.@adamjohnsonNYC & @WideAsleepNima discuss the importance of accounting for McCain’s murderous, pro-corporate, militaristic agenda. This is a much needed antidote to the prevailing hagiographic coverage that erases his many victims’ voiceshttps://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-dont-let-the-media-erase-mccains-far-right-legacy …
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Very insightful thread on McCain’s (very bad) climate politics — and what it tells us about him and the media coverage of himhttps://twitter.com/drvox/status/1034132463289683970?s=21 …
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“For many of us ... John McCain will be remembered as a violent man who frequently ... [demanded] more war against defenseless populations”https://twitter.com/raniakhalek/status/1034488414538752005?s=21 …
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@MarkAmesExiled and@AriBerman, from October 2008: “The story of how McCain’s closest aides and employees have been undermining his vociferously expressed opposition to Putin and Russia’s oligarchs”https://www.thenation.com/article/mccains-kremlin-ties/ …Show this thread -
A very fitting tribute to McCain, courtesy of
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“he did have one unshakeable conviction: Wherever America had a foreign policy problem, the solution was always to bomb the fuck out of someone. ... he was the torchbearer for the purest bipartisan value that exists in Washington: military interventionism”https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1034451545763586048?s=21 …
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@BenjaminNorton: “For the header image on [an op-ed praising McCain’s supposed human rights commitment], the Washington Post used a photo of McCain speaking next to the notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok.” https://fair.org/home/john-mccain-human-rights-ukrainian-nazi-photo-washington-post/ …pic.twitter.com/2T3sFOv9r3
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