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Fact 23: Not all "cuneiform writing" actually meant something. Sometimes just imitating the general appearance of cuneiform-like signs could be enough — why bother to learn the whole complex writing
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THREADWatch THIS.There's absolutely no doubt that @realDonaldTrump understands and almost certainly speaks Arabic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdQr1wjXIs When Trump can't understand the heavily accented English of an Arabic-Spea
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Video produced by DoD-financed pro-SDF @NPA_English, harshly criticizing Jim Jeffrey, the Special Envoy to Syria who just departed & presenting his predecessor, Brett McGurk, in a positive light due to
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Woke is often just a veneer for milquetoast neoliberalism/neoconservatism. Which is fine, to a certain extent, because it's not the boogeyman that the right believes it to be. But it's
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1. I would like to share something that is personally important. Some background on the suffering of the raped and tortured Yazidi girls and this thread that gives hope and
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THREAD: Britain's worst foreign policy disasters since the First World War, in chronological order.I'm taking the Great War as the starting point, because I think it resides in a hideous
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Personally tough for me to read this profound timeline (should be required history for all those who don’t know how we got here) as I served parts of, or in
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1. 1993-4 my late brother investigated Bill Barr, Reagan, Bush & Baker among others. It was a strange case involving the CIA. Most of the investigation was top secret "code-worded
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As promised, a piece summarizing some aspects of my dissertation research kindly published by @IraqiThoughts ... with a thread below on some additional details, elaborating and grounding the piece:https://1001iraqithoughts.com/2020/06/24/th
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TOP SECRET STORY TIME: #DesertStorm30 yrs ago today I endured my first of 3 actions in 100 hours. I was Cryptologic Intelligence Chief (forward) on USS Tripoli (LPH-10) sweeping Iraqi
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Why the hashtag #TurkeyInvadesKurdistan ?Turks and kurds in a thread. What you should know as a foreigner: Turkey is a country led by racist and fascist people, while we do
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Our collection 'I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security' is available! An honour for me to have edited this wonderful group of scholars and activists, who
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14 February 2021 #MAGAanalsysisThe TheftWhat does it mean, this acquittal? First, it means that the Democrat/RINO Alliance has now used impeachment for nothing other than kabuki theater twice. What does
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So, MAGA want to succeed from the union? Fine. Let 'em go. We'll take our Blue states & as many progressives as we can out of Red states and form
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1/ Homecoming 2020?https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1338263765754802177 2/ John le Carré explainshow 9/ 11 was a power grab by the military, intelligence agencies and corrupt politicians 3/ Snowden says 9/11 contributed to his decision
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Year-end threads are a bit hard for British people who feel very awkward about such things. But here are some stories I wrote, and the amount I made. Hopefully, this
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