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Feb 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
On this day in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah was deposed as President of Ghana in a CIA coup. His editor & confidante June Milne believed the publication of his book ‘Neo-Colonialism’ the previous year was the “final straw” in the CIA’s decision to depose him.
The CIA wrote a review of Nkrumah's book at the end of 1965 that concluded by reporting copies of it had been sent to the African Division of the Deputy Directorate for Plans (DDP) - the CIA's covert action arm - for study & “whatever action these components consider advisable”.
I wrote about this and the broader context of books as propaganda here: roape.net/2021/11/04/lib…
In the same fascinating interview, Milne also speaks in detail about her belief that Nkrumah was poisoned to death and did not die of natural causes.
The book can be read here: prisoncensorship.info/archive/books/…

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During the Nakba, Zionist forces committed the most unspeakable & barbaric acts imaginable in a deliberate campaign of terror against the Palestinians. Some of the most disturbing oral accounts were collated by Rosemary Sayigh in “Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries”.
Sayigh’s book should be read in its entirety, but @stevesalaita’s excellent review of it for @LiberatedTexts makes clear its importance and relevance: liberatedtexts.com/reviews/a-hist…
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Iran completely dominated an abysmal Wales side & deservedly won that match. The BBC’s analysis - Jurgen Klinsmann in particular - implying they only won because of the ref/their “gamesmanship” & they’re essentially cheats because it’s “in their culture” is an absolute disgrace.
Especially galling from Klinsmann who was a such notorious cheat/diver in his career that his goal celebration was a fake dive.
Klinsmann unchallenged comments were essentially offensive tropes about sly ‘orientals’ who can’t be trusted and don’t respect the rules because that’s their culture. It was like listening to a British colonial official report on ‘the Persian mind’ in the 19th century.
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Sep 12, 2022
“Charles misused his influence to shield Peter Ball, a former Anglican bishop and old friend, from punishment after the cleric had admitted sexually abusing a young novice, an independent inquiry found” nytimes.com/2019/05/10/wor…
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Mountbatten: heraldscotland.com/politics/19731…
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The existence of Israel as an ethnocratic settler colony is in itself a perpetual act of violence. A state that considers one group of people to be human beings but not another can only be created & maintained through systematic, daily acts of violence on every conceivable level.
This is important to consider when you see people condemn Israel’s cruel acts of violence against Palestinians, regardless of whether they are children or elderly as “senseless”, because the reality is that such acts, however sadistic, in fact have a clear intent and purpose.
Fayez Sayegh presciently identified the three defining characteristics of the Zionist settler-state in 1965: (1) its racial complexion and conduct; (2) its addiction to violence; and (3) its expansionist stance.” liberatedtexts.com/reviews/the-ca…
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All war reporting must be viewed in this context:
More info on the Cuba example mentioned here:
The final report of the Church Committee that Stockwell mentions in the clip above can be read in full online. Among other things it revealed details of numerous US intelligence operations including Operation Mockingbird, MKULTRA and COINTELPRO: intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…
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Surprised to see this in Newsweek:

“in 24 days of conflict, Russia has flown some 1,400 strike sorties and delivered almost 1,000 missiles (by contrast, the United States flew more sorties and delivered more weapons in the first day of the 2003 Iraq war)”newsweek.com/putins-bombers…
The source for much of the story is the DIA, US military intelligence, so this leaked info that pushes back very strongly against the media narrative of Putin intentionally killing civilians etc, likely reflect an internal disagreement on strategy, maybe US military and the CIA.
*between the US military and CIA I meant.
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