Stephen Coates

Reuters editor. Ex-AFP journalist in Pak-Afg, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Balkans, Iraq, France, Australia. RTs, faves etc don't imply endorsement.

[Bloomberg @business]

Retired Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt explains the global risk to US forces and allies with stockpiles of critical munitions running low. “Every Patriot [missile] that’s shot in the Middle East is one that can’t be shot at an incoming Chinese missile.”

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action - https://t.co/seUn6wNbOU

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

@SupportRequests #0375662016

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

The US is quietly building war stockpiles in Australia and elsewhere in the western Pacific https://t.co/Q371xGt3iO

[Airwars @airwars]

On October 13th, a group of seven journalists in Lebanon was struck twice in 37 seconds.

In conjunction with @AFP, Airwars conducted an in-depth visual investigation into the attack.

The evidence suggests Israeli tank fire caused the harm.

https://t.co/VFZXNEi5TD

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

We need to know who issued the order to fire (not once but twice) and why, so it never happens again.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

An AFP investigation into the strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in this border region

Read our full report ➡️ https://t.co/PyXgfdlvzV

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

This account isn't inactive... it's just lazy

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

“In Australia, the editors of some Murdoch-owned newspapers watch Mr. Carlson’s show religiously, believing it provides clues to Mr. Murdoch’s own views.” https://t.co/nXxVjxARKu

[Li Yuan袁莉 @LiYuan6]

Russia and China have the tendency to learn the worst from each other: tyrants, famines, purges and, now, internet censorship. I laid out what it’s like to live in the information dark age and what the Russian people may have to brace for. https://t.co/Z2q5vEaqZk

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

(📷With Putin as a “fixer” for St Petersburg Mayor Sobchak,foreign-trade fees were skimmed)

[Karl Malakunas @karlmalakunas]

Agence France-Presse and Philippine journalism lost a great man over the weekend. We'll miss Romeo Gacad deeply, while continuing to be inspired by his empathy, humility and bravery. Here is AFP's tribute to Romy: https://t.co/DZ2EOc3Clo

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

I miss #sydneylockdown already. For the first time in my life I felt like I had a fashionable haircut #byelockdown

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

Australians have been enlisted as unwitting props in the American right’s fact-free culture war https://t.co/VisQUFsoQo

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

A Sydney barber told @RNBreakfast there were “a few grey areas” in the new rules

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

‘A bit annoying’: Sydney businesses praise customers but admit vaccine checks can be trying https://t.co/A1WD2gZLG1

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

Having banned Australian coal in an attempt at economic coercion, China now urgently needs new sources amid power shortages https://t.co/bysOpGyA6K

[Stanley Widianto @stanleywidianto]

Reuters is hiring an economics correspondent to work with our Indonesia team. More details below: https://t.co/nyqHhmdFjP

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

Google's ad dominance is harming Australian publishers, advertisers and consumers, antitrust regulator says https://t.co/d0axv5kEHg

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

Les Anglo Saxons at it again, this time with India and Japan https://t.co/ESyC366Q2E

[Stephen Coates @SMCoates]

“We have received thousands of reactions from the [Australian] public which are apologising for this bad behaviour” https://t.co/pTQdze6x6x

[Richard Fontaine @RHFontaine]

It says a lot about how Washington discerns its interests in the Pacific that there was no hand-wringing about angering the French. It’s China and the Indo-Pacific first and foremost. https://t.co/bLhMzM3fYq