Ruth Ben-Ghiat
@ruthbenghiat
Authoritarians, propaganda, democracy/Historian/Consultant 🎥/Book: Strongmen, a NYT bestseller/ @caaspeakers /Substack on democracy threats ⬇️
My @WIRED Tech Support video on dictators: youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fAL…
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
After five days with no food to cook, our @WCKitchen team in Gaza is again cooking hot meals. Ingredients are very limited, and we won’t be able to cook for long. The people of Gaza need food, and they need it NOW! Children are starving, they are crying…let’s allow aid to safely…
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're probably still a while out from this being banal conventional wisdom, but it's coming.
Having already killed or wounded 200,000 Palestinians, the extremist Israeli government is using mass starvation to engineer the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Despite these crimes, the US has provided $22 billion to Israeli military operations since the war began. Enough is enough.
“They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files." wmtw.com/article/winoos…
🚨 🚨 NEW WHITEBOARD — Recipe for Atrocity Throw in all the factors and features happening at once, and history tells us Trump and Miller are cooking up a recipe for atrocity right here in the United States. WATCH and RT
NEW -- Donald Trump is on his way to Scotland to promote a new course at one of his golf resorts. American taxpayers are footing the $9.7 million -- at least -- travel and security bill so that he can make more money at his family business. huffpost.com/entry/trump-sc…
Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/
Victims testified under oath that Maxwell sexually abused them with Epstein. Victims testified under oath that she recruited them and schooled them on how to give sexualized massages to Epstein. Victims testified that she took their passports so that they became prisoners on the…
Newsmax has begun referring to Ghislaine Maxwell as “a victim.” You heard that correctly.
Not long after Epstein raped and trafficked Anouska De Georgiou, Ghislaine Maxwell introduced her to Trump, who, a London tabloid reported, then dated her himself and put her up in a Tower apartment. #epsteinfiles. In the latest Freakshow: americanfreakshow.news/p/donald-trump…
Russia ‘sending kidnapped Ukrainian children to front line’ - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/ADofAtaDyTPm9x…
The Israeli military has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza seeking aid, and its blockade is starving innocent children. There are no words for how horrifying this is. We must end Netanyahu’s war on Gaza’s civilians, and we must end the United States’ support for it.…
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
Alleged Russian Tax Fraud Mastermind who was the Main Beneficiary in the Magnitsky Case Funneled Millions Into Luxury Dubai Properties | OCCRP occrp.org/en/project/dub…
Big surprise. Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems and that won't change.
Ukraine will NOT receive the Patriot systems promised by Trump before spring 2026, Spiegel reports.
79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None. Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
Authoritarian leader cult alert. Mussolini's officials would tell him the same thing.
Speaker: With your stamina we know we can never sleep, ok
The reason I took up the case is because a woman filed a lawsuit against Mr. Trump alleging he raped her when she was a teenager. At the time, (2016) Mr. Trump was running for president of the United States -- and had nominated Acosta for a top cabinet position. Acosta was the…
This politics of naming is typical of fascist & populist regimes. The name of the leader and his family are equated with state institutions, streets, provinces, etc
House Republicans Want to Name the Kennedy Center Opera House After Melania Trump rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…
Trump told us in 2024 that if elected he would make China "do great."
"The former chief editor of Chinese government-backed Global Times, Hu Xijin, described the paralysis of VOA as gratifying. “The Chinese people are happy to see the U.S. anti-China ideological fortress breached from within,” he said "