The seeds of BRICS
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#China seeks #Europe to push for peace based on this map to ensure security for #Russia
Donetsk
The Alley of Angels monument in Donetsk, dedicated to children killed by Ukrainian Army since 2014
*The US is so despicable that they removed this reference from wikipedia and it says that this is Russian propaganda
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Now close your eyes and imagine the German government today renaming over 50 streets in
remembrance of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels alone, and hundreds more to the other high-ranking Nazis from that time period…
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pocalypsis pocalypseos ?@apocalypseos
“China does not threaten the United States. Nobody can threaten the United States. The United States would have preferred China — 20% of humanity — remain in poverty forever.” — Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637242723110645760
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On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the US military invasion of Iraq, hundreds took to the White House to oppose Washington’s aggressive policies: “Say NO to endless wars”, “Dissolve NATO for the sake of peace”, “Fund the needs of society, not the military machine.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637251839044497409
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SHOCK: on the heels of evidence the Chinese paid Biden’s family millions, we now learn that a Russian oligarch funneled $100M into Hunter Biden’s real estate firm. How much went to the family and why?
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Ricky Made in England, Born & Bred@Ricky_K67
Twenty years ago today, Britain & the US invaded Iraq. Tony Blair & Alastair Campbell lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. 400,000 people died, millions were displaced & the terrorist organisation ISIS was formed. These 2 men are criminals.
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Russia UN Representative POLYANSKIY: “I will not differentiate much between the American and European approaches. Both are determined to continue the proxy war against Russia using Ukraine. At the same time, people in both Europe and the US are becoming more aware of the true… Gehiago erakutsi
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BREAKING Hot on the heels of peace breaking out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the U.S. discovers human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia!!! Shock. Horror. Who knew? How could the US senators have been so remiss as to miss this for half a century?
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pocalypsis pocalypseos ?@apocalypseos
The western narrative about Ukraine was destroyed in less than a minute.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637246059830464513
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No to War! No to NATO!
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637152504294023169
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Putin gets an arrest warrant for evacuating children from the frontlines. Obama gets the Nobel peace prize for killing kids with drones.
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Ukrainian soldier is upset that he got paid less then $14 for 3 months in a row! -> Where are the 100 billion dollars going? Zelensky’s new house?
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637126776282284034
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Nuestros hijos irán a la escuela mientras los suyos se quedarán en los sótanos, dice Poroshenko, ex presidente de Ucrania, quién comenzó a bombardear las escuelas y viviendas residenciales en el Donbass. Él es el criminal de guerra (junto con Zelensky), no Putin
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637019145320398848
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AFU in Ugledar using civilians and social infrastructure(00:35) (among them a children playground 00:24) as cover,and placing military equipment next to them…
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1636995456109518848
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Joe Biden “The ICC case against Putin makes a very strong point” In 2002 the US signed the Hague Invasion Act into law. It states that if any US or NATO official is charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court,the US will invade and use force against the court.
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So Russia is reaching a peace deal in the Syrian conflict mediating between Turkey and Syria. China is mediating between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reach peace in Yemen USA initiated the conflicts by dividing and conquer strategy, China and Russia are now the adults bringing peace
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The flag of Russia was unfurled on the top of Ak-Kai (White Rock) in honor of the anniversary of the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637098432161542146
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Combatientes Del Sur@CombatientesSur
En París ha comenzado una protesta contra el suministro de armas a Ucrania ,y piden tambien la retirada de Francia de la OTAN, en ella se concentraron varios miles de manifestantes que exigen la dimisión del gobierno, informa el corresponsal de RIA Novosti.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637135444407189504
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Biden declared: “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country – since world war II, nothing like that has happened.”
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<a brutal, ghastly war> twenty years ago, the United States started an illegal. War of aggression against the people of Iraq. Never forget.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637106376945160201
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Cómo la OTAN se ha estado acercando a las fronteras de la URSS y Rusia desde 1949 .
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637005609458364417
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Could it be possible that Vladimir Putin was right all along?
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Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
Would Ukraine have been better off with Zelensky honoring the Minsk agreement and no war, or where we are now with Americans spending $100 billion to get over 100,000 Ukrainians killed, and 20% of their land taken and even more destroyed? Asking struggling Americans and Taiwan
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Joint naval exercises between Russia, China and Iran have ended in the Arabian Sea Highlights of the show live-fire exercises and simulated storming of ship “captured” by pirates, with Russian and Iranian Marines working in tandem to clear craft of hostiles.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637045379245002752
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“These people are animals…they raised an animal…the laptop (Hunter’s) will make you throw up in your mouth every 30 seconds…and it’s not just Hunter Biden…it’s the whole Biden Family…and the American people will be shocked…”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637280573814108162
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Demanding that Russia withdraws before starting negotiations sounds virtuous, but it translates into the US fighting to the last Ukrainian in a war Ukraine cannot win. Offering to end NATO expansion in return for Russia withdrawing would be virtuous
https://media-en.almayadeen.net/archive/image/2023/3/16/5d75ffab-3aa5-490b-87d1-df3e420d9b40.jpg?v=3&preset=w700
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Russia MFA Spokeswoman ZAKHAROVA: “Australia, the green continent, got its name from being an environmental oasis. Now, nuclear submarines may be deployed there. That country has never had the necessary supply lines to service, create or develop them. How will it unfold? How… Gehiago erakuts
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Putin drives to Crimea to mark 9th anniversary of its reunification with Russia
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637162344659795968
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Twenty years ago Britain and the US invaded Iraq. Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. -400.000 people died -Millions were displaced -The terrorist organisation ISIS was formed This whole drama is no problem at all for the ICC
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The death of 500,000 dead Iraqi children was “a very hard choice, but the price-we think the price is worth it” ~Madeleine Albright #Iraq for those that benefit from countless wars around the globe the price is always worth it. #War at any human cost..
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637192166236647426
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The West, which colonized Africa, spreads the myth of so-called Chinese “debt trap diplomacy” But Africa owes only 12% of its external debt to China Africa owes 3 times more to Western banks, asset managers & oil traders, which charge double the interest.
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America Rejects Peace On Earth. – White House Rejects Ceasefire In Ukraine As China Mediation Intensifies “The White House is already condemning any possible China-brokered peace plan initiative related to Ukraine before it even gets off the ground.”
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In the end, “war crimes” are decided exclusively by force of arms. The losing side are genocidal maniacs, the winning side are benevolent liberators. Every big war is like this now.
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Hassan Mafi @thatdayin1992
mar. 18
So, let me get this straight… Joe Biden drone murders an entire family of 10, including 7 children, in Afghanistan and that is not a war crime. Putin evacuates children from a warzone to safety and somehow that is a war crime??? Wow! What a world we live in!
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Westerners are convinced that Russians have been rendered desperate and impoverished due to sanctions, but the opposite is true. Food in Russia is plentiful and cheap, supermarket shelves groan under the abundance and the variety. In the UK, food items are rationed and the slim… Gehiago erakutsi
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Ukrainian commander gets DEMOTED for speaking truth about huge losses that Kiev is facing on battlefield after he says all 500 soldiers in his unit had either been KILLED or injured.
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The US policy of trying to sanction countries into submission, coups, proxy wars, threats, and invasions has backfired and is creating a long list of nations wanting to join BRICS This war isn’t isolating Russia, the US is isolating itself.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1636678602849755143
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“Iran announced its decision to connect to the Russian MIR payment system in the coming days” – ISNA agency. Iran and Russia agreed to create a SWIFT analogue for mutual settlements between Russia, Iran and several other countries; this analogue will soon become operational.
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Black in the Empire@blackintheempir
They told us they would destroy Russia’s economy, our banks are failing
They told us they would make Russians turn on Putin, and European countries are having mass protests
They told us they would take back Ukraine and Crimea, and after $100 billion from taxpayers, we’re here
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Josep Borell has a such a deep understanding of history, he was the perfect choice as top diplomat of the EU.
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Joe Brew@joethebrew
2018 aza. 27
Yesterday Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said this about United States’ pre-independence history: “The only thing that they had done was kill 4 Indians”. “KILL 4 INDIANS” What a cruel, racist, denialist, and pathetic way to describe a genocide.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1067430167088230401
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George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely
Love the way AP gets to decide what are and what are not “legitimate concerns.” Behind any attempt to question the benevolent intent of the “authorities” stands of course…Putin. https://apnews.com/article/ohio-t
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Hersh admitted that he knows more about the case of the “Nord Streams” than he can say Seymour Hersh:”I know a lot more about[Nord Stream sabotages] than I want to say. But I have to protect people who speak with me.“
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In announcing its indictment of Putin, the ICC noted “children enjoy special protection under the Geneva Convention.” In 2009, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem documented Israel’s torture of Palestinian children. The ICC has done nothing to protect those children. Nothing.
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Cientos de personas protestan en las calles de Bilbao (Euskal Herria) contra la OTAN y el envío de armas a Ucrania. Denuncian, además, que las sanciones contra Rusia están afectando a la clase trabajadora.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637154469178744835
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soldiers stood up for the battalion commander of the 46th brigade, who was demoted for telling the truth about heavy losses and problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an interview with the Washington Post
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637118449871642627
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kanekoa.substack.com@KanekoaTheGreat
comments on the two-tier justice system that ignores the 459 documented crimes found in Hunter Biden’s laptop. •140 business crimes •191 sex crimes •128 drug crimes
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637195682409742339
mar. 18
@KanekoaTheGreat erabiltzaileari erantzuten
Unless I’m missing something, this appears to support the argument that there is political bias in the justice system. That is not to presume a guilty verdict or prison, but not bringing this to
court at all is hard to explain. @CommunityNotes
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US doing its proxy war part by defending Ukraine from the threat of a ceasefire:
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Newsweek@Newsweek
mar. 17
“We don’t support calls for a ceasefire right now,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said in response to a question by Newsweek. https://newsweek.com/xi-heads-china
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#Washington has never accepted accountability for its wars and interventions, and tries to demonise all those who resist. To this day its trolls try to claim that the invasion of #Iraq was not a great crime but rather a ‘mistake’ based on ‘good intentions’.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637358910821507073
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Today our sequel to Ukraine on Fire – Revealing Ukraine will be on Air at #NTVBelarus in that film @TheOliverStone was interviewing Viktor Medvedchuk – leader of opposition in #Ukraine we released film in 2019 and hope for peace was in the air. We finished a film with a scene of… Gehiago erakutsi
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Igo Kob@igokobcinema
mar. 18
As part of the premiere of the film “Ukraine on Fire”, director Igor Lopatonok addressed the viewers of Belarus, where today a TV show will take place on the NTV-Belarus channel. #IgorLopatonok
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637007617179410434
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pocalypsis pocalypseos ?@apocalypseos
“Any politician that doesn’t understand fully the implications of the British Crown, BEIC, free trade & neoliberalism is going to get sucker punched into licking the boots of the British & the US. Post-war America became the Empire they fought a war against.” —
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637314980487008257
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Poles still buy cheap vegetables from Russia, despite sanctions Most European countries have terminated trade relations with Russia, and against this background, “it is surprising that their vegetables can be bought” in Poland, – German newspaper Berliner Zeitung
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President Putin protect and saved 307,000 childrens from war zone Donbass do you think this is a war crime? #NATOisLosingTheWar
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Euronews spoke to Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić before the highly anticipated talks with Kosovo. Both countries are meeting to discuss the final points of a possible EU-backed deal. Watch this interview on #GlobalConversation
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This is awesome, informative and entertaining all at once. She fell for it hook, line and sinker… Full video prank with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde In a conversation with our «Zelensky», Ms. Lagarde complained that sanctions against Russia had failed,… Gehiago erakutsi
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1636899808425246720
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“the Japanese army poisoned more than 1,000 water wells in Chinese villages to study cholera and typhus outbreaks. Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas over Chinese cities or distributed them by means of saboteurs in rice fields and along roads.”
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One of the many lies the Dem-loyal corporate media has spread is that the Hunter Biden laptop never mattered because it was only about Hunter’s personal life. If that were true, I’d agree. But it’s a lie: it was about *Joe Biden’s* business activities in Ukraine and China:
mar. 18
Biden denies $1M in payments to family from Hunter associate, despite bank records: ‘Not true’ https://fxn.w/3Tq0NKS
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On last night’s @SystemUpdate_, we spoke to @SocialistMMA — one of the best and smartest commentators on the left — about why the US mainstream left is so silent to meek to supportive about the US proxy war in Ukraine, while only parts of the right denounce it. His answer:
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637098884404072448
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Watch how Zelensky regime goons physically drag men into unmarked vans and ambulances to force them to die for Western geopolitical interests
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637102296818409475
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23 years ago John Kerry and Chuck Hagel told me to make my case that Iraqi WMD didn’t pose a threat to the US worthy of war.
I did so in this article.
Hillary Clinton ignored it.
Joe Biden called me a traitor for writing it.
Because it was the truth. https://armscontrol.org/act/2000-06/fe
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Don’t fall for propaganda. Despite constant harping on about the EU standing up to authoritarian regimes with our exalted “values,” we swore off Russian fossil fuels only to sign an oil and gas deal with Azerbaijan, a state that ticks every box on the autocrat’s bingo card.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637407549501718528
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Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen
2022 uzt. 18
The EU is turning to more reliable energy suppliers. Today I’m in Azerbaijan to sign a new agreement. Our goal: double the gas delivery from Azerbaijan to the EU in a few years.
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
I’m no fan of Nikki Haley.
I am a fan of the United Sates of America.
I said the pledge in school every morning growing up.
I’m a Patriot.
I’m not a fascist.
And I do know what I believe in:
One nation, indivisible.
With Liberty and Justice for all.
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16 years after creating the CIA, in an op-ed titled “Limit CIA Role To Intelligence,” President Truman wrote: “For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of… Gehiago erakutsi
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This month marks 20 years since Bush and Blair launched their criminal invasion of Iraq, which destroyed a country of 30m human beings. They roam free. Next month marks 4 years since Julian Assange was buried in Belmarsh supermax prison for exposing their crimes. A sick system.
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If the International Criminal Court aspires to any credibility, it must investigate NATO’s crimes in Iraq and indict the politicians and military leaders responsible.
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The 2003 war against the people of Iraq constituted a revolt against the UN Charter and international law, surely the most serious aggression accompanied by war crimes since 1945.
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20 March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the illegal war waged by the US, UK and a “coalition” of countries against the people of Iraq to obtain regime change and loot Iraq’s resources.
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The level of criminality of the US assault on Iraq boggles the mind. The systematic torture, use of depleted uranium and other prohibited weapons. Hitherto in total impunity.
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I did many interviews in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, trying to educate the American public that the Bush administration had not made the case for war. I’m proud of them all, but none more so than this typical attempted ambush by Paula Zahn: https://edition.cnn.com/2002/US/09/13/
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Back when I was a regular guest on CSPAN. Some more background about my feud with Joe Biden over the issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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Believe it or not, there was a time when Harvard asked me to speak within its hallowed halls. I just wished people had listened and acted accordingly.
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Two questions: Why do the Ukrainians celebrate the creation of the Nazi Waffen SS Galizien division? Why is the West supporting this shithole country?
Bdeoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637436554556702721
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My interview on the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
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Scott Ritter on the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq
Subscribe to our Substack: https://ScottRitterExtra.comSee Scott in Washington, DC on March 25, an
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The most honourable and honest politician of my time living in Britain who is still fighting the good fight and debunking corruption and lies. Thank you George. You give me hope for the future.
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Maria@real1maria
mar. 19
The case for the Iraq war was a pack of lies. — @georgegalloway twitter.com/RichardHaass/s…
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Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637398287387959296
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“Arrest warrant first; we’ll find some evidence later (maybe).”
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Int’l Criminal Court@IntlCrimCourt
mar. 18
Following issuance of arrest warrants by #ICC pre-trial chamber in #Ukraine situation, #ICC Prosecutor #KarimAAKhanKC spoke to @CNN.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637141069434322944
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China is trying to organize a ceasefire in the proxy war in Ukraine, and hopes to eventually negotiate a peaceful resolution. The US staunchly opposes Beijing’s peace efforts. China wants peace. The US wants more war. It really is that simple.
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US military protected us by stealing gold in Iraq.
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Against late capitalism @Inhumansoflate1
mar. 18
@RichardHaass erabiltzaileari erantzuten
Why did America take all the gold out of Iraq then lol
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#FMsays The China-Russia relationship is built on the basis of non-alliance, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third parties, FM spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday, refuting some western politicians referring to China & Russia as “an axis of evil”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637435870033899521
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In 2018, the U.S. government threatened that, if the ICC pursued charges against officials from the U.S, Israel or other U.S. allies, it would not only sanction ICC officials, but would also charge them criminally. Five years later, the craven ICC has https://amp.france24.com/en/20180910-usa-trump-threatens-arrest-icc-judges-american-soldiers-afghan-war-crimes
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Russia whisks children away from a war zone being attacked by US-NATO weapons after following legal protocols. For saving children Putin gets accused of a war crime. Recall Madeline Albright saying 500,000 dead children as a result of the Iraq sanctions was worth it. US war pigs… Gehiago erakutsi
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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter
mar. 18
@KarimKhanQC This is what a war crime against children looks like. You’ve disgraced the rule of law with your politicized attempted prosecution of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and condemned the ICC to be relegated into the ranks of the irrelevant.
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Dimitri Lascaris@dimitrilascaris
Since no one in the pathetic Western media will put this obvious question to ICC president Piotr Hofmański, I feel obliged to do so: Are the lives of Palestinian children worth less than the lives of Ukrainian children?
@piotre_judge #ICC #Palestine… Gehiago erakutsi
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Dimitri Lascaris@dimitrilascaris
mar. 18
In announcing its indictment of Putin, the ICC noted “children enjoy special protection under the Geneva Convention.” In 2009, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem documented Israel’s torture of Palestinian children. The ICC has done nothing to protect those children. Nothing.
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The fact that this war criminal is still not behind bars and can talk to the media shows what a big joke the ICC is. If the ICC wants to arrest war criminals, it should start with Blair, Bush, Clinton, and Barack “We tortured some folks” Obama.
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President AMLO of Mexico announced yesterday that Mexico will reach energy self-sufficiency and will stop importing foreign fuels by the end of next year
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Western values:
Hillary Clinton,on hearing about Gaddafi’s death in Sirte, Libya. 20 Oct 2011.
Hillary Clinton: “We came, we saw, he died!”
Q:”Did it [Gaddafi’s death] have anything to do with your visit? Clinton: “Nah…I’m sure it did (giggles)”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637450548726181890
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Afshin Rattansi@afshinrattansi
Never forget how the Clinton administration with Tony Blair in the UK & #NATO aerially bombarded a Chinese Embassy in Europe in 1999.
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Chen Weihua (陈卫华)@chenweihua
mar. 19
Can’t leave Belgrade without paying tribute to Chinese journalists and diplomats killed by NATO missile bombing of then Chinese embassy to the former Yugoslavia on May 7, 1999. Condemn the barbaric war machine NATO.
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Sam Husseini — subscribe: husseini.substack.com@samhusseini
It wasn’t just Bush & Cheney who lied their way into the Iraq invasion 20 years ago. Possibly the most important Dem, who had been threatening and falsifying about Iraq for years, was Biden. See clip from his war speech and my piece on his endless lies: https://husseini.substack.com/p/joe-biden-wo
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1636818722001133568
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The West has lost all its legitimacy to tell other countries what is right and what is wrong. British man photographed as he is carried by a Sikkimese woman on her back.
(West Bengal, India,around 1900)
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12 years ago today, NATO claimed they were invading Libya for “humanitarian” purposes—turning a country that had the highest standard of living in Africa into a war-torn, failed state with open-air slave markets. 0 sanctions,
0 ICC arrest warrants
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Western values: In 2003 Gaddafi agreed to dismantle Libya’s WMDS. In 2009 Hillary Clinton welcomed Gaddafi’s son, Mutassim, and said: “We deeply value the relationship between US and Libya” Two years later she giggled upon hearing he and his father were brutally lynched….
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637450715944611843
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Zhang Meifang张美芳@CGMeifangZhang
“The wind of change. This bar chart race shows how China become the global leader in wind energy.” #renewableenergy #chart #Statistics #China #news #windpower
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1637377271789912064
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We know that peace is unacceptable for the US. It’s not for peace that they started “project Ukraine” in 2014 and turned this country into anti-Russia
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Tara Reade @ReadeAlexandra
mar. 19
US War mongers melting down that there may be a cease fire and peace. This tells you everything you need to know. twitter.com/graphicw5/stat…
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With peace breaking out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the U.S. discovers ‘suddenly’ human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia How could US senators have been so remiss as to miss this for half a century?