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7 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
(Thread): My new @MintPressNews report into how Israeli propagandists are trying to push back against the new @hrw report labeling Israel an apartheid state and calling for sanctions, feat. @AsaWinstanley

mintpressnews.com/human-rights-w…
The Israeli government is using an app called Act.IL to organize its supporters into troll armies to challenge its findings.

Act.IL users are active on Facebook, Insta, YouTube, Twitter and all other big platforms.

Below is an app screenshot
I messaged Facebook, YouTube, Quora and other big platforms to ask whether they thought this conduct was legal on their platforms. But none of them replied.
Could this be because Facebook already has extensive ties to the Israeli security state? Former Israeli Minister of Justice Emi Palmor is on its oversight board, after all.

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7 May
(Thread) The woke CIA is back with a whole set of new videos.

1.“Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I always struggled with the idea that I may not be able to discuss my personal life at work. Imagine my surprise when I noticed a rainbow on CIA Director Brennan’s lanyard.”
These are all real and taken from an unlisted CIA YT playlist I was sent.

“Ive been able to inspire not only women to pursue being on the Director’s protective staff but also people who wouldn’t normally consider themselves qualified to be an agent” says a POC mom of two boys.
“I want people with disabilities to know that the agency does hire,” says a blind employee, claiming the CIA’s top goal is to “create a more inclusive environment”.
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1 May
Last winter, the US govt removed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from its terrorist list, claiming they hadn't existed in a decade.

But in 2018, they were at war with them in Afghanistan.

My new investigation into this shadowy group (thread):

mintpressnews.com/us-was-at-war-…
Here's a 2018 video of the NATO commander of Afghanistan detailing how they are at war with ETIM, bombing them in order to reduce terrorism in Xinjiang Province.

But now, official US policy is that they don't exist.

So who are the ETIM?

ETIM hope to start up a Muslim ethnostate in Xinjiang. For years, they were persnally bankrolled by Osama Bin Laden, and its leader, Abdul Haq is on Al-Qaeda's council of elders.

US intel concluded that in 2001, ETIM protected OBL and helped him escape from a US capture attempt.
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17 Apr
Exclusive: my @MintPressNews investigation into the London department training many of the West's spooks and spies, and its connections to supposedly independent intelligence outfit Bellingcat. (Thread)

mintpressnews.com/school-for-spo…
No fewer than 6 Bellingcat contributors all did the same Master's course at the Department of War Studies at King's College, London (KCL).
KCL is known as the training ground for British, US and European intelligence operatives.

“I deeply appreciate the work that you do to train and to educate our future national security leaders, many of whom are in this audience,” ex-CIA boss Leon Panetta said.
Read 6 tweets
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12 Apr
(Thread) Support the tropes: My @FAIRmediawatch investigation into how media use progressive rhetoric and human rights discourse to get liberals into supporting war, regime change and sanctions.

fair.org/home/support-t…
"Think of the women"

In Afghanistan, media tried to convince us intervention was desireable to save women from oppression(left). When that liberation never came, 10 years later they tug on our heartstrings again, claiming we can't leave, else women will be even worse off(right)
"He's attacking his own people"

Whenever 🇺🇸 wants to intervene somewhere, DC pundits begin bleating about the brutality of its leader and its terrible human rights

eg. interest in Libyan human rights: a huge spike in interest 3/11 (just b4 the intervention).After that? Silence
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12 Apr
(Thread) Bellingcat presents itself as a neutral intelligence service of and for the people.

But my new @MintPressNews investigation blows the lid off their connections to Western governments and the national security state.

mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-int…
Its Senior investigator was a UK army officer in Afghanistan. Another BC contributor spent 10 years in a senior position in GCHQ (the UK's NSA).
Plenty of US spooks as well, with BC writers coming from the US Secret Service and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Other BC writers started off in the Australian, Dutch and Finnish militaries/ministries of defense.
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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

fair.org/home/support-t…
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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