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Dec 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
A federal court in NY just ruled that the CIA under Pompeo -- and the Spanish firm it hired to spy on Julian Assange and those visiting him in the Embassy, including American citizens (UC Global) -- violated Americans' Constitutional rights of privacy.

english.elpais.com/international/…
The original @el_pais exposé led to a criminal investigation in Spain. It determined that UC Global spied on Americans journalists meeting with Assange, passing it all to CIA. It included my visit with Assange along with my husband David Miranda, then a Brazilian Congressman:👇
@el_pais The CIA, like all American security state agencies, are of course barred from spying on American citizens without warrants or other legal requirements. This CIA spying program deliberately ignored those legal constraints, as the NY court just found.

english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/10…
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@el_pais One of the decade's biggest journalistic frauds is the Guardian trumpeting that Paul Manafort had visited Assange in the Embassy several times.

It was a total lie. We knew that embassy was fully surveilled. The Guardian won't retract it to this day.

theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…

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Dec 20
After 2016 -- first Brexit, then Trump's win -- Western elites decided populations could no longer be trusted with basic freedoms: they choose and think wrong.

That's what led to the censorship/"disinformation" regime. Now they're barring the leading candidate from running:
Imagine if Biden wins with Trump banned or jailed: US sermons about "democracy," or condemning Putin imprisoning Navalny, will be seen as an even bigger joke than now.

One of the West's key dissidents (Assange) is jailed. They censor dissent. Now they're trying to ban Trump.
It's always been a huge propagandistic mystery that the US media succeeds in convincing Americans that the US Govt defends freedom as it props up the worst dictators (Saudi, Egypt, etc.).

They're now escalating it in desperation: first after 2016, now seeing Trump/Biden polls.
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Dec 12
Six leaders of different aid groups -- who have worked in every recent major war zone and humanitarian crisis -- say there is nothing that compares to Gaza in terms of the sheer level of civilian suffering and destruction to civil society.

Please read:

nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opi…
I know some say: what Israel is doing is none of my business; I don't care; it has nothing to do with me.

As these authors point out, this is only happening because Biden and the US Govt are singularly supportive of Israel's war. It's funded with US funds, weapons and UN power. Image
There are many pseudo-tough-guys like this justifying everything Israel is doing by pretending to be a John Wayne character, growling: "War is Hell."

If everything is justified in war, what moral basis do you have for condemning what Hamas did on Oct 7?

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Dec 10
Here's a right-wing think tanker cheering Amy Schumer and Debra Massing's call -- with a foreign national -- for FBI investigate Pro-Palestinian students groups and close them all.

Some Americans are so attached to Israel that they will erode Americans' rights to protect it:
Ever since Biden began arming and funding Israel's newest war:

-- State Dept has repeatedly warned Americans they face greater risks of attacks globally.

-- US has transferred billions in weapons to Israel; Biden wants $14b more.

-- US isolated itself as only NO vote on cease-fire.

-- Pressure has caused broadened anti-speech codes on campuses.

The US Govt will incur any costs for Americans to support this foreign country.
The Univ. of Pennsylvania President who just "resigned" was only hired in 2022, in part due to her long-standing free speech advocacy.

Before Oct. 7, she was under attack by big donors for refusing to cancel a Palestinian literary event at Penn.

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Dec 4
This is what you will hear from all liberal corporate outlets for the next year: no, this time we mean it! This time Trump *really will be* fascist!

These are the people imprisoning non-violent Jan 6 protesters, prosecuting Trump to win an election, censoring the internet: Image
Look at this hive mind of corporate media outlets: they all think alike, say the same things, work for the same agenda, all have the same mindset and worldview, only hire those who see the world like them.

All from the last 3 days: like trained seals dancing to the same music:


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The funniest thing is that while the largest corporate outlets constantly warn Trump is the next Hitler, that he'll be worse than Hitler, the "media critics" liberals most love -- @jayrosen_nyu, @Sulliview, @mmfa -- endlessly complain the media isn't sufficiently anti-Trump.🤷‍♂️
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Dec 2
Nothing Israel is doing should be a surprise. Netanyahu was very candid and explicit from the start about what Israel planned to do to Gaza.

Western liberals who cheered it are now getting a bit queasy for their legacies, but this is what they vowed to support until the end: Image
So many media and political liberals who declared support for Israel's war are, as usual, now offering sniveling, impotent, self-protective statements of "concern" while still funding and arming Israel.

I far prefer the Israel supporters who are honest about what they support.
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All over the world, what Israel is doing in Gaza is seen as one person's fault: Joe Biden. Only he had -- and has -- the power to stop or limit it.

But from both conviction and political calculation, he did what he's done his whole life: proclaim limitless support for Israel. Image
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Nov 24
Many of Israel's "Palestinian prisoners" are people never convicted in court. They're imprisoned as part of Israel's military tribunals with a near-100% conviction rate, or just administratively detained.

And: they live in the West Bank, which Israel *illegally occupies*:
I've seen some objecting to the release of some "prisoners"because they attacked *not civilians,* but Israeli soldiers or police.

Is it prohibited - morally or legally - for people to attack foreign *soldiers or police* who are part of an illegal occupying force on their land?
In 1984, a studio film called "Red Dawn," starring Patrick Swayze, depicted heroic Americans doing everything possible to defend the US by trying to kill as many occupying Russian soldiers as possible: exactly what Ukraine was venerated for doing.

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