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16 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Happy 50th birthday Tupac. Can never process the fact that he was just 25 years old. (and RIP Shock G, who produced this song)
And for levity, one of my favorite sketches ever:
I have no idea about the specific claims in this article, but Pac's family history of Black Panthers activism is fascinating, & the amount of shady LAPD cops around Death Row at the time is worth looking into. covertactionmagazine.com/2021/06/16/tup…
In the 1970s, Dr. Mutulu Shakur -- Pac's stepfather -- led an occupation at New York’s Lincoln Hospital and founded the first and only politically run drug treatment program funded by the US government. There's a doc about it that I can't wait to watch:

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3 Jun
UK-US-France cannot accept that the OPCW's own investigators found no evidence of a chlorine gas attack in Douma, because it undermines their pro-war narrative and exposes their allied sectarian death squads who staged the deception. Hence their laughable lies & evasions:
.@thomasphipps: "One was never a member of the FFM." He's referring to Ian Henderson. Here's what the OPCW's own leaked documents say about that: ImageImage
.@thomasphipps: "the other participated in a limited capacity." By "limited capacity", he means the inspector who WROTE THE ORIGINAL REPORT & was the scientific coordinator. By "full range of evidence/analysis", he means the fraud that tried to erase the actual evidence/analysis. Image
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1 Jun
On @AlMayadeenNews, I spoke about the Douma deception -- a faked April 2018 chemical attack that led to US-UK-France strikes on Syria & an OPCW cover-up of its investigation -- & visiting the hospital where NATO/Gulf-funded "White Helmets" staged a scene.
Here are sources (Western, for chauvinists) for the claim re: White Helmets staging the scene:
-BBC's Riam Dalati ()
-Robert Fisk (independent.co.uk/voices/syria-c…)
-James Harkin -- who found evidence of staging yet doesn't connect the dots (theintercept.com/2019/02/09/dou…)
My coverage of the Douma scandal, written and video, here:
(thenation.com/article/world/…)
(thegrayzone.com/category/opcw-…)
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27 May
In this insane and libelous clip, @cenkuygur & @AnaKasparian say that I am "paid by the Russians" (Cenk); "seem to be working for" dictators (Ana); and deny chemical attacks on Syrian children (Ana). I don't care about their disdain for me, but I do care about being smeared.
The only state I've worked for is Qatar, as an Al Jazeera producer. I've never worked for or been by paid Russia (or any "the Russians"), or any other state.

BTW, when it comes to paid shilling for "disgusting" people who kill children, @AnaKasparian doesn't need to look far:
Re: chemical attacks, I've covered one of the biggest pro-war deceptions since Iraq: the staged incident in Douma, & the OPCW cover-up scandal that exposed it. Doing Trump's bidding, "journalists" like @cenkuygur & @AnaKasparian have completely ignored it. thenation.com/article/world/…
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19 May
Manafort aide Konstantin Kilimnik has been accused of being a Russian spy who shared polling data w/ Russia in 2016.

In an exclusive interview w/ me, Kilimnik refutes the evidence-free claims about him, & shares evidence exposing a key Mueller falsehood. realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…
In April, the Treasury Department -- with no evidence -- called Kilimnik a "Russian Intelligence Services agent" who gave Russian intelligence "sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy" in 2016.

These are "senseless and false accusations," Kilimnik says.
Kilimnik says that he shared general, mostly publicly available, outdated polling data with Ukrainian clients and US contacts -- not Russia. His account is backed up by key Mueller witness Rick Gates, who tells me that the Mueller team "cherry-picked" his testimony.
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8 May
.@charlie_savage @EricSchmittNYT @mschwirtz are the NYT reporters who were fed the "Russian bounties" propaganda.

Instead of reckoning with getting used, they're now doubling down with more CIA scraps thrown their way.

nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/…
Although they add their best spin, this new story further weakens the "Russian Bounties."

Declassified Biden NSC talking points contain this amazing line: "We do not have evidence that the Kremlin directed this operation, but we call on the Russian government to explain itself."
In June, these NYT reporters -- & the disgraced @rcallimachi 🤔-- claimed that alleged Russian financial transfers to Taliban "were most likely part of a bounty program" and "bolstered" CIA claims.

No mention of these alleged transfers in new NSC talking points. Where'd they go?
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7 May
Dirty Wars require cover-ups. So when it comes to Syria, there's a lot. We've seen the OPCW censor its own investigators. We're also seeing the NATO states that poured millions into the "White Helmets" desperately thwarting any public disclosure: volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg…
This Dutch outlet reports that a Netherlands cabinet minister, Sigrid Kaag, intended to inform lawmakers about fraud at Mayday Rescue, the group behind the White Helmets. But Kaag was pressured into not sending the letter. Netherlands saw itself politically as "extra vulnerable."
In Feb 2020, diplomats met in Istanbul about the White Helmets fraud. Discussion topics included "avoiding political risks" and "minimal exposure."

This came shortly after the death of White Helmets founder/UK operative James le Mesurier, who had admitted to financial fraud.
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