Brazil is burning.
It is a climate emergency.
Climate chaos knows no borders.
Our chickens are coming home to roost.
We need a #GreenNewDeal starting yesterday.
Thread. /1
Don’t forget the CIA’s role in installing Bolsonaro.
Brazil would not be burning if we in the U.S. followed Ike’s warning and contained our own military-industrial complex.
Let that sink in. /2
Our constitutional crisis in the expansion of executive power & secrecy, particularly in national security agencies and our military-industrial-resource-extraction complex, plays a key role in driving climate crisis.
We can’t stop climate catastrophe until we #CloseTheCIA. /3
President Eisenhower warned us this would happen.
Before running to replace Pelosi as San Francisco’s voice in Congress, #ShahidVsPelosi wrote a book chapter on Ike’s warning presaging militarized police, surveillance dragnets, and rights violations. /4
Our antipathy for the Criminal Intelligence Agency is not new.
Nor are the CIA’s crimes against humanity.
Some of the Agency’s worst criminals now direct it under Trump, who is an open fascist. /5
Usually forgotten is the CIA’s role in enabling:
📌 the war on drugs
📌 mass incarceration
📌 militarized policing
Remember Gary Webb?
If not, take a moment to read about the history he unearthed, and what happened to him as a result. /6
"The Brazilian President was accompanied to the CIA HQ by Sérgio Moro, the US-trained Inquisitor-Judge turned Justice Minister...responsible for the politically motivated jailing of...Lula da Silva, who was certain to win until his forced removal...." brasilwire.com/in-plain-sight…
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