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The US embassy in Ottawa boasted in a March 2017 memo, “Canada Adopts ‘America First’ Foreign Policy,” just after PM Trudeau appointed hard-line hawk Chrystia Freeland as foreign minister.

via @GrayzoneProject thegrayzone.com/2019/07/05/can…
In this now declassified memo, the US State Department gleefully wrote that Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau appointed bellicose FM @CAFreeland “in large part because of her strong U.S. contacts” and that her “number one priority” was working closely with the US thegrayzone.com/2019/07/05/can…
Canada's hawkish FM @CAFreeland — who was celebrated in a declassified US State Department memo for bringing Canada an "American first" foreign policy — is the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi propagandist.

She knew this, but called it "Russian disinfo"
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Almost all of these reports on Iran are misleading and irresponsible. If you don't stress in the title that it was the US that sabotaged the nuclear deal, destroying the entire purpose of it, then you're just making anti-Iran propaganda that helps to justify illegal US aggression
Here is a much more responsibly framed report: "Iran passes new nuclear deal limit as China blames US for crisis"

Iran can't break an agreement that was already sabotaged and destroyed over a year ago by the Trump administration
aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/i…
"The facts show that unilateral bullying [by the US] has already become a worsening tumour," said China's foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang.

"The maximum pressure exerted by the US on Iran is the root cause of the Iranian nuclear crisis," he added
aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/i…
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It is false that the Venezuelan gov's CLAP food program only benefits Chavistas. 100% a lie

I also went to CLAP distributions in working-class barrios in Venezuela in February. There were groups of opposition supporters there getting food with no problems
UN "human rights" @MBachelet's claim Venezuelan opposition supporters don't get food is a dangerous lie.

The community organizes itself to give CLAP boxes to those who need it, including opposition supporters.

@AaronJMate was there with me and can attest to this undeniable fact
This is a ridiculous lie spread by Venezuela's right-wing opposition

It is especially dangerous because the Trump admin is trying to impose sanctions on the CLAP food program to starve Venezuelan civilians into submission

@MBachelet is helping this crime
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Socialism is now brought to you by the US State Dept:

The #Socialism2019 conference going on today has speakers from NGOs funded by US gov regime-change arm the NED, a CIA cutout created by Reagan.

@SocialismConf also features anti-socialist lobbyists
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa…
The #Socialism2019 conference today has a panel on how China is a big evil imperial baddie, featuring speakers from two different NGOs that are bankrolled by the US gov's regime change arm the NED, which was founded by Reagan's CIA to spread "free markets"
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa…
Today's #Socialism2019 conference — sponsored by @DemSocialists, @JacobinMag, @HaymarketBooks — features regime-change activist Dan La Botz, who admits in a leaked email to DSA leadership that "there is virtually no left among the opposition" in Nicaragua
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