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Journalist & documentary maker, traveler, international news lover. Currently in Istanbul @AJEnglish. Formerly a @ABCaustralia @VICE @Vocativ @MSNBC @PBS

Nairobi, Kenya
Joined February 2011
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We're getting to the point where pretty much everything in American public life will be conditioned on showing robust and unquestioning support for this one foreign country:
Any university that divests from Israel should have its federal funding terminated.
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I didn’t see that coming from a state that has been killing children for 7 months and brag about it.. shocking tbh… A brutal arrest in Jerusalem of Yiftah Dotan, a former adviser to Labor legislator NaamaLazimi.
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More survivors .. More miracles. Please God 🙏 #Turkey #earthquake
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The apocalypse is nigh... maybe. Snag your tickets to @MMFlint's “The Terms of My Surrender” on Broadway. You know, just in case.
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Worth re-visiting how many—not just Trump—tried to cash in on anti-Muslim bias to attack Obama: youtu.be/Ztags2QS7FE HT @Dena
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Mediterranean 2016: 251,557 sea arrivals; 3,034 dead/missing 29July #refugees #migrants bit.ly/1O7Vv1N
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Big news breaking: PNG PM announces #Manus Island detention centre will close #4corners @abcnews
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Why Syrians aren't celebrating the ceasefire, by @clarissaward: edition.cnn.com/2016/02/29/m…
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Breaking News: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Dies at 90 nyti.ms/1CW5pKl
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A moving first-person account by a Pakistani-American who underwent FGM, and her struggles since po.st/Ns669z
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What exactly does it mean to be "Al Qaeda" anymore. nyti.ms/1eUYG8N
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MAP: Who controls key strategic roads in #Syria ? bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-…
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Bulletin | Syrian Troops Bombard Rebels Posts Around Damascus; Russia to Continue Supplying Arms to Assad bit.ly/VgtzrF
Today's Show: @mrdaveyd on Christopher Dorner case; @tparsi on Iran-U.S. talks; Chris Hedges & @MMFlint on NDAA lawsuit owl.li/hCCLu
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Nuclear test monitoring agency says detects "unusual seismic event" in North Korea #BREAKING
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Int'l Criminal Court has opened an investigation into alleged crimes committed in #Mali icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/pre… #icc
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Somalia - Somali journalist arrested after interviewing reported rape victim dlvr.it/2p2jbh
The front page of Sunday's New York Times, Dec. 16, 2012:
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Imagine having to hear yr rapist celebrated as a "war hero" when his jail time is up as so many #Bosnian women have. #rapeisrape
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