Hasan Mustafa

@HasanMustafaS

Researching and Observing the Syrian War, among other conflicts. Anti-Dictatorships. RT/Like ≠ Endorsement etc.

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    Nov 21

    Throwback footage from 2013 Damascus. Rebels fire burning pitch at Assadist positions using a TREBUCHET

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    Dec 27

    PDPA and Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan is established fact. No amount of Millennial or GenZ communist shitlords can erase or alter that. However, their disinformation crusade is still a threat to those fighting state brutality by China, Syria, Iran, Russia & elsewhere today.

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    Dec 26

    I just published a massive guide for on using reverse image search engines for digital investigation. I test out the Big Three services, ranking them with a running scorecard, and detail some creative search strategies at the end of the guide.

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    Dec 26

    Gulzire Awulqanqizi, a survivor of China’s pleads for help from the international community as she is facing deportation by to , where she says “the Chinese police will kill me.” Please RT & let’s save Gulzire!

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    Dec 26

    Something beautiful: Kaside-i burda from 1285/1868 in Bosnian language. The poem is interspersed with verses in Arabic but has a distinct South Slavic flavour: the Prophet is "Milosnik" and the awliyā are "sveci".

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    Dec 26

    This following thread will be examining the exodus of Mizrahi Jews from each Arab MENA country, country by country. Numerous ancient Jewish communities would be pushed out of their respective countries and into Israel, the US and Europe.

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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 25

    Thousand of people who Assad and Russia denied them the warmth of their homes and threw them in out door .Pain of forced displacement. Before the eyes of the whole world and its ignore😔

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    Dec 25

    Syrian with the support of -backed militias and warplane managed to capture 1700Km2 of province since August 2019, This attack has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced more than 500,000 civilians from the south of the province to its north

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  9. Dec 25

    While this is a good article, titling anything "xyz at a crossroads" is waaay too overused.

    Because a longread about ISIS is what you most want on Christmas Day, here’s a look at their efforts to stage a comeback based on our travels in Syria & Iraq. With photos by the amazing . You're welcome.
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  10. Dec 25

    "You're brainwashing the youth with Marxist theory, but by doing so, you're giving them a tool to fight against the government. It's also a tool young people can use to defend themselves when authorities arrest them"

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  11. Dec 25

    "Young Chinese being arrested for practicing Marxism — the official ideology of the Communist Party — poses the latest conundrum for the country's leadership, whom he blames for feigning interest in Marxism in order to maintain a guiding principle."

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  12. Dec 25

    "I think this shows China's Communist Party can no longer justify itself," says Beijing-based historian Zhang Lifan. "While the party talks about serving the people, China's actually been practicing capitalism."

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  13. Retweeted
    Dec 25

    : Rebels announce tonight they repelled an assault on Abu Jurayf (E. ). It's the 2nd axis pro-Assad forces opened yesterday (W. front), aiming to take town of .

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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    Important to pay attention to the BJP counternarrative. The lesson of this era of protest is that the pendulum can quickly swing in the other direction. The BJP has popular support, a vast grassroots network, and a robust digital disinfo machine.

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  15. Retweeted
    Dec 25

    Hello world, look, Indian Nazis!!

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    On Christmas Day, the Nazi-inspired paramilitary flexed its muscle in the streets of Hyderabad. As spread across India, affiliates of the RSS (especially its student wing, ) are accuse…
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    Dec 25

    On the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a thread dispelling some of the myths floating around:

    I didn't even know there were tweeps whitewashing the Soviet-Afghan war until tweeted/rt some stuff. Afghan historians worked too hard to push back on US narratives only to have ppl who found communism 2 days ago try to rewrite history. So let's do this:
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    Dec 25

    Many Hindus feel they've been suppressed for far too long - by a Mogul Muslim ruling class, then by British colonialists, then by a privileged post-independence elite. Now that they feel it's their moment, they think that dignity can be won by beating it out of vulnerable others.

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    Dec 25

    Two ways to study jihadism: 1. Follow day-to-day events closely, and see how groups build relevance organically. 2. Skip all that, wait till a group takes over large parts of the region or carries out large-scale attacks, then read books & write a treatise about the ‘ideology.’

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    Dec 25

    Dozens of policemen broke into the home of an elderly Muslim man in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They beat him, ransacked his home, and told him that there were only two places for Muslims: Pakistan or the cemetery.

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  20. Retweeted
    Dec 24

    If what happened in Rojava this Fall meets your standard for an atrocity, what Assad and Russia are doing in Northwest Syria is exceeding that standard. Not downplaying Turkish or T-FSA war crimes, but but Ma'arat al-Numan right now is one of most horrifying sights I've ever seen

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  21. Retweeted
    Dec 25

    Jolani cleverly is playing a geopolitical sentiment in a tailored speech, meant to appeal both revolutionary Syrian non-HTS and the West, without neglecting the hardline base.

    Russia’s relentless and vicious campaign in NW Syria, where millions of civilians and IDPs live and could be forced to flee en mass, continues. The leader of the force that dominates that area has a new speech. A new &…
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    Dec 24

    This shows how the entire strategy to defeat ISIS was flawed from the very beginning & allowed Iraq's hyper sectarian, Shia-dominated institutions & pro-Iran Shia jihadists to lead the charge against Sunni jihadists. What caused ISIS can't defeat ISIS.

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    Dec 24

    See also: Timber Sycamore (covert TOW provisions) guidelines, in addition to publicly available DoD train-and-equip guidelines. Both prohibit usage of such weaponry under most offensive circumstances.

    The Javelin missiles that were sent to Ukraine come with the condition that they won't be used on the current battle area. Trump sent them to Ukraine just for show.
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    Dec 24

    Drone footage of today’s SVBIED attack carried out by HTS against a group of Syrian loyalist vehicles in the center of Jarjanez, SE Idlib countryside. Lack of perimeter defence astounding. SVBIED design identical to standardised pick up trucks used between May-August this year

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    Dec 24

    Today’s SVBIED by HTS passed by a group of Syrian loyalists unhindered in the town of Jarjanez, because the loyalists were busy looting the homes of civilians who escaped the town. Symbolic.

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    Dec 24

    Russia’s relentless and vicious campaign in NW Syria, where millions of civilians and IDPs live and could be forced to flee en mass, continues. The leader of the force that dominates that area has a new speech. A new & dangerous chapter is looming. Details in following tweets:

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    Dec 24

    Jolani: "The peoples of the region, and the whole world, will bear the political, economic, military & security consequences of this war."

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  28. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    How pro-Assad leftists imagine Syrian rebel gas attacks... Shall we gas an Assad airbase? Just once? No! Never! Stick with the plan! Gas ourselves to provoke US strikes! But 73 false flags and all we got was a weak strike on an empty hangar! 74th time is the charm! I feel it!

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    Dec 23

    The slaughter in Idlib isn't news. The extermination of up to a million Syrian Arabs isn't news. The crushing of democracy by fascism and imperialism on the eastern Mediterranean isn't news. 'Kurds' is news. So is 'jihadis'. And so is 'refugee crisis'. Fuck the news.

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    Dec 22

    ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been download to millions of phones, is actually a spying tool. It's used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image.

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    Dec 22

    A humanitarian catastrophe as well as a strategic and political nightmare, especially for Europe. "But can we do?" They cry after they spent eight years recoiling from and undermining any argument for civilian protection.

    The fallout from this will haunt us for generations.
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    Dec 22

    40 yrs ago today (23 Dec, 1979) Soviet troops invaded Kabul. Thus began a civil war in Afghanistan that continues to this day. The invasion would unravel Soviet Union, end the Cold War, but brutalise Pakistan and Afghanistan with drugs, guns, corruption and religious militancy.

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    Dec 22

    “Mr. Jones” tells the story of the man who exposed the Ukrainian famine

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    Dec 22

    Literally a monument to the folly of Turkey’s Syria policy.

    TSK observation base No 9 about 20km further to the south near Morek is still standing but surrounded by regime troops
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    Dec 22
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    The legitimate rally in Hong Kong to support has been interrupted and quickly ended by police with their excessive force of guns, rubber bullets, pepper spray and batons. Where is freedom of assembly as guaranteed by the Basic Law?

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    Dec 21

    At the solidarity with Uyghurs rally in Hong Kong. The crowd was just chanting, “Stand with Uyghurs; stand with Özil”—in reference to the Arsenal star who spoke out for Muslims in Xinjiang last week

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    Dec 21

    Hundreds of vehicles fleeing from Maraat al-Nouman. People are scared by -|n airstrikes + offensive. Nobody wants to be under once again.

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    Dec 19

    Reminder: if you are a "Assad would never gas his own people!" or "The literal aid workers pulling victims from bomb rubble are al-Qaeda!" fuck-cabbage, please kindly unfollow right now and go away forever.

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    Dec 19

    - GNA has officially requested deployment of Turkish troops to western to support the GNA in the ongoing war. Ankara is now ready to go.

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  40. Dec 19

    And pretty sure it's only one perpetrator responsible for most if not all.

    Attacks on health care in Syria: ❌ 83 attacks in 2019 ❌ 54 people killed ❌ 109 injured ❌…
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    Dec 18

    Thanks for the Syrian-American community for setting this up. One of the big screens in Manhattan in city, screening the crimes of Assad, Russia and the Iranians on the Syrian civilians. is coming

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