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Feb 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: The African Union has suspended the decision to grant Israel observer status
Respect to Algeria for never backing down on this issue and always being one of the strongest defenders of the Palestinian cause.
Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw is one of the international lawyers that simultaneously launched a complaint to revoke Israel’s observer status. Listen to our conversation about Israel and the African Union:

This. The South Africans know apartheid when they see it

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Feb 4
Sanctions kill people. They're not "less brutal", except in the minds of arm-chair Americans who've never set foot outside their own country and have no idea what their foreign policy does to others.
It's mind-boggling how fucking ignorant some people are. This is basically the feel-good version of imperialism: let's coerce and bully other countries, but we'll do it by cutting off their food and medicine instead of through bombs, so we can sleep at night.

Vile.
Worth noting also that if you're under US sanctions (which are unilateral, illegal punitive measures under international law) the US has most probably already used arms against you directly or through proxies.

So this idea the US can starve people to death peacefully is BS.
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Jan 18
The British government has passed so many awful, authoritarian laws this past year: allowing undercover police to spy on, kill or torture people, giving British troops immunity for war crimes, stripping people of their citizenship without notice.
Unsurprisingly, the media barely covered or opposed any of this. If you ask anyone on the street, I'd wager most Brits have no idea.
Can you really call it a democracy when the public hasn't been properly informed of the (very reactionary) laws imposed them?
If you want to learn about these laws:

Nationality and Borders bill:

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill:

Overseas Operations:

Spy Cops bill:
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Jan 13
"They used to take the Holy Quran, put it under their feet and pee on it; place us in the 'satanic room'."

Mansour Adayfi describes being tortured at Guantanamo Bay. This week marks 20 years since the first detainees were brought to the US base.

Mansour Adayfi @MansoorAdayfi was kidnapped at 18, sold to the CIA for bounty money and kept for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay. He has never been charged or convicted of a crime. This is my full interview with him about his experiences there:

I cover US politics, international affairs and the Middle East. Subscribe for independent journalism:

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Jan 3
Two years ago today, Donald Trump ordered the assassination of General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. The US murdered two men engaged in the fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Western imperialism; a provocative act of war and murder declared unlawful by the United Nations.
The US claimed that Soleimani posed an "imminent threat". This is an out-right lie. The UN found no such thing. Moreover, Soleimani had just landed in Baghdad, on an official visit at the invitation of the Iraqi Prime Minister himself. He was murdered shortly after by a US drone.
Trump told Congress the assassination was in "self-defense" -- for things that had happened in the past. Some of these things were not even "attacks" but perceived threats. One example included a US drone shot down by Iran -- after it illegally entered Iranian airspace.
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Dec 10, 2021
LIVE THREAD: Julian Assange v Govt of USA

Today the High Court will deliver a judgement on the US government's appeal in the #Assange case. The US is appealing a UK judge's decision not to extradite Assange to the US.

I’m attending remotely and will post live updates below.
I am now connected to the court with other journalists. The judgement is expected to be handed down very shortly at 10:15am London time
In January a judge found US prisons conditions to be too oppressive & could drive Assange to suicide.
The US appealed on 5 grounds. It has offered diplomatic assurances which appear to say Assange won't be jailed at ADX Florence or placed in Special Administrative Measures(SAMs)
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Oct 28, 2021
LIVE THREAD: Julian Assange vs Govt of the United States

Day 2 of Extradition Appeal

I’m attending #Assange’s High Court hearing remotely. I’ll have live updates below on day 2 of the appeal hearing, taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.

Live updates below:
The hearing is set to begin at 10:30am London time, in less than fifteen minutes. I and other journalists are still waiting to be let in as far as I can tell.
Yesterday, Julian #Assange was in fact prevented from coming to the appeal hearing at the High Court. He requested to be there in person but his request was rejected.

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