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Surprise (not): right-wing neoliberal sellout Barack Obama is privately working to try to prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming the presidential candidate — when he's not getting $400,000 for each Wall Street speech & water skiing with billionaire oligarchs
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Obama spoke at a lavish gala in 2018 with rich Republicans eating caviar, and he sent his message to Wall Street executives:

"Have you checked where your stocks were when I came in office, and where they are now?... Just say thank you, please!"
thegrayzone.com/2018/11/30/oba…
Here's video of king of neoliberalism Obama last year telling bankers they should thank him for helping them make so much money, and also boasting of making the US the world's largest oil producer
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3,989 petrol bombs, 1,339 pieces of explosives, and 601 bottles of corrosive liquid were found at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a major site for the violent right-wing insurgency against China

Very similar to the coup attempt against Nicaragua in 2018
scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
These tactics used in the anti-China insurgency in Hong Kong are the same used by violent right-wing forces in Nicaragua in 2018

Coup-mongers took over universities as bases, and then mysteriously got deliveries of weapons to kill state security forces
moderaterebels.com/transcript-nic…
Reminder that right-wing secessionists in Hong Kong are shooting state security forces with arrows and launching gasoline bombs with catapults.

Yet Western gov'ts and corporate media outlets falsely describe this violent insurgency as "peaceful protests"
time.com/5731192/hong-k…
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The US is waging war on the Latin American left:

After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a “national security threat,” while Trump designated Mexican cartels “terrorists” and refused to rule out military intervention
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
The Trump White House issued a statement on Nov 25 absurdly calling Nicaragua an “extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," extending a state of "national emergency"

The US is restarting its coup attempt there
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
The US OAS rep announced Trump is imposing new suffocating sanctions and declared "The pressure against Nicaragua is going to continue"

After a failed bloody coup attempt in 2018, the US is relaunching efforts to overthrow Nicaragua's elected leftist govt
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
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Trump is paving the way for even more aggressive US intervention in Mexico by absurdly labelling drug cartels as "terrorists"

This comes while Mexico's newly elected left-wing President AMLO and supporters have been warning of plans for a right-wing coup reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Just like how the US trained ISIS commanders like Omar al-Shishani, and gave birth to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, then helped AQ in Libya and Syria, the US has also trained some of the cartel leaders terrorizing Mexico

US imperialism is the root of terrorism
aljazeera.com/indepth/featur…
Genocidal mass-murdering ISIS commander Omar al-Shishani was trained by the US to fight Russia, before traveling to Syria to help serve US imperialist interests there
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Quick search of presidential donors among people indicted today for allegedly bribing their kids into college:

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I have a few things to say about this piece that just dropped...

Why the #Bernie Movement Must Crush #BetoORourke
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The insistence by white male writers that there is a two-white-man race out there between Bernie & Beto is so deeply, stunningly misogynist, it takes my breath away.

How is it POSSIBLE that these folks missed the blue wave which was fundamentally female--driven by women voters?
Not just driven by women voters, but driven by women candidates. Left-leaning women candidates, including WOC who ousted long-time older white male incumbents like....Bernie Sanders.

How is anyone missing this fact?
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