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11 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Joe Biden's State Department just approved its first weapons deal, part of which will send $85 million worth of Raytheon missiles to the Chilean military, along with "supporting equipment, spares and training."

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Last fall, the Chilean people voted overwhelmingly to rewrite the neoliberal capitalistic constitution of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the fascist dictator who reigned in Chile for 27 years following Nixon's CIA-backed coup of the democratically-elected Salvador Allende administration.
Raytheon is the primary contractor benefitting from the $85m weapons sale to Chile. Biden's Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, very recently sat on Raytheon's Board of Directors. Prior to his appointment, Austin pledged to "recuse himself" from any decisions involving Raytheon. Image
This feels like a good time to remind you that you still don't have the $2,000 stimulus check that was supposed to go "out the door immediately" were you to do your high-minded civic duty and vote Democrat.

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Capitalism is when a vaccine to a deadly pandemic exists but we can’t create or distribute enough of it because two pharmaceutical conglomerates refuse to lose out on shareholder profits by sharing the patent information.
My patience is too thin to deal with people who have been intellectually destroyed by pharmaceutical propaganda but I appreciate their efforts to generate sympathy for Pfizer in this most difficult of fiscal quarters.
It turns out that the economic model aggregated from man's most selfish impulses does not result in a society capable of handling crises navigable only through communal organization.
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Guys I’ve looked into it and I’m beginning to think the CIA and the State Department aren’t exactly shooting straight when they provide intel on our “enemies.”
If a flurry of corporate news outlets immediately seem to be wanting you to feel the same malevolent way about a foreign country all at the same time, there is a reason, and that reason is never because they have your own interests at heart.
“It is firm & continuing policy that Salvador Allende be overthrown by a coup...It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely & securely so that the American hand be well hidden.”

—Cable to CIA operatives in Chile, from Kissinger’s “Track Two” group (Oct 1970)
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16 Nov 20
Trying to get cancelled today, here’s my best effort: the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an extraordinary achievement in military industrial complex propaganda written at a fourth grade reading level and should be laughed out of the building.
Every time I see one of these abominations it brings on a deep depression that lasts about a week. Millions of kids imparted 5-10x per year with the idea that (a) foreign marauders are coming for them and (b) a trillion dollar national security state is justified and inevitable.
But don’t take my word for it. Here is the United States Department of Defense. defense.gov/Explore/Featur…
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26 Oct 20
Michael Parenti: "Fascist doctrines stress one people, one state, one leader. The people are *no longer to be concerned* with class divisions, but must see themselves as part of a harmonious, authoritarian whole, a view that supports the socioeconomic status quo."
"What distinguished fascism from ordinary right-wing autocracies was the way it attempted to cultivate a revolutionary aura and give the impression of being a mass movement. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary sounding mass-appeals and reactionary class politics."
"Fascism is a false revolution. It makes a revolutionary appeal without making an actual revolution. It propagates the widely proclaimed New Order while serving the same old moneyed interests."
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19 Oct 20
A lot of people describe our press as “free & open” because it is not owned by the state. They ignore that it is owned by six multinational conglomerates whose shareholders have a unified set of class interests that get reflected in nearly 100 percent of media coverage every day.
A free press means more than Potemkin dissent from MSNBC and the New York Times. It means mainstream outlets critically questioning the economic and political order that rules our lives. There’s a reason Americans consume media 24/7 and know nothing about their country or world.
It’s easy to find stories that criticize whoever the POTUS is at the time, because this form of dissent puts no stress on a corporate-capitalist worldview. Try finding one MSM outlet that reported accurately on the failed fascist coup to privatize Bolivia’s lithium last year.
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9 Oct 20
The Green New Deal is a jobs program and if you oppose it you’re a radical centrist who hates America and God also.
Gonna start talking like this from now on.

Medicare For All is the patriotic health care solution. Far Center extremists oppose it for one simple reason and that is because they hate freedom. Why does the Far Center hate freedom?
A Congress and Executive Branch that allow homelessness to exist are job-killing freedom haters too scared of Real Estate to stand up for Real Americans.
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