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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 29

    The Syrian regime's prisons are a vast network of concentration camps, where torture and murder are endemic. Despite the solid evidence, it's unlikely justice will ever be done, certainly not by an international court.

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    18 minutes ago

    forces killed the infant Amina Ayman al Rez in al Habeit village in suburbs, Sep 9.

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  3. 19 minutes ago

    . writes of the Asad regime's murderous campaign against the media that enabled it to disseminate the "blame on both sides" narrative, and have its Western apologists repeat this obscenity with a veneer of believability.

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  4. 23 minutes ago

    "Washington feels like the capital of a state where the legal order has collapsed because, in some ways, it is." The entire piece is like that. It's a level of hysteria that's supremely unhelpful, as well as obviously untrue.

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  5. 37 minutes ago

    "The war crimes that Russia encourages the sectarian Assad regime to commit force Syrians to run ... [and] their presence drives Putin-supporting nationalists into power [in Europe] on anti-Muslim tickets. The iron wheel is about to turn again [in Idlib]".

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  6. 57 minutes ago

    "Many will die [in ], many will flee, many will be buried under the rubble. It happened before. It will happen again. We know it. We are complicit in our knowledge, indifference and inaction." v

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  7. 1 hour ago

    The only way to "prod [Bashar] Assad into a less despotic political model" is to push his filthy regime into its grave. Everything short of that is futile.

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  8. 1 hour ago

    Of the many, many criticisms to be made of 's government, its handling of the Syrian refugees really isn't one of them, and it comes with ill-grace from European states that have left Ankara to handle this, and the - challenge, alone.

    The suggests some new Franco-German deal with and to stop an Idlib offensive, mentioning , the only power actually capable of stopping this catastrophe, in passing to warn that the Turks might use the refugee crisis against Europe.…
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  9. 1 hour ago

    The suggests some new Franco-German deal with and to stop an Idlib offensive, mentioning , the only power actually capable of stopping this catastrophe, in passing to warn that the Turks might use the refugee crisis against Europe.

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  10. 2 hours ago

    has lost key export markets (France, South Korea); it might have to cease gas extraction b/c of the reduced market for it; and OPEC is making up the difference to keep prices steady as the U.S. engages in economic warfare against the Iranian regime.

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  11. 2 hours ago

    That isn't true: "The KGB was always firmly subordinate to the Soviet Politburo". Andropov's KGB ran the Third World policy and even ran active measures against Brezhnev's POLITBURO to get them to sign-off on the invasion of Afghanistan.

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  12. 2 hours ago

    Stern editorial from : charging in the world courts might be useful politically, but the expulsion of the Russian ambassador and curbing Moscow-linked money in London are practical steps that could be taken.

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    Sep 8

    Syria: Journalists Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley celebrate 'victory' in Damascus

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  14. 3 hours ago

    9 September 1976: Mao Zedong finally died. Mao is the only rival to Stalin as the most murderous tyrant of the 20th century. Sadly the totalitarian regime he created in survives in somewhat modified form to the present.

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  15. 3 hours ago

    9 Sept: 1543: Mary, Queen of Scots, 9-months-old, crowned 1923: CHP becomes a political party 1944: Communist coup in Bulgaria 1970: "Black September" events begin, end with PLO expelled from Jordan to Lebanon, where they cause another civil war 2001: Ahmad Shah Masud killed

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    4 hours ago

    The deal was made, leader of “Fatah” Hadi al-Amiri abandons Nuri Maliki for Sadr, Sadr abandons Haidar Abadi for al-Amiri. The deal may oust Dawa Party from the PM position for the first time since 2006 (3)

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    5 hours ago

    Al-Lataminah hospital reportedly targeted and put out of service.

    عاجل | خروج مشفى اللطامنة عن الخدمة جراء قصفه بالبراميل المتفجرة من الطيران المروحي التابع لعصابات الأسد في ريف حماة الشمالي.
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    Sep 8

    Russia strikes on Syria's Idlib heaviest in a month, monitor says

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    11 hours ago

    “In Sweden, the influx of 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015 has polarized voters, fractured the cozy political consensus and could give the Sweden Democrats, a party with roots in the neo-Nazi fringe, a veto over which parties form the next government.“

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  20. 5 hours ago

    The remains upset at the Bay of Pigs (that it happened, not that it failed) and Reagan's support for the Nicaraguan opposition to the Sandinistas (which thankfully prevailed). NYT also refers to "the American-supported coup in Chile in 1973", which still isn't true.

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  21. 5 hours ago

    In other words, if the question is purely human rights and democracy, then it is extremely risky to tip the scales in favour of a military caste that has upheld the dictatorship in so far in collaboration with the drug barons.

    There's nothing to complain about in the U.S. gathering intelligence by establishing communications with mutinous officers in . The question is whether Maduro is considered a threat: if he is, then do what's necessary to bring him down. If not,…
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