Stefan Simanowitz

"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@DavidDavisMP @amnesty @BylineTimes @foxglovedev @GoodLawProject @NoTech4Tyrants @Harryslaststand @DawnButlerBrent @labourlewis @AmnestyTech @SteveBarclay @openDemocracyUK @mehdirhasan @mikegalsworthy @peterjukes @TheDA_UK @WritesBright @NafeezAhmed @campbellclaret @guardiantech @WiredUK @WIRED @CampaignTechUK @FLGenomics @prospect_uk @nytimestech @BBCRosAtkins @digitalhealth2 @NHSMillion @EveryDoctorUK @ukfci_chair @TheLancet @richardhorton1 @bmj_latest @JME_BMJ @AmnestyUK @joepike @vicderbyshire @BBCr4today @Foxglovelegal @karamballes @martha__dark @DrEricDing @OliverDowden @NHSEngland @FT @_whitneywebb @JohnHealey_MP @JustTreatment 205/. This was the protest outside #Palantir’s Soho HQ yesterday: one of 40+ demonstrations across the UK

@andyburnham must terminate their £330m NHS contract signed in 2023

If the goal is a population-wide genomic data grab, the UK will be Palantir’s Petri dish
#PalantirPlan

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

No matter how you spin it, the #Iraq_war was criminal !
What is worse, no accountability whatsoever…

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@hrw @BylineTimes @piersmorgan @mehdirhasan @ElBaradei @STWCoalition @iraqbodycount @MarkRuffalo @SusanSarandon @Damonalbarn @Adele @STWuk @LindseyAGerman @jeremycorbyn @declassifiedUK @Harryslaststand @HackneyAbbott @BrownUniversity @omid9 @charlottechurch @guardian @CBSNews @foxglove @peterjukes @CNDuk @kate4peace2021 @owenjonesjourno @maddow @hardwick @Pogue @andersoncooper @amanpour @montypython @EricIdle @TerryGilliam @SpamalotBway @brianeno @sedgefieldnews @TheNorthernEcho POSTSCRIPT;
“I still dream about it - deep down I wish it had never happened” Campbell tells @PiersUncensored

The families of a million Iraqis also dream about it & wish it happened, Alaistair

In 2011, Major Laurie said the dodgy dossier was drawn up "to make the case for war"

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

To initiate a war of aggression is the supreme int’l crime

The Iraq war was neither in self-defense against an armed attack nor sanctioned by the UN

Over 1 million people died

Bush & Blair & their enablers should be in The Hague at a war crimes tribunal

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

1/. On 19 March, it’ll be 20 years since the start of the #IraqWar

50 days before war, #OTD in 2003, Bush said “the 16 words”

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa”

It was a lie, based on a forgery

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@hrw @BylineTimes @piersmorgan @mehdirhasan @ElBaradei @STWCoalition @iraqbodycount @MarkRuffalo @SusanSarandon @Damonalbarn @Adele @STWuk @LindseyAGerman @jeremycorbyn @declassifiedUK @Harryslaststand @HackneyAbbott @BrownUniversity @omid9 @charlottechurch @guardian @CBSNews @foxglove @peterjukes @CNDuk @kate4peace2021 @owenjonesjourno @maddow @hardwick @Pogue @andersoncooper @amanpour @montypython @EricIdle @TerryGilliam @SpamalotBway @brianeno @sedgefieldnews @TheNorthernEcho POSTSCRIPT:

“One of the people that wants to be on the board is Tony Blair. Good man. Very good man.”
(Donald Trump)

Blair has offered to lead the interim US-backed Gaza International Transitional Authority
#IraqWarIn100Tweets #Palestina #Israel #FGaza

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Tony Blair, the former British PM who helped lead the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has reportedly been tipped to govern Gaza as part of US President Donald Trump’s 21-point peace plan. Al Jazeera's @soraya_lennie has the details.

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“In 2011 Major Laurie, a top military intelligence official has said the discredited dossier on Iraq's weapons programme was drawn up "to make the case for war", flatly contradicting claims to the contrary by the Blair government, and in particular by Alastair Campbell” @guardian

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

14/. In 2011, Maj Gen Laurie who was involved in producing the Sept Iraq dossier, admitted that “the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence” & “to make the best out of sparse & inconclusive intelligence”

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

To initiate a war of aggression is the supreme int’l crime

The Iraq war was neither in self-defense against an armed attack nor sanctioned by the UN

Over 1 million people died

Bush & Blair & their enablers should be in The Hague at a war crimes tribunal

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

EXCLUSIVE: Palantir sent ‘intimidating’ letters to British MPs who criticised or asked difficult questions about the US spytech firm in parliament.

Read the full report here: https://t.co/gSPjIjHJG5

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@JamesGrahamAuth Hmm - I think Blair was a cheerleader for the war from very early days, James👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

6/. A memo from Blair to Bush on 11 October 2001, reveals they were openly discussing toppling Saddam Hussein just a month after 9/11

"We need to deal with Saddam" Blair writes

"I am sure we can devise a strategy for Saddam deliverable at a later date"
https://t.co/UOjluSywtA

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @campbellclaret #IraqWarIn100Tweets👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

14/. In 2011, Maj Gen Laurie who was involved in producing the Sept Iraq dossier, admitted that “the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence” & “to make the best out of sparse & inconclusive intelligence”

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @campbellclaret #IraqWarIn100Tweets👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

14/. In 2011, Maj Gen Laurie who was involved in producing the Sept Iraq dossier, admitted that “the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence” & “to make the best out of sparse & inconclusive intelligence”

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @campbellclaret 👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“Look, I get ‘War Criminal’ every single day & have done for 18 years...I genuinely only care what my family, my friends, my colleagues & people I know think of me”

Is Campbell “whitemansplaining” to
@CharleneWhite how to deal with trolls when she’s talking about racism/sexism?

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“White House press secretary quits”

“Kremlin press secretary remains”

@PrivateEyeNews frontpage on the firing of @KatieZacharia by @realDonaldTrump

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

Wow!

“A man who has never set foot on a bus, never worked in his life."

Lula taking no prisoners in the TV presidential debate with Flavio Bolsonaro. #Brazil

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

#Breaking: European diplomats, including French and Polish representatives, who went to the West Bank to observe the olive harvest, have been violently assaulted by Israeli settlers.

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

Ystdy, I went to #Frieze art fair with Tim Benton, the lead singer of Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot, to film this clip to promote his new single, ART

He painted 60 self-portraits in the style of different artists

Turn the sound down & see how many you can name https://t.co/hQ8yNgm7t3

[Gagosian @Gagosian]

Frieze London is now open in Regent's Park! Stop by booth D14 to see Gagosian's presentation of six major new, large-scale paintings by Albert Oehlen: https://t.co/rHUEziHjF5

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

“Liberté, égalité, pinkpantheré!”

#France #StudentProtests #FranceProtests #LycéensEnLutte #EducationCrisis #ParisProtests
(Photo credits to follow)

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine is hospitalised, after being brutally attacked by Israeli settlers this morning

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@aseisfree @FreeSpeech_0 See @amnesty / @citizenlab investigation👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@EICnetwork @AmnestyTech @accessnow @citizenlab @Rana_Sabbagh @MiddleEastEye @laradihmis @OCCRP @adamcoogle @ZayadinH @hrw @amnesty @AgnesCallamard @FbdnStories @amnestyusa @AmnestyUK @amnistia @amnesty_de @amnestynl @amnestyOz @amnestyfrance @amnistiaespana @amnistiamexico @AmnestyMENA @telloglou @e_triantafillou @Snowden @wikileaks @NoTech4Tyrants @WIRED @nonprofitorgs @guardiantech @yanisvaroufakis @laurentrichard0 @annepoiret @fcancellato @DavidYambio @LeolucaOrlando1 @HNeumannMEP @SMaurizi @WolfieChristl @Harryslaststand @DonnchaC @BIRNSrbija @Europarl_EN @ciropellegrino @LHreports @donaldtusk 135/. Last year @amnesty revealed technical evidence of spyware firms like Intellexa developing tools for zero-click infection through online ads

We warned of a dangerous new threat to civil society. Now @citizenlab has caught devices at Al Jazeera being hacked via malicious ads

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@AJEnglish See @amnesty / @citizenlab report👇

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@EICnetwork @AmnestyTech @accessnow @citizenlab @Rana_Sabbagh @MiddleEastEye @laradihmis @OCCRP @adamcoogle @ZayadinH @hrw @amnesty @AgnesCallamard @FbdnStories @amnestyusa @AmnestyUK @amnistia @amnesty_de @amnestynl @amnestyOz @amnestyfrance @amnistiaespana @amnistiamexico @AmnestyMENA @telloglou @e_triantafillou @Snowden @wikileaks @NoTech4Tyrants @WIRED @nonprofitorgs @guardiantech @yanisvaroufakis @laurentrichard0 @annepoiret @fcancellato @DavidYambio @LeolucaOrlando1 @HNeumannMEP @SMaurizi @WolfieChristl @Harryslaststand @DonnchaC @BIRNSrbija @Europarl_EN @ciropellegrino @LHreports @donaldtusk 135/. Last year @amnesty revealed technical evidence of spyware firms like Intellexa developing tools for zero-click infection through online ads

We warned of a dangerous new threat to civil society. Now @citizenlab has caught devices at Al Jazeera being hacked via malicious ads

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@EICnetwork @AmnestyTech @accessnow @citizenlab @Rana_Sabbagh @MiddleEastEye @laradihmis @OCCRP @adamcoogle @ZayadinH @hrw @amnesty @AgnesCallamard @FbdnStories @amnestyusa @AmnestyUK @amnistia @amnesty_de @amnestynl @amnestyOz @amnestyfrance @amnistiaespana @amnistiamexico @AmnestyMENA @telloglou @e_triantafillou @Snowden @wikileaks @NoTech4Tyrants @WIRED @nonprofitorgs @guardiantech @yanisvaroufakis @laurentrichard0 @annepoiret @fcancellato @DavidYambio @LeolucaOrlando1 @HNeumannMEP @SMaurizi @WolfieChristl @Harryslaststand @DonnchaC @BIRNSrbija @Europarl_EN @ciropellegrino @LHreports @donaldtusk 135/. Last year @amnesty revealed technical evidence of spyware firms like Intellexa developing tools for zero-click infection through online ads

We warned of a dangerous new threat to civil society. Now @citizenlab has caught devices at Al Jazeera being hacked via malicious ads

[The Citizen Lab @citizenlab]

Thread 🧵
1/ NEW REPORT: Billions of advertising auctions determine in real time which ads we see on websites and in apps every day. Our latest research shows how the same data fueling this advertising ecosystem is being used to profile millions of users and silently infect targets with zero-click mercenary spyware, a novel attack technique we call "Adfection.”

Read the report: https://t.co/EL39T3OoeC

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

1/. Gross press freedom violations revealed by #PegasusProject can’t be met with impunity

Govts & agencies who’ve spied on journalists must provide answers on this misuse of NSO technology #Pegasus #PegasusSnoopgate @amnesty @globalfreemedia @pressfreedom https://t.co/CzipkBech0

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

@EICnetwork @AmnestyTech @accessnow @citizenlab @Rana_Sabbagh @MiddleEastEye @laradihmis @OCCRP @adamcoogle @ZayadinH @hrw @amnesty @AgnesCallamard @FbdnStories @amnestyusa @AmnestyUK @amnistia @amnesty_de @amnestynl @amnestyOz @amnestyfrance @amnistiaespana @amnistiamexico @AmnestyMENA @telloglou @e_triantafillou @Snowden @wikileaks @NoTech4Tyrants @WIRED @nonprofitorgs @guardiantech @yanisvaroufakis @laurentrichard0 @annepoiret @fcancellato @DavidYambio @LeolucaOrlando1 @HNeumannMEP @SMaurizi @WolfieChristl @Harryslaststand @DonnchaC @BIRNSrbija @Europarl_EN @ciropellegrino @LHreports 134/. Israel had access to illegally harvested data on Polish opposition politicians & legal officials via NSO #Pegasus spyware

@donaldtusk has called this #spyware scandal a "crime against the state” & “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history”

Watch @KimIversenShow👇

[Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow]

This should be a warning.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

This story is extremely important:

A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.

Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.

This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)

Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...

The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.

Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

Link here: https://t.co/9hqjur2P8x