Share this page!

David North Profile picture
Twitter logo
May 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In a NY Times article titled, "After the fall of Mariupol, the fates of hundreds of fighters hangs in the balance," the following amazing sentence appears: 1/
"The Azov regiment has been given outsized coverage by the country’s [Russia's] state-run news media, and its connection with far-right movements gave a veneer of credibility to the Kremlin’s false claims that its forces were fighting Nazis in Ukraine." 2/
The #AzovBattalion does not merely have a "connection with far-right movements"; it is a large and powerful fascist force that has become a dominant element in Ukraine's military. 3/
Moreover, if the fascist identity of Azov Battalion gives "a veneer of credibility" to Russia's assertion that it is fighting Nazis in Ukraine, how can this claim be described as "false." The dishonest Times is again caught in a lie. 4/4

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with David North

David North Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @DavidNorthWSWS

David North Profile picture
May 15
The @nytimes is memorializing one million US #COVID19 deaths with a feature that combines excellent graphics with dishonest and cynical commentary. An opening section headline reads: "At the start of the pandemic, few understood how high the death toll might climb." False! 1/
Epidemiologists had been warning for years of the potentially devastating consequences of a pandemic. As early as January 2020, there was sufficient information available to know that the spread of #SARSCoV2 would exact a terrible human toll. 2/
On Jan 25, 2020, when only 2 cases had been reported in the US, the WSWS warned "that there are no coordinated global mechanisms in place to cope with a health crisis that could easily spiral out of the control of authorities, placing the lives of countless people in danger." 3/
Read 11 tweets
David North Profile picture
May 10
The Afterword of @TimothyDSnyder's "Bloodlands" makes staggeringly inaccurate statements. Portraying the #Holocaust as just one element of a territorially-determined phenomenon of mass killing in East Europe, Snyder plays down the extent of West and Central European victims. 1/
He asserts: "German Jews were not very numerous, and most of them survived." In fact, of Germany's pre-Third Reich population of approximately 525,000 Jews, an estimated 160,000 were murdered. The survivors consisted almost entirely of Jews who had left Germany before 1939. 2/
Snyder continues: "Ninety-seven percent of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust had nothing to do with German culture." A peculiar choice of words. Does this exclude Dutch Jews, of whom approximately 120,000 (out of a pre-war population of 140,000) were murdered? 3/
Read 17 tweets
David North Profile picture
Apr 25
Prime Minister #ScottMorrison has declared that the establishment of a Chinese naval base in the #SolomonIslands would be crossing a "red Line" for Australia. “We won’t be having Chinese military naval bases in our region on our doorstep.” 1/
thehill.com/policy/interna…
But how does Morrison's declaration, backed by the US, square with the US-NATO insistence that #Ukraine has an absolute and non-negotiable right to join its military alliance, regardless of Russia's objections? 2/
Morrison considers the Solomon Islands to be on the "doorstep" of Australia. Honiara, the capital of the Islands, is separated from Sydney by 2,858 kilometers of ocean water. That's a pretty big doorstep! 3/ Image
Read 4 tweets
David North Profile picture
Apr 24
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/
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/
Read 16 tweets
David North Profile picture
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 Image
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/
Read 6 tweets
David North Profile picture
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 Image
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/
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(