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Apr 24

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1518223710754414594

This article, posted today on-line and printed in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, is yet another deplorable example of Professor Timothy Snyder's role as a historical falsifier and apologist for Ukrainian fascism. 1/

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1518223710754414594

Snyder mockingly dismisses Russian references to Ukrainian nationalists' mass murder of Poles and Jews during World War II as "a past that never happened" and "nonsensical and necrophiliac accounts of history." 2/

But at an earlier stage of his career, Snyder wrote detailed accounts of the genocidal activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). His article, "The Causes of Ukrainian-Polish Ethnic Cleansing 1943," appeared in the May 2003 edition of Past and Present. 3/

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Apr 23

The massive US-NATO arms shipments to #Ukraine️ are based on dangerous assumptions in Washington. The FT writes that the Biden administration's previous concerns about Russian retaliation "has been all but discarded." 1/ #UkraineRussiaWar

According to the FT: "There has also been a reassessment of the threat posed by Russia's nuclear arsenal, a sabre that Putin rattled early in the war but which analysts now believe he is unlikely to deploy." On what is this assumption based? What if they are wrong? 2/

Boasting publicly about the Javelin missiles and other advanced weaponry the US and NATO are pouring into Ukraine, Biden is either assuming that Russia won't attack the convoys or, more likely, is actually seeking to provoke an attack. In either case, he is acting recklessly. 3/

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Apr 5

Within weeks of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it became clear that the claim that Saddam Hussein's had developed weapons of mass destruction -- the critical justification of the war -- was a lie that had been concocted by the Bush administration. 1/ #Propaganda

The #NYTimes, which had propagated the WMD lies, manufactured, ex post facto, another justification for the war. On April 25, 2003, it published a front page photo of a skull, which it claimed was of a political prisoner murdered by the Iraqi regime. 2/

Two days later, on April 27, Thomas L. Friedman wrote a column titled, "The Meaning of a Skull." He claimed that the discovery of the skull rendered the issue of WMDs irrelevant. 3/

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Apr 5

In the aftermath of World War I, there was extensive study of the immense role of #Propaganda in the mobilization of public support during four years of bloody conflict. It was recognized that all the conflicting states made use of propaganda. 1/ #Ukraine

The British sociologist Harold Lasswell's 1927 book, "Propaganda Technique in World War I", described propaganda as the "means of converting masses of people to desired view points," making use of "stories, rumors, reports, pictures and other forms of social communication." 2/

In an article entitled "World Propaganda War," published in The North American Review just 5 years before the outbreak of World War II, writer William E. Berchtold warned: 3/

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Apr 4

https://twitter.com/tomfriedman/status/1510949284568604680

Thomas Friedman's commentary on Ukraine continues a 30-year pattern of lying justifications for US imperialism. Back in 2003, after it became clear that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Friedman concocted the claim that the evidence had been "scattered." 1/

https://twitter.com/tomfriedman/status/1510949284568604680

He also attempted to shift attention away from non-existing WMDs, claiming that the US invasion was a necessary response to atrocities allegedly committed by Saddam Hussein. He wrote on Many 14, 2003: 2/

"So just as it is becoming...clear that many weapons sites -- including nuclear research sites -- which might have proved that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, have been looted and the evidence scattered, the same is happening with sites of his human mass destruction." 3/

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Apr 4

The current barrage of reports of Russian atrocities fall within the category of state-organized propaganda. Claims made by the Ukrainian government and NATO are accepted without a trace of independent verification. There are no reports of Ukrainian atrocities. 1/

@nytimes

The @nytimes is nothing other than an organ of state propaganda, working in tandem with the government intelligence agencies and providing legitimacy to whatever narrative serves the interests of US foreign policy. Its role in justifying the invasion of Iraq is well known. 2/

Its contribution to Bush's PR war prior to the 2003 invasion exemplified what the Columbia Journalism Review described as "a compliant press that uncritically repeated almost every fraudulent administration claim about the threat posed to America by Saddam Hussein." 3/

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