Share this page!

Ben Norton Profile picture
Twitter logo
14 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
You have no idea what you're talking about. Evo Morales is a revolutionary socialist and staunch anti-imperialist who honored the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution right before he was overthrown in a US-backed military coup that milquetoast socdem AOC did nothing to oppose.
This is so misleading, patronizing, and false. You can't build socialism in a poor formerly/partially colonized country that wasn't able to develop itself through industrialization. That's why Bolivia's party calls itself the Movement *Toward* Socialism.
Being a revolutionary socialist head of state in the Global South like Evo Morales is nothing like being a mild social democratic lawmaker in the murderous imperial core, especially one who doesn't in any way actually materially oppose imperialism like AOC
In fact MSNBC's favorite celebrity leftist AOC did the opposite of oppose the US-backed far-right coup against Bolivia's democracy:

AOC met and posed for a photo with right-wing imperialists who supported the coup!
orinocotribune.com/alexandria-oca…
Evo Morales just gave a speech to thousands of working-class Bolivians in which he stressed "We are anti-imperialist; that's not up for debate... If you're not anti-imperialist you're not revolutionary. Get that in your head"

AOC is a joke compared to Evo

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Ben Norton

Ben Norton Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @BenjaminNorton

Ben Norton Profile picture
23 Oct
The US presidential debate is just two imperialists arguing about who is more hawkish against China and Russia.

And the moderator, NBC host Kristen Welker, just churns out neocon talking points about North Korea (which has never attacked a country) supposedly being a "threat"
Read 5 tweets
Ben Norton Profile picture
1 Oct
This is just scratching the surface of this insane scandal: Billionaire heiress Clare Bronfman was sentenced to over 6 years in prison for overseeing the NXIVM multi-level marketing sex-trafficking cult that made women into sex slaves for rich capitalists
bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Billionaire heiresses Clare and her sister Sara Bronfman were deeply involved in NATO's 2011 regime-change operation in Libya, which killed leader Muammar Qaddafi and turned Africa's most prosperous nation into a failed state with open-air slave markets
theglobeandmail.com/news/world/bro…
Regime-change operative and billionaire heiress Sara Bronfman is married to Libyan opposition oligarch Basit Igtet, who spent years working for the Qatari monarchy and was part of the NATO-backed parallel government in 2011.

They were key figures in the war that destroyed Libya.
Read 8 tweets
Ben Norton Profile picture
1 Oct
US spy agency-linked lifelong Saudi monarchy flunky Jamal Khashoggi also embedded with the US/Saudi-backed Mujahideen fascists in Afghanistan.

Khashoggi's postmortem media rebranding as a "pro-democracy" activist contradicts his entire life's work
Absurdly, here is formerly progressive @democracynow and its co-host @nermeendn describing the CIA-backed fascist Afghan Mujahideen (which, with staunch US support, beheaded teachers who taught girls and threw acid in the face of women) as the "resistance"
democracynow.org/2020/10/1/jama… Image
Read 5 tweets
Ben Norton Profile picture
29 Sep
The US government is intentionally trying to cause a famine in Iran, to starve the country into collapse and submission.

The US rogue regime is doing the same thing in Venezuela, blocking the country from buying food and medicine.

These are monstrous crimes against humanity.
Iran "is scrambling to buy food and medicine" for its people. But can't due to criminal, murderous US sanctions.

"Banks and governments are reluctant to transfer or take Iranian money because they fear unwittingly breaching the complex U.S. restrictions"
reut.rs/2P9rof2
I've seen with my own eyes just how murderous US sanctions are in Venezuela. Washington is intentionally trying to prevent civilians from having food and medicine.

And these crimes are totally bipartisan; they began under Obama and skyrocketed under Trump
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/11/lif…
Read 4 tweets
Ben Norton Profile picture
26 Sep
What this neocon propagandist whose job is to regurgitate CIA disinformation at the Bezos Post is not telling you is that Yemen is suffering through the worst humanitarian catastrophe on Earth, even worse than Syria

And the Nazi-esque US empire is responsible for unleashing both
When he is not lobbying for more murderous US military intervention in the Middle East, the Washington Post's resident neocon CIA stenographer @joshrogin amplifies the Trump admin's fake news and conspiracies to blame China for the US coronavirus disaster
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/tru…
Other Nazi-esque crimes against humanity committed by the US empire that this warmongering Jeff Bezos employee won't ever mention:
-slaughtering 3 million Vietnamese
-eradicating 20% of North Korea's population
-killing 1 million Iraqis in a war he backed
Read 4 tweets
Ben Norton Profile picture
25 Sep
In the 1990s there was a US govt-astroturfed celebrity campaign to try to break up China by supporting Tibetan secessionists, led by CIA asset and slave-owning feudal lord the Dalai Lama. Remember the "Tibetan Freedom Concert"?

Now they're trying it again with Xinjiang region
Reminder: It is an objective, undeniable matter of public record that the coup-plotting assassins in the CIA supported slave-owning feudal lord the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan secessionist movement, with many millions of dollars, to try to balkanize China
nytimes.com/1998/10/02/wor…
The Tibetan Freedom Concert was run by groups funded by the US govt's regime-change arm the NED (a CIA cutout created by Reagan)

So many musicians fell for this US govt op, including Beastie Boys, RHCP, Tribe Called Quest, No Doubt, Björk, Yoko Ono, even Rage Against the Machine
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get email notifications when new thread is out from this Author!

Check out other threads from this Author!

Read all threads by @BenjaminNorton