Show threadskuaAug 9, 2024

@bsmall2
#RobertShaplen's drivel here forms part of the lala-land fantasy that #Trump was an abberation that has now been corrected by mockery and laughterism.

Just considering the decades in which the USA has remained the unchecked major driver of #ClimateChange would rip off those bandages.
(Though the resulting sight would be bad for business.)

bs2Aug 8, 2024

> Robert Shaplen, the Asia correspondent of the New Yorker, commented..on East Timor in.. “Letter from Indonesia,”..[in] 1977.. his reconstruction.. “Indonesian troops intervened, somewhat crudely and clumsily, in December of 1975, in a war for independence which the East Timorese were ostensibly waging against Portugal.” The idea that the East Timorese were fighting Portugal is a novel contribution..

#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR #PEHR1 #WashingtonConnection
#MakingShitUp #RobertShaplen #AI70s 🧵