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18 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
New @PushbackShow: As thousands of Haitians defy repression to protest Jovenel Moise, the Biden admin continues a long US tradition of backing right-wing autocrats and undermining Haiti's popular movements. w/ guest Daoud Andre:
Thank you to @freedomrideblog for making this one happen!
This segment has a lot of info on the current crisis in Haiti, including how the US helped install Moise & his predecessor, and coerce Haiti into betraying Venezuela, its historical ally. This colonial meddling dates back to when Haiti became the hemisphere's first free country.
Joe Biden in 1994: "If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot in terms of our interest." Yet despite this imperial arrogance, US admins for centuries have meddled in Haiti. Biden continues that today:
All Pushback interviews are free for everyone. Patrons help keep the show going and get extended audio versions of interviews. Here's the Patreon-only extended audio for this segment: patreon.com/posts/47690239

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15 Feb
1/ I appreciate that @PeterBeinart highlights the murderous impact of US sanctions worldwide. It's a vital issue, and he deserves credit for bringing attention to it. Unfortunately he adopts the imperial mentality underlying the sieges he opposes:
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2/ @PeterBeinart says sanctions "might be more defensible — or at least briefer — if they stood a reasonable chance of success" or "married to remotely realistic objectives."

So it's OK to strangle Venezuela and Syria if we could overthrow their leaders? Are we Darth Vader?
3/ In reality, where all people are equal, US has no right to destroy others’ economies and health care systems, no matter how “realistic” the “objectives” are. There’s also something called international law and the UN Charter, which bars the unilateral imposition of sanctions.
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No Democratic impeachment of Trump is complete with some batshit claims about Russia. See also: thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/ada… #BlueAnon
See also @JasonCrowCO6 explaining to us Putin's daily bedtime/morning routine of "trying to figure out how to destroy American democracy."
See also @AdamSchiff on why we need to arm neo-Nazis and fuel a bloody war in Ukraine "so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here."
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New @PushbackShow: Crippling US sanctions imposed under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged Syrian civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, UN Special Rapporteur @AlenaDouhan says. Video/transcript: thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-… via @TheGrayzoneNews
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According to the UN Special Rapporteur, US sanctions on Syria are so crippling that they prevent import of staples like *toothpaste*, under the pretense that toothpaste could have a military use. They also seriously hinder the import of medicine & medical equipment. Pure sadism: Image
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12 Jan
.@mikepompeo claims that Iran is now Al Qaeda's Middle East home base. As he well knows, that distinction actually belongs to Syria's "rebel"-held Idlib province. Former US envoy Brett McGurk has called Idlib "the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11":
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More on how US arming of and coordination with Syrian "rebels" helped Al Qaeda establish, in Syria, its largest safe haven since 9/11: ImageImageImage
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The Intercept has taken heat for mishandling the Reality Winner leak. In fairness, she would've gotten caught anyway. IMO, TI deserves far more criticism for mischaracterizing what the leak actually says, just to show liberals it can Russiagate. There, it's dishonest & shameless.
This artice is the latest example: theintercept.com/2020/12/30/rea…
Reality Winner is not a "whistleblower" -- what exactly did she expose? Nothing. The Intercept falsely claims her leak "was about Russian interference in U.S. elections" & detailed phishing attacks by Russian military intelligence", but it did nothing of the sort.
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While people are denied relief & healthcare, & Trump pardons Blackwater murderers & tries to provoke war w/ Iran, it would be a real sign of growth if we could refrain from hyperventilating about Manafort, whose real crime in was not validating Russiagate conspiracy fan fiction.
Manafort's prosecution was politically motivated. As his judges noted, charges had zero "to do with the [2016] campaign or with Russian collusion" & were "wholly irrelevant" to collusion. He was indicted on tax/lobbying charges that Russiagate hacks pretended amounted to treason.
To keep the collusion innuendo alive, Mueller team introduced a vague claim that Manafort's associate, Konstanin Kilimnik, has Russian intel "ties." That claim, plus the later Senate Intel claim that he's a spy, will now be revived. It's also a farce: realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/…
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