Alexander McKeever

@AKMcKeever

Independent researcher/MA student Contributor Syria: Opposition/Afrin, OSINT. New Yorker. 🏴.

Queens, NY
Joined March 2016
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    Dec 11

    Thread on some of the details we put together for 's report on the murder of Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf and her driver Ferhad Ramadan by members of Ahrar al-Sharqiyah 12 Oct 2019.

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    14 hours ago

    OAS head Almagro who spoke extensively about supposed election irregularities/voter suppression by Evo, seen meeting and laughing with Bolivian Interior Min. Murillo, who is threatening to ban an entire region of Bolivia from voting in the next election.

    Me reuní con el de , . Dialogamos sobre el proceso de transición en su país, en especial acerca del cronograma electoral que normalizará definitivamente el país.
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  3. 16 hours ago

    Not at all surprising but Qatari NGO 'Qatar Charity' currently active in Afrin (photos shared by the Ma'abatli LC)

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    19 hours ago

    At least 25 journalists were killed for their work in 2019. These are the most dangerous countries and the number killed there: : 7 : 5 / : 2 / / / / / / / / : 1

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  5. 18 hours ago

    Jaysh al-Islam fighters at the Jan Tamer Sharqi school, approximately 5km from the eastern Ras al-'Ain frontlines location:

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    Dec 15

    My new hobby is taking graphs of economic data over time and indicating the year that Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, in case people find that helpful or informative.

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  7. 19 hours ago

    great episode, brings a lot of nuance to typically quite charged convo around Iran and Iranian protest movements

    Talked to on about the protests. We discuss the protests, response by authorities & why verifying death tolls & other info is so challenging (also says my voice is “soothing” & called me Michael Barbari so...)
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    24 hours ago

    Labour lost 40% of its Leave vote to Tories & Brexit Party. Not counting those who decided simply not to vote.

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  9. Dec 17

    did not realize that was now a host on /. 2 (1.5?) of my favorite podcasts, definitely check them out

    The first systematic study of the rich history of Jews in 20th-century Iran, BETWEEN IRAN and ZION () illuminates how deeply entwined Iranian Jews have been to the country of Iran itself. 🎙️…
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    Dec 16

    Excellent tip here from of . engines can get hung up on people in images - pixelating a person refocuses their attention on the rest of the image

    Brief walk-through on how to geolocate this photo from Rudy Giuliani's spokeswoman (subject of this piece ) without using any mapping services:
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    Dec 16

    When students at Jamia Millia Islamia organized to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act, the police responded with violence. We break down the footage — which shows officers beating unarmed protesters and firing tear gas inside a university library.

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    Dec 17

    17 Dec 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia set himself on fire in protest against the seizure of his goods by police. The next day, protests and the Arab Spring began and the govt was toppled

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    Dec 16

    🚨New Episode🚨 The folks who - quite literally - fought the Tories in the miners strike of 1984-85 could not bring themselves to vote Labour in 2019. Some even voted Tory. What happened? /101/ UK Election: A Disaster Foretold

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    Dec 15

    When you like liberal terms like 'egalitarian' and 'against prejudice' but you also totally want a genocide of Muslim migrants in India.

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  15. Dec 15

    forgot about this tape

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  16. Dec 15

    happy sunday

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    Dec 15

    A Syrian bakery in a Greek forest

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    Dec 15

    Hayat Tahrir a-Sham executed 4 people in Idlib this month. 1 was a refugee in Turkey from Efrîn. He was deported by Turkey & arrested by HTS at the border crossing. HTS attempted to get ransom from his family. The other 3 were accused of sexual impropriety

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  19. Dec 15

    tanks and T-155 Fırtına howitzers at Turkish military bases and SNA/TFSA outposts north of the M4 highway around Ayn Issa
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    Dec 14

    Have you ever seen an American politician asked to defend themselves against charges that they are bigoted against Palestinians? In American political discourse, the category of anti-Palestinian bigotry essentially does not exist. That's how far we still have to go.

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    Dec 14

    good morning

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    Dec 14

    Syrians in Lebanon have greeted the country’s uprising with a complex blend of joy, envy, melancholy, and fear, write Dara Foi’Elle and Joey Ayoub.

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  24. Dec 14

    SDF fighters captured by Turkish proxies and turned over to MIT reportedly get dealt multiple life sentences for “disrupt the unity and territorial integrity of the Turkish state.” meanwhile regime soldiers captured on the same fronts get sent back

    After Turkey invaded northeast Syria (displacing tens of thousands and leading to deaths of hundreds), according to this report a number of Syrian Kurds were forcibly taken to Turkey to stand trial for what seems to be alleged PKK support
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  26. Dec 14

    3 hyphenated names, why am I citing this wtf

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    Dec 14

    New podcast episode out now: We speak to about recent protests in , which spread across the whole country and left more than 200 dead. - -

    62. Clashes Across Iran
    www.patreon.com/popularfront
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  28. Dec 14

    procrastinating on my final essays by geolocating places i'm supposed to be writing about

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    Dec 13

    Under the name "Alptekin Hocaoğlu," the former Syrian National Coalition president Khaled Khoja is now a founding member of Ahmet Davutoglu's new opposition party in Turkey. Tebrikler!

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    Dec 13

    1918 Sinn Fein had a landslide victory winning 73 of 105 Irish seats in the election. Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to Westminster. Sinn Fein would abstained & established Dáil Éireann on the same day the War of Independence began.

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    Dec 13

    Israel bars Gaza's Christians from visiting Bethlehem & Jerusalem for Christmas. There is absolutely no reason for this policy reversal by Israel

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  32. Dec 13

    timeline of Turkish-Syrian relations up until 2011 from Marwa Daoudy’s essay in The War for Syria (Ed. Hinnebusch Saouli)

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    Dec 13

    I also got to catalogue this neat of the Empire. There’s no date, but given that it includes northern and , but not Bulgaria, I’m guessing around 1910. It has a few cool of , and too.

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  34. Dec 13

    video shot almost exactly 24 hours afterwards

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    I and colleagues crossed the road the day after the assassination of by the jihadist factions of without knowing that the had slipped the way. …
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  35. Dec 13

    passed this by a million times and had no idea

    Did you know there is an interesting memorial in Manhattan’s Union Square? This row of trees on the north side of the park was planted in 1985, on the 70th anniversary of the catastrophe.
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    Dec 12

    Holy hell. Sinn Féin wins Belfast North, a constituency that has been held by unionists for its entire history, going back to 1885.

    Belfast North: SF GAIN FROM DUP . Full results:
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  37. Dec 12

    it’s nice that you can always tell the trains at myrtle-bway without looking up because the smell of popeyes wafting in

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    Dec 11

    CPJ just released its 2019 prison census. On Dec 1, at least 250 journalists were behind bars worldwide. These are the worst jailers & how many journalists they have jailed: China 48 Turkey 47 Saudi Arabia 26 Egypt 26 Eritrea 16 Vietnam 12 Iran 11 More:

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  39. Dec 11

    Read our report on Hevrin Khalaf's murder for more details including historical information about Ahrar al-Sharqiyah and its leader Abu Hatem, as well as testimonies collected by my excellent colleagues at

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  40. Dec 11

    While a member of Ahrar al-Sharqiyah's political office has since denied the group's involvement and sent us a video from social media he claims is Khalaf, all evidence including the photo we received of Hevrin's dead body (p. 24 of the report) leads us to conclude otherwise.

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