I feel honored to share my birthday today with legendary Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh who fearlessly challenged Obama's Red Line in Syria on the #Ghouta chemical attack in 2013. He exposed US weapons going to jihadi's in Syria and Libya. A true hero.
The New York Times and several corporate media outlets now refuse to publish Hersh for his courageous work in helping preventing US escalation in Syria. Bookmark this historical piece of gold by Seymour Hersh: the Red Line & the Rat Line. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…
We had the honor of interviewing Seymour Hersh at @MintPressNews on his reporting in regards to the chemical attack in Ghouta, Syira alongside an MIT chemical weapons researcher and former UN weapons inspector & even Elliot Higgens from @bellingcat. mintpressnews.com/seymour-hersh-…
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Joe Biden called Putin a war criminal, yet Biden had no problem personally approving $735 million worth of missiles to Israel last May when it was bombing Gaza - the world's largest open air prison - targeting homes, schools, hospitals & journalists.
On Yemen, the world's worst humanitarian crisis where Saudi Arabia regularly bombs residential homes and school buses carrying children, Biden personally approved $650 million worth of air to air missiles to Saudi Arabia in his first term after vowing to end the war.
On Afghanistan, where the US waged two decades of war and turned the country into a narco state, Biden personally approved the freezing of $7 billion with of the country's assets while 23 million Afghanis face famine, as it's set to be the world's next worst humanitarian crisis.
In 2002, the US passed the Hague Invasion Act that says the US can invade the Netherlands if the International Criminal Court tried to charge any American for war crimes.
4 million victims of the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen + more will go unpunished.
Recall how Mike Pompeo threatened ICC staff if they opened an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan & into "top ally" Israel.
In 2018, Iraq war architect and neocon John Bolton threatened the ICC with sanctions if it opened up an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan, or if any investigation was opened into Israel or any US allies.
You're not doing yourself any favors by turning to Western mainstream corporate media as your source of news on the Ukraine Russia crisis when outlets & pundits paid for by Lockheed Martin & Raytheon spent the last decade manufacturing consent for a Cold War against Russia.
Silicon Valley - Big Tech social media giants are part of the ideological apparatus of the surveillance capitalist state working directly with the CIA & NATO funded think tanks like the Atlantic Council to control your newsfeed.
Meaning, Propaganda is prioritized.
The fog of war erupts in the confusion caused by the chaos of war. And in the media, it’s an intentional phenomenon that makes it difficult to separate fact from fiction.
While the battles over war narratives evolve they all have a common goal: to distort reality on the ground.
Since Joe Biden became president, the US has shipped three consignments of arms to Ukraine, adding to the $2 billion of security assistance the US has extended to Ukraine since 2014. mintpressnews.com/russiagate-ukr…
NATO has been saber rattling along Russia's borders to new levels since Joe Biden took office:
The US has deployed nuclear-capable B-1 bombers to Norway for the first time in NATO’s history. This year’s NATO war exercises include US-led Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze +
British-Ukrainian Cossack Mace and Warrior Watcher, Romanian-Ukrainian Riverine, and Polish-Ukrainian Three Swords and Silver Sabre.
I'm in Caracas, Venezuela as an independent journalist to observe the Presidential elections with delegates from all around the world. I'm representing the United States and also the only hijabbi ✊
Will be posting live updates on their Democratic electoral process @MintPressNews
I'm accompanied by over 300 election observers from 55 countries. #Venezuela
Major focuses of the electoral delegation:
1. Confronting "dictator" fake news in the West
2. How Venezuela is recovering from US hybrid war & murderous economic sanctions
Julian Assange is being targeted for exposing crimes committed against humanity by the US Empire & corruption of the ruling class 1% class. It's not just Assange who is in court, but our right to know is being criminalized.
So what exactly did he bring to light? [Thread] 🧵
In 2009, Assange exposed how weeks before the US invasion of Iraq, Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to spy on UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon & other UN reps from China, France, Russia & UK by obtaining DNA, iris scans, fingerprints & passwords part of illegal surveillance+
pattern that included the eavesdropping on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2003.