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Mar 22 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
.@Tim_Hayward_ tweeted out a @TheGrayzoneNews article by @MaxBlumenthal that questions the allegation that Russia bombed the Mariupol theater.

This was deemed sufficient grounds by the @thetimes & online McCarthyites to now accuse him of “spreading Russian propaganda”:
Just look at this lede, in which a purported news outlet chastises Hayward for merely raising a question that is a tenet of doing journalism: “What do we know?”
Here’s the original sin/article: thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bom…

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Mar 17
WP: “Western officials say that while they cannot independently verify much of the [battlefield] information that Kyiv puts out… it nonetheless represents highly effective stratcom.”

Western journalists interested in journalism, not Ukrainian stratcom, should keep that in mind.
Ukrainians are “really excellent in stratcom — media, info ops, and also psy-ops,” a senior NATO official said. “I hope Western countries take their lead from them.”

I doubt Kiev would be receiving NATO praise for its “psy-ops” if Western countries hadn’t already taken the lead.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Mar 16
Compare the script read by @chrislhayes to the candid, recorded view of John Kerry on why Russia intervened in Syria -- "they didn’t want a Daesh [ISIS] government" -- and marvel that a Secretary of State is more honest/ accurate than a liberal journalist:
More on Kerry's comments: mondoweiss.net/2017/01/watche…

The next time @chrislhayes gets sanctimonious on Syria, perhaps he'll consider airing John Kerry's view on Russia's motives for intervening in Syria: the US wanted to leverage ISIS's advance to force regime change in Damascus.
Congrats to @chrislhayes for devoting 17 minutes to 11 years of war in Syria without once mentioning the dirty war waged by your own government & its allies. I'm sure your Russian state TV counterparts would find that narrative obedience impressive.
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Mar 6
"What Putin is doing in Ukraine really is like what Bush did to Iraq", and those lefties who "don't get that are deeply unpleasant weirdos," @BenBurgis declares.

Let's put aside his totally pleasant ad hominem and evaluate his argument.
@BenBurgis Bush fabricated a pretext & sabotaged diplomacy to invade Iraq, thousands of miles away.

In neighboring Ukraine, Russia saw US back a 2014 coup; fuel a proxy war that has killed 14,000; try to expand NATO there; & meanwhile kill arms control treaties that limit US-RU arsenals.
@BenBurgis A peace accord to end the Donbas war was reached in Minsk in 2015. The US says it supports it, but has put no pressure on Kiev to implement it, and the reason is obvious: it would take NATO membership off the table. See e.g. Anatol Lieven:
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Mar 3
Thanks to @danabrams for having me on @DanAbramsLive @NewsNation. We debated the current campaign, from Europe to the US, to take @RT_com off of the airwaves.

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Mar 1
For people who just watched me on Jimmy Dore, here are the links I promised: @I_Katchanovski's study on how the 2014 Maidan massacre was "perpetrated principally by members of the Maidan opposition, specifically its far-right elements." canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…
@I_Katchanovski Here's the leaked phone in which senior US official Victoria Nuland and then-US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt select the post-coup Ukrainian government:
And here's the call in which EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton & Estonia's foreign minister discuss evidence that the group behind the Maidan snipers "was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition," -- i.e. the US-picked coup gov't.
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Feb 28
Zelensky won on a platform of peace and quickly reneged, refusing to implement the Minsk accords. In his defense, he faced threats from far-right forces who threatened to coup him. US offered him no help. He's now presented as a hero for one main reason: he follows US orders.
If you doubt that the US plays such a major role in Ukraine, listen to what a top Zelensky aide told Time magazine: when Biden came to power, Zelensky offered him "a welcome gift" to "fit with the U.S. agenda": targeting Ukraine's pro-Russia opposition. mate.substack.com/p/stoking-war-…
The US is so influential in Ukraine that when a Russia-allied Ukrainian politician brokered a deal for Russia to provide free COVID vaccines, Zelensky said no -- along with the State Department. Why does the State Department get a say in Ukraine's COVID vaccine policy?
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