I for one am shocked that the paragons of media ethics* @AlanRMacLeod, @Lowkey0nline and @MintPressNews have not yet commented on the fact that one of their former colleagues has confessed to committing an antisemitic hate crime.
(*apologists for mass murdering dictatorships)
Even for peddlers of atrocity revisionism, this is a particularly humiliating chapter for a conspiracy website that has no credibility and employs cranks. buzzfeednews.com/article/rosieg…
This is a website that admitted just a few months ago that their propaganda operation was so inept that they had unwittingly allowed a French pro-Israel journalist posing as a pro-Tehran western zealot into their midst.
Anyway, here's what former MintPress Staffer Randi Nord said after she was arrested for spraying a swastika on a synagogue:
“She said she planned to do as many hate crimes as possible and blame them on Azov,” Royal Oak Detective Dan Pelletier testified at Nord’s arraignment.
MintPress News and the assorted cranks named haven't had the time to respond to this hate crime yet because they're busy pushing lies by a former lecturer sacked over antisemitism that Ukraine is running a "kill list". News flash - it's not a kill list, and it's not run by Kyiv.
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Ultimately this is about learning lessons, it's widely accepted in the west that the war in Iraq was both a political catastrophe and a policy failure, and we learned this lesson in spite of military success. The Russian people are nowhere near this yet.
Support for the war in Ukraine is still overwhelmingly high in Russia, and that's not going to change until it has become clear to everyone inside Russia that Putin has lost this war. The only way this happens is through military assistance to Ukraine.
As it stands there is no diplomatic route to a lasting peace, and there isn't a single credible expert saying otherwise. For as long as Russia still believes it can achieve its objectives through violence, violence will remain the only option Ukraine has to defend itself.
I'll never get over the fact that Michael Tracey doesn't wear a fedora, never before has a human being given such "i wear a fedora" vibes who doesn't actually wear a fedora.
Guys please I beg you search Mtracey and Fedora together in Twitter, this is an actual thing that many people have been saying to him for years and not just something that randomly popped into my head late on a Friday night.
This “report” cites everyone that has died in Syria, including the hundreds of thousands murdered by the Assad regime, as being victims of “The War On Terror”. To put it simply, this is effectively academic war crimes revisionism.
This is like writing a report on the deaths in World War II and calling it “The Victims of the Treaty of Versailles”
The report for all its major flaws does not in fact blame these deaths on the USA, but the Quisling Institute for Dictator Apologism have framed it that way anyway, because that’s their entire pro-dictator raison detre
The craziest thing is how quickly Bellingcat’s work went from being dismissed as amateurs blogging from their bedrooms to being attacked as a tool of western intelligence for knowing too much. A propaganda U-turn that happened so quickly it could give you whiplash.
The truth was that OSINT investigative journalism would revolutionise the entire industry, and many of their critics were too stupid to understand it then and too exposed to crank conspiricism to understand it now.
Every major news organisation has an OSINT/verification department today, some have gone on to win major awards for using many of the same techniques that Bellingcat was at the cutting edge of.
Here’s British travel journalist David Whitley engaging in a far-right conspiracy against Bellingcat based on no evidence whatsoever. We can’t just blame fringe extremists when people like this are perpetuating lies against hard working independent journalists.