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Jon Letman

@jonletman

Hawaii-based independent journalist covering human rights, the environment, and the impact of US foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Hawaii Присоединился Eylül 2010
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Jon Letman@jonletman·
#Indigenous wisdom at #IUCNCongress: We are maybe of different color and area but we belong to one Mother Earth.
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Fears of a broader escalation are growing as President Trump threatened to attack Iran's civilian infrastructure. "He's both threatening a war crime, and he's engaging in a war crime through that rhetoric itself," retired Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham tells @IAmAmnaNawaz.
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The implications of the US-Israeli bombing of Iran's Sharif University of Technology have not been appreciated by the global academic community. The university ranks 126-150 worldwide in engineering as per @timeshighered. In 2008 alone, 207 out of 1,197 Sharif graduates left Iran
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No reporters present called this out? Trump is waging indiscriminate war on Iranian civilians and critical civilian infrastructure as well as universities and cultural sites. What is he talking about?
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JUST IN: First Lady Melania Trump and the President vow to keep fighting for the future of children in Iran: "We're fighting for children that are now in a war zone. We're keeping them as safe as we can possibly keep them. But we're fighting for their parents, their grandparents. We're fighting for them. We're fighting for their future."

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“When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen.”
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Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi@tparsi·
Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...
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Omid Memarian
Omid Memarian@Omid_M·
Why attacking power plants is against the international law? @TIME: The destruction of power plants could lead to widespread blackouts and impact hospitals, water treatment facilities and food supply chains. time.com/article/2026/0…
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Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE now on Blue Sky
Dear @iaeaorg @rafaelgrossi Your concern is concerning but not enough. You should be blitzing the media, talking to every world leader, convening highest level summit now to prevent further attacks on nuclear sites in Iran (& risk of retaliation against Israeli sites). This is the raison d’etre of the institution. Please do your job.
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Daryl G Kimball
Daryl G Kimball@DarylGKimball·
This is not normal. This unhinged rant is a threat to misuse the U.S. military to strike civilian targets, which is a war crime. This is the person who has sole authority to order the launch of nuclear weapons.
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This is not a person who should have ever been given access to the kind of power and civilization-ending weapons he now has access to. This is a person acting on his own emotions (anger, frustration) True when I wrote this in 2025. Terrifying now. truthout.org/articles/trump…
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Vatican News
Vatican News@VaticanNews·
Pope Leo's Easter message: "Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"
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Ryan Goodman
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw·
This isn't legal analysis. It's idiocy: "A White House official added that electric plants are legitimate military targets because destroying them could foment civil unrest, complicating Tehran’s path to a nuclear device" That would be an F on the bar exam 1/
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Listen to what this psychologist has to say: "Trump has the most severe personality disorder a human being can have.” “The world is in a hell lot of trouble, because the most powerful man in the world is both evil and demented."
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This is an “emergency”?? Why is he spending even five minutes on this right now instead of stopping his disastrous war of voice? I’m tired of losing under this loser of a president. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
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Reuters@Reuters·
The UNESCO-registered Golestan palace in Tehran, often compared to Versailles, and a historic mosque and palace in Isfahan, was damaged in the ‌war
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Farrukh
Farrukh@implausibleblog·
President Macron scolds the US and Israel for attacking Iran, "The day you say I don't like your regime, I consider you threatening your neighbour so I will intervene and bomb you, you open a Pandora's box" "Iran is a very bad regime, no discussion about that. I disagree with on a lot of topics" "But I don't agree we will fix the situation just by bombings or military operations" "Look at what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya - we never delivered. Never" "You have to respect the sovereignty of people, if people want to change a regime, they can do so" "Having an agenda shared by Korea, France, the other Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia, you start having a third way" "Those who don't want to be dependent on China, or aligned by definition, on the US"
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For a guy who harps on about 'loyalty,' he sure is quick to throw his loyalists under the bus. Take arrows for trump and you will be eventually rewarded with a crude dismissal. Ask MTG, Noem, Bondi and so many others... nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…
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that's it? what the hell was that?
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