freelance journalist - often @Newsweek, formerly @BusinessInsider
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"In the US, there are at least 46 active clubs across 34 states, a 2023 report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said."
@liashoaib writes for @BusinessInsider.
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A Ukrainian sniper called the Ghost of Bakhmut says he's personally killed 113 Russians. He explains how his elite unit hunts the enemy. trib.al/45u3MY5
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The making of a fake war hero: An American who reinvented himself as a social-media soldier in Ukraine is accused of 'stolen valor' trib.al/9vvM4cb
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Alia Shoaib retweeted
🏆 Insider won 4 times at this year's @TheDrum awards for online media.
I'm particularly pleased with the Digital Team of the Year award for our coverage of the invasion of Ukraine, which stretched us like no event before.
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Alia Shoaib retweeted
Just grabbed a word w/ Imran Khan in the Islamabad courtroom. He’s expecting to be arrested in another case even if released in this one
I asked if it’s now an existential battle btwn him & military leadership?
He said, no, “it’s just one man” who’s responsible: the Army Chief
A fascinating look inside Salt Bae's memeable meat empire by @sophiaankel
It looks "gold from the outside," a former bartender at Nusr-Et London told Insider. "But shit from inside."
It’s finally here! I wrote about the meat empire of the Instagram-famous butcher Nusret Gökce, more commonly known as ‘Salt Bae.’
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A US veteran went to fight in Ukraine. Nearly a year later, he had defected to Russia.
His fellow fighters told @bethanymrd and I that he was unstable, incompetent and left behind a trail of chaos.
This is the bizarre story of a Legionnaire gone wild:
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@MalcolmNance told us that John McIntyre, or Johnny Alabama as he was nicknamed, was “crazy with a capital K.”
Fellow fighters say he got drunk and urinated in an army vehicle, defaced Ukrainian guard posts, and was eventually barred from handling weapons.
Watch his full interview with RT here, in which he claimed he acted as a spy in Ukraine and had planned to defect all along. teapaw.org/GonzaloLira1968/status…
This is the full piece that aired on RT, about John McIntyre, an American foreign fighter who spent a year in combat for the Zelensky regime, before defecting to Russia. It’s 17 minutes long, but worth the time.
Some observations.
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Alia Shoaib retweeted
Volunteer trainers in Ukraine have accused a US volunteer of being an underqualified "war tourist." They allege he improperly trained soldiers and may have endangered lives. The story paints a messy picture of the role of foreign volunteers in Ukraine. ⬇️
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ALT Soldier with USA patch standing in front of collage of photos of Ukraine. The text on the graphic reads: "A Ukrainian soldier died on the battlefield in Bakhmut. His death has sparked a fierce dispute between some American veterans and a volunteer trainer."
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It's depressing to consider, but I suspect the demise of skiing in the Alps will prove to be far more consequential to the rich world's awareness of climate change than news that one third of Pakistan is underwater.
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After years of reading spy fiction and wondering where all the women were, I asked MI6 if I could speak to their top female spies about the realities of being a women in espionage. I met Kathy, Ada and Rebecca, and here is their story:
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New Jersey has become the first state in the country to require public schools to teach media literacy to K-12 students as a way to combat misinformation, under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Phil Murphy.
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