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13 Jul, 3 tweets, 2 min read
A ton of corporate media, including the Financial Times, Fox News, The New York Times and The Guardian have used a pic of a PRO-govt rally in Cuba 🇨🇺 to illustrate their articles on anti-government protests, falsely claiming the huge crowds to be on the side of the US.
They all just blindly copied and pasted the Associated Press' pic.

But to anyone who knows about Cuba, the massive red and black flags saying "26 Julio" (Fidel Castro's political party) should have been a dead give away! (ht @BenjaminNorton)
Did you know that the Cuban government trains US doctors for free, as long as they go back home and serve underprivileged communities?

I spoke with a number of Cuba-trained US doctors for this article.

mintpressnews.com/meet-americans…

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11 Jul
Most people don't read past the headline to know that it was 618 workers out of 677,348 who received the vaccine. Or 0.09%.

The only conclusion is @Reuters is deliberately publishing anti-vax propaganda against the Chinese vaccine.

Unreal levels of irresponsibility.
Reuters has been cynically pumping out anti (Chinese) vax stuff for months.

Read the headline. Think what it implies. Then read the passage below it from half way through the article.
The @nytimes is also in on the action.

If you read the article, you'll know the Brazilian guy in question committed suicide.

So in what world is this in any way newsworthy?

Only if it can be used to pump up fears against China and its vaccine.
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9 Jul
[Thread] My new @MintPressNews long form article on why the lab leak has gone viral in independent/alternative media, despite the lack of evidence supporting it.

mintpressnews.com/why-liberals-s…
In recent weeks, alt media stars like @TYT, @ggreenwald, @mtaibbi, @jimmy_dore, @thomasfrank_, and @krystalball have promoted the theory.

This is not an attack on them. Rather, I hope they read this and reconsider their positions.
Much of the new wave of pro-lab leak thought is based on the work of Nicholas Wade, a disgraced racist pseudoscientist who thinks black people are poorer because they're genetically more violent and lazy. Wade's theories on Jews have earned plaudits from the KKK and David Duke. Image
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4 Jul
The US government is funding NGOs in Venezuela that are urging people not to get the Cuban vaccine - the only one that is available.

Unreal levels of savagery. 🇺🇸🇻🇪
There isn't even one word the the story about the WHO, yet Bloomberg puts them in the headline to make it seem like it it's the Cuban and Venezuelan government who are the anti-science ones. Pathetic.
Also, as @v_zilber points out, "homemade vaccines" makes them sound like the medical equivalent of moonshine, adding to the scaremongering.
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2 Jul
[Thread] Saagar Enjeti presents himself as a pro-worker, conservative populist. But his history suggests otherwise.

My new @MintPressNews investigation.

mintpressnews.com/saagar-enjeti-…
2. Enjeti studied security studies at Georgetown and counter-terrorism at an IDF-linked Israeli university where Mossad spies are trained.
3. He then went to work for the neocon think tank, the Institite for the Study of War, founded by the Kagan dynasty, the intellectual driving force behind the Iraq War. How he can square that with being an anti-war outsider I just don't know.
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26 Jun
[Thread] My new @MintPressNews report into how the CIA fueled a massive opium addiction crisis in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.

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When the USSR invaded Afghanistan, the CIA pumped billions into the Mujahideen, allowing them to take control over global heroin production to fund their war. Production went from 100 tons per year to over 2,000 by 1990.
After the Taliban came to power, they actually almost totally eradicated opium production. But then the US invasion happened, and opium production exploded:
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18 Jun
[Thread] The Washington Post presents itself as an adversarial newspaper.

But it consistently defends the interests of the wealthy and powerful (including its owner Jeff Bezos).

My new @MintPressNews piece:

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The Post's editorial board has consistently taken strongly conservative, elitist positions on virtually every major issue, including some of these all-time hot takes:
Unsurprisingly, the newspaper owned by the world's richest man has consistently opposed taxing the rich. I'm sure that's just a coincidence though.
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