#Sanction

This is a tactic the CIA tried unsuccessfully in Venezuela. Incidentally, both Leonid Volkov and Navalny were fellows at Yale's Maurice "Hank" Greenberg program.While overseeing AIG's illicit practices, Greenberg reportedl
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"The European Union’s response to the human rights crisis in Hong Kong has been muted at best." HKW Senior Policy Adviser @SamGoodman22 latest on whether the EU has been compromised
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ONE year since General #Soleimani’s assassination what position #Iran holds in #Iraq today? A Thread #Iran’s power in Iraq has been declining since the #IRGCQF head was targeted by #US
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"The Bible condemns all oppression. American slavery is systematically oppressive, as essential to its existence. Therefore the Bible condemns American slavery." (William Henry Brisbane, 1847) Brisbane's "Slaveholding Exa
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I spent a good part of my AM at Kellogg Mall encampment. I do not believe encampments should be forcibly cleared in STP, & at bare minimum this shouldn’t happen
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Virtual proceedings begin. The presiding judge is Lady Dorian, The Crown is represented by the Advocate Depute, Alec Prentice QC, The Spectator by Ronald Clancy QC Counsel for the Spectator
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New paper with @EPSRjournal on the European People's Party @EPP re their changing voting behaviour on issues of fundamental values/rule of law in the EP @Europarl_EN Research 2 years in
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A violent mob IS a bomb. The KKK consistently used mobs to intimidate and destroy democratic hopes. Some ppl are the fuse, some the accelerant, some the wires, some just
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1/WAR ON WOMENLast week, Loujain al-Hathloul, imprisoned since 2018, a young activist who fought for the right of women to drive in Saudi Arabia, appeared in court. Her "crime" was
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One of the wisest things anyone's ever said to me about predictive policing tools - algorithms that purport predict where crime will occur - is that they don't predict crime,
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In 2013, a father called police to report that an off-duty officer had struck his teenage son in the face. The officer, Scott Francis, pleaded not guilty. The Clinton Police
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S-400s, a story: Everything started when Turkey downed a Russian jet, Su-24 in Nov 2015 for violating its airspace. Russians were repeatedly bombarding Turkman-led rebel groups by using Turkish airspace.
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Another impressive journalistic investigation coordinated by @bellingcat, on the attempt to poison the Russian opposition activist A. Nawalny in Aug 2020, provides a lot of interesting details proving that we
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Why is Germany brokering an EU budget deal that lets Hungary off the hook & makes virtually impossible to sanction Orban’s rule of law breaches? German companies were actually instrumental
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1/ An Independence Day Thread - Needed Now, More than Ever: @jaketapper labeled George Washington as merely a "slaveholder" in a tweet recently. This to those who honestly study history,
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Important thread There is growing concern among advocates that the @IntlCrimCourt is undermining basic human rights norms in an important case involving torture & could set a very dangerous precedent.
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