Casey Kelso

Advocacy strategist consultant, advising WINGS & others on advocacy & policy. Priors: Crisis Group, Transparency Int'l, Amnesty Int'l. All views my own.

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

Sign it! https://t.co/GFehz7fhYq

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

@JoeBiden leaves a poor legacy. So often, I learn he failed to promote US integrity. “Netzah Yehuda’s soldiers have been accused of abusing Palestinians…. (and was) singled out for possible sanctions by the US. The Biden admin declined to suspend aid.” https://t.co/ZyeUeedL4F

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Israel kills yet another Iranian leader (Ali Larijani) who might have arranged a pragmatic compromise with Trump. That advances Israel's agenda of promoting hardline Iranian leaders to justify continuing the war. https://t.co/jubWTD7x7o

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

@JGreenblattADL @ADL_Tracker @adlisrael @ADL @ACLU It's not anti-semitism to be against massacres and for decency. The @ADL is on the wrong side of controversy and provokes by its positions the very thing you fight.

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

.@JGreenblattADL @ADL_Tracker and @adlisrael are wrong that Kent's resignation letter is just "traffic in old-age antisemitic tropes". It hurts to say it but your defence of a genocidal military operation promotes more anti-semitism than anything else. https://t.co/5pIvbae6q1

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

@JGreenblattADL @ADL_Tracker @adlisrael .@jGreenblattADL and @ADL_Tracker: Why does it hurt to say? Because I used to think of @ADL like the @ACLU. But now you are allies of Witkoff and Kushner, who are clearly seen "as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” https://t.co/iKIr8OsWsH

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war.

And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy.

But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat:

“We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

https://t.co/7NWeHUvVDA

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war.

And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy.

But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat:

“We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.”

https://t.co/7NWeHUvVDA

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

.@olivia_wales epitomises @POTUS’ dismissive attitude to international law. “No one cares what the biased @UNTreatyBodies’ so-called ‘experts’ think because Americans are living in a safer, stronger country than ever before,” she says, pointlessly churlish https://t.co/FsfE23XD10

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

A great idea: Uninstall @OpenAI - because @sama was right: He was "opportunistic" in jumping to kow-tow to the Pentagon, which intends to break the laws of war.
BBC reports daily average uninstall rate for @ChatGPTapp has surged by 200%. Let's keep it up! https://t.co/2myuGLiKqe

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

@RepThomasMassie @RepRoKhanna @RepThomasMassie I am grateful for your integrity in raising questions about the constitutionality of this war. @Livingston4AZ you need to be voted out of office.

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

@USWREMichael @DarioAmodei @DeptofWar You’re a senior governmental leader and you talk publicly like a schoolyard bully? What a foolish man.

[Foreign Press Assoc. @FPAIsPal]

Let us in.

For more than two years, we’ve been barred from entering Gaza to report freely. It’s long past time for Israel to lift this ban and #LetUsIn.

Join us. Share this post. And sign the FPA’s petition: https://t.co/Z7JMO4wu2K

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

I want to say thank you @DarioAmodei of @AnthropicAI for a courageous, principled stance with the Pentagon and @SeanParnellASW
https://t.co/AYIDynWpud

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

I switched from Microsoft to Google as the lesser of 2 political evils, after the @court_criminal lost their emails & files. I had hoped “Don’t be evil” still lives on at @Google Thank you, @JeffDean

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

I cancelled Amazon Prime after a decade of use. Reasons:
1. @JeffBezos approved of firing 300 WaPo journalists; https://t.co/goHPF3MODK
2. Amazon invested US$75 million for the Ivanka movie to curry favour; and
3. Amazon partners with Israeli military for West Bank & Gaza Ops.

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

It’s a tragedy to see #ruleoflaw trampled by the @FBI @FBIMinneapolis and @FBIDirectorKash Follow your conscience and law school training, @DMNnews staff.

https://t.co/klWmOCv8IK

[The Sentry @TheSentry_Org]

Colombian mercenaries are part of the mass killings committed by the RSF in #ElFasher. But how are they connected to the UAE?

Our report reveals a piece of the puzzle. We’ve linked the United Arab Emirates’ most senior bureaucrat to the businessman supplying Colombian mercenaries to the RSF militia in Sudan.

The longtime business relationship between the two men seems to indicate support for the militia at the highest levels of the UAE government.

Read more: https://t.co/nDbnkqJfyN

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Casey Kelso @caseyrights]

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), one of the world’s oldest human rights movements comprising of 196 civil society organisations, has been declared "undesirable" by the Russian Federation. https://t.co/4BMYo2K6vY