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The EU has been supporting fascist groups throughout Eastern Europe for years.

But this kind of nonsense is expected from pro-imperialist fake "socialist" academics like Arash Azizi, who have no problem working with US/Saudi regime-funded anti-Iran media
Just this May, proud EU member Lithuania built a giant monument in Chicago celebrating a US-born Lithuanian Nazi collaborator who led a fascist militia that massacred Jews in the Holocaust.

NATO heroized him for fighting the Soviet Union
thegrayzone.com/2019/05/15/nat…
Arash Azizi (@Arash_Tehran) is emblematic of a class of petty bourgeois academics who claim to be "socialists" and use radical-sounding language while normalizing imperialism.

He regularly works with US/Saudi-funded anti-Iran media and whitewashes Israel
arashaziziisafraud.blogspot.com/2018/11/arash-…
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Mexico's new left-wing President AMLO proposed a law to grant amnesty to people serving jail time for lesser offenses, including abortion and possession of small amounts of drugs.

The bill aims to help the poor, indigenous, women, and abortion doctors
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Left-wing Mexican president López Obrador's new amnesty bill will free:
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No @BernieSanders, Nicolás Maduro is not a "vicious tyrant"; he's a democratically elected president, facing a violent rightwing opposition working with a foreign superpower to try to overthrow him

In the US "democracy" they'd be executed for treason. In Venezuela they walk free
.@BernieSanders has, importantly, spoken against the Sep. 11, 1973 US coup against Chile's democratically elected socialist gov.

Venezuela follows in that same tradition of actually existing democratic socialism. And the capitalist US empire has tried to overthrow it from day 1.
Ironically, if @BernieSanders manages to win the extremely difficult uphill battle that is the election in corporate-controlled USA, he'll face the same capitalists and intelligence agencies that overthrew Allende and are trying to topple Maduro. They won't let him govern either.
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Here is neoliberal NY Times pundit Nicholas Kristof whitewashing the British colonial regime in Hong Kong.

He of course doesn't mention the UK colonialists' bloody massacre of protesters.

The corporate media yearns to turn HK back into a Western colony.

facebook.com/kristof/photos…
What pro-imperialist neoliberal corporate media pundits won't tell you is the British colonial regime drafted a plan to ethnically cleanse all of Hong Kong and forcibly move its 5.5 million inhabitants to try to pacify its other colony, Northern Ireland
irishtimes.com/news/politics/…
What the Western corporate media almost never mentions is the 1967 uprising in Hong Kong against British colonial rule, led by leftists and unions.

The UK colonialists massacred dozens of protesters and threw thousands of leftists in prison without trial.
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