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Senior Staff Writer/Podcast Producer, @MintPressNews. I mostly tweet about US/Mid East & Lat Am. politics, but complaining about corporate media is my passion.
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Nov 14 4 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Today, the United Nations voted 170-6 on "The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination".

Those voting against:

🇺🇸United States
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷Argentina
🇵🇾Paraguay
🇫🇲Micronesia
🇳🇷Nauru Image The full voting list can be found here. The vote today was actually less one-sided than it should have been, as certain targets of Washington (e.g. Venezuela 🇻🇪, Afghanistan 🇦🇫) have had their voting privileges revoked, thanks mainly to US sanctions on their countries. Image
Nov 13 13 tweets 6 min read
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Undisclosed to the public, there are hundreds of former Israel Lobbyists working in America's newsrooms, shaping the way we understand the world.

My new investigation lifts the lid on this network:

mintpressnews.com/revealed-the-i… For instance, Moshe Arenstein, MSNBC's Executive Producer, was literally an IDF intelligence commander in his youth. Image
Oct 30 5 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: For the 32nd year in a row, the United Nations votes overwhelmingly to end the US embargo on Cuba 🇨🇺.

The vote today was 187-2.

Countries voting against:

United States 🇺🇸
Israel 🇮🇱

Abstentions:

Moldova 🇲🇩 Image US sanctions are illegal under international law, & only pariah nations like the 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 support them.

The sanctions are designed, in the US govt's own words, to "decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and [the] overthrow of [the] government." Image
Oct 26 10 tweets 5 min read
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By aiding the 🇮🇱 slaughter in Gaza, Joe Biden has been accused of participating in war crimes.

But "Genocide Joe" is far from the 1st president to have done so

In this thread, I will show how successive presidents have perpetrated war crimes & crimes against humanity Image 1. Joe Biden

Apart from directly funding and facilitating the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Biden:

+ Strongly supported the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, helping push through conflicts that would go on to kill millions of people, according to a study from Brown University - watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

+ Biden was also the architect of "Plan Colombia" - the militarization of the drug war in Latin America, whereby the US sent vast amounts of money and military hardware to the far-right Colombian government, who used it to fight a bitter counter-insurgency war against leftist guerillas under the guise of eradicating drugs. The United Nations estimates that 7.4 million Colombians were internally displaced in this war, which few in the US have even heard about. mintpressnews.com/mass-incarcera…Image
Oct 26 8 tweets 5 min read
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Sacha Baron Cohen is being roundly condemned for his latest racist skit on national TV.

But few people know how closely he has worked with both US and Israeli intelligence throughout his career.

My @MintPressNews investigation explores this:

mintpressnews.com/closer-scrutin… In a 2009 interview with David Letterman, Baron Cohen casually mentioned that "Brüno" was made possible by the CIA, and that a CIA agent helped arrange much of the film.

I managed to find that CIA agent and talk to him.

@JohnKiriakou told me that Baron Cohen was obsessed with finding a "terrorist" and making him look stupid on camera. Kiriakou advised against it, but Baron Cohen eventually interviewed Ayman Abu Aita -- a Christian Palestinian NGO worker -- and presented him as a radical jihadist in the movie. In this interview with Letterman, Baron Cohen casually refers to him as a "terrorist" eight times.

Abu Aita's life was ruined, and he sued for nearly $100 million. The case was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2012.

Brüno depicts Muslims as rabid homophobic trash. But the most shocking and newsworthy case of exposing bigotry Baron Cohen has documented has never been revealed.

Kiriakou notes that, while in character as Brüno in Jerusalem, Baron Cohen was beaten nearly to death by an enraged crowd of homophobic Israelis, who, angered by his camp and sacrilegious attire, started stoning him, on camera. A rabbi even spat on him. He was nearly killed.

It was the only time in his career that he broke character and desperately yelled that he was an Israeli Jew, not a homosexual foreigner. The comedian fled for his life and found refuge in a nearby store bathroom.

Read further on to find out why Baron Cohen would choose to never reveal this footage.Image
Oct 16 15 tweets 5 min read
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Israeli spies are writing America's news.

My new investigation uncovers a network of ex-agents of 🇮🇱 spying agency Unit 8200 working at some of the US' most prestigious outlets, including Axios & CNN.

Full investigation here ⬇️

mintpressnews.com/revealed-israe… Axios reporter Barak Ravid recently won the prestigious White House Correspondents' Award.

Ravid is a former agent of Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200, and was, until last year, a reservist in the Israeli military group. Image
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Oct 14 12 tweets 5 min read
Sky News called a murdered Palestinian toddler a "lady", but describes four active IDF soldiers hit by Hezbollah as "teenage victims".

What accounts for this bias in infantilizing Israeli soldiers but treating Palestinian babies as adults? A thread. Image Sky News is owned and controlled by billionaire media baron Rupert Murdoch, a lifelong passionate Zionist, with close ties to the Israeli government, as my new investigation explores:

mintpressnews.com/rupert-murdoch…
Sep 17 5 tweets 2 min read
The three richest guys on the planet are all CIA/Pentagon contractors. Serving the empire is a lucrative endeavor.

mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-…
Image E.M. owes his success and fortune to Mike Griffin, the head of the CIA's investment division, who took him under his wing and gave SpaceX massive government contracts, keeping his business empire afloat.

mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-…
Aug 7 15 tweets 8 min read
[Thread] There is an orchestrated media war being carried out against Venezuela🇻🇪.

Its goal is regime change, and it is being led by liberal outlets like the Guardian.

In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, so you can understand how they pass propaganda off as reporting. Image What is the "evidence" of electoral fraud the Guardian presents?

Oh, it is an "analysis" carried out by the opposition itself, as well as hearsay from sympatheirc academics.

Let's not inform readers that the opposition has pulled this trick in every election since 2000 (except the ones they won), where they cry fraud, and have never presented any credible evidence whatsoever.

Let's also not inform readers that there were actually nine opposition candidates running against Maduro, and that only Gonzalez refused to say he would accept the results.Image
Aug 5 4 tweets 2 min read
Palestine: They are genociding us.

Israel: Yes, we are genociding them.

The West: This is such a complex, nuanced problem. It is anti-semitic to jump to any conclusions. Image Israel has many powerful backers in corporate media.

Among them is Rueprt Murdoch, the billionaire press baron.

My investigation found a network of links between Murdoch and the Israeli national security state.

Find out just what they are here:

mintpressnews.com/rupert-murdoch…
Aug 1 17 tweets 10 min read
[Thread] Western media's finest propagandists are pulling out all the stops, trying to delegitimize the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪.

In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, line by line, using this BBC article as an example, so you can understand how they do it. Image First sentence in, and they have already poisoned the well, directly asserting that Nicolas Maduro "controls" the election, and that the whole process is "carefully curated."

Second: They breathlessly repeat opposition claims of fraud, without informing readers that the opposition has claimed they have won literally every single election since 2000, have produced zero evidence for this, and have, every time, been proven to be lying.

Not telling readers this is a crime against journalism and tantamount to incitement.Image
Jul 29 18 tweets 7 min read
[Thread] There is a coup d'etat attempt underway here in Venezuela 🇻🇪, fueled by tons of fake news.

In this thread, I'll debunk some of the most egregious and viral fake stories circulating.

Add your own in the replies. A viral video claims that leftist thieves are stealing ballot boxes.

In reality, these are aircon units.

Ballot boxes are small brown cardboard boxes, barely larger than a shoebox.

These giant appliances bear no resemblance to ballot boxes.

Jul 27 11 tweets 4 min read
I ran into the amazing @RaniaKhalek, who told me that the United States is trying to destroy the Venezuelan government, and is already crying fraud in the upcoming elections. 🇻🇪 "There is no comparison" between US and Venezuelan elections, @GloriaLaRiva, former presidential candidate for the @pslnational told me.

In Venezuela fraud is "not possible", while in the US, the Dems and Republicans are fighting to keep 3rd parties off the ballot.
Jul 26 7 tweets 2 min read
[thread] Happening now: with just days to go until elections in Venezuela, I am at the final chavista rally in Caracas, reporting for @MintPressNews. This is what a socialist rally looks like in Venezuela 🇻🇪
Feb 29 4 tweets 2 min read
The IDF just committed one of the worst massacres in modern history. But if you rely on US media, you wouldn't even know that from their headlines.


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New investigation from me:

Alexey Navalny's death in a Russian prison dominated headlines for days. But US media barely covered the death of a US journalist in a Ukrainian prison last month.

Read more about its selective outrage here:

mintpressnews.com/worthy-vs-unwo…
Nov 9, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
[Thread] Across the world, activists have been organizing demonstrations at major train stations calling for an end to Israeli 🇮🇱 violence in Gaza 🇵🇸.

1) Across London 🇬🇧, activists have shut down many stations, including Liverpool St. ⤵️

2) Hundreds of activists gather in Toronto 🇨🇦 to demand an immediate ceasefire.

Oct 28, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
[Thread] For the third weekend in a row, cities across Europe 🇪🇺 have seen massive demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

1) London: A wall of humanity marches through the city center. Some estimates say 500,000 people are there.

2) Hundreds of thousands of people in Istanbul 🇹🇷 create an ocean of red at their Great Palestine Rally.

Oct 24, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Incredible scenes as @Lowkey0nline owns @PiersMorgan so hard that they end the interview early.

Lowkey tells Piers his previous guests, Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev and CIA chief David Petraeus "deserve to be in The Hague and tried for war crimes."

"This badge was given to me by an employee of this building who said they were told they could not wear it because it was the Palestinian flag. You talk about 'uncensored'. This is censored!" - @Lowkey0nline
Oct 22, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
[Thread] As the Israeli attacks intensify, Europe has seen a massive, unprecedented wave of protests this weekend condemning the violence and showing solidarity with Palestine.

1) France 🇫🇷: Thousands of Parisians defy President Macron's ban to protest.
2) Absolutely massive demonstration in London 🇬🇧 on Saturday saw over 100,000 people march to Downing Street, demanding their government stop supporting Israeli war crimes.

Oct 17, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
[Video Thread] In response to the Israeli attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza earlier today, huge, spontaneous demonstrations have broken out across the Middle East tonight.

Let's go through them:

1) In Iran 🇮🇷, crowds have gathered in Palestine Square. 2) In Jordan 🇯🇴, protestors have surrounded the Israeli Embassy and set it on fire.

Oct 16, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Breaking: Israeli strike destroys a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) depot in central Gaza, incinerating what few crucial supplies the densely populated strip had left.

Another shocking war crime to add to the pile. More footage of the wreckage: