Alan Perdana
@aperdana
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Whatever happened to the good riddance.
Jakarta Capital Region
Joined September 2009
Sometimes “nobody else had the guts” really means “nobody else was dumb enough.”
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Under headline “The Face of War”, Vatican newspaper shows picture of coffins of 180 Iranian schoolgirls (probably) killed by United States forces in violation of international humanitarian law.
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Israel bombed an entire residential neighborhood in Beirut, violated Security Council resolution SCR 1701, the ceasefire agreement, and international law with absolutely no consequences. This is another war crime and the International Criminal Court remains silent.
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BREAKING: Iran’s Health Services Are Warning Of “Toxic Acid Rain” From US-Israeli Strikes The Red Crescent says that due to the attack on Iranian oil storage facilities, a serious hazard has been posed to tens of millions of civilians. These bombings were blatant war crimes.
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This is, quite literally, the worst night we've lived through maybe in our entire lives. No one in Gaza slept tonight. Not a single family was spared. Water flooded every home and tent. People were forced to sleep standing, or stayed awake, surrounded by crumbling walls.
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Why is Donald Trump not interested in giving North Koreans freedom ?
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While others on #Newsnight hedged and vacillated, former Pentagon adviser Jasmine El-Gamal cut straight to the point. Trump is surrounded by loyalists who owe him everything. Western leaders have spent a year telling him whatever he wants to hear. Why wouldn’t he think he can
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Perhaps what unsettles me most is the sense of disbelief. For many of us, the United States was a country we admired deeply—its institutions, its culture, its ideals. To see such callousness now, such indifference to the human cost of war, is profoundly troubling. Power exercised
There are moments in war that pierce through the abstractions of strategy and power. The sinking of the Iranian warship Dena in the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is one such moment. A ship far from its home waters, sailors far from their families, suddenly consigned to the
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Why are we bombing Iranian children? Does it make the Iranian people thankful that we are “liberating” them when we are bombing their children? https://t.co/LlGHbsRcgv
🚨 BREAKING: U.S.–Israeli missiles have hit an elementary school in Tehran — the fourth school in 6 days ➤ Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei shared video that shows Shahid Hamedani Elementary School before and after the strike. A casualty toll was not immediately
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The radically different ways our media and political leaderships react to the bombing of children in Mariupol and the bombing of children in Tehran shows there really is no moral or political principle involved. We believe only in “us vs. them”. Tragic
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This thread is divided into 8 sections, here's the outline. (I could have made this 8 threads, but I wanted to give you everything in one place.) Please read, comment, and share. I'll be tracking your questions and comments and posting follow-ups, maybe even a live space.
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Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
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Long overdue for me. Welcome back to X: where memes die and deep-state scholars are born.
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Now I know more about Jeffrey Epstein than my own country’s politics. X is not really an app but a wormhole turning the whole world fluent in American deep-state studies.
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Absence of skin in the game means you can survive being wrong all your life.
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Just watched Steve Bannon and found myself nodding along to like… 95% of it. Not sure if he’s getting wiser, I’m entering my ‘unhinged political uncle’ era, or if I was just too shaped by mainstream media before. Either way—did not see this coming. He is disturbingly reasonable.
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