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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    23 hours ago

    Italian arms have been sold to Russia, transported to Syria, & used by sanctioned Syrian Army militia breaching European trade & arms safeguards. After 12 months of digging w/ , , we show how they got to places like this 👇👇

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  3. 2 hours ago

    fascinating little thread on Lithuanian

    In spite of the importance of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as a great European power in the Middle Ages and beyond, the Lithuanian language was rarely written down before the 19th century - for a surprising…
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    10 hours ago

    When they find out your secret Wikipedia handle

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    23 hours ago

    going to tell my kids this is america's mayor, rudy giuliani

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    18 hours ago

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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    7 hours ago

    : last night 3 gas & oil facilities were attacked in province. Among them the strategic Homs Oil Refinery which was hit by an explosion. (Suicide) drones suspected.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    If u don’t want angry boomers with too much time on their hands making bottom text memes about u, don’t post this in the facebook group ‘Law Enforcement Daily’

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    3 hours ago

    No words.

    We will build the new Maarat Alnouman in the sky ,no need to live in the earth
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  10. 3 hours ago

    rip to all the fallen facebook pages out there

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    15 hours ago

    Neo-nazi holocaust denier Nick Fuentes accosts far-right propagandist Ben Shapiro in video by white nationalist provocateur Andy Ngo. The ultimate far-right grifter human centipede.

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    Here's Nick Fuentes confronting Ben Shapiro who's walking with family, including his kids. Ben ignores him and walks off while Nick cries about "free speech."
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    Dec 20

    I did not make this but the public needs to see it while there is still time

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    Dec 19

    Great bit of writing and very on point.

    'working-class voters ... have tumbled the corpse of the bourgeois Labour Party into the grave and started shovelling on the soil. It would be a profound mistake for the left to seek to salvage the corpse from beneath…
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    Dec 18

    Through the Looking Glass

    Read Turkey's national report to the UN Human Rights Council and discover a new country: "There is an active and pluralistic media community enjoying international standards of freedom of expression and media in…
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    Dec 18

    A thread on nationalism from an Assyrian perspective: You can consider me a nationalist in the sense that I believe in one collective Assyrian nation, comprising of people who are often associated with churches who maintain a particular tradition and share a common language.

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  16. Dec 18

    Large discrepancies in reported of IDPs returned to Tel Abyad/Ras al-'Ain. I've been told UN # comes directly from TR gov't self-reporting. Also IDPs from TA living in ES areas are being included in returns, erasing some OPS displaced from figures.

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    Dec 18

    The number of increased compared to the 54 recorded in the previous October 2019.

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    Dec 17

    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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  19. Dec 17

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

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  20. Dec 17

    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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  22. Dec 17

    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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    Dec 17

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

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    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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  30. Dec 15

    forgot about this tape

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  31. 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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  34. 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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    Dec 14

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  39. 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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  41. Dec 14

    3 hyphenated names, why am I citing this wtf

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