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The vast majority of Democratic congressmembers just helped the GOP pass the warmongering NDAA, boosting the US military budget to $738 BILLION per year and funding Trump's ridiculous "Space Force," which will militarize space and cause a new arms race
thehill.com/homenews/house…
Like usual, in their zeal to support bipartisan imperialism, neoliberal Democratic lawmakers compromised with Republicans and cut NDAA provisions that would:

-block Trump from waging war on Iran
-withdraw US support for genocidal war in Yemen
-halt deployment of nuclear warheads
Centrist Washington, DC newspaper Roll Call notes "Democrats ‘got completely rolled’ in NDAA talks"

It adds that the NDAA bill "represents a victory for Republicans"

This is what happens when neoliberal Democrats always compromise, compromise, compromise
rollcall.com/news/democrats…
376 congressmembers just voted to increase the US military budget to an absurd $738 billion per year

187 Democrats helped 189 Republicans

Only 41 Dems opposed the absolutely awful 2020 NDAA bill—including Tulsi Gabbard, Barbara Lee, Ro Khanna, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib
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Lesson from UK election is NOT Labour was "too left-wing." The opposite: Lesson is socialists must stop compromising with elite liberals

Labour tried to square the circle, abandoning working-class policies like Lexit to appease elite liberals who make up small percent of voters
Neoliberal Blarities sabotaged Corbyn from day 1. He never took authoritative control of Labour; it was dominated by centrists who waged war against him, socialists, and working-class policies

He should have fought back and pushed them out⁠⁠, not compromised with class enemies
Biggest disaster of all is now neoliberal Blairites will retake control of Labour and push right-wing capitalist policies for the foreseeable future

This was a massive setback for the left. Just like SYRIZA, which also compromised with liberals and abandoned Lexit. Same mistakes
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Unfortunately another sign that capitalist bourgeois "democracies" will not allow the election of actual committed socialists and anti-imperialists as heads of state

Intelligence agencies and the corporate media viciously attack and destroy them with lies
thegrayzone.com/2019/12/08/us-…
We just saw a reenactment of the infamous novel / TV show "A Very British Coup" play out in real life

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Spies in the UK military-intelligence establishment were behind dozens of media reports that demonized Jeremy Corbyn as a supposed "threat" to British security

ie, the deep state (yes, it exists) fed journalists/stenographers stories to destroy Corbyn
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-1…
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Today is the anniversary of the infamous US-backed El Mozote massacre, one of the largest mass slaughters of civilians in the history of Latin America:

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador's US-backed right-wing dictatorship murdered more than 800 civilians.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/anni…
El Salvador's authoritarian right-wing military forces were armed and trained by the US

The Atlacatl Battalion which carried out the El Mozote massacre—killing 800+ civilians—was created by the US School of the Americas

The US tried to drown the socialist FMLN uprising in blood
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