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News of revolution (part III): Televising the life and death of an Egyptian president

Anwar Sadat was the first Egyptian leader to exploit television’s propaganda power – and even his assassination was unwittingly televised.

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Threatening to sue a journalist over a tweet is a form of political lawfare designed to intimidate and silence critics. Italians wishing to preserve freedom of expression against should stand with Rula Jebreal against this intimidation. twitter.com/rulajebreal/st…

18:14 · September 30, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

In this essay, I travel back in time to show how and why Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely and wildly misunderstood of contemporary writers - and how the Satanic Verses controversy was largely political, not religious. Contains rare archive footage chronikler.com/2022/09/30/the…

17:05 · September 30, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Oil majors are spending a $750 million a year to give their images a green facelift, according to an analysis by @InfluenceMap While 60% of their public communications make green claims, only 12% of their investments go to low-carbon technologies. energymonitor.ai/finance/corp…

15:22 · September 30, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@CarolineLucas @TheGreenParty @OpiniumResearch Good for you. Redistributive justice helps narrow inequalities and combat growing poverty. Next, progressive taxation on capital and corporate profits.

08:16 · September 30, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Russia's announced plan to annex 15% of Ukraine's territory today should dispel any lingering doubts about the Kremlin's imperialist designs. This is little more than a land grab.

07:11 · September 30, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

This botched police operation is transforming Verdyck into a martyr in the eyes of right-wing extremists. This is a side effect of the securitisation of the state which occurred in the wake of 9/11. It didn't work against Islamists, it won't work against the far right.

18:48 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

During the raid, Verdyk immediately began firing, according to the police, and was shot dead by officers. As the police had no intelligence about an imminent plot involving the young radical, they could have handled the situation more wisely and sensibly.

16:14 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

This is the kind of extremist that flew under the radar when the state was obsessed with Islamist radicals. And society's outsized obsession with Islamist terrorism and the demonisation of Muslims contributed to the radicalisation of white far-righters.

16:11 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

This is Yannick Verdyck. A self-described prepper (survivalist) who believed in paranoid far-right conspiracy theories, he had amassed an arsenal of 100 weapons to prepare for the collapse of society. He died during a police raid after he allegedly opened fire. pic.twitter.com/MsXBDMxD9n

07:33 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

"The International Monetary Fund issued a stinging rebuke for the chancellor’s tax cutting mini-budget." You know the Tory addiction to tax cuts has gone too far if even the IMF and condemns it and financial markets fall off a cliff. #poundcrash theguardian.com/business/2022…

15:52 · September 28, 2022

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