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Retired US diplomat. Havana, Miami and points east. Retweets are not endorsements. Views my own.

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  1. 5 minutes ago

    General Majid told at the time that "it was the most important thing he had done in his life, the most significant thing he had done in his 35 years of flying. It was as if it gave his whole life meaning; he was especially moved by all the children."

    Five years ago today, Brigadier General Majid Tamimi was killed in his helicopter crash while aiding stranded Yazidis on top of Mount Sinjar. We won’t forget his ultimate sacrifice.
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  2. 11 minutes ago

    "الحياة حلوة..."

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    أغلبنا لا يستطيع أن يمشي خطوات ثابتة في الظلام! لكن محمود.. يعمل نجارا، وهو فاقد للبصر شاهد هذا الشاب - المعجزة
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  3. 14 minutes ago

    "Hemp-infused" Cuban coffee. Is nothing sacred? One thing Cuban coffee should NOT do is make you calm.

    Each shot of espresso includes about 10 mg of , an appropriate dosage. And it delivers as promised. Mental alertness and focus without the jitters.
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  4. 18 minutes ago

    Part two of our "Al-Hurra Investigates" report on Russian weapons and ambitions in the Middle East, broadcast on Saturday on . الحرة تتحرّى

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  5. 1 hour ago

    "Our anemic culture, our impoverished language, our meaningless patterns of consuming Doritos and porn are dangerously insufficient, and propel our youth to other sources of meaning—good and bad."

    "Why would you enlist? Maybe you enlist because the military offers you ritual, ceremony, identity: you can be “freed from irony and suffused with purpose."
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    2 hours ago

    تريد الأردوغانية أن يؤمن السوريون من أنصارها بأن كُرد هم عدوهم الجوهري والرئيسي، وأنهم يجب أن يسخروا كل شيء في سبيل تحطيمهم ـ رستم محمود

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    3 hours ago

    Dictator and gross violator of 's said yesterday "Communism will live forever" ... the free people of have another future in mind, and Communism & are not part of the plan.

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    police made mass arrests in Causeway Bay on Sunday eve - aided by men who appeared to be undercover officers dressed as protesters. HKFP footage showed one of the men assisting in an arrest of a…
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  8. 2 hours ago

    سوريا الأسد هي مصدر مهم للمخدرات والإرهاب واللاجئين. على الأقل اللاجئين هم فائدة لكثير من البلدان.

    تقارير دولية تصف سوريا بـ"أكبر مصنع ومتاجر بالكبتاغون في العالم"
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  9. 2 hours ago

    898th anniversary today of the obscure (famous inside ) battle of Didgori, where King David Bagrationi defeated a massive Seljuk army. Victory ushered in the Georgian Golden Age. Part of the battle was Turkic Kipchak cavalry fighting Turkic Seljuk cavalry.

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  10. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    Science fiction writers have wondered for years what an all-encompassing surveillance state might look like. China decided to build it.

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  11. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    - حامد عبدالصمد: ثقافة القطيع تعزلنا عن العالم

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  12. 3 hours ago

    Lovely. Every time I've gone from a Spanish to Arabic speaking country (or vice versa), and I did so five times in my diplomatic career, I encountered the same trill. Fortunately the two languages were not "forgotten" but gathering dust in a warehouse of the mind.

    The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language via
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  13. 3 hours ago

    Hard to say what, if anything we are missing. "Most Dangerous Game" is the obvious influence some have mentioned plus countless other movies. Another could be the brilliant 1952 "Sound of His Horn" by the former UK diplomat John William Wall ("Sarban") but that is little known.

    Universal's Decision To Cancel Is Morally Inexcusable, Artistically Indefensible And Financially Unavoidable via by
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  14. 13 hours ago

    "Family, community, spiritual belonging — these are the foundational and primal building blocks of human happiness, and they are rapidly disappearing."

    We have discarded social institutions that have helped people understand their value and place in the world for thousands of years. And their decline is not just mirrored in the rise of mass shootings.
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    14 hours ago

    Please Take Urgent Action for Cuban Lady in White and prisoner of conscience Xiomara Cruz 1/13

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  16. 16 hours ago

    What they did in January 2016 in detaining two USN riverine boats and publicly humiliating their American crew emboldened them. Think that scenario is very unlikely to be repeated but self-deception by such regimes can be a problem.

    Statements by officials become bolder and bolder. Navy commander says Iran can detain American and British ships.
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  17. 16 hours ago

    I remember us hosting a lovely Native American poet in Damascus more than 20 years ago who innocently asked folks at the Syria Writers Association if they had Syrian-Kurdish or other types of ethnic writers like in the US. The nervous answer was, "no, we are all the same here."

    Aram Hanna “I am a Syriac Syrian, not an Arab Syrian. I have no problem with my Syrianness. My problem is with the Arabism that was forced upon us...Syria is for all of us and doesn’t belong just to Assad...Kurds didn’t even have Syrian IDs. They weren’t allowed to speak Kurdish”
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  18. 17 hours ago

    This "looming crisis" is not limited to Algeria but stretches across much of the region. And if the world economy goes into recession, as seems possible, oil prices will collapse making the crisis even worse.

    "’s economic situation is deteriorating inexorably. While growth in the non-hydrocarbons sector may be positive, it was only 2.2 percent in 2017 and it appeared to have peaked at 4 percent in 2018. " and Omar Benderra write.
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    17 hours ago

    أنا محمد من تلعفر. كان الدواعش يقصفون القضاء بالصواريخ، فأصبت وفقدت الوعي. وجدت نفسي بعدها في النجف بقدم مبتورة. ساعدتني منظمة إغاثية بقدم صناعية. ورغم المعاناة لم أترك الدراسة وأحلم بأن أكون قاضياً في المستقبل كي أحكم الناس بالقانون والعدالة.

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    19 hours ago

    My latest piece for @ThomasEppinger/Schlaglichter: “Ultimately Zarif needs to be kicked out of social media as what he does there is a perversion of freedom of speech while Iran’s civil society is denied access to social networks.”

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