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Tim Hayward
@Tim_Hayward_
If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
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Dec 1, 2022 • 54 tweets • 17 min read
Twittergate!
Sep 27, 2022 • 50 tweets • 14 min read
To paraphrase Victoria Nuland, the US does not consider it owes European people obligations of friendship. But, as Swedish seismologists register explosions, do EU politicians?Polish MEP thanks US re Nordstrom ‘leak(s)’; German FM told German people she puts UA before them. Polish MEP thanks USA.
Sep 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Did Bill Gates ever mention why he’s buying all that farmland?
Jun 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Leaked emails reveal Paul Mason's covert intelligence-linked plot targets “far left rogue academics”, fearing an emergent “left anti imperialist identity will be attractive because liberalism doesn’t know how to counter it.” Hence dirty tricks… 1/ thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/pau… Named in the leaked emails are journalists like Chloe Hadjimatheou and Martin Bright - who have recently been promoting criticisms of academics like Justin Schlosberg and myself, as well as Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media. 2/
Apr 15, 2022 • 66 tweets • 24 min read
“In exercising discretion over how unverified or false content is moderated, social media companies have decided to “pick a side,” said Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and a former head of security at Facebook.”

nytimes.com/2022/03/03/tec… Why it matters that people of good will strive to create an information environment that supports efforts at diplomacy rather than calls for escalation.
Mar 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Back in April 2018, when US and UK wanted to justify bombing Syria, we saw coordinated smear attacks on independent journalists, YouTube commentators and academics. We're seeing it again today, and one of the targets is @rustyrockets. His pushback:
In that video @rustyrockets is talking mostly about the threats to democracy in Canada, but he has also been talking critically about the filtering of information we are allowed to hear about Ukraine. Image
Mar 17, 2022 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
‘Western officials say that while they cannot independently verify much of the information that Kyiv puts out about the evolving battlefield situation, it nonetheless represents highly effective stratcom.’

washingtonpost.com/national-secur… ‘“The Ukrainians have taught a master class in information warfare,” State Department official said. The one-time TV star has overseen an extraordinarily effective communications campaign that has proven crucial in marshaling global support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia.’
Mar 11, 2022 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
As long as we’re still able to hear two sides of the story we should continue striving to do so.
Dec 1, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
“Internment. Mandatory medication. Segregation of whole sections of society. Mass sackings. A drumbeat media consensus. The systematic censoring of dissent. The deliberate creation by the state and the press of a climate of fear and suspicion. What could possibly justify this?” “Covid-19 is a nasty illness which should be taken seriously, especially by those especially vulnerable to it. But it is nowhere near dangerous enough - if anything could be - to justify the creation of a global police state.”

So it’s rational to ask if it’s just a pretext.
Nov 30, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Waiting for Craig Murray…
Oct 20, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
In an open letter, an employee of German public broadcaster ARD for 12 years is critical of one and a half years of Corona coverage: Ole Skambraks claims these questions do not get the attention they should ... 0/

multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/i-cann… 1. Why do we know so little about “gain of function research” (which aims at making viruses more dangerous to humans)?
Aug 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Having been astonished lately to find a seemingly anti-censorship organisation - @IndexCensorship - publishing defamatory nonsense *advocating* censorship, it is an intellectual relief, if a serious ethical & political concern, to learn it's spook-fed.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/weeken… It's part of a wider problem: 'The infiltration & manipulation of press freedom & human rights groups by the intelligence services is merely an extension of the cold war efforts to ensure that they remain largely ineffective & steer any campaign into safe, apolitical liberalism.'
Aug 1, 2021 • 77 tweets • 22 min read
Craig Murray should not be in prison. Craig Murray has spent his life courageously standing for what is right. He does not stand alone. Image
May 18, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
UK Govt effectively ran Syrian opposition groups’ media offices: new revelations confirm extent to which publicity work of opposition groups that the UK government has consistently invoked as legitimate opposition can be traced back to London itself. 1/
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0… Documents 'confirm that the British public can be seen as a target for propaganda operations by their own government'
'journalists involved in the propaganda programmes were hired from offices in Istanbul and Amman, which were set up by UK government contractors' 2/
Apr 11, 2020 • 68 tweets • 19 min read
So, instead of holding UK government's feet to the fire over lack of protective equipment for doctors and nurses, or adequate COVID-19 testing, for instance, The Times attacks academics who share concerns about the crisis being exploited by the powerful.
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/b… The journalist responsible for this latest attack - Dominic Kennedy - has previous: he attacked the same academics for questioning truth about chemical attacks in Syria. Those questions were vindicated - and answered - by OPCW's own inspectors!
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/opc…
Feb 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why OPCW is so keen to claim whistleblowers are not whistleblowers.
a) That tacitly admits they are right.
b) For four years the audit of OPCW governance & internal control has recommended developing & implementing a policy for whistleblowing & reporting fraud. *Still not done!* 2016 audit of OPCW governance:
We've highlighted the need to promote an effective whistleblowing policy. We've also recommended the
Secretariat consider an appropriate way to ensure investigations are conducted with sufficient
independence & objectivity.
opcw.org/sites/default/…
Oct 16, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Under Pressure: the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has repeatedly been instrumentalized to create pretexts for war. A thread...
1. Already in 2002, OPCW general director Jose Bustani was ousted for securing cooperation from Iraq.
monbiot.com/2002/04/16/a-w… 2. After Obama announced that chemical weapons use would cross a Red Line triggering intervention, allegations in Syria began. Leading the OPCW investigations was respected scientist Åke Sellstrom (who had helped dismantle Iraq’s weapons in the 1990s).
uk.reuters.com/article/syria-…
Jul 16, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Who to believe?

Italian neo-Nazis - with French-made, Qatari-sourced, missile - had fought with or against Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine? BBC vs RT.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

rt.com/news/464239-it… "The Associated Press reported that those arrested had taken part in the fighting on behalf of the pro-Russian groups there." Reuters likewise.

newsweek.com/machine-guns-a…