Washington Post headlines, but they get increasingly more insane. (Thread)
"Too much democracy"
Democracy dies in darkness
The guy who wrote this is literally the director of a drone company. 🙃
Staying on the Iran theme...
Desperate to start World War 3
The national security state should do MORE psyops is quite the take.
Maybe this Yemen War isn't so bad after all!
Unbelievable.
This, however, is my all-time favorite headline from the WaPo. From the "war is peace" messaging to the "us" in the headline to the incredible graphic, you could write an entire thesis on this insane article.
Plug for my investigation into how Jeff Bezos turned the Post into a vehicle for his own business interests. --->
In 2018, Facebook announced a deal with the Atlantic Council, which would give the latter significant influence over the world's news feeds, controlling what billions see -- and what they don't see.
The Atlantic Council is a Pentagon-funded think tank with no fewer than 7 former CIA directors on its board. It was founded as a NATO offshoot project, is staffed by NATO generals, and acts as the military alliance's brain.
In other words, giving the Atlantic Council control over 3 billion people's newsfeeds is a half-step away from state censorship, but on a global level.
Even more worryingly, Facebook is absolutely teeming with US spies.
My research has uncovered dozens of former national security state agents working in key positions in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, and Security.
Here, in this official Meta (Facebook) video, a guy called "Aaron" is identified as the company's face of content regulation.
You'd never guess from this video that Aaron is a CIA agent.
Football legend Diego Maradona showing his Fidel Castro tattoo to Castro himself (2001).
A poor boy from the slums of Buenos Aires, Maradona grew up to become a sporting legend.
Despite his riches, he remained a revolutionary socialist throughout his life; one who described Castro as a "father," and said that he "hated the United States with all my strength".
He also supported liberation struggles around the world. "In my heart I am Palestinian," Maradona said
Maradona with his Che Guevara tattoo.
Maradona with socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sporting a "Stop Bush" t-shirt.
He considered the US to be the center of capitalism and imperialism. "I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength," he said.
Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world.
In March, Trump carried out 14 separate attacks against the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble.
The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital, Sanaa, for therapy.
The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”
“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.
These images give a taste of what repeated US bombardment did to it.
Syria 🇸🇾
In 2017, on Trump's orders, US forces repeatedly bombed the National Hospital in Raqqa, Syria, carrying out 20 separate attacks against the building, including using white phosphorous munitions.
A highly controversial and widely-banned weapon, white phosphorous instantly ignites upon contact with oxygen, sticks to clothes and skin, and burns at an extremely high temperature. It cannot be extinguished by water, leaving those affected to suffer excruciating – and deadly – injuries.
At least 30 civilians were killed, some likely due to the effects of the white phosphorous, which causes respiratory damage and organ failure.
Thread🧵 In light of Iran's allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it's important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes.
Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200.
Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board - a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed.
Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.
Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science.
Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain.