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Nick Turse

1 year

Kissinger’s Killing Fields Interviews with 75+ witnesses and survivors of U.S. attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known. My latest @theintercept

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Kissinger’s Killing Fields

Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia...

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Nick Turse

4 years

I think it’s past time to stop using African nations as the benchmark of failure and start thinking about the USA as the protypical failing state

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You can get a Covid test with results five times faster in Rwanda than in the United States. We are a failed nation.

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I wrote a 1200-page dissertation on US atrocities in Vietnam but didn't understand the horror of the war until I went to Vietnam, traveled through the countryside, and talked to people about what it was like to live for years under bombs, artillery shells & helicopter gunships🧵

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Just think about @nickturse seminal “ kill anything that moves “ and you will never see Nixon or Kissinger again without thinking of senseless extermination of 3 million lives

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Only the best lawyers publicly announce that you're a snitch just before you head off to prison.

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In asking for a lighter sentence, Tarrio’s lawyers pointed out that he has a history of working undercover with law enforcement.

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So many Cambodians -- maybe 150,000 -- didn't live to read this guide due to Henry Kissinger. That should have been the first bit of advice from David: Don't be Cambodian while my dad was in the White House.

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During this, no doubt fleeting, moment when Americans seem to care desperately about Afghan lives, it’s a good time to look back on some earlier coverage that some may have missed…. 🧵

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Nick Turse

4 years

Napalm? Yep, napalm. Lonnie Coffman, 70, an Alabama grandfather drove to Washington to attend Trump’s “Save America Rally” in a pickup packed with an assault rifle, three handguns and 11 Mason jars filled with homemade napalm, according to court filings.

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Nick Turse

5 years

Every bit of this is pure gold... “An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck up his nose in an attempt to invent a device that stops people touching their faces during the coronavirus outbreak.”

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Nick Turse

6 years

Decorated Navy SEAL is Accused of War Crimes in Iraq

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The U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Command is investigating Capt. Emily Rainey’s involvement in the Wednesday rally. The 30-year-old psy ops officer told the AP she led 100 members of Moore County Citizens for Freedom who traveled to Washington to “stand against election fraud”

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In U.S. Military, Sexual Assault Against Men Is Vastly Under-Reported. An average of 45 male service members are sexually assaulted every day, according to Pentagon statistics. My latest @theintercept

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In U.S. Military, Sexual Assault Against Men Is Vastly Underreported

An average of 45 male service members are sexually assaulted every day, according to the Pentagon. As with women, shame and stigma suppress the truth.

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The U.S. is at war in Syria -- but Congress never declared it. @RandPaul wants to end it -- and he's forcing fellow members of Congress to choose between forever war and bringing the troops home. Full story @theintercept

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Rand Paul Wants to End Undeclared War in Syria

“The United States cannot fix Syria,” an Obama administration official said. “I simply fail to understand why we have U.S. troops there.”

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Nick Turse

4 years

Twitter bans Steve Bannon after call for beheadings

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Under such circumstances, your existence became an endless series of risk assessments. I came to realize that this was the essence of the war and that the scale of suffering and resulting trauma was almost beyond imagining.

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Nick Turse

4 years

In the first seven months of 2020, the Trump administration conducted more air strikes in Somalia than were carried out during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, combined. My latest for @TIME

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Nick Turse

1 year

How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years. Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined. via @AJEnglish

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How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years

The extraordinary mortality rates in India between 1880 to 1920 were no accident.

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While the wars in Ukraine and Gaza dominate the news, the U.S. forever war in Niger grinds on. Since the U.S. began counterterrorism efforts in the region, terrorist violence has jumped 30,000% (not a typo!) This summer U.S.-trained officers overthrew the government.

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The Intercept

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Rand Paul wants U.S. troops out of Niger by @nickturse

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2 years

The US has conducted almost 400 military interventions since 1776 -- half of them between 1950 and 2019, according to new, blockbuster report by @SiditaKushi and @monicaduffytoft . More than 25% of them have occurred in the post-Cold War era!

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U.S. troops employed these methods in Vietnam, too. Sometimes forcing civilians to "walk point" to set off potential booby traps.

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Haaretz.com

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🧵1/6 Haaretz Investigation: Israeli army uses Palestinian civilians to inspect potentially booby-trapped tunnels in Gaza

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Villagers told me what it was like to negotiate every aspect of their lives around the “American War,” as they called it. They explained that life became an exercise in playing the percentages. Just how long did you stay in your subterranean bomb shelter?

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Nick Turse

3 years

“The Taliban is not the… North Vietnamese army… There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy… of the United States from Afghanistan" - President Joe Biden, July 8, 2021 Saigon, 1975 Kabul, 2021

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A secret US task force killed an innocent woman and her 4-year-old daughter as they ran from the site of a drone strike. The Americans got even the most basic facts wrong but said that the rules of engagement were not violated. My latest @theintercept 🧵

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Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old

The U.S. military has neither compensated nor apologized to relatives of the woman and child it acknowledges killing in 2018 in Somalia.

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4 years

A Texas sheriff announced that one of his lieutenants, Lt. Roxanne Mathai, attended the rally; she posted on social media: “Not gonna lie... aside from my kids, this was, indeed, the best day of my life. And it’s not over yet.”

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Sounds familiar...

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“We are not taking any chances,” said Amir Avivi, former deputy commander of the Gaza Division of Israel’s military. “When our soldiers are manoeuvring we are doing this with massive artillery, with 50 aeroplanes overhead destroying anything that moves.”

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Nick Turse

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BREAKING: Henry Kissinger dies at 100. #Kissinger helped to prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia. He had the blood of at least three million people on his hands, according to his biographer @GregGrandin

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Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians.

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Nick Turse

4 years

Also arrested at the Capitol was William Arthur Leary. He complained that he was held for 24-plus hours & had his cell phone seized. “They treated us like animals,” he said. “They took all our phones.”

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Nick Turse

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Brad Rukstales, a Republican political donor and CEO of Cogensia, a Chicago-based data analytics firm, was arrested with a group of a half-dozen Trump supporters who clashed with officers Wednesday inside the Capitol. He was fired Friday

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Long enough to avoid the artillery, of course, but not so long that you were still there when the Americans and their grenades arrived. If you left the shelter’s confines too soon, some helicopter’s machine gun might open up on you as you emerged...

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After at least 15 officers who benefitted from U.S. security assistance conducted 12 coups in West Africa and the greater Sahel, @RepMattGaetz demands the military tell Congress about trainees who “broke bad.” Full story @theintercept

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Matt Gaetz Wants to Make the Pentagon Answer for Training Coup Leaders

By targeting the defense budget, Gaetz demands the military tell Congress about trainees who “broke bad.”

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An instant too late could mean death, but a second too early was potentially no less lethal. Guess wrong and your family might be wiped out. And such calculations went on for years on end, shaping every decision to leave the confines of a shelter, day or night...

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to get water or relieve oneself or work in the rice paddies or gather vegetables for a hungry family. Life could be measured by calculating the distance from the rice paddy to the bunker against the altitude of a jet or the speed of a helicopter...

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Sounds a lot like the U.S. use of "free fire zones" in Vietnam:

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Kenneth Roth

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"A new Israeli tactic: warning civilians to leave certain areas & then hitting those areas with unprecedented intensity....If these airstrikes continue, Gaza’s civilians will have fewer & fewer places to shelter as more neighborhoods become uninhabitable."

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4 years

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr. of Texas was charged in federal court after he was identified in photos showing him standing in the well of the Senate, wearing a military-style helmet & body armor while holding zip-tie handcuffs.

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Nick Turse

4 years

Nicholas Ochs, founder of a Proud Boys chapter was arrested after returning home. Ochs posted a photo of himself inside the Capitol, grinning broadly. The FBI matched photos from the riot to photos taken when Ochs campaigned for a seat in the Hawaii statehouse

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Nick Turse

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Cleveland Meredith Jr., a Georgia man texted friends: “Headed to DC with a (s—-) ton of 5.56 armor-piercing ammo." The following day, he texted: “Thinking about heading over to Pelosi (C——’s) speech and putting a bullet in her noggin on Live TV.”

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Nick Turse

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or you could get caught in a cross fire between withdrawing guerrillas and onrushing American troops. If you waited too long, those grenades might begin rolling in. Every second mattered immensely.

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4 years

"At least 25 people are under investigation for terrorism related to Wednesday's siege at the Capitol, according to a Defense official and a member of Congress... The official said some troops – active and reserve duty – may have been involved in the riot"

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At least 25 people under terrorism investigation in connection with Capitol riot

Those under investigation are suspected of taking part in the riot that shut down Congress as it formalized Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

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Nick Turse

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“Congress must cease abdicating its constitutional war powers to the executive branch,” said @RandPaul .

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The Intercept

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Rand Paul wants U.S. troops out of Niger by @nickturse

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Nick Turse

5 years

Incredible passage from “Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War”

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Jake Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” who took part in the riot shirtless with his face painted and wearing a fur hat with horns (pictured below), surrendered to the FBI field office in Phoenix on Saturday.

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Nick Turse

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Experts say Kissinger bears significant responsibility for attacks in Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians — six times more noncombatants than the United States has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.

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Kissinger’s Killing Fields

Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia...

theintercept.com

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Nick Turse

4 years

So far, at least 90 people have been arrested on charges ranging from misdemeanor curfew violations to felonies related to assaults on police officers, possessing illegal weapons and making death threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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Nick Turse

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The strike killed Zemari Ahmadi, three of his sons — Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 11; three children of his brother Romal — Arween, 7, Binyamin, 6 and Ayat, 2; Malika, 3, the daughter of another brother, and a cousin’s infant daughter, Sumaiya

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The Associated Press

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BREAKING: A Pentagon review concludes that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and doesn't recommend disciplinary action, @AP learns.

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From the same document:

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WikiLeaks

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US State Department report from 1988 details birth of #Hamas Link:

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Nick Turse

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Doug Jensen was arrested by the FBI. During the riot, he was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a large Q & the phrase “Trust The Plan,” a reference to QAnon. Video seems to show Jensen pursuing a police officer up a flight of stairs as a mob trails behind

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Nick Turse

4 years

The FBI has opened a murder probe into the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity

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Nick Turse

2 years

Renewing this classic by @Bourdain

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TIME

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Henry Kissinger: The internet does not make great leaders

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Nick Turse

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“It’s an order, it’s to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. You got that?” -- Henry Kissinger. Experts say that Kissinger may be responsible for as many as 150,000 Cambodian deaths.

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This one by @andrewquilty

A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America's Exit Strategy From Its Longest War

Afghan operatives from an elite paramilitary unit known as 01 killed at least 51 civilians in previously undocumented night raids across Wardak Province.

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Nick Turse

4 years

According to @RepJasonCrow : Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy "indicated that DoD is aware of further possible threats posed by would-be terrorists in the days up to and including Inauguration Day”

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On of the great highlights of my professional life is this generous blurb that Dan gave me for my book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. It’s difficult to imagine higher praise for such such a history. I’ll always cherish these words.

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The New York Times

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Breaking News: Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers and disclosed the secret history of American lies in Vietnam, has died at 92.

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"I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation"

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And this classic by @mayjeong

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A 4-Year-Old Girl Was the Sole Survivor of a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan. Then She Disappeared.

Aisha lost her mother, father, and little brother when a drone attacked their truck. Twelve days later she left Afghanistan in the care of a mysterious NGO.

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“It’s particularly egregious how the @DeptofDefense dodges a clear legal order to brief Congress about the coups led by African militaries after receiving U.S. military assistance within @USAfricaCommand ,” @RepMattGaetz told @theintercept

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Pentagon Ignores Law Calling for Report on How It Trained So Many African Coup Leaders

The Defense Department blew the deadline for a mandatory briefing to Congress an coups by U.S.-trained African military officers.

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"Kissinger never paid a price for the many American misdeeds that he led, and the pattern of impunity in the national security establishment has persisted since," writes @lizzyshackelfor in @chicagotribune (w/ a very kind nod to my reporting on HK)

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Elizabeth Shackelford: As Henry Kissinger turns 100, his hideous legacy still haunts our role in...

Henry Kissinger celebrated his 100th birthday on May 27, proving once again his remarkable staying power as one of America’s most well-known and influential foreign policy players in modern t…

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Henry Kissinger is responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known, according to an exclusive archive of U.S. military documents and groundbreaking interviews with Cambodian survivors and American witnesses

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Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians.

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Nick Turse

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USG: "The basic function of the Freedom of Information Act is to ensure informed citizens, vital to the functioning of a democratic society." DoD: "We received your request on December 31, 2012... We regret the delay in completing your request." #FOIA #FOIAfail

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When questioned about these deaths, Kissinger responded with sarcasm and refused to provide answers.

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Seems somehow familiar...

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John Cusack

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@nickturse remind you of anything ?

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"The U.S. is committed to... accountability for atrocities." Is this only for Nazi atrocities, @SecBlinken ? Or is this satire? I've spent my professional life chronicling U.S. efforts to buck accountability for atrocities and civilian harm. 🧵below...

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Secretary Antony Blinken

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Eighty-two years ago, Nazis murdered 34,000 Jews at Babyn Yar. Soviets buried this history, which today Putin's government manipulates to provide cover for Russia's abuses in Ukraine. The U.S. is committed to justice for Holocaust survivors and accountability for atrocities.

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Trump supporters who died in the riot were Kevin D. Greeson, 55, of Athens, Alabama; Benjamin Philips, 50, of Ringtown, Pennsylvania; Ashli Babbitt, 35, of San Diego; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia

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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover

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And this one by @mattaikins

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Afghanistan: U.S. Special Forces Guilty of War Crimes? | Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone investigates the role of the Green Berets in the deaths of 10 Afghan villagers found near a U.S. army base in spring 2013.

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And another by @mayjeong

Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing

While patients and more than 100 MSF employees and caretakers slept in the Kunduz Trauma Center, an American AC-130 gunship prepared to strike.

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Nick Turse

4 years

To summarize: Wallace: condemn white supremacy? Biden: yeah condemn it! DJT: Stand back and stand by.

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“You can trace a line from the bombing of Cambodia to the present,” @GregGrandin told @theintercept . “The covert justifications for illegally bombing Cambodia became the framework for the justifications of drone strikes and forever war.”

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Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians.

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“The @POTUS Administration and the @StateDept are engaged in a massive cover-up,” @RepMattGaetz told @theintercept . “They are hiding the true conditions on the ground of U.S. diplomatic relations in Niger and are effectively abandoning our troops... with no help in sight.”

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The Intercept

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U.S. Troops in Niger Say They’re “Stranded” and Can’t Get Mail, Medicine by @nickturse

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When asked about the coup and the coup-makers, @USAfricaCommand spokesperson Kelly Cahalan told @theintercept : "We’re following the reports and do not have anything to provide you right now."

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Rep. Matt Gaetz

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It happened again last night. Mauritania Mali Burkina Faso Gambia Chad Guinea Niger Now Gabon. Under @SecDef Lloyd Austin’s abysmal tenure we’ve gotten 7 coups in @USAfricaCommand alone. Each overthrow connected to people trained by US Taxpayer funds. Wanna know where

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Ken Klippenstein

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The Washington Post laid off almost 10% of its staff after posting a $100 million loss. Last week, owner Jeff Bezos gave a $100 million charity grant to celebrity Admiral William McRaven and actress Eva Longoria.

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So much of what we know about Henry Kissinger's many misdeeds we owe to the incredible reporting of Seymour Hersh, the impeccable research of @GregGrandin and the dogged efforts of @NSArchive

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Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy

A Declassified Dossier on HAK’s Controversial Historical Legacy

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Man on right assassinates people deemed an “imminent threat,” even when they are far from war zones; man on left can soon do the same

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An investigation by @theintercept found U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine #coups across five West African countries, including #BurkinaFaso (three times), #Guinea , #Mali (three times), #Mauritania , and the #Gambia since 2008. 🧵

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Another U.S.-Trained Soldier Stages a Coup in West Africa

The leader of a coup in Burkina Faso is the latest in a line of U.S.-trained soldiers who overturned civilian leaders in West Africa.

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In more than a dozen Cambodian villages, I met still-traumatized survivors who told me about the lethal toll of American attacks from 1969 to 1973. The chief architect of their agony was Henry Kissinger. My latest for @nytopinion

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Opinion | Ask Brutalized Cambodians What They Think of Kissinger

His policies toward civilians in the Vietnam War set a template that would be followed by the U.S. for decades.

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“The extent to which America nuked itself is not completely appreciated still, to this day, by most Americans, especially younger Americans,” Alex Wellerstein said.

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Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds (Published 2023)

The research shows that the first atomic bomb explosion’s effects had been underestimated, and could help more “downwinders” press for federal compensation.

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The archive offers previously unpublished, unreported, and underappreciated evidence of hundreds of civilian casualties that were kept secret during the war and remain almost entirely unknown to the American people.

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AFRICOM conducted a secret investigation of a Nigerian airstrike that killed 160+ civilians. Why did they investigate a Nigerian attack? Why was it never made public? What did they discover? Why won't they talk about it? My latest @theintercept

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“Armed protests” I think I’ve covered these overseas but they called them something different.

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New: @FBI now reports in a bulletin "Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the US Capitol from 17 January through 20 January,” @AaronKatersky reports.

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Previously unpublished interviews with more than 75 Cambodian witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks reveal new details of the long-term trauma borne by survivors of the American war.

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Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

Exclusive witness interviews and archival documents detail killings of hundreds of Cambodian civilians.

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Here’s one I wrote with Bob Dreyfuss once upon a time

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The planning for the January 16 and 17 militia events in DC is quite specific. They want at least 15k people and if they achieve that they plan to block Democrats from entering the Capitol, allowing only Republicans through. Here’s where they plan to meet

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#Debate is an insult to actual puppets everywhere

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Ever since I helped expose torture at drone base in Cameroon for @theintercept , @USAfricaCommand 's strategy has been to hang up on me. It backfired when they put me on speakerphone instead and I listened in on their candid conversations about Niger

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The Kill Team: How U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians

Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime images the Pentagon tried to censor

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Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who resigned, said supervisors were reluctant to take steps to put the National Guard on call even as intel suggested that the crowd President Trump called to Washington would be much larger than earlier demonstrations

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Senayit was tied to a tree and raped by Eritrean soldiers. At one point she awoke to find her son dead at her feet. “I never buried him,” she screams, between sobs. Powerful reporting on the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region by @lynseyaddario & @rhshea

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In the video, the officer is heard suggesting the Indian student's life had had "limited value" and the city should "just write a check".

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BBC News (UK)

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Seattle officer recorded joking about woman killed by a police car

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For more on the results of Kissinger's "service" (and the ~150,000 Cambodians who died as a result), see my latest @theintercept .

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Happy 100th birthday to a good friend, Henry Kissinger. Thank you for a lifetime of service to our nation.

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“This is a war, maybe a genocide, in Ethiopia,” one Voice of America reporter said. “We have access to a lot of information — on the ground — that could be reported, but we’re hampered at every turn." My latest @theintercept

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One of the great highlights of my professional life is this generous blurb that Dan gave me for my book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. It’s difficult to imagine higher praise for such a book. I’ll always cherish these words from a true American hero.

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RIP Daniel Ellsberg. When asked if he was afraid about spending his entire life in prison for leaking the Pentagon Papers and exposing the genocidal war criminals behind the Vietnam War, this was his response:

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"The Houthi campaign has led to a 90 percent decline in shipping activity through the Red Sea, according to a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, and shows little sign of stopping, even though two U.S. aircraft carriers are now deployed in the region."

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For more than two decades, the United States has been at war in Yemen. Despite the U.S. rhetoric of fostering peace and stability, the Yemeni people have suffered immensely.

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Only the Pentagon could call its drone base in Agadez, Niger - the largest “airman-built” project in Air Force history - a “low-cost” facility. So far, it has cost US taxpayers around a quarter-billion dollars. Full story @theintercept

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82 printers worth $412 apiece listed as being worth $1.1 million each in the Army’s databases. 17 refrigerators worth $24,170 each at $652,606 per unit. A simulator for the base fire department worth $499,950 was listed at $36.3 million.

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A $1.1 million desktop printer? IG finds big mistakes in Army property books audit

The audit investigated the Army’s oversight on a contract for Area Support Group-Kuwait at Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring.

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Another of mine from long ago…

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If you needed further evidence that the #FOIA process is broken -- and makes a mockery of law -- here's the final response to one of my requests. It was just released today. It's from 2014!

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Nick Turse

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If you needed further evidence that the #FOIA process is broken -- and makes a mockery of law -- here's the final response to one of my requests. It was just released today. It's from 2014!

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I get this a lot from people who haven't read Kill Anything That Moves. The book is heavily based on the testimony of Vietnam veterans. This is the war as they lived it, as they fought it. It's their own testimony -- both to me and under oath to Army criminal investigators

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@nickturse Always degrading the Vietnam Veterans Shameful again

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My article on the U.S.-trained officers who have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries -- Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia -- since 2008

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Another U.S.-Trained Soldier Stages a Coup in West Africa

The leader of a coup in Burkina Faso is the latest in a line of U.S.-trained soldiers who overturned civilian leaders in West Africa.

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“The war”

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The war in Gaza has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, the territory’s Health Ministry says. Gaza groans under the weight of the dead, as families flee airstrikes to bury their dead wherever possible.

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“Glass is all over the place.” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shows Lesley Stahl the destruction in her office after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, some of them in search of Speaker Pelosi.

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“This is way more intense than what I saw in Afghanistan,” said Brian, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, who did not want his last name used for security reasons. “This is combat, combat.”

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For Foreign Fighters in Ukraine, a War Unlike Any They’ve Seen (Published 2022)

Small groups of Western combat veterans are on the front lines, but many more with fewer skills are left trying to find a role to play.

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Are there more U.S. military bases in Africa than there are countries in Africa? (Yes!)

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One by @SarahHolewinsk1

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Marla Ruzicka’s Heroism

This incredibly gutsy woman gave her life aiding the victims of America's wars.

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