublic.com/article/161863…
The latest carpetbagging faux cowboy is a East Coast prep schooler, suddenly trying to pose for Texas conservatives like he's Doc Holliday.

(One of the most insane campaign ads you'll see all year: )
But this cosplay cowboy isn't the only one now claiming to be an "authentic Texan."

@chiproytx? A wealthy East Coaster and investment bank analyst, now glorifying lynching.

@DanPatrick? An East Coaster, former nightclub owner, and avatar of the @TexasGOP's authoritarianism. Image
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23 Mar
NEW: For years, U.S. lawyers have played key roles in kleptocratic networks, and yet escaped both scrutiny and regulations.

@CooleyOnEurasia and I looked at what effect this has had—and what can be done: foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/23/u-s…
One way to highlight just how useful U.S. lawyers are for kleptocrats:

Look at how many fewer anti-money laundering regulations U.S. lawyers face compared to European counterparts.

foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/23/u-s…
When it comes to anti-money laundering efforts, lobbyists for the U.S. legal sector constantly cite one solution: self-regulation.

But as one Georgetown paper last year found, there's "no evidence" U.S. lawyers have a good grasp on money laundering vulnerabilities.
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12 Mar
NEW: One Texas GOP legislator has proposed an "1836 Project" for "patriotic education"—which is a good chance to revisit just how central cementing slavery was to the Texas Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/161685…
Quick timeline of slavery and the Texas Revolution:

1829: Mexico abolishes slavery.
1830: Anglo lobbyists secure a slavery "exemption" for Texas.
1833: Stephen F. Austin: "Texas must be a slave country."
1835: First shots of the Texas Revolution.
The Texas Revolution: Less a successor to the American Revolution, and far more a precursor to the Confederate slave empire.

newrepublic.com/article/161685…
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