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18 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own Government, I can not be silent” - Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
There are just so many of them I couldn't fit them into one tweet.
I knew this was coming. We all did.

If you want to read something interesting, check out this letter the FBI sent to MLK telling him to kill himself.

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8 Jan
George W Bush says that "this is how elections are disputed in banana republics."

He would know, he engineered a coup in Haiti in 2004, and attempted them in Venezuela in 2002 and plotted one in Palestine in 2006. Image
The man who lied us into the Iraq War with talk of non-existent weapons of mass destruction is apparently denouncing "falsehoods" spread by elected officials. Image
After Bush left office, the US was the most hated and feared country in the entire world, and considered the greatest threat to world peace.

web.archive.org/web/2017051610… Image
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21 Dec 20
There's only $600 for you in the Coronavirus Relief Bill, but there's $33 million for the overthrow of the Venezuelan government. 🤡🇻🇪
There is also over $3.2 billion set aside just so the army can buy more missiles.
Getting their priorities straight: the COVID relief bill also sets aside over $19 billion for the procurement of Navy aircraft.
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9 Nov 20
Let's dissect this horrible NYT propaganda piece line by line. (thread)
"Worries" - from whom? The totally discredited far-right opposition?

"divisive"- Morales won landslide after landslide and is the most popular politician in Bolivia's history.

Yet he is "divisive" because he is disliked by the rich white elite that NYT journalists consort with
"Failed attempt to keep power" is a weird way of saying "won a landslide re-election in the first round then was kicked out in a US-backed fascist military coup," but ok, strong start.
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27 May 20
As Minnesota's Chief Prosecutor, Amy Klobuchar pushed a "tough on crime" message. But she didn't prosecute George Floyd's killer Derek Chauvin when he shot someone.

My latest article for @MintPressNews

mintpressnews.com/chief-prosecut…
This was Minneapolis Police's description of what happened:

"Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction"
Chauvin has killed multiple people while on duty, and has had 7 public complaints directed against him.
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8 May 20
I'm reading the insane contract Silvercorp and @jguaido signed for the #Venezuela coup. 🇻🇪

The operation was to capture, detain or 'remove' @maduro_en. This sounds awfully like a hit contract. Image
lol, Silvercorp charged Guaidó a quarter-billion dollars for potentially only one day's work yet they're still putting in traps trying to fleece the sucker even harder. How greedy can you get? ImageImageImage
This seems pretty big: The contract seems to suggest Silvercorp was going to become a private death squad training up Venezuelan paramilitaries, a la Colombia, after the coup. Image
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28 Feb 20
In Bolivia, democracy did not die in darkness; it died to the applause of the Washington Post

My latest article in @MintPressNews on how the WaPo is now acknowledging the Bolivian elections it condemned for months were actually clean all along.

mintpressnews.com/after-supporti…
@MintPressNews "Hey remember that socialist dictator we helped overthrow, installing a white nationalist dictatorship?"

"Turns out he was democratically elected all along. Who would have thought? Anyway, keep buying our newspaper."
@MintPressNews The new US-backed government has massacred civillians, killed journalists, shut down media, given the police and army immunity from prosecution and privatized the economy in a matter of weeks.

mintpressnews.com/media-silent-b…
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