Benedict Moran

The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.

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A Tanzanian human rights activist was abducted in Kenya but rescued before being taken across the border, Amnesty International said on Monday. mwanzotv.com/tanzania-activ…

NEW: More than 60% of African nationals now face travel bans, visa restrictions, or have to pay large deposits to visit the U.S. The Trump administration just added 20 more African nations to its visa bond program that requires applicants to pay up to $15,000 deposit for a visa

@allo_exo any updates on Vaudreuil/Hudson line please?

@allo_exo @hinilanjana Customers are getting frustrated- why aren’t you providing any updates?

@hinilanjana our teams are in the process of resolving the problem, and the train should resume running soon. We thank you for your patience. ^SEK 2/2

@allo_exo what is going on with Line 11 Vaudreuil/Hudson??? Sitting on the train for more than 2 hrs now without any movement. Missed my STM connection because of this and still no update, neither on the website nor here. What the heck is going on???!!!!!!!!!!

The issue is rhetorical. "President" and "election" are words that, to most people, mean "elections" and "democracy." So dictatorships put enormous resources into running pretend elections.

Our film about fortress conservation and the eviction of Maasai from the Serengeti will be rebroadcast this week, globally on @AJEnglish @ajwitness @Oleshangay

Behind the beauty of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania lies a hidden struggle. Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay is fighting to protect his people’s land arguing that conservation shouldn’t mean erasing those who’ve safeguarded it for generations. Watch the full film here: aje.io/Serengeti

Poor Mark Carney

The lawlessness, impunity, and sheer cruelty is stunning. It should be the #1 priority of the main opposition party and members of the press to re-center the national conversation on basic moral values and to stop validating the mythologies that make this violence inevitable.

@connellyandrew Trina Paulus, author of the 1972 hippie children's book "Hope for the Flowers" named her son Jihad

As a non-Muslim, I have heard that name several times. It is not uncommon across the Middle East and being called it does not denote being a terrorist.

@AlonLiel Can you follow, so I can PM you? Thanks.

Also, overwhelming scientific evidence shows that more surveillance, armed government agents, and imprisonment is not an effective way to address such violence. Every single news report should hammer these points, not validate the contrary misinformation.

THREAD. Last week, I raised serious factual, journalistic, and ethical issues with recent reporting by PBS. At a time of rising authoritarianism, I showed how irresponsible the reporting was. The below tweet still constitutes the only response by anyone at PBS--and even this guy has ignored my immediate invitation to have a discussion. The lack of intellectual rigor, curiosity, and accountability from an institution that portrays itself as a leading pillar of knowledge dissemination is pathetic given the stakes.

LIVE La Flotilla in navigazione verso Gaza: diretta video twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Who needs propaganda when you can just get away with banning words

🚨Trump's Gaza plan before & after Netanyahu's visit: Removed admission that the US & Israel asked Qatar to host Hamas IDF withdrawal lines completely changed to let Israel keep half of Gaza Blair & Trump shoved into the picture of who'll run Gaza Palestinian "citizens" was changed to "people of Gaza" Decommissioning was initially limited to offensive weapons, but Netanyahu added "military" & "terror", & further added "destroyed & not rebuilt" (to maintain an elusive goal to keep the IDF in Gaza permanently under the pretext of "preventing the rebuilding of Hamas' capabilities") Removed a reference to deradicalizing Israelis, instead kept the softer language of changing the "mindsets & narratives"

Trump: My plan calls for the creation of a new international oversight body. The board of peace… it will be headed by a gentleman known as President Donald J. Trump… everybody wants to be on it now. They named me and everyone wanted to be on it.