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.@democracynow hosted US gov't-backed Chinese separatist Martin Lee to discuss the Hong Kong protests. Lee recently met with Pompeo and was given the "Democracy Award" by the US regime change arm National Endowment for Democracy. ned.org/democracy-stor…
At the end of the aired interview, Amy Goodman briefly asked about the US role in the protests but Lee didn't address it and Goodman didn't press him on it. Very weak.
Why didn't @democracynow disclose Martin Lee's links to the US government beyond the meeting with Pompeo? He appeared at the NED just a few months ago. Totally unethical to gloss over this. ned.org/events/new-thr…
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Dan Cohen
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Thread: It’s revealing to see how support for the Hong Kong’s pro-US empire secessionist movement has brought together far-right MAGA types and liberal interventionists, all under the banner of fighting “authoritarianism” or “communism”.
Just in the last hour, anti-communist MAGA blowhards have been filling my mentions. Some of them are antisemitic.
More MAGA chuds showing solidarity with Hong Kong’s US-backed youth movement
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Dan Cohen
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This is @dewolfleloup’s second rant aimed at discrediting my article without challenging a single fact I present. He’s hellbent on smearing anyone who points out how the US is financing violent destabilization riots so it can exploit them for political capital. Why?
I never said my article wasn’t “about” the protests. I said it’s “not against the protest movement in itself”. Basic reading comprehension doesn’t seem to be @dewolfleloup’s strong suit.
Revealing how @dewolfleloup downplays Joshua Wong’s connections to the US as mere “attempts” and calls him “naive”. An obvious attempt to minimize how Wong has been groomed by Washington for 5+ years.
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Dan Cohen
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This thread doesn’t challenge the central points of my article:
-US regime change arm National Endowment for Democracy poured millions into key groups
-Xenophobe media tycoon who just met with Pence and Bolton also a central figure
-Protest “leaders” are groomed by Washington
My article is not against the protest movement in itself. Clearly Washington is unable to mobilize tens or hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong youth. There are real and serious grievances the US is exploiting to further its own agenda.
.@IlariKaila is threatened because my article exposed the geopolitical context and the right-wing, oligarchic nature of the protests’ US-backed leadership. He has no comment on Jimmy Lai’s nativist tabloids, nor of Joshua Wong’s close connections to the most fanatical neocons.
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