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David Lepeska
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Editor-in-chief @ jcmonitor.com & ehmonitor.com. Past: @kashmirobserver, @nytimes, @citylab, @eartist_, @nationalcomment & more. Book #2 out June 2026.
SW Montana
Joined February 2009
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    Stunned & humbled to wake up & find my book at #1 @amazon in multiple categories (Political Freedom, South Asia) & top 10 in others. So incredibly grateful for all the love and support. amazon.com/dp/939548120X/ Thanks & huge congrats to @kashmirobserver @VPBooks @FirstForays 🙏
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    36 hours after it was posted online, Turkish opposition pres candidate Kilicdaroglu's tweet has been seen by 90M and the video's been watched 25M times. Those are Game of Thrones, Taylor Swift numbers.
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    Pro-Greek Tweeters often argue that it's Turkey who's the aggressor and Turkey who's betrayed NATO by purchasing Russian-made weaponry. Here's Athens doing both.
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    Turkey, India, China & Brazil are no surprise -- all authoritarians. But Spain, Netherlands, Belgium increasing trade with Russia since its invasion of Ukraine? Shame on these EU & NATO members.
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    No Turkey or HTS at West's summit on Syria's future. Just like the days of Sykes-Picot.
    "Future of Syria" Summit in Rome. No Turkey at the table. "If you are not at the teble, you are on the menu," Michael Enzi
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    This is wild. India's Aviation Minister does customer service for the country's largest airlines @IndiGo6E in response to passenger complaints on Twitter.
    Your luggage has been delivered at the hostel gate. Take care.
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    @RanaAyyub to @mehdirhasan: Americans have a “comfortable and convenient ignorance about what’s happening” in #Modi’s India.
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    The Mehdi Hasan Show
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    KK loses to Erdogan in 9 out of 10 models, I'd guess, which means Aksener risked next to nothing by taking a stand. Rather, she's given the opposition new life. Now CHP can either admit defeat on KK and pick a winner, or go ahead with KK and lose, as it would've done anyway.
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    "Ukraine continues to fight, alone, against a revanchist dictatorship hellbent on its annihilation. The future of the free world & the post-war liberal world order rests almost solely on its shoulders:" @OzKaterji rollingstone.co.uk/politics/featu…
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    Odessa Opera House, in 1942 and today. Sadly, same same.
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    Beautiful | The mayor of a Russian village needed somebody to run against him to create illusion of electoral competition, but couldn't find anyone. Finally he picked the city hall cleaning lady. She won.
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    Around the time of this tweet, @CNN evacuated its New York City studios for a bomb threat. Nice work, Donald. Making America unsafe for journalists.
    FAKE NEWS - THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
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    Good morning and Glory to Ukraine’s fighters on Defender’s Day. Here’s my friend Artem after claiming Russian weapons in Kharkiv.
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    Trump vowed to obliterate Turkey's economy if it does anything "off-limits" in NE Syria, while State Dept vowed to impose significant costs if Turkey acts "inhumanely". Does this not qualify?
    Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime. x.com/yenisafak/stat…