Louis Allday

@Louis_Allday

It's a silent S لوي مش لويس

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    Aug 7

    I wrote this about Owen Jones & Paul Mason, and how they are reflective of broader, systemic problems with a UK 'Left' that is neither anti-imperialist nor anti-capitalist (but is strongly anti-communist).

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  2. 20 hours ago

    Khashoggi: ISIS beheading captive Syrian soldiers is an effective military strategy. They know what they’re doing.

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    He once considered a war crime - beheading captive soldiers - as an effective military tactic!

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  4. Oct 19

    Is this hotel in hell?

    The best thing about my favorite little hotel in London is that they play (on continuous loop) Winston Churchill’s greatest speeches in the Gents.
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    Aug 9

    Not only are the UK public kept ignorant of the UK's direct role in the war on Yemen. Popular historians glorify the RAF on television programmes as it facilitates ongoing war crimes against Yemeni civilians.

    Tonight, the BBC's One Show goes behind the scenes at RAF Marham as a further five F35B Lightnings have arrived home in the UK. Watch at 7pm. …
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    Oct 18

    No wonder US media professionals are treating Khashoggi as the Red Line revealing KSA barbarism. He argued it’s 'time for the [US] to... reassert its traditional authority in the region' and that 'the United States should propose partition in Syria.'

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    Oct 18

    Important report by the Royal Historical Society highlighting racial & ethnic inequalities in the teaching & practice of History in the UK. Museums, libraries & archives, listen up - so much of this impacts on/applies to our sector too via

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  8. Oct 19

    Riedel made this statement in 2016. Since then, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen has gotten significantly more dire, and it is the arms/training/intelligence/logistical support/diplomatic cover of the US and UK that has directly facilitated it all.

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    Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institute: “if the United States of America and the United Kingdom tonight told King Salman that this war [on Yemen] has to end, it would end tomorrow because the…
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  9. Oct 19

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    Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institute: “if the United States of America and the United Kingdom tonight told King Salman that this war [on Yemen] has to end, it would end tomorrow because the…
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  10. Oct 19

    Those who insist it's a "Saudi-led" war on Yemen, I'd love an explanation of how the war would even be possible if it weren't for US/UK supply of advanced arms, ammunition, training, military assistance, intelligence, political cover, and diplomatic support.
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  11. Oct 19

    "Saudi-led" is a misnomer regarding Yemen. I know it's very easy to use phrases so commonly repeated without meaning to, but please stop using it if you're serious about opposing the war. It couldn't have happened & could not continue with the US & UK, so it cannot be "Saudi-led"

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  12. Retweeted
    Oct 17

    "BAE Systems is the UK Government’s nominated Prime Contractor under the Government-to-Government arrangements that are in place to provide equipment, support and training to Saudi Arabia." The Saudi Air Force could not operate without this support.

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  14. Oct 19

    'The South African Gandhi - Stretcher-Bearer of Empire'

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  15. Oct 19

    “You’re Shi’a aren’t you?...You didn’t see freedom in Syria, you only saw Takfiris and your belonging to the [Shi’a] sect explains that”

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    Oct 18
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    If anything wouldn’t an understanding of past and ongoing imperialism highlight that indigenous peoples of MENA do have agency because when they attempt to excercise it, the external hegemonic power is desperate to undermine their autonomy?

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  17. Oct 18

    A few people have responded to this tweet as if I’m saying this is why he was killed (or even justifying it) - that is a complete misreading of my point, he was killed in spite of those sectarian opinions, not because of them.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    Even the NYT reported that Obama approved lethal action "without hand wringing" and that he called the decision to kill al-Awlaki "an easy one".

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    Jun 21

    Obama adopted a method for counting civilian casualties of drone strikes that counted "all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants".

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    Jun 21

    NYT: "Obama has avoided the complications of detention by deciding, in effect, to take no prisoners alive."

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    Oct 18

    Tribute of the Algerian ambassador in London to Communist leader and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival, Claudia Jones, when she died in 1964: “she left us an unforgettable example of courage, compassion and ardour”

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