#Autocrats

What can be said that hasn't been already? Probably not much, but here are a few scattered thoughts on yesterday's events in the US: First, the Democrats just regained the
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I put together a some brief thoughts on the recent electoral #Belarusprotests from the perspective of someone who studies election manipulation. Blog post here: https://www.colejharvey.com/2020/08/17/post-election-protest-in-belarus/ and a
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There really have been few autocrats in this world who were as cunning and gaul as General Ne Win of Burma. A member of a Right-Wing nationalist group during the
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The #BMJ lashes out at #UK ‘state corruption’ and ‘suppression of #science’The highly-respected medical journal hit out at the "politicisation of science" in an article lashing out at Tory cronyism.Henry
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There is astounding poverty of foreign policy thinking. It is both Trump obsessed and gratuitously narcissistic in US political self absorption. Virtually any geopolitical problem you cite will NOT be
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The London Economics #BMJ lashes out at #UK ‘state corruption’ and ‘suppression of science’The highly-respected medical journal hit out at the "politicisation of science" in an article lashing out at
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[THREAD] When France stood up 'against freedom of expression' ( except ofc, when it were againts Muslims)● In 2011, the video for Rihanna’s latest song We Found Love was been
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Lots of smoke & mirrors in fight over rule of law. Here's my take in @POLITICOEurope on what's really going on: "If European leaders want to escape this autocracy trap,
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1/9) I often beat myself up after talks for not saying things I should have. This happened yesterday in the Cost of Solidarity panel with my brilliant friends, Steven Salaita
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Nazi appeasers, gammons, racists, xenophobic, anti-immigrants, little Englanders. The abuse, and refusal to honour the Ref result, drove me to leave the peace and comfort of my anonymity and join
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1/ Thread: Twitter's Pandora's BoxIf you are not American, chances are extremely high you probably yawn when a political leader who lost the election allege and claim the election was
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[THREAD]: When you sell your soul to the devil, you go to hell. You lose it all.Donald Trump didn't care about the "right to life." He was pro-abortion before he
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"Kushner is currently meeting with his axis of autocrats in the Middle East -- an axis not constructed in the interest of 'peace', but for big money, personal favors, and
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I will be live today around noon CET on @DeutscheWelle to talk about what is left of the Arab Uprisings. Tune in if you wanna see me giving some hopefully
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ONE of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals has published a damning attack on the UK Government, saying “science is being suppressed for political and financial gain” in
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MY LATEST @LATIMES COLUMNA: Trump saw himself as a strongman leader. He ended up a weak-salsa president. RT, porfas!https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-08/donald-trump-caudillo-latin-american-dictator So for this one, I tried t
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