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12 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Fake news from Regime-Change Roth, billionaire-funded cold warrior posing as a "human rights" activist

Billionaire oligarch Jimmy Lai was charged with collusion with foreign countries (ie, the US) to endanger national security -- which he boasted on CNN, calling for war on China
Hong Kong's right-wing billionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai (affectionately called "the Rupert Murdoch of Asia" by Western oligarchs) was charged with colluding with the US govt to overthrow Hong Kong's govt -- which he did openly!

In any other country he'd be arrested for treason ImageImageImageImage
Even CNN admitted in its propaganda puff piece on Hong Kong oligarch Jimmy Lai that he was openly collaborating with the Trump admin.

He declared alliance with the US in a "war" on China (his own govt)

This is textbook treason. And he didn't even hide it
cnn.com/2019/08/27/med… Image
Billionaire Jimmy Lai produced and published an open letter to Trump calling for US troops to invade and occupy Hong Kong.

It says: "please protect Hong Kong as West Berlin" -- ie, military occupation like the US Army in West Berlin in the first cold war

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15 Dec
Now that US Attorney General William Barr has stepped down, it's a good time to remind people that he is a far-right theocrat who was on the board of directors of an Opus Dei front group - and it's insane that he was in charge of the DOJ in the first place
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/o…
Even more shady than William Barr's deep links to Opus Dei is the fact that his father, Donald Barr, was the headmaster of the elite NYC Dalton School when they hired a then little-known 20-year-old college drop-out named... Jeffrey Epstein
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t…
It gets crazier: far-right Opus Dei-linked US Attorney General William Barr's dad Donald was an agent with the US govt's OSS (precursor to the CIA).

And around the time his elite school hired Jeffrey Epstein, he wrote a batshit book about child sex slaves
vice.com/en/article/qvg…
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5 Dec
It has to be said: The reason clown Slavoj Zizek became a celebrity is because he has never actually challenged power

Zizek has supported Western regime-change campaigns for decades. He conveniently always makes a fake "left" case to side with imperialism
inthesetimes.com/article/the-le…
Zizek backed the imperialist dismemberment of Yugoslavia

Zizek knows nothing about Latin America but constantly criticizes Cuba and Venezuela

Zizek praised "color revolutions" in Ukraine and Belarus

Zizek endorsed the US military occupation of NE Syria
independent.co.uk/voices/kurds-s…
Zizek is in fact useful to anti-communist reactionaries. Because all he does is make stupid jokes about so-called "Stalinism," while ignoring and whitewashing the crimes of imperialism, and instead distracting the left by focusing on dumb culture wars and "political correctness"
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1 Dec
A US Catholic priest named James Carney realized that in order to actually help poor people he had to challenge capitalism, so he became a revolutionary.

The Honduran regime then likely killed him *with US gov't approval*

US gov't docs have been withheld
startribune.com/after-32-years…
At a time when CIA-backed death squads were massacring countless leftists, sources have said US priest "Padre Guadalupe" was captured, tortured, and thrown from a helicopter by US-backed Honduran troops.

The CIA refuses to fully release its report on it
startribune.com/after-32-years…
Revolutionary leftist priest James Carney wasn't the only US citizen likely killed by US-backed fascists in Central America.

US engineer Ben Linder, who came to Nicaragua to build hydroelectric dams in impoverished areas, was murdered by US-backed Contras
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ben-…
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25 Nov
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"
Read 8 tweets
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24 Nov
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)
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23 Nov
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
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