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Ewan MacKenna

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Ewan MacKenna

Irish sportswriter
@EwanMacKenna · 60,180 Followers

The corruption is off the charts. Worse, it's not even hidden yet so many are so entrenched, they cheer. https://t.co/ZMoIpzLFb6 #Corruption #Accountability #HiddenTruth #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

US and Israel failed war on Iran achieved four things. 1. Huge inflation and economic damage the world over. 2. Iran showing they can hold us all to ransom over Hormuz. 3. More hardline government in Tehran realising they've us by the balls. 4. Destruction of US interests in #Iran #USIsraelRelations #GlobalEconomy #US #IR #IL

Part two of Across The Barbed Wire - where I look at western-backed conflicts through the eyes and experienes of those on the other side - is out tomorrow. Joined by journalist @AbubakerAbedW to discuss Gaza. Part one with @johnnyjmils on east Ukraine and Russia, and all https://t.co/C2hmHn8MJ5 #AcrossTheBarbedWire #Gaza #ConflictAnalysis #GA #UA #RU

Look forward to liberal friends telling families of extra 30 or so murder victims per years in Ireland, and families of four (or five?) in recent days it's okay because they use a per capita measure to ignore extra murders they cover over with growing the population this way. #Ireland #MurderRate #PerCapita #IE

FIFA block booked hotel rooms across the US to create artificial demand and drive up prices for football fans. They cancelled all the block bookings now. That's insane. #FIFA #FootballFans #HotelPrices #US

The UK is banning people from entering for criticism of Israel. Think about that. You cannot factually state Israel is an apartheid state of squatters, rapists, mass murderers, child killers, invaders and evil scum. And they clearly run the UK as well as the EU and US. #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #IsraelApartheid #UK #IL #EU #US

That's three dead in Dublin in recent days, another vicious murder in Galway too. So fed up of liberals lying in the face of tragedy and talking about Ireland being safe. Growing up, if there was a murder in Ireland, it was shocking news for months. Now it's daily. #Ireland #MurderCrisis #SafetyConcerns #IE

Israel is busy bombing and stealing Lebanon and Gaza during ceasefires. But if you say there's no point signing deals with them as their word means nothing, they lie always, and are bloodthirsty to the core, they'll tell you that's a slur and play victim. The. Worst. People. #Israel #Lebanon #Gaza #IL #LB #PS

If @FAIreland choose to play Israel, their board is guilty, their management is guilty, their players who line out are guilty, their sponsors are guilty, and paying fans are guilty. Major cost. Fuck the points. Walk away. It'll again put a spotlight on Israel and what they #Israel #FAIreland #WalkAway #IL

(TR) Empty string.

Ireland Inc - The Big Club You Ain't In With so much attention focused outward, this week Think Your Yourself turns its gaze back home and casts a beady eye, examining how the country works - or doesn't - at every level. In Leinster House, is the devil you know really better? #IrelandInc #Politics #LeinsterHouse #IE

Amazing how people who don't know John McGuirk or Fatima Gunning personally, weren't privy to what happened, and effectively are totally in the dark on the entire episode, still have radically, emphatically and confidentially sided with whichever suits their political ideology. #PoliticalIdeology #PublicOpinion #BlindAllegiances

Overnight Israeli again mass murdered in Lebanon, and Gaza, two countries it signed ceasefires with. And yet it and its whiny supporters see no issue, but will take issue when you say it cannot be trusted, kills despite what it signs, and is built on lies and blood. Go figure. #Israel #Gaza #Lebanon #IL #LB #PS

So Irish people were taxed to the hilt under the guise of reaching climate targets by 2030, but despite taking all that tax the government have no chance of hitting those targets, with the result costing the taxpayer tens of billions. Think about that... https://t.co/DI9Jb8tp8A #Ireland #ClimateTax #GovernmentAccountability #IE

Two plus two is five: Inside Mayo and the GAA’s Missing Money Trail. A year ago, they said all was well, and to read the accounts. So we did. And while the message then was nothing to see here, there's a lot to see and many questions now need answering. https://t.co/Mu4L3C7HPS #Mayo #GAA #MissingMoney #IE

Can you imagine the depravity of Israel and those who back its evil, when they aren't even defending the torture, kidnapping, ethnic cleansing, starvation and infanticide anymore, but they are busy trying to disprove they didn't rape Palestinians with dogs. That's the level now. #Israel #Palestine #HumanRights #IL #PS

Your weekend reminder that we are witnessing an ethnic cleansing in a concentration camp that media got bored of, having tried to explain away and justify, as it's run by Zionists. Israel is Zionist, and Zionism is identikit to Nazism in its key beliefs. A self proclaimed #EthnicCleansing #Zionism #Genocide #IL

Your weekend reminder that we are witnessing an ethnic cleansing in a concentration camp that media got bored of, having tried to explain away and justify as it's run by Zionists. Israel is Zionist and Zionism is identikit to Nazism in its key beliefs. A self proclaimed #EthnicCleansing #Zionism #HumanRights #IL

The life is being ripped out of Brazilian football in the same way as European top leagues. The colour, passion, madness was always that it was the working class game and the escape here. When I came here 20 odd years ago a ticket was two quid for my team Cruzeiro. Today for a #BrazilianFootball #WorkingClassGame #Cruzeiro #BR #EU

Russia last night showed it has missiles impossible to intercept, and that can nuke anywhere. Tell me, how do you win that war, other than sitting down and talking? Which should have been what was done years ago, only that brain-dead simpleton @kajakallas wants dead and money. #Russia #Missiles #Diplomacy #RU

It's coming up on 1,000 days since Israel let observers and journalist ls into Gaza. Think about that. Nearly three years. Considering the horror we don't know, imagine what we don't know. A Holocaust. #Gaza #HumanRights #FreedomOfPress #IL

Can you imagine doing what Israel has done daily for two and a half years, to any and all, and spending that time moaning about people saying hurty words to you. The single worst nation state in my life filled with the worst of humanity. Why would anyone be scared to say it aloud #Israel #HumanRights #FreedomOfSpeech #IL

It's a lie made up by a scurrilous lobby trying to deflect from, and protect the continuation, of war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Israel has changed the meaning to the point it's a badge of honour. Which is shameful on their part but needs to be remembered on ours. #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #Justice #IL

RT @foleywoley: I have watched Israel decapitate children, burn people alive, rape people to death, maul a disabled man to death with dogs,… #Israel #HumanRights #WarCrimes #IL

RT @LeftistDad: On the Six One News Minister McEntee spoke about being horrified at the treatment of Irish citizens and called for sanction… #Ireland #HumanRights #Sanctions #IE

I think it's time to ban anyone who is serving in the Israeli military of their government from the EU. And if they try enter they should be arrested. #BanIsraeliMilitary #EUPolicy #HumanRights #IL #EU

RT @EwanMacKenna: Across The Barbed Wire: @johnnyjmils on Russia, Ukraine and Donbass. In the first of a new mini-series (and this episo… #Russia #Ukraine #Donbass #RU #UA

RT @ShadowofEzra: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatens to declare war on the entire world and destroy everything if an arres… #Israel #WarThreat #Smotrich #IL

RT @mtgreenee: It’s not an antisemitic conspiracy theory when a foreign lobby openly brags that they bought two congressional seats with ca… #congress #antisemitism #lobbying #US

RT @IvoTONIUT: Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas: “If Europe cannot defeat Russia, how can we defeat China?” You can s… #Europe #Russia #China #EU #RU #CN

Could people stop defending a guy being killed by security guards in broad daylight in Dublin because he's black and nicked something. He should have been held, arrested, charged, deported. Not made die. FFS..the law and order right? #JusticeForAll #Racism #PoliceBrutality #IE

Think I built and ended a career saying uncomfortable things. The ultimate uncomfortable thing is this book, 'C'. Into the last two chapters. My beliefs and honesty may mean no publisher touches it as gatekeepers, and that's weirdly scary, but also weirdly don't and do care! #UncomfortableTruths #WritingCommunity #Authenticity #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided.

RT @jodymcintyre_: This is the Labour MP “giving up” his seat for Andy Burnham. Josh Simons is a member of the Israel APPG, which states t… #Labour #AndyBurnham #Politics #IL

RT @IsabelO20183051: Remember they refused Eurobonds to save Greece, Ireland and Portugal but they issued Eurobonds to give to Ukraine. #Eurobonds #Ukraine #EuropeanUnion #GR #IE #PT #UA

RT @Niall_Sargent: REVEALED: It took 18 months, and multiple FOI battles, but we can now reveal Ireland approved €20 million in military-ca… #Ireland #MilitaryFunding #FOI #IE

As an aside, Think For Yourself is starting a new multi-part series this week called 'Across The Barbed Wire'. It is looking at conflicts around the world from the other side, through the eyes of journalists with a different outlook to western mainstream media. First up is #ThinkForYourself #Journalism #ConflictCoverage #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedintheprovidedtweet.

Ewan MacKenna Apr 22

Poor @JackPosobiec hasn't made as much out of his trip to Ireland as hoped. Getting grouchy now. If he'd cashed in he wouldn't care about people like me. Again Jack, you don't understand. We're a smart people. Coming over with a cap and tweed don't work on us. We understand -