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Journalist, founder @BeirutReport Words: @ThePublicSource @NovaraMedia @NiemanReports @The_NewArab @Jacobin @Guardian @FortuneMagazine @ArchReview @AJEnglish
Mar 31 12 tweets 3 min read
Thread: Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel's war on Lebanon is overwhelming Israel centric. Israeli voices dominate and critics or resistors of Israel are rarely heard. I've noticed this trend for a while &today is good example. 6 min were devoted to Lebanon in Newshour. Breakdown: Coverage begins with a very long 45 second soundbite from Israel's Defense Minister Katz who claims to be enforcing security by destroying Lebanese homes on the border. No counterpoints offered to his illegal invasion, no challenge to his notion that violence brings security.
Jul 6, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
. @AirFrance told CNN blood and feces I sat in was a “low to nonexistent” risk. Doctors disagree. “In a hospital setting this would’ve been treated as contamination and a biohazard…The plane should have been taken out of service until properly cleaned” cnn.it/3NA5tLM “This is a very unhygienic situation, and we don’t know what the passenger was suffering from or whether it was infective,” said Dr. Richard Dawood. “There are lots of blood-borne viral infections – hepatitis B, C, HIV…
Jul 1, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
I've seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my @airfrance plane yesterday was another level! An hour into the transatlantic flight from Paris to Toronto, I kept smelling something gross and couldn't figure it out. Until I got up and looked down...(1 I noticed a big stain across the whole carpet of the seats. It was wet to touch. At first the @airfrance attendant shrugged and gave me some wipes. In my broken French told her it smelled like merde (shit). Then the wipes came up blood red. I used over a dozen of them... (2



Sep 14, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Head of PCR testing at a hospital not only refused to wear a mask but mocked those waiting in line for a test, saying they are wasting their time and he hopes everyone gets Coronavirus “to be done with it.” He shouted like a militiaman when asked to wear a mask: “This is my lab”! When I turned my back on this doctor, he tried to push in the door of the testing area, banging on it as if ready for a fist fight, still yelling in a tight space with no mask. He then chased me and my barely walking father to the hospital exit door claiming he already had Corona