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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hilariously misleading wishful thinking. Joe Biden has been a right-wing war hawk for his entire career, and his transition team is full of hardline warmongers.

It was the Obama-Biden admin which started the Yemen war, and offered $115 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
Biden has appointed an eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration

They're a rude awakening to anyone who believe Biden can be "pushed left"
thegrayzone.com/2020/11/14/bid…
Trump removed the fig leaf on longtime, steadfast US imperial support for the Saudi dictatorship (by sword dancing), but liberal historical revisionism has erased how the Obama-Biden admin offered the Saudi regime more than $115 billion in military sales
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Never underestimate how malleable US imperialism is, always shaping to new conditions.

Sure, the far-right regimes in Saudi, Brazil, Israel, etc. ardently embraced Trump, but Dems supported them before and will again (don't forget it was Obama/Biden that oversaw the Brazil coup)

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Ben Norton Profile picture
17 Nov
Biden's so-called "national security" team is a collection of war hawks and "humanitarian" imperialists, many of whom helped oversee catastrophic wars under Obama and work with weapons corporations.

More on these shameless warmongers here: thegrayzone.com/2020/11/14/bid…
Among the members of the "national security" team Biden is briefing is Stanley McChrystal, a former commander of the infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which committed war crimes in its brutal counterinsurgency ops in Iraq and Afghanistan
thegrayzone.com/2020/11/14/bid…
Another member of Biden's "national security" team is liberal imperialist Samantha Power, who pushes the kind of "humanitarian" interventionism that led to NATO's destruction of Libya in 2011.

As Obama's UN ambassador, Power defended war crimes in Yemen
thegrayzone.com/2016/08/01/sam…
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14 Nov
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
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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"
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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.
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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
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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…
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