Anti-imperialist commentator Richard Medhurst reports that Instagram has deleted some 20 images from his account and given him a warning that he could face a permanent ban if he continues making similar posts. The posts in question are screenshots from a Twitter thread Medhurst made to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Trump administration's assassination of renowned Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani.

Go ahead and read the thread; here's the hyperlink again. There's nothing in there that comes anywhere remotely close to violating Instagram's terms of service as they are written; Medhurst condemns the assassination and the bogus justifications provided for it, and discusses Soleimani's crucial role in the fight against ISIS and Al Qaeda. The reason for Instagram's censorship of Medhurst's political speech is that Instagram's parent company Meta (then called Facebook) determined after Soleimani's assassination that anything which seems supportive of him constitutes a violation of US sanctions and must therefore be removed.

In 2019 the Trump administration designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, which was as hypocritical and arbitrary as any other government designating any other branch of another government's military a terrorist organization. Despite this completely baseless designation, both the Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have been actively censoring political speech about Soleimani, who was the commander of the IRGC's Quds force when he was assassinated. Medhurst reports that he has been censored on Instagram under the same justification for posting about Hamas as well.

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Medhurst thread:https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1477991667189919750

Meta Censors Anti - Imperialist Speech In Obedience To The US Government

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The Last Drop

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Just your regular reminder that the US empire (A) had solid intelligence that this war was coming, (B) knew they could prevent it by making very reasonable, low-cost concessions like promising not to add a nation to NATO that they didn't want to add anyway, and (C) chose not to.

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The US Chose This Conflict: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

It's not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and believe the US is pouring weapons into a foreign nation to defend freedom and democracy.

It's not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and believe serious military conflicts consist of Good Guys fighting Bad Guys like a children's cartoon show.

It's not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and believe a war is being fought between an evil monster who is the same as Hitler and a virtuous sexy comedian of surpassing bravery and wisdom.

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It's Not Okay For Grown Adults To Think This Way About Ukraine

We're risking a very fast, very radioactive third world war defending the "democracy" of a regime who just banned eleven opposition parties.

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Defending Ukrainian "Democracy"

People say "This is not a proxy war! How dare you call this a proxy war?"

Pouring billions of dollars worth of weaponry into a foreign nation to be used by CIA-trained fighters with the direct ongoing assistance of US military intelligence is in fact the exact thing that a proxy war is. That is what those words mean.

If the Ukraine war is not a proxy war, then there has never been a proxy war.

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Yes It's A Proxy War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Polisen Daniel Löwenhammar har tjugo års erfarenhet av arbete på gator och torg. Vad händer inom polisen efter påskkravallerna? Hur ser framtiden ut för myndigheten, yttrandefriheten och de svenska medborgarnas trygghet?

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