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Writer, internationalist, academic. Director of the Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies. Comment welcome but trolls and abusers will be blocked.
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Sep 23 5 tweets 2 min read
This might be a good time to remember how the young men of #Hezbollah helped save the Christian village people of #Syria from the NATO and Israeli backed terrorist group Jabhat al Nusra, over 2013-2014, in the Qalamoun mountains. This video is from Bloudan. This one is from Qara, Syria
May 25, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
#Brazil under #Bolsonaro is now second only to the USA in #COVID19 infections, worst death rate in the world and shares #Trump's failings: denial, neglect and irresponsibility while blaming others. The left opposition calls for his impeachment. telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaro… Time will judge harshly those ignorant but know-it-all commentators who joined the pandemic deniers, anti-science and anti-vax crowds, swinging from 'no worse than a common cold' to 'a plot to poison us all'. Why would people trust them on any other real social issues, in future?
May 9, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Science magazine responds to self-promoter Judy Mikovits, of #Plandemic conspiracy video fame. sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/f… I don't agree with the censorship of Plandemic (or of Alex Jones etc), but the video is certainly rubbish. This Science magazine response just confirms that.
May 4, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
May 3, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Al Mayadeen: US Choppers transfer #ISIS militias from East #Syria to #Iraq as ISIS activate their attacks on #Iraqi Army, police and #PMU. Press TV: US using #Daesh attacks as pretext to extend its #Iraq presence: Asa'ib chief - presstv.com/Detail/2020/05…
Apr 30, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
Once Upon a Virus, #China responds to the #USA with a cartoon. Thank you @XHNews US academic site notes on 11 January 2020 that #China has posted the genome of the new virus, #COVID19. cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…
Apr 10, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Public Health, #COVID19 and Recovery. The importance of public health systems. ahtribune.com/world/covid-19… This is a real public health crisis and it would be a mistake to ignore the fact that public health is, in itself, a central battleground.
Apr 10, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Drone footage of the mass burial of bodies on Hart Island, #NewYork. #Trump all throughout February: "we have it [#COVID19] very well under control" 😥 Background. abc.net.au/news/2020-04-1…
Apr 5, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
US troops in #Colombia, mobilising near the border with #Venezuela. #Washington has 9 military bases in Colombia, which allow the failing empire to threaten all other LatAm countries. Colombia also supplies 92% of the #cocaine used by the huge US drug market. Yes of course they are US troops. In Washington's view they 'own' the place. Image
Mar 24, 2020 4 tweets 4 min read
No conscience: the US military steals ("moves") half a million #coronavirus test kits from hard hit #Italy - thehill.com/policy/defense… Image Italy has received huge amounts of equipment, especially from #China. There are many sources for this, here is one. aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/…
Mar 21, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
I am looking forward to the sh*tfight when #China is first to export an affordable vaccine for the #coronavirus , to the relief of billions, only to meet a storm of abuse from Trump, BigFarma and all the others who hate public health systems - teletrader.com/amp/news/detai… Image Which state has been the leader in developing #biologicalweapons ? This from 2019. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Jan 28, 2020 4 tweets 4 min read
Iran report: Michael D’ Andrea, the head of US intelligence operations against #Iraq, #Iran and #Afghanistan, and responsible for the murder of General #Soleimani , has been killed in the #Taliban's shoot-down of a US military plane in #Ghazni. ifpnews.com/murderer-of-so… Image Pakistani report: US says nothing, local media say 83 killed. thenews.com.pk/amp/605349-83-…
Feb 23, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read
Masked men with guns, shooting in the streets of San Antonio de Táchira, at the border of #Venezuela and #Colombia . Most likely provocateurs, reminiscent of the snipers in Benghazi (Libya), Daraa (Syria) in 2011 and Nicaragua in 2018. #ColorRevolution once again. Meanwhile, war criminal John Bolton announces the theft of billions from #Venezuela