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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 months

I wrote about the politics of de-development and the South African elections for @NewStatesman

The future starts in South Africa

The country’s political disintegration offers a glimpse into how Western democracies could fail.

www.newstatesman.com

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

I don't want to sound alarmist, but there is a serious attempt at a coup happening in the open right now in Brazil. The Federal Traffic Police along with state police and elements of the army are trying to suppress the vote across the country. I will continue to post updates

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Benjamin Fogel

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11 months

This is genocidal language

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BREAKING: Israel's Defense Minister says 'we are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly'

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

If Lula wins despite all the billions spent on buying votes, police shenanigans, disinformation and the politicized prosecution and jailing, it will be the greatest political comeback of all time.

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Benjamin Fogel

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1 year

When people ask me if I am missing London...

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

Nobody has heard anything from Bolsonaro or his sons yet, but his wife Michelle and him unfollowed each other

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

RICHARLISON: "It is a basic right to have food on the table, healthcare, education and housing. I position myself in support and show my indignation for a minimum of dignity and equality for all the Brazilians that did not have the same type of luck as I did"

Guilherme Boulos 50

@GuilhermeBoulos

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RICHARLISON: "É um direito básico ter comida na mesa, saúde, educação e moradia. Eu me posiciono e mostro a minha indignação pelo mínimo de dignidade e igualdade para todos os brasileiros que não tiveram a mesma sorte que eu." Craque dentro e fora do campo!

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Benjamin Fogel

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8 months

I leave South Africa today wearing my Bok jersey, I have never felt prouder to be South African. We are on the right side of history and let's hope the ICJ recognises this.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Lula has won this election, it might have been close and Bolsonaro will almost certainly contest the results, but he was in prison two years ago and Bolsonaro changed the constitution by buying off Congress and spent over 12 billion to stop this from happening. This is historic!

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Is this the greatest political comeback of all time? Two years ago Lula was in prison.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Here is the supposed order from the Bolsonaro supporting Director General of the Federal Traffic Police to ignore the Electoral Court and carry-out operations against public transport. This is the time to sound the alarm bells

Rafael Moro Martins

@rafaelmmartins

2 years

Aqui está o ofício circular, assinado às 2h43 desta madrugada, em que o diretor-geral da PRF, Silvanei Vasques, diz que não irá cumprir a ordem proferida pelo @TSEjusbr .

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

8 months

I am a South African Jew living in London and the worst thing about going to the city center is the lack of sun and freezing cold. Dress warmly!

Ben M. Freeman 🇮🇱

@BenMFreeman

8 months

I am a Jew living in London & because of the 200,000 strong anti-Jewish march about to take place, I don't feel comfortable going into the city centre on the weekend. Its 2024 and parts of London have become no-go areas for Jews.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

One day I will write an essay about how Jovem Pan went from introducing kids to Oasis to indoctrinating them into extreme right nonsense

Gustavo Ribeiro

@gnribeiro

2 years

Godwin Law alert: 15 minutes into Jair Bolsonaro's interview on Jovem Pan, a far-right radio: Rodrigo Constantino compares the Brazilian Supreme Court to the Gestapo.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Quick though: Nobody else but the greatest Brazilian political mind of all time could have beaten Bolsonaro in this election and even then it is far too close to comfort. That's truly terrifying.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 months

Collapse by Vladislav Zubok is one of the most disturbing books I have ever read, I am convinced now more than ever that the end of the Soviet Union was the single most disastrous process of de-development of my lifetime the main fruits are reactionary nationalism and oligarchy

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 months

I am old enough to remember when Western liberals held up the ICC and ICJ as paragons of international justice and morality and UN bodies as part of delivering global justice.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The Lula campaign has asked the Electoral Court to take action against the Director of the Federal Traffic Police if it doesn't I fear the worst

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

7 months

Serious question: have you ever seen something like this? The deliberate planned demolition of a university?

Nicola Perugini

@PeruginiNic

7 months

The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Here is footage showing the military working with the police to illegally suppress votes outside the city of Niteroi just on the other side of the bay from Rio

jairme

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2 years

Por que o Exército tá junto com a PRF na Ponte Rio Niterói?

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

7 months

South Africa has done it, this is a significant victory for the ideal of International Justice. The ICJ has ruled that at least some of the acts committed by Israel do fall under the genocide convention.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

5 years

Bolsonaro's son stole his dad's password for his social media accounts is currently sulking at a shooting range because daddy is trying to undo the damage his son caused by going to war with his vice-president on behalf of his deranged ex-astrologist guru

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Tickets to Miami from Brazil are about to get mad expensive

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Is Napoli is the best place in the world?

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

10 months

The tweet was just deleted

Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

10 months

A day after this tweet 500 people were killed when the IDF bombed a hospital in Gaza

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

Putin waited until he consulted Carlos Bolsonaro before deciding to invade Ukraine

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

14 days

We have reached the point that Israel can no longer be openly defended so western leaders just pretend it does not exist

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

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A joint statement from the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the Middle East.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

11 months

Leave to where?

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

11 months

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

4 years

Obama describes Lula in his new memoir as "having the scruples of a Tammany Hall boss."

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

8 months

This is one of the best diplomatic statements ever

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The operation was planned in the presidential palace on October 19

Lauro Jardim

@laurojardim

2 years

Operação de hoje da PRF foi traçada em reunião no Alvorada

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The head of the electoral court is about to speak, but this is the guy responsible for the attempted coup the director general of the Federal Traffic Police

The Brazilian Report

@BrazilianReport

2 years

IMPORTANT 🚨 Silvinei Vasques, the head of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police, asked his Instagram followers to vote for President Bolsonaro. He later deleted the post. Earlier on Sunday, the Superior Electoral Court subpoenaed Vasques to explain cases of alleged voter suppression.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The latest reporting indicates more than 560 took place with as many as over 3 million voters affected. They were distracting us with talk over the electronic voting booths and stolen radio adverts while planning this

Fernando de Barros e Silva

@fernandobarros

2 years

Pelo menos 560 operações da PRF pelo país, afrontando decisão do TSE. A polícia rodoviária descumpre a lei e comete crime para sabotar a votação. Não há prova mais contundente de que o Estado foi capturado pela milícia bolsonarista. O golpe pode fracassar, mas está caracterizado.

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

I will never forgive Sergio Moro for locking up Lula the week we were supposed to interview him. Lula remains the greatest working class leader to have emerged anywhere of the last 50 years or so.

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Benjamin Fogel

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7 months

I have never been prouder to be South African, history will remember it was us who tried to stop genocide. I will also remember all those in South Africa who opposed us standing on the right side of history.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

8 months

South Africa when it unites is one helluva nation. The world is learning about our legal firepower and internationalism

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Bolsonaro's friends are deserting him en masse

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

11 months

This is peak white South African energy

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

11 months

Elon is on border patrol today.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

5 years

@ggreenwald and @TheInterceptBr are breaking history changing stories right now and are under attack from the most backwards and depraved sections of Brazil. They deserve our support and our solidarity.

Solidarity With Glenn Greenwald

Last week, the Intercept exposed Lula’s persecution for the farce that it was. Now journalist Glenn Greenwald, his family, and the Intercept are under attack by Bolsonaro and his followers. They...

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

7 months

Total bullshit, Germany and the United States are not going to destroy all trade with South Africa because of the ICJ. The people saying this are openly hoping it happens as it would validate their support for the horrors taking place in Gaza

Megan S.

@SimplyMegszcpt

7 months

South Africa risks R876 billion in trade for Israel genocide accusations

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Military police taking photos and joking with the mob that just invaded Brazil's democratic institutions

Ana Flor

@Ana_Flor

2 years

Policiais militares do DF tiram foto e batem papo com manifestantes enquanto vândalos invadem Congresso Nacional. Reparem a conversa sobre invadir o #STF #brasilia

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

4 years

Meanwhile in Brazil, the rumor is that President Bolsonaro was cuckholded by his wife with a former minister and the memes are flowing like the Amazon river.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

It seems as if the Electoral Court is bending over for the police and won't do anything besides order an end to operations

Tom Phillips

@tomphillipsin

2 years

Head of Brazil’s electoral court says he believes police operations may have delayed people voting but didn’t stop them voting. Says police chief told him he was trying to enforce the Highway Code by stopping buses with dodgy tires or broken lights…

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Benjamin Fogel

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4 years

Of course, he has nothing to say about the questionable ethics and illegalities of Lava Jato and Sergio Moro...

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

5 years

Brazil's vice-president suggests that slavecatchers and plantation owners created Brazil due to their 'entrepreneurial spirit'. Ted talk meets historical apologia for slavery

General Hamilton Mourão

@GeneralMourao

5 years

Donatários, bandeirantes, senhores e mestres do açúcar, canoeiros e tropeiros, com suas mulheres e famílias, fizeram o Brasil. Só um povo empreendedor constrói um país dessas dimensões que segue o destino manifesto de ser a maior democracia liberal do Hemisfério Sul.

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5 years

Imagine the future historians who will be tasked to write the story of ex-porn star turned Bolsonaro supporter turned defender of democracy Alexandre Frota if he leads the impeachment of Bolsonaro?

Época

@RevistaEpoca

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Alexandre Frota entrará com pedido de impeachment de Bolsonaro

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8 months

Certain White South Africans' inability to understand the world beyond everything the ANC does is evil and corrupt leads them to cheerleading genocide in Gaza and celebrating insane propaganda as some sort of triumphant rebuke to what looks like a strong ICJ case

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

11 months

Extraordinary to read this in an Israeli newspaper. I can't imagine this being in an editorial for a British or American newspaper this week

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

Lula remains the greatest political talent produced anywhere over the last 50 years

Andre Pagliarini

@apagliar

3 years

Discouraged after finishing 4th in ’82 SP governor race w 10% of vote, Lula considered quitting politics. 3 years later in Cuba Fidel asked how many votes 10% was. About 1.2 million. Fidel told him no union leader anywhere had ever gotten so many votes. Lula got back on the horse

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

If Portugal beat Switzerland and Morocco beat Portugal, Morocco will have completed the Reconquista derby

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Benjamin Fogel

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3 years

Bolsonaro looks extremely pissed off about the pathetic turnout for his coup

Kallil Oliveira

@kalliloliveira_

3 years

A cara de insatisfação de Bolsonaro:

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

It's almost three months since the most significant event in post-apartheid South Africa and we still know almost nothing about what happened. Who are the 12 instigators, what happened to them? How did the hundreds of people die outside of Phoenix?

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Benjamin Fogel

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8 months

Win or lose, South Africa made a strong and well-reasoned case at the ICJ, I remain proud that out of all the countries in the world, we did this. This idea that we were schooled by Israel's 'adult dignified experts' is racialised nonsense. Our team remains world class.

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

"News24 can, for the first time, reveal that following last July's rampage, the police are seeking to bring treason charges against several high-ranking ANC politicians and businesspeople identified as masterminds."

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

Okay some news, now that it is basically official: I am moving to London to help run the publishing side of a radical new research institute that will be launching next year focused on the major theoretical and strategic challenges of our day. More on that soon.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Bolsonaro has apparently fled the presidential palace, still no word from him and his sons

Kelly Matos

@kellymatos

2 years

09:25 O presidente da República, Jair Bolsonaro, deixa o Palácio da Alvorada.

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

A xenophobic vigilante mob torched the historic Yeoville market last night, a place dear to my heart and one of the most Pan-African cosmopolitan places on our planet. This is heartbreaking and the police/political class are complicit in this wave of coming xenophobic pogroms

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

9 months

This is what the defense of Western Civilization looks like, this is the "rules based order" unmasked

Owen Jones

@owenjonesjourno

9 months

Like images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo before them, this will be seen - by much of the world - to sum up the deceit of Western moral supremacy, and radicalise new generations to take up arms.

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

The first goal of the world cup was scored by Richarlison, one of the few openly anti-Bolsonaro players

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Bolsonaro spend at least 12 billion dollars on vote buying and still lost this election, that's a major achievement for the left even if it is too close for comfort.

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Benjamin Fogel

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3 years

Bolsonaro's anal sex obessed Guru Olavo de Carvalho is dead. Among other things, he believed the world is flat and that Pepsi is flavored with aborted fetuses.

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Benjamin Fogel

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2 years

@HistOfTheRight seen credible reports from Bolsonaro supporting states like Rio, Mato Gross, Parana and Santa Catarina targeting indigenous and working class voters.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The Brazilian election is almost a coin flip, Lula enjoys a slight lead in the polls, but there are a significant number of undecided and Bolsonaro's numbers are improving. It's almost unbelievable that after 4 years of disaster and 700,000 dead people Bolsonaro is still popular

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

This represents Brazil more than soccer and samba credit @billythebutcher

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The attempted coup actions of today almost certainly will have reduced the margin of victory, but it should never have been close looking at what Bolsonaro has done over the last four years

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Benjamin Fogel

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5 months

My response whenever I encounter the question of why they should care about Gaza more than the many other unfolding horrors in our world, is that this genocide is perhaps the biggest driver of global instability right now and is setting a precedent for the horrors of our future

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Good morning has anyone seen Jair Bolsonaro and sons yet?

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

In case you were wondering where the Lava Jato crew stands in relation to the guy who closed down their investigation, they are behind Bolsonaro!

VEJA

@VEJA

2 years

Deltan declara apoio a Jair Bolsonaro no segundo turno

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 months

Workers woke up and found that their lives had collapsed with the state, no tax collection, no wages, no future it had all melted away while the elite rushed to grab hold of what ever bits of the USSR they could hack away from the ediface.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 months

Having been in the United States, Brazil and South Africa for campaigns claiming mass electoral fraud, the Zuma disinformation narrative is by far the laziest and least convincing

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 months

Gorbachev has to go down one of the most foolish leaders in history, he really had no idea what he was doing.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

4 years

This might go down as a historic strike for the international labour movement: São Paulo's delivery drivers are on strike today against the dehumanizing and dangerous conditions they have been subjected to as part of the uberization of Brazil's economy

Mídia NINJA

@MidiaNINJA

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Rua da Consolação em São Paulo #BrequedosAPP #GrevedosAPP #Entregadores vídeo Ana Luas

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Benjamin Fogel

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8 months

I am getting messages on the plane from all over the world about how inspired they are by South Africa our springbok legal team.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

11 months

Amazing how Ukraine's most prominent media figures see no comparison between fighting against occupation in their country and in Palestine...

Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦

@IAPonomarenko

11 months

I don't get what HAMAS is trying to achieve by just raiding Israeli streets and slaughtering people on camera. HAMAS doesn't care about the people of Palestine - it only needs a perpetual war with Israel to stay in power in Gaza forever.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

I finished my pilgrimage today.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

How does this one even attempt to explain this to non-Brazilians?

GadoDecider 🐂

@GadoDecider

2 years

O Candidato Padre foi mediar a rendição do terrorista. 🐮

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The ANC appoints a mafia boss as its chairperson in a city it nearly destroyed last year

Qaanitah Hunter

@QaanitahHunter

2 years

BREAKING: Zandile Gumede wins as ANC chairperson of eThekwini.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

Judge a man by his haters

Acyn

@Acyn

3 years

Dershowitz uses his appearance on Fox to call Tutu a bigot

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

1 year

Back in the world's most charming mafiastate

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The head of Brazil's Electoral Court claims operations of the Federal Traffic Police were suspended on his orders an hour ago. There are a number of credible reports from multiple locations that these operations are ongoing. Voter Suppression is continuing

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Benjamin Fogel

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3 years

"“Many of these deaths were preventable,” Renan Calheiros, the centrist Brazilian senator who was the lead author of the report, said in an interview in his office late Monday. “I am personally convinced that he is responsible for escalating the slaughter.”"

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

10 months

You know things are going badly for Israeli propaganda when you are losing Piers Morgan and Wolf Blitzer.

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

10 months

Israel deliberately bombing Gaza's largest refugee camp, even if a Hamas commander was there, is outrageous and indefensible.

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Benjamin Fogel

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5 years

While @ggreenwald breaks stories that have the potential to help save Brazilian democracy, there is an absurd crowd of liberals and even leftists in the U.S. trying to cancel him because he doesn't bend the knee to their pieties and was correct on Russiagate. Que vergonha

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

The Springboks remain the best functioning South African insitution

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

4 months

Say what you like about Johannesburg, but is there a city with better weather?

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

4 years

1. Collins Khosa was killed for the temerity of enjoying a beer on his stoep. We should not let revisionist accounts which divorce his death from the authoritarian militarized prohibitionist lockdown which saw 230,000 arrests of mostly black working class South Africans

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Benjamin Fogel

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3 months

South Africa will pay for the consequences of the ANC not acting decisively after the July 2021 riots for decades

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

It is always an error to rely on Judges to save democracy, I fear the worst in Brazil now.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

It's absurd that the Brazilian Electoral Court is censoring interviews that Bolsonaro gave willingly in which he unprompted suggested he would eat human flesh and made sexual comments about minors...

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 months

Adilah Hassism is holding back tears while making the case that Israel is intensifying its genocidal campaign in Gaza. History will remember South Africa kept on trying to end this historic atrocity while Western liberalism enabled it.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

5 years

1. As a South African Jew who stumbled upon a British passport, I am voting for @jeremycorbyn because I know him to be a man of honour and integrity who fought against apartheid while Boris Johnson was playing racist drinking games with his Bullingdon Chums

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

8 months

All the liberal moaning about South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ is because it demonstrates that definitively South Africa is not part of the West (a good thing). There is much to criticize in terms of our foreign policy, but this is a historical stand worth taking.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Democracy and civilization won today for a change of

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

What did to South Africa to deserve Bolsonaro nominating Crivella as Brazil's new ambassador to our blighted nation?

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

Bolsonaro is now exiled in Florida and tomorrow Lula will be president. I wonder how the Bolsonarista ultras are reacting now that "mito" has abandoned them?

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

1 year

European Green parties represent one of the most reactionary currents in global politics at this point: neoliberalism, imperialism, anti-nuclear, pro-coal mixed in with the most superficial cultural 'radicalism'

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

8 months

I feel that certain editors in South Africa are upset that are case at the ICJ is in the hands of a world class legal team and has won the respect of most of the world rather than being another embrassesment for the ANC. South Africa is not and will never be a 'Western Nation'

Clayson Monyela

@ClaysonMonyela

8 months

Netwerk24 journalist: "May I please have your reaction to Germany saying it doesn't support #SouthAfrica 's case at the #ICJ against #Israel ?" Me: "Are you also going to ask me to react to statements by the many countries that support us?" Journalist: "Let me speak to the editor

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

5 months

Germans doing German things for German reasons

James Jackson

@derJamesJackson

5 months

Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

2 years

The South African Communist Party has not paid its staff for 6 months. That is the current state of the country's vanguard of the working class.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

The EFF really doesn't like South Africa much: they mourn when we win a world cup and celebrate when the parliament burns down...

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

5 years

Fascism is winning in Brazil, Rio has no water, mass repression against activists is intensifying, the economy is still a mess: The Brazilian left's response let's go to war against left leaning publications to defend Lenin.

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Benjamin Fogel

@BenjaminFogel

3 years

Brazil is the exception to the Brahmin Left thesis: The more educated you are in Brazil, the more likely you are to be a raging Bolsonarista. An archtypical Bolsonarista formation in some resects would be a São Paulo association of physicians or something along those lines.

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