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18 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
RIP Colin Powell, a war criminal who lied to the UN and to Congress about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction; a lie that cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqis.
As the inimitable @schwarz writes, documents prove that Powell knew what he was saying was false, but he said it anyway.

theintercept.com/2018/02/06/lie…
. @normansolomon also illuminates us about Powell's previous war crimes in Vietnam in this essay.

consortiumnews.com/archive/colin3… Image

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19 Oct
So it turns out that, in a bid to hold on to power, Bolivian dictator Jeanine Añez paid Colombian mercenaries to kill her political opponent days before the 2020 election.

She's just been nominated for the EU Parliment's highest human rights award. 🙃🇧🇴
kawsachunnews.com/coup-regime-so…
The attempt failed. But Añez did oversee multiple massacres after the US/EU-backed coup of 2019 that put her in power.

I was one of the very few people covering these massacres, which were consistently whitewashed as "clashes" by @HRW and Western media.

mintpressnews.com/media-silent-b…
@hrw . @codepink co-founder @medeabenjamin actually witnessed one of these massacres. You can read her account of it here:

mintpressnews.com/human-rights-m…
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13 Oct
[Thread] Signs are pointing towards Belarus 🇧🇾 being the number 1 target of Western regime change activities right now.

My new investigation for @MintPressNews.

mintpressnews.com/us-writes-bela…
Last month, at the UN, Joe Biden put Belarus number one on the list of states in desperate need of regime change.
“We are committed to support the long-suppressed democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and we stand together to impose costs on the regime for its blatant disregard of international commitments,” the Biden administration wrote, as they announced new sanctions.
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11 Oct
There's really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. 😆🇨🇳 Image
"Too fast". Image
There sure are a lot of "dark sides" to China. ImageImageImageImage
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1 Oct
The constant vegan washing of an Apartheid state is disgusting. ImageImageImage
I wrote about this for @MintPressNews (see link) and I'll explain here why it is not only disingenuous, but also false.

mintpressnews.com/vegan-washing-…
Veganism at its core is an ideology of radical compassion for and non-violence towards all sentient beings.

That is fundamentally incompatible with the Apartheid system the Israeli government is implementing in the region.
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28 Sep
[Thread] FOIA’d documents show that the Pentagon worked closely with Hollywood, rewriting dozens of films and TV shows about the Afghan War to give them a more pro-war message, thus helping prolong the conflict.

My new @Mintpressnews investigation:

mintpressnews.com/pentagon-leane…
E.G., in 'Lone Survivor' (2013), the Pentagon changed the central scene to delete parts where US soldiers argue that they should commit war crimes by killing Afghan kids & hiding their bodies.

This was a real event that actually happened. But it did not fit the wanted narrative.
The Pentagon often insists that they only work with film and TV companies to ensure the military is portrayed more accurately.

But internal documents prove that this is not true, and that they realize they are in the "reputation" management business.
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30 Aug
The US military just droned a bunch of children.

This is how @DailyMail covered it. 🇦🇫🤢

"One of the most depraved front pages I’ve ever seen" - @Louis_Allday
The Daily Mail's own reporting makes clear that the U.S. killed three kids in the attack.

So they're essentially posing with the child survivors who lost their families.

And the military is being framed as a caring, compassionate force.

Unreal levels of propaganda.
On Afghanistan, I just published an investigation with @MintPressNews into the extraordinary costs of the project, including details of the enormous corruption among Afghan and US officials.

mintpressnews.com/ludicrous-cost…
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