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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Incredible: The neoliberal leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, who is aggressively purging the left, is a former Trotskyite who edited a magazine for a tiny Trot group.

Yet another Trot turned servant of capitalism and imperialism. There are so many
web.archive.org/web/2020070402…
A significant number of neoconservatives in the US were former Trotskyites -- because Trots are just anti-communists with a radical aesthetic (which can quickly turn hard right).

Neoliberal Labour Party Keir Starmer edited a Trotskyite magazine in 1986-7
thetimes.co.uk/article/radica…
Before he became the neoliberal Labour leader that crushed Corbynism, Keir Starmer edited a Trotskyite magazine, "Socialist Alternatives," affiliated with the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency -- a tiny "Pabloist" group run by obscure Trot Michel Pablo / Michael Raptis ImageImage
Today, as he mercilessly destroys the left wing of Labour, Keir Starmer has many suspicious ties:

In 2013 he met the head of UK spy agency MI5 for drinks, after refusing to prosecute it for torture.

He also joined the elite imperial Trilateral Commission
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/05/fiv…

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16 Dec
"The CIA (originally the OSS) and the U.S. military, along with the Vatican, were instrumental in exfiltrating [Nazi] war criminals not just to Latin America, but to the United States as well..."

From a classic 1986 issue of @CovertActionMag Image
Nazi "war criminals like Josef Mengele, Walter Rauff, and Klaus Barbie did not simply vanish at the end of the war... Most of them spent several years in the direct employ of the US intelligence agencies and, when necessary, were set up in businesses in Latin America or the U.S."
Hundreds of Nazis were recruited by US scientific programs. @CovertActionMag wrote, "Ironically, it now appears that [Reagan's anti-Soviet military program] Star Wars is merely an extension of the Nazis’ wartime rocket research. Much of the US space program was designed by them."
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16 Dec
Pete Buttigieg's extensive ties to US intelligence are well known. thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pet…

But when I was investigating his family, I found something eyebrow-raising:

His aunt has been doing "humanitarian" work for years in the heart of India's "Red Corridor."

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Mayor Pete's aunt Marcette Buttigieg has been living for many years in Jharkhand, India -- in the "Red Corridor," where there has been a Maoist uprising for decades.

She is a Maltese missionary and "social worker."

Many foreign NGOs there are linked to counterinsurgency efforts ImageImage
This Times of India 2002 article identified Mayor Pete's aunt Marcette Buttigieg as a "social worker" in poor villages in the "Red Corridor."

It didn't mention she's a Maltese missionary.

She could be doing important work helping people, but it's strange
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Mal… Image
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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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12 Dec
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
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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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