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Martin Luther King Jr. was a revolutionary socialist and anti-imperialist who correctly described the US gov't as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world."

MLK was relentlessly demonized. The FBI spied, blackmailed, and plotted to “neutralize” him
thegrayzone.com/2017/01/17/fbi…
Martin Luther King Jr was arrested 30 (THIRTY!) times and was a main target of the FBI's murderous Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)

The FBI threatened MLK nonstop, recording his phone calls, spying on him, even trying to force him to kill himself
thegrayzone.com/2017/01/17/fbi…
A jury determined in a civil suit in a Tennessee court in 1999 that the US government was complicit in the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. (just like how the FBI murdered Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton)

#MLKDay #MLKDay2020
nytimes.com/1999/12/09/us/…
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Brazil is living under one of the most blatantly fascist regimes in the world today. This attack on Glenn Greenwald is a terrifying crackdown on journalism.

Glenn is being targeted for exposing the crimes of Bolsonaro and his corrupt coup-mongering allies
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The far-right Brazilian Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, who is leading this criminal witch hunt against @GGreenwald, oversaw the coup against Brazil's elected left-wing government, with support from the US government.

Moro recently visited CIA headquarters.
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@ggreenwald After the US supported the coup that installed them, Bolsonaro & Moro showed their gratitude with a pilgrimage to the CIA

Ex-FM: "No Brazilian president had ever paid a visit to the CIA, This is an explicitly submissive position. Nothing compares to this"
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Ben Norton
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If Bernie doesn't start defending himself, yet alone pushing back, he's toast.

Enough of these polite pleasantries. As they crucified Corbyn, he kept apologizing until the end.

No more compromises with class enemies.
This is so weak. Stop apologizing for saying the truth about corrupt right-wing neoliberals

The lesson of the crucifixion of Corbyn is never give these hyenas an inch, or they'll take a thousand miles

No compromising with or apologizing to class enemies
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Regardless of what you think about Tulsi, this is exactly how to respond to attacks from right-wing neoliberal war criminals like Hillary Clinton

Hillary wants to destroy Bernie, and is trying to do it as we speak. So he needs to defend himself
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Ben Norton
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Newly discovered photos prove Ukrainian-American convicted war criminal John Demjanjuk was a guard at a Nazi extermination camp

After helping carry out the Holocaust, this Nazi lived a comfortable life for years in capitalist West Germany and the US haaretz.com/world-news/eur…
After the Holocaust, socialist East Germany carried out thorough Denazification, purging former Nazis

In capitalist West Germany, those Nazis ruled the country. From 1949 to 1973, over half of its Justice Ministry staff were ex members of the Nazi party
thelocal.de/20161010/most-…
There were a lot of Nazi war criminals who, after committing genocide, lived comfortable lives for decades in the suburbs of the USA

A former commander of a Nazi SS-led Ukrainian fascist militia just died after living for decades in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Keri Leigh Merritt
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Thread on #poverty, #racism, & #MLK:
#MLKDay #MLKDay2020

Reflecting back upon the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1 point always stands out, a searing reminder of what was – and still is – America’s grossest injustice: /1
that in the one of the richest nations in the world, so many millions of people remain trapped in cyclical, soul-crushing poverty. /2
Dr. King, of course, regularly received death threats as he fought for political rights for African Americans. Police and law enforcement agents beat and jailed him repeatedly for his stances on social equity. /3
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Big Boss
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The black community is lacking a strong black leader right now, and it's showing on every level. We have no order. We have no solid agenda. And muthafuckas are out here still winging this shit like everything isn't going in reverse. Being woke, meant staying woke. #MLK
Too many black people think just because BLM exists, that's a pass for them to sit on their ass and do nothing. First, stop killing each other.

Understand we must continue to take to the streets, become public officials, educate, empower, and be a voice for the voiceless. #MLK
MLK didn't die for this shit currently going on! We still don't have realiable unity, and racism is winning. Without reliable unity, we can't expect realiable leadership. That's why we've been stuck on a hamster wheel since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #MLK
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Jeffrey Guterman
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Photo by Michael Ochs. #MLK #MLKDay
Martin Luther King Jr. at an anti-segregation rally in Atlanta, Georgia on December 16 in 1963. Photo: AP. #OTD #MLK
Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, Alabama on January 2 in 1965. Photo by Horace Cort. #OTD #MLK
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Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾🌹
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IT's NOT CONSERVATIVE,
IT's FASCIST

words matter, especially when you're describing something that has already happened in history

Yang wants to dismantle the "welfare state" and turn govt into an arm of industry

this is literally what was Mussolini's goal...

1/2
Hitler & Mussolini had basically different views on who should be at the top of the hierachy

for Mussolini it was a triumvirate of industry, banking & military

for Hitler it was the party

a concept embraced by the Soviets in Russia and Republicans in USA

and here we are

2/2
PS:

ANDREW YANG's
PROPOSAL IS
*NOT*
UNIVERSAL
BASIC
INCOME

and it is spitting on the legacy Martin Luther King Jr #MLK to say so

for it to be #UBI everybody gets it, regardless of age & labored income

BABIES GET #UBI

so miss me with the ageist bullshit

plus...

3/x
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In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force.....
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Trump and Pence spend TWO MINUTES in the freezing cold at Martin Luther King Jr. memorial after Al Sharpton slammed president for 'insult' of having no official events
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