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Now things are getting interesting: Mexico's popular leftist President AMLO has said he is going to bravely break the illegal US blockade and help Venezuela's besieged oil industry.

This comes amid a US-backed right-wing campaign to try to topple AMLO
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Mexican President AMLO recently exposed a right-wing plot (backed by the US of course) to remove him from power

A few days later, he announced he will help Venezuela

Uncle Sam thinks he can control Latin America as his imperial "backyard," but he's wrong
Before people ask why Venezuela needs foreign gasoline when it has so much oil, I explain in this thread that Venezuela has some of the thickest crude on Earth and they can't use or export it without diluting with lighter crude

Mexico is now going to help
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#ObamaDayJune14th
Obama had no scandals except:
-tan suit
-deporting more people than any president
-genocidal war in Yemen
-supporting al-Qaeda in Syria
-destroying Libya and creating open-air slave markets
-arming Israel as it bombed civilians in Gaza
-TPP corporate monstrosity
Some more unforgettable classics from Obama:
-military coup in Honduras, installing far-right narco-dictatorship
-parliamentary coup in Brazil, leading to fascist Bolsonaro regime
-soft coup in Paraguay
-prolonging military occupation of Afghanistan
-drone bombing everywhere
Don't forget these timeless hits from Obama:

-doing nothing to get Flint clean water, then visiting and pretending to drink the water to act as if everything is okay

-installing a neocolonial unelected "junta" (yes, that's the real name) in Puerto Rico

-bailing out Wall Street
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Wikipedia is systemically rotten to the core. Edits are monopolized by a small gang of pro-imperialist regime-change advocates

But this makes more sense when you realize the head of the Wikimedia Foundation @KrMaher works with US govt regime-change groups
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/mee…
Katherine Maher, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, has an extremely, uh, let's just say suspicious résumé

She worked with:
-US govt regime-change arm NDI
-US govt Open Technology Fund
-World Bank
-Council on Foreign Relations
-Goldman Sachs
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/mee…
Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher is on the advisory board of the US govt's technology regime-change arm Open Technology Fund

OPT started as a project of Radio Free Asia, which in the worlds of the NY Times is a "worldwide propaganda network built by the CIA"
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/mee…
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Churchill was a genocidal racist colonialist who intentionally killed MILLIONS of Indians in the middle of WWII

If people actually wanted to honor the leader who defeated Nazism, it'd be Stalin. But they'd NEVER build a statue of him. Ever

Because this isn't actually about WWII
The UK played a minor role in World War II. It's just the excuse Churchill apologists use to justify his crimes

The real debate over the statue is not about WWII; it's about whether or not people will acknowledge the genocidal crimes of the British empire
scmp.com/week-asia/opin…
To westerners brainwashed by British imperial propaganda, colonialist racist Churchill was a hero

But to billions of people across the globe, he was a Hitlerian figure

Churchill declared "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people," as he starved millions
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