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24 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Days that Biden has chosen not to honor his campaign promise of ending support for the war on Yemen:
It is my sincere hope that I won't be posting many of these, because every day Biden chooses not to work toward the end of this war means more dead children. He could've taken major steps to end the mass atrocity in Yemen on day one. He has chosen not to.
inthesetimes.com/article/joe-bi…
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thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/us-…
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commondreams.org/news/2021/01/1…
Again, Biden campaigned on the promise to end US facilitation of the mass atrocities in Yemen. So far we've seen words and no actions. It is no exaggeration to say that every day this continues means many more dead children. This needs far, far more urgency.
Before the US election one of the strongest arguments for voting Biden was his campaign promise to work toward the Yemen war. Biden's failure to act on this promise with an appropriate level of urgency is killing people.
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Ideologically I am first and foremost a truth and transparency advocate. I hold it self-evident that if people could really see what's happening in their world uninhibited by government secrecy, propaganda and censorship, they'd naturally force a much healthier system into being.
I have other ideological preferences (I'm way down in the left-libertarian corner of the political compass), but I also have enough humility to know that maybe my way wouldn't be best for everyone, and we must all be allowed to see the truth and let everyone make up their mind.
This to me is the least authoritarian position possible: let everyone see the truth uninhibited by the narrative manipulations and opacity of powerful, then let the collective decide on the best path from there. It would definitely end up much healthier than our current system.
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24 Jan
Days that Biden has chosen not to honor his campaign promise of ending support for the war on Yemen: Image
Every day that Biden chooses not to act on his Yemen campaign promise is a new batch of dead children. This article explains how Biden could have taken steps toward ending this atrocity on day one. He's chosen to make it a low-priority issue. Unacceptable.
inthesetimes.com/article/joe-bi…
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24 Jan
What Biden's Warmongering Will Actually Look Like

"More starvation sanctions. More proxy conflicts. More cold war. More coups. More special ops. More drone strikes. More slow motion strangulation, less ham-fisted overt warfare."
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Too many people are expecting Biden's warmongering to manifest as blatant Bush-style ground invasions. If you keep looking in that direction you'll probably miss his actual warmongering, which will more likely manifest as proxy wars, cold war escalations, coups, sanctions, etc.
Too much of the antiwar movement is still stuck in the early 2000s. The western war machine just doesn't generally kill that way anymore, and we need to adjust our perspectives if we want to address the actual murderousness as it is actually showing up.
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If human behavior is driven by profit chasing and it's more profitable to do bad things than good things, and if the entire system is pointed at doing bad things with only a few charitable good things done in our free time, we will necessarily remain on a doomed trajectory.
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