Stephanie Turco Williams
@StephAnneTurco
Global nomad. Each place you live becomes a part of you. Former UN senior official, US diplomat. Libya, Iraq, Jordan, the Gulf, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan.
“The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed.”
NEW STATEMENT | Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death. Israel must allow assistance in immediately. The strip needs both an end to Israel’s siege and a ceasefire, urgently. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…
The Icemen Cometh | Washington Spectator washingtonspectator.org/the-icemen-com…
Just spoken to @_jwhittall, our superb head of @ochaopt. He’s in Deir el Balah, Gaza, with Israeli airstrikes intensifying. Surrounded by our team, and civilians we stay to help. Exceptional courage and integrity on humanitarian frontline. They are best of UN. And all of us.
Every. Single. Fucking. Day. This is criminal. It must end. Stop the GHF charade and let real humanitarians do their jobs.
BREAKING: 32 people have been killed and 100 injured while waiting for aid near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. trib.al/1KjH0dp 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Cutting diplomats is penny wise but pound foolish. My old boss, SECDEF Bob Gates, used to point out that DOD has more people in military bands than the number of foreign service officers. They punch above their weight and deserve better than this. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
Hollowing out our diplomatic corps-our first line of defense-is not ‘America First.' It is America in retreat, leaving a vacuum for our adversaries to fill. This makes us less safe. Full stop. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States […] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.” — Isaac Asimov
Americans have questions about geoengineering and contrails. They expect honesty and transparency from their government when seeking answers. For years, people who asked questions in good faith were dismissed, even vilified by the media and their own government. This ends today.
"Though there's nothing glacial about it, Trump is ushering in America’s ICE age. He's catapulted it into America’s best-funded law enforcement agency. That makes it Trump’s private army — his security state within the state." My column ft.com/content/b6a5a5…
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say nbcnews.com/health/health-…
Ahead of Netanyahu trip to Washington, Likud ministers send a letter to Netanyahu imploring him to annex the West Bank (all of it) before the end of July. It’s not just Smotrich and Ben Gvir. And this may be part of the quid pro quo for a Gaza ceasefire.
It was great to talk about Libya 🇱🇾 and the MENA region with @Katulis at the Middle East Institute.
Tune in to the latest episode of "Taking the Edge Off the Middle East," @MiddleEastInst podcast. @StephAnneTurco discusses her new book, "Libya Since Qaddafi," the recent Israel-Iran war & her long experience in diplomacy across the Middle East. mei.edu/multimedia/pod…
Tune in to the latest episode of "Taking the Edge Off the Middle East," @MiddleEastInst podcast. @StephAnneTurco discusses her new book, "Libya Since Qaddafi," the recent Israel-Iran war & her long experience in diplomacy across the Middle East. mei.edu/multimedia/pod…
A moral abomination. Shame on all who directly enabled this travesty or were cowed into silence.
“For 64 years, the USAID logo was a symbol of American leadership and strength, but also American generosity.” m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…
#Afghanistan, #Iraq, and #Libya underscore that regime change does not result in political stability. "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace" by @StephAnneTurco documents this reality and the tremendous difficulties in restoring social order to fractured nations.
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost *14M* lives thru 2030. thelancet.com/journals/lance…