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Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In moments of crisis, people often show their true colors.
It's unbelievable how accurate this old map is.
Unbelievable racism from an Al-Jazeera anchor here.

I've made a tweet thread compiling the most racist takes (there's a lot of them):

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Feb 27
[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.

1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
2. CBS News

"This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city" - CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata
3. Al-Jazeera

"What's compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East...or North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live next door to."
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Feb 26
[Thread] New from me. Did Tucker Carlson really fight for the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s? Newly uncovered recordings suggest that he might have.

Read my new @MintPressNews article on Tucker’s background here.

mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson…
In an unaired interview from 2005, Carlson reveals that he went to Nicaragua in the 1980s to, in his own words, “get involved in the war and support the side that was right, which was not the Sandinista side.” A 2017 interview confirms as much.
An old newsletter from his college reveals that he went to Nicaragua on at least two occasions.
Read 6 tweets
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Feb 18
New from me. As tensions ramp up, disclosures from CIA front group the NED show it has spent $22.4m in 🇺🇦 since 2014, funding pro-west media, pro-west political parties and pushing through a massive privatisation campaign to benefit western corporations.

mintpressnews.com/documents-reve…
The NED is funding a network of hawkish media outlets in🇺🇦, who are often used to launder nat sec talking points back into American life. Their status as Ukrainian orgs gives them a cache, but it is rarely, if ever, revealed that they’re directly in the pay of the US govt.
A key target for the NED is the eastern, Russian-speaking Donbas area. The word “Donbas” is mentioned in 52 times in the short grant summaries, while “eastern" Ukraine is referred to over 100 times. In other words, they’re flooding the region with pro-US propaganda.
Read 9 tweets
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Feb 15
New: 37 of the top 100 US military contractors are profiting from mass incarceration.

My new study for @MintPressNews shows how the military industrial complex feeds off the prison industrial complex. (Thread 🧵)

mintpressnews.com/1-3-big-defens…
US prisoners are crucial to helping the war machine function, with slave prison labor producing parts for Patriot missiles, F-15 and F-16 jets, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, plus uniforms for all three major branches of the military.
Americans are locked up at a rate unseen anywhere else in the world. Prisoners are paid as little as $0.23 per hour, helping corporate America compete with hyper exploited Asian swetshop labor. It also helps union bust and drive down wages of others.
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Jan 29
Hello, operator? Get me Edward Saïd's number, fast!
Wow, where could they ever have got that idea from?
Western corporate media (including the @NYTimes, @washingtonpost and @Reuters) have, for years now, been fearmongering about the Chinese and Russian vaccines in an attempt to stop the world taking them up.

My report into the subject for @MintPressNews:

mintpressnews.com/corporate-medi…
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Jan 20
[Thread] Twitter is partnering with a crazy, hawkish, US-govt & arms industry funded think tank to regulate false info online.

This should be alarming to anyone who cares about truth, free speech or peace, as my new @MintPressNews investigation explains:

mintpressnews.com/aspi-think-tan…
The think tank— the Australian Stretegic Partnership Initiative (ASPI) — have already deleted hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Russian, & Iranian accounts, and consider chellenging Western govt narratives about these countries as evidence enough for permabans.
ASPI is directly funded by Western governments and by the arms industry, and pumps out relentless pro-war propaganda on their website.

Around half of its executive council also sit on the boards of weapons giants, sparking a ludicrous conflict of interests.
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