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Martin Lukacs
@Martin_Lukacs
journalist, managing editor @thebreachmedia, former enviro writer for the Guardian. em dash addict.
Montréal
Joined August 2011
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    You won’t hear it in the mainstream media, but there’s a simple reason why Canada aggressively backs Israel: both are violent settler-colonial states whose policies toward Palestinians serve the US empire. We made a @thebreachmedia video to break it down.
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    A Canadian tradition: help destroy countries through imperial wars and coups - in Korea, Vietnam, Chile, Somalia, Haiti, and now Afghanistan – and then burnish our image as a light among nations by accepting a paltry number of their people as refugees.
    #BREAKING Canada to accept 20,000 Afghan refugees, prioritizing the most vulnerable women leaders, human rights defenders, journalists, religious minorities, LGBTQ+, and families of already resettled interpreters
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    A THREAD: In past days, Canadian politicians and media have invoked the spectre of “outside agitators” to infantilize and dismiss Indigenous peoples’ protests, and undermine the vital work of solidarity. It’s a racist myth deployed frequently in Canada's history. Some examples...
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    As a Jewish alumni of McGill who cares deeply about antisemitism, I call bullshit. I spent time at the encampment this weekend and can say McGill is cynically smearing these students to justify the police violently clearing an entirely legitimate protest.
    McGill calls pro-Palestinian camp illegal, levels accusations of antisemitism at protesters /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
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    Pierre Poilievre’s strategy of playing an anti-establishment friend of working people is compelling, effective & dangerous. If this fake populist can con his way to power, the elite will have a field day. Our @TheBreachMedia video explains his playbook:
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    Gotta hand it again to Justin Trudeau, there’s no statesmen as skilled at choreographing contrition about colonization while doing jack shit to remedy its ongoing injustices.
    751 flags to mark the spots where tombstones should be.
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    We’re exposing the full scope of a Toronto Police operation targetting pro-Palestine activism. Night raids, surveillance, cultivating informants, crashing university lectures, and trumped-up “hate crime” charges—all to "incapacitate" a growing movement.
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    Gotta hand it to Justin Trudeau, no head of state out there better at choreographing his concern about an injustice while doing fuck all to alleviate it.
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knelt on the ground as part of a crowd gathered on Parliament Hill, in solidarity with anti-racism demonstrators protesting police killings of Black people. ctvnews.ca/canada/trudeau…
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    We analyzed over 6,500 sentences in newspaper coverage of deaths of Israelis and Palestinians—and found more attention, humanization, and outrage for Israeli death. It’s like an unspoken editorial rule book meant to sanitize violence against Palestinians.
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    Pierre Poilievre’s claim that the CBC is "Liberal propaganda" may seem unhinged, but it’s not. It’s a longstanding right-wing strategy that’s badgered CBC into becoming *even more favourable* to Conservative perspectives. Here’s some actual evidence…🧵
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    Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs
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    Liberals passed a guaranteed income policy in 2014, 2005, 1986, 1982, 1980, 1978, 1975, 1973, 1970.. The party cyclically uses conventions to placate members and feed a story about progressive cred to servile media, then returns to serving elite interests mobile.twitter.com/Paul_Budding_/…
    Universal Basic Income is now official party policy of the governing Liberal Party of Canada!
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    Everything you need to know about Poilievre’s talk of serving “common people" is revealed by who now sits in his party's top governing body. Nearly half are lobbyists for real estate, oil, pharma, telecoms, and anti-union companies. Investigation by me: