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Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US.
Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries.
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I am alive and free.
Settlers tried to kill us because we caught them locking several Palestinian communities from leaving their homes - very illegally, even by Israeli occupation's laws.
I'm concussed and very tired, so I'll tell the story tomorrow.
This was @the_andrey_x’s last substack post before he was brutalized by Israeli state militias & the Israeli army in the West Bank https://t.co/IoFy3NRHnR
À Strasbourg, hier, la police a tabassé deux manifestants déjà blessés et les street medics qui les soignaient.
Le monde entier doit voir ce que la police française fait à son peuple.
Serbia’s public broadcaster has apologized twice in the last 35 years for spreading regime propaganda: first for the Milošević propaganda that fuelled the wars of aggression in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and now for serving as a mouthpiece of the Vučić regime.
As already said, we have to be careful on the Students' List and some of their representatives. They spread the Greater Serbia nationalism and genocide denial. These people can't be any partner to anyone in the region.
I am not gonna lie, I almost cried. people are removing a large picture of Vojislav Šešelj the war criminal from a key building in my hometown that has been there for thirty years *since the nineties*. I feel we are literally confronting the bastards that destroyed the Balkans
After years, nay, over a decade, of being targeted in the worst ways possible by Serbian tabloids and pro-government outlets, I find particular pleasure right now in going on their sites and seeing how they’re covering this moment.
Vucic concedes defeat. The true scale of the Student List victory remains to be seen — but this a political earthquake for the Western Balkans.
Sincere congratulations to the citizens of Serbia who held out hope against hope and mobilized in extraordinary numbers.
The EU ambassador to Serbia urging for calm in the final hours of voting, as gendarmerie units fan out across Belgrade. The call for calm should apply to whoever sent them, and Brussels needs to pick up the phone and make that call directly.
First incidents reported during voting in Serbia’s election in Belgrade: SNS-adjacent businessman Mića Sovtić attacked a woman with a child and then got instant karma from passersby.
His pizza joint Cezar is a well-known gathering place of SNS loyalists.
A few basic points as we await results from Serbia later today:
a. It is unlikely that we will have a clear winner tonight. Turnout is looking impressive, and Serbia’s ballot counting is slow at the best of times. High turnout also suggests large mobilization by the opposition, which the regime will further try to derail by delaying the count. A significant number of invalidated ballots will be one of the clearest signs of significant regime-direct fraud. It may take days to have real clarity on the outcome.
b. A close finish between the two blocs – Vucic’s SNS et al and the Student List – will mean protracted instability in the country. Violence in the streets is quite likely, again primarily directed by the regime as we have already seen in and around Belgrade today. If such a cohort is even seated in parliament, that chaos may well continue in the chamber; including physical altercations but also attempts by the SNS to buy-off oppositions MPs to pad its numbers.
c. Serbian politics remains dominated by the dark, brutal horrors of the 90s. Vucic and his long-time No. 2 Dacic both served under Milosevic and remain beholden to his core project; i.e. authoritarianism at home, militarism and expansionism abroad (e.g. Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro). Both also celebrated the assassination of the country’s one genuine, senior reformist figure, PM Zoran Djindjic, in 2003. Djindjic was killed by elements of Serbia’s expansive and influential security apparatus, who are connected to the country’s likewise powerful organized crime underground, and the same will likely be called upon again to act if the Student List genuinely has a breakthrough tonight. As such, do not expect a Hungary-style change in government in Serbia even if the opposition clearly wins; think Pakistan, or Egypt.
That Vucic had decided to center Islamophobia in the closing hours of Serbia’s electoral campaign is also further proof - as if it was needed after the state sponsored Mladic funeral - that he remains exactly the same person he was in the 90s: a virulent, violent extremist.
@Alek_Ko@pash961 genau, geit meist ni lang bis ä kosovo je srbija fahne uftoucht und es schiint eifach fast niemer z störe. und solang srebrenica ni vo serbischer site offiziell anerkannt wird, immer wieder mladic murals, sprechchör i stadie, etc etc passiert, hani wenig hoffnig :(