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Jason Michael
@Jeggit
Scottish journalist and blogger based in Dublin. Writing on politics and society. Columnist for iScot Magazine and author of The Random Public Journal.
Apr 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The Azov battalion is not the first right-wing paramilitary group the United States has supported in order to gain greater control over a sovereign state.

🧵 A brief history of US state-sponsored terrorism. 🇮🇹 From the late 1960s the US supported neo-fascist terrorist groups in Italy. La Fenice, Avanguardia nazionale, and Ordine nuovo were Italian paramilitary squads later discovered to be directed by the clandestine services of the CIA.
Oct 22, 2019 • 33 tweets • 16 min read
Belfast in 2019 is a divided city, much like Berlin had been from 1961 to 1989. Britain likes to think this is because the Irish are violent. But what Britain likes to ignore is that it is at the heart of the division.

A thread on causality. The 'peace wall' in Belfast.The building of the Berlin Wall. From the early 17th century, in order to make the "wild Irish" more governable from London, James I and VI began the Plantation of Ulster. Gaelic Catholic Irish people were dispossessed of their land to make way for Protestant 'planters' from Scotland, England, and Wales.
Jan 19, 2019 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Car bomb outside Derry Court House on Bishop Street. Why is Westminster ignoring the effects of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement? Sinn Fein has condemned the bombing in Derry. Let's be awake to how volatile this situation is and can become. #PeaceInIreland rte.ie/news/ulster/20…