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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The US national security state blackmailed and surveiled MLK, and a 1999 court case found that it was complicit in assassinating him.

MLK was exactly the kind of socialist and anti-imperialist that the warmongering Pentagon kills all over the world.
thegrayzone.com/2017/01/17/fbi…
While the FBI, Pentagon, and even the monsters at ICE now whitewash Martin Luther King Jr. as cynical PR, the real history is that the FBI plotted to “neutralize” him, blackmailing the civil rights leader, attacking MLK as a "filthy, abnormal animal"
thegrayzone.com/2017/01/17/fbi…
MLK was a socialist anti-imperialist who recognized the US gov't as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world."

But MLK was so whitewashed even ICE exploits his name, as it terrorizes immigrants, locks up kids, & pulls cancer patients out of surgery
Martin Luther King declared that “the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are all tied together, and you really can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the others.”

He insisted, “The whole structure of American life must be changed”
thegrayzone.com/2017/01/17/fbi…

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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega gave a fiery speech tonight marking 14 years of the return of the socialist Sandinista Front in elections.

Condemning US imperialism in Latin America, he called the USA a "bipartisan dictatorship" run by corporations that kills the Indigenous.
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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-…
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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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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.
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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…
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Venezuela says intel shows they were discussing new terror attacks
thegrayzone.com/2020/12/26/leo…
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