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9 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Here's the most "progressive" member of the US Congress, John McCainist "deMoCRaTiC sOciALiSt" AOC, applauding and calling for more political censorship by unelected corporate Big Tech monopolies.

She's no longer even pretending to oppose corporate tyranny. She's welcoming it.
Democratic Socialists™ for corporate control over speech
US spy agencies and cops have already forced Twitter, Facebook/IG, and Google/YT to purge countless accounts of Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Chinese, Syrians, etc.

Now they're aggressively censoring people at home. If you criticize US imperialism you're next
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/12/us-…
Under direct FBI orders, social media corporations erased the existence of an entire alternative news site that published US and European writers critical of Western imperialism and war crimes.

The FBI absurdly justified the censorship by shouting "Iran!"
thegrayzone.com/2020/06/05/the…
After suspending numerous accounts of real Venezuelan government ministries, institutions, and politicians, Twitter then verified the accounts of US-backed puppets like Juan Guaidó and his fake coup regime

Big Tech corporations are an arm of the US empire
Silicon Valley corporate monopolies are "privatized extensions of American Empire," @YashaLevine explained.

"US internet companies are not abstract global platforms, but privatized instruments of American geopolitical power"
thegrayzone.com/2019/04/07/ame…
Meanwhile @AOC is praising Apple for cracking down on social media and expanding further unaccountable corporate control over free speech and freedom of the press

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6 Jan
The fascists pushing for a coup in Washington, DC today are the same kind of fascist shock troops that the US empire - with bipartisan backing - supports in countries where it wants regime change

See: Ukraine, Libya, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Syria
US-backed fascists overthrew Ukraine's elected govt in 2014 for not being anti-Russia enough. And their US-backed neo-Nazi militia was absorbed by Ukraine's new NATO client regime.

These Nazis then went to Hong Kong to support another US-backed insurgency
thegrayzone.com/2019/12/04/ukr…
The fascist oligarchs behind the US-backed coup in Bolivia in 2019 also enjoyed bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats, who falsely smeared elected President Evo Morales as "authoritarian" (while the US govt sponsored actual authoritarians)
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/11/bol…
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3 Jan
It's important to recognize that the intended impact of the murderous US blockade of Venezuela isn't just regime change, but also forcing the Chavista government to liberalize the economy, privatize state institutions, allow in foreign capital, and adopt the dollar (thread below)
Venezuela's economy has been almost entirely dependent on oil for 100 years. This is a problem going back many decades before Chavismo.

This made it very susceptible to being hurt by US sanctions, which expanded into a full economic blockade that has killed 10,000s of civilians.
The US economic war on Venezuela -- through blockade, sanctions, attacks on the currency, hyperinflation, blocking oil exports in an oil-based economy, and internal sabotage and hoarding by right-wing oligarchs who still dominate import-heavy industries -- forced it to dollarize.
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31 Dec 20
The Venezuelan government says it uncovered a series of terror attacks plotted by extreme opposition leader Leopoldo López, with support from the Colombian government and the Spanish far right.

These planned attacks included bombings and assassinations
vtv.gob.ve/pdte-maduro-al…
Venezuela gathered evidence and testimonies from captured mercenaries showing that opposition extremist Leopoldo López, in Spain and Colombia, planned a terror op. called "Operation Boycott" to prevent the newly elected National Assembly from taking power
vtv.gob.ve/pdte-maduro-al…
Far-right Venezuelan oppositionist Leopoldo López just visited Colombia, where he met with narco-affiliated, death squad-sponsoring former President Álvaro Uribe and his protegé Iván Duque

Venezuela says intel shows they were discussing new terror attacks
thegrayzone.com/2020/12/26/leo…
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26 Dec 20
It has been confirmed that the suspicious Christmas day explosion in Nashville was an RV parked outside of a major AT&T communications hub.

This has led to speculation that the building may have potentially been an NSA surveillance facility (more below)
apnews.com/article/nashvi…
AT&T has dozens of spy hubs across the US that the NSA uses for its mass surveillance program. These locations are secret, and the facilities are built to withstand bombings.

As you can see on this map from leaked secret documents, the NSA has a VoIP router complex in Nashville
I want to clarify that we do not have 100% confirmation that the Nashville AT&T center targeted in the RV explosion is an NSA facility. The addresses are a carefully guarded secret.

This needs to be investigated further. I hope @Snowden can look into it
arlingtoncardinal.com/2020/12/nashvi…
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26 Dec 20
This imperial scribe is portrayed as an "intellectual," and teaches the global elite at Columbia University.

He's the (insufferably unfunny) court jester of the US empire.
Imperial court jester Ian Bremmer deleted his inane Putin puppet tweet, but now he posted this infantile propaganda blaming North Korea for nuclear proliferation -- even though it has always been the US that has rejected and sabotaged DPRK offers of peace
How the U.S. Helped Prevent North Korea and South Korea From Reaching Real Peace in the 1950s
time.com/5360343/korean…
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26 Dec 20
Researchers did extensive Freedom of Information Act requests and found that the Pentagon and CIA have helped support, influence, and edit hundreds of top Hollywood movies and thousands of TV shows.

US soldiers and spies heavily edit and rewrite scripts
independent.co.uk/voices/hollywo…
In addition to influencing and editing US films & TV shows, the CIA stops subversive scripts from being made.

The CIA sabotaged a Marlon Brando movie about Iran-Contra, using a front company run by war criminal Oliver North to outbid Brando for the rights
theconversation.com/washington-dcs…
The US military was deeply involved in creating the (painfully bad) movie Captain Marvel.

US military officers were consultants. Dozens of active-duty US soldiers were extras. Scenes were shot on US military bases.

And the Pentagon heavily promoted it
thegrayzone.com/2019/03/12/hol…
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