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@BBCBreaking While Western corporate media propaganda portrays the anti-China protesters in Hong Kong as "progressive," they are violently breaking into the legislature and hanging up the flag of the genocidal, racist, mass-murdering British empire — which colonized HK
@BBCBreaking Here are photos of the colonial British flags that anti-China protesters in Hong Kong (a British colony until 1997) proudly brought with them as they violently broke into the legislature

For much of the world this flag is a symbol of genocide, murder, racism, oppression, robbery
@BBCBreaking Some of the main so-called "pro-democracy" (actually more like pro-colonialist) groups leading the anti-China protests in Hong Kong are funded by the US government's soft-power arm the NED and the Western NGO-industrial complex

mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-prot…
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@BBCBreaking @RealAlexRubi Right-wing British tabloids like The Daily Mail (which supported fascism in the 1930s) and The Sun are proudly praising the "defiance" of the anti-China, pro-colonialist protesters in Hong Kong who are raising British colonial flags
thesun.co.uk/news/9408425/h…
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"With Huawei sanctions, US intensifies technological war on China" — Excellent analysis from @newsclickin

"This is really opening a new front. And here the issue is to push Huawei cellphones out of the market, particularly out of the non-Chinese market"
US sanctions on Huawei are "not a part of only a larger trade war; it's a technology war."

This "punctures the Silicon Valley argument that the companies of Silicon Valley, Google, Facebook, were truly global, and not beholden to any single government"
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This is the genocidal racism of imperialism: 1/3rd of the US population would support "preemptive" nuclear war on North Korea—even knowing it would kill 1 million innocent people

This genocidal imperial racism is promoted by the US gov and corporate media
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Some genocidal Americans surveyed said they prefer nuclear war "to end North Korea," because "It's our best chance of eliminating the North Koreans"
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In the survey, when the number of expected North Korean deaths from US nuclear war "increased from 15,000 to 1.1 million, preference for using nuclear weapons among respondents who favor the death penalty INCREASED from 38% to 49%"

Little Eichmanns.
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Ben Norton
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Say no to imperialist "feminism": Celebrity Angelina Jolie wrote this with NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg, calling for NATO to be a "leader" on women's rights.

NATO destroyed Yugoslavia and Libya and supported European fascists during the Cold War and today
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NATO destroyed Libya — which had once been the most prosperous and equal nation in Africa — reducing it to a failed state which now has open-air slave markets where sub-Saharan African refugees are sold for a few dollars

This is what NATO truly represents
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