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.

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.

For more, see my investigation:

mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hos… Yemen 🇾🇪

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.

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.

I've been working on this topic for 4 years. Here's what I found.
mintpressnews.com/revealed-forme… 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.

Cannot stress this enough: big tech is a US regime change tool. Without the CIA, Google would never have been born. And as late as 2005, the CIA was still a major shareholder in the company.

Moreover, dozens of former CIA agents work in senior, influential roles at Google, as my investigation found:

mintpressnews.com/national-secur…

lol. lmao, even. This statement makes zero sense, unless you understand that "stability" means "under Western control."

If you understand this, everything fits perfectly.

I wrote about this for @FAIRmediawatch back in 2021:

fair.org/home/stability…

Your reminder that Jerry Seinfeld is not a good guy. Seinfeld is just one of many celebrities who have taken IDF propaganda trips to Israel.

Photos from @MintPressNews (follow them)

Alert 🚨: The New York Times has just published an article calling for a US military invasion of Venezuela 🇻🇪. The paragraph in question which explicitly outlines the call for an invasion.

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 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.

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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.

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 🇲🇩 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."

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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 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…

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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.

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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.

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.

https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1744414371348902297

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…

The three richest guys on the planet are all CIA/Pentagon contractors. Serving the empire is a lucrative endeavor.

mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-…
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-…

[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. 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.

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. 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…

[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. 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.

[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.

https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1817764920429003129?t=rUYyLN2UDh_re67FTITKIA&s=19

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.

[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 🇻🇪