This clip of Joe Biden's secretary of state nominee, Antony Blinken, summarizes the neoconservative stance they're going to take:
The US empire is the "leader of the free world," and bogeymen Russia and China are the enemies of "freedom"
The new cold war moves on to a new phase
Biden's secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken called for strengthening the US-led imperial military cartel NATO, which destroyed Yugoslavia and Libya, insisting that "revaluing these alliances starting with NATO is going to be very, very important to a Biden administration"
Antony Blinken is a hardcore new cold warrior
In this interview Blinken quotes infamous cold warrior George Kennan, the architect of the US "containment" policy," condescendingly portraying Russia as backward, "neurotic," and expansionist (all projection)
Here Biden's secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken endorses the bellicose ideology of Cold War architect George Kennan, portraying Russia -- even after it restored capitalism -- as an invariable enemy of the US empire that must be contained.
The new cold war goes on
As part of its new cold war strategy, the Biden admin is going to "greenwash" US imperialism.
Here secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken makes it clear Washington is going to cynically use climate change rhetoric to attack China's global Belt and Road infrastructure project
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Tragic news. Legendary Argentine football/soccer player Diego Maradona has died at age 60.
Maradona was a revolutionary and committed anti-imperialist.
He was a friend of Castro and Hugo Chávez (with tattoos of Fidel and Che), and a champion of the poor and oppressed.
To protest US imperialism, Diego Maradona wore a shirt reading "Stop Bush" with the S as a Nazi Swastika, when he attended the Summit of the Americas in Argentina in 2005.
President George W. Bush was attending, trying to push through a "free trade zone" to exploit Latin America
Diego Maradona also joined revolutionary Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in protesting US imperialism, wearing a t-shirt of George W. Bush covered in blood and reading "war criminal"
Biden's secretary of state nominee is now official: liberal war hawk Tony Blinken.
He:
-supported the 2011 war that destroyed Libya and unleashed slave markets
-defended Israel's massacres in Gaza
-started the catastrophic war on Yemen
-is a neoliberal at a private equity firm
Wall Street's Journal praised Biden's hawkish secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken, stating "Team Biden's optimism reflects a faith in the classic pillars of Cold War-era Democratic policy" backed "by the American military and a willingness to use it" archive.is/GfGn3
This puff piece in Wall Street's Journal declares a Biden administration and Antony Blinken State Department will be "a return to Cold War liberal orthodoxies"
"Democrats haven't been this hawkish on Russia since the Kennedy administration," it boasts archive.is/GfGn3
US spy agencies and corporate media outlets are already setting the stage for the Biden administration to mainstream the conspiracy that any criticism of its hawkish neoconservative foreign policy, and of US imperialism in general, is all just "Russian/Chinese disinformation"
The CIA and its loyal PR flacks in the corporate media have already been pushing the absurd conspiracy that, if you don't like right-wing neoliberal Joe Biden and his team of neoconservative war hawks, then you are being played by Vladimir Putin thedailybeast.com/putin-probably…
Neoconservative unironically named "disinformation fellows" in the Biden camp are calling for making a "counter-disinformation czar within the National Security Council and setting up a corresponding directorate"
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
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…
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.
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.
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