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Tim Hirschel-Burns
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Tim Hirschel-Burns
@TimH_B
Working @GDP_Center for a global economy that advances development. Past: @YaleLawSch, 🇧🇯. Views mine. Subscribe to my Substack: https://t.co/deUMR6Uvcv
Washington D.C. Beigetreten Temmuz 2012
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My case: everyone is misunderstanding what happened to USAID
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The AFCON final saga might be messy but it sure is fun to watch
Football Tweet ⚽@Footballtweet
🇸🇳 Senegal coach Pape Thiaw has taken the AFCON trophy to a military base today. It's now secure in a facility under armed guard. A clear message to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) that they aren't giving this up.
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incredible photos in this 2018 WSJ article about the artisanal mining gold rush in Niger.
Link and more in thread.
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I am all here for debates about how the US can do better aid and development policy.
It's just that these debates had nothing to do with the Musk-led, conspiracy theory-fueled destruction of USAID.
Read my piece about what really happened timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/everyone-is-…
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Thanks to @emilybazelon @davidplotz and @johndickerson for having me on @SlateGabfest to discuss USAID.
USAID was dismantled in the most callous, senseless, and deadly way imaginable.
It was less than 1% of the budget, but its destruction is the deadliest thing Trump will do
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I don’t think people realize how monstrous the destruction of USAID was.
It was stuff like locking warehouses of medicines the US had ALREADY paid for. Discharging sick people from hospital.
They were warned people would die, and we know the names of people who did
Tim Hirschel-Burns@TimH_B
A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know the 27 below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us
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I will really never understand how people watched Elon's wealth increase $400,000,000,000 since Trump got elected and then believe him when he says the real corrupt money-grubbers were aid workers making $70k
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Going on hikes. Using exercise equipment in the park. Getting annoyed at someone who cuts them off in traffic. That's the normal life of the Iranians the US government is now dropping bombs on.
Read my interview with @Swarthy_Bastard here
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/what-does-ir…
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What does Iran look like?
And other questions with Iran expert Shervin Malekzadeh
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/what-does-ir…
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Public Opinion Doesn't Count For Wars
Apparently constraints only exist when it comes to doing good things abroad
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/public-opini…
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I had the distinct honor of sitting down with my friend and former @swarthmore student,Timmy Hirschel-Burns, to talk about the unprovoked war against Iran by Israel and the United States. @swarthmorepeace
What does Iran look like? timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/what-does-ir…
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A week ago I was reading an article about Iran, and when I saw a picture, I realized I had never really thought about what Iran looked like.
If you're in similar boat, take a few mins to read my interview (🔗below) w/ @Swarthy_Bastard on the people on both sides of this conflict
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The thing about pitching countries on how they should work with you because you're a more reliable and less coercive partner than China is that you need to be a more reliable and less coercive partner than China
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My piece was called "perhaps the best account of what really happened to USAID" in Devex this week.
Read it here
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/everyone-is-…
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‘India is like three countries stacked in an economic ladder: 25m live in ‘Australia’-like affluence, ~200m in a ‘Philippines’-style service economy, while the rest struggle in conditions closer to sub-Saharan ‘Africa’. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Something that hasn't sunk in, is that these losses in revenue, damage to infrastructure, and cost of defense as well as replenishing and upgrading military supplies, will all likely reduce Gulf budgets for foreign aid and reconstruction in the region that the West relied on 🧵
Financial Times@FT
Gulf states lose $15bn in energy revenues since start of war ft.trib.al/7CPzJ15
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