Thread by @Americas_Crimes

As Western mainstream media commemorates 100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, let’s recall the ugly role the US & its allies played in supporting apartheid in South Africa...

The CIA played a major role in Nelson Mandela’s capture and 27 year imprisonment. A CIA officer tipped off South African authorities to Mandela’s location in 1962, resulting in his arrest.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…

The Reason administration supported of apartheid regime in South Africa until the very end, going as far as to violate congressional sanctions to send them money & weapons. Reagan’s support was crucial in extending the life of the brutal Apartheid regime. salon.com/2011/02/05/ron…

The US supported Apartheid South Africa’s brutal invasions into neighboring African countries. 1989 UN report found that 1.5 million people died as a result of the attacks.
inthesetimes.com/article/17311/…

The US labeled the anti-apartheid African National Congress a dangerous terrorist organization & Nelson Mandela was on the US terrorist watch list until 2008.
juancole.com/2013/12/mandel…

Israel offed to sell the Apartheid regime a nuclear weapon to use against neighboring Black countries.
theguardian.com/world/2010/may…

Other things the media won't report on today:

Nelson Mandela was committed to the liberation of Palestine: electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-bar…

Mandela traveled to Cuba in 1991 to thank the country for the role it played in ending apartheid: democracynow.org/2013/12/11/nel…