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22 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
.@TheSocProgram explains how, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, Covid-19 likely did not originate in China. Rather, China first discovered it, but it was circulating in W. Europe & USA earlier.

China "fell on the epidemiological grenade"
soundcloud.com/thesocialistpr…
Spanish scientists found traces of Covid-19 in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the novel coronavirus was first identified in China
reuters.com/article/us-hea…
Italian scientists found that Covid-19 was circulating in Italy since September 2019, before it was first reported in China in December
reuters.com/article/us-hea…
The CDC itself has acknowledged that Covid-19 was in the United States in mid-December 2019, weeks before it was first identified in China.

The attempt to blame everything on Beijing is a key strategy in Washington's new cold war.
wsj.com/articles/covid…

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23 Feb
Spain's neo-fascist Vox party, which supports former dictator Francisco Franco (an ally of Hitler), is meddling in Venezuela.

Vox was involved with Bolivia's US-backed fascist coup regime. Its leaders met with Juan Guaidó.

Vox's mission is to revive the genocidal Spanish empire
Vox's neo-fascist Vox party has been very active in Latin America, collaborating with far-right oligarchic forces in Venezuela, Bolivia, etc.

Vox claims Latin America is part of the "Iberosphere" and wants the Spanish Empire to come back and rule it again
aldescubierto.org/2020/11/25/la-…
A group of neo-Nazis in Spain held a demonstration last week honoring the Blue Division, a brigade of fascists from Francoist Spain who joined Nazi Germany's army during WWII.

Vox's neo-fascist party defended the rally, saying it was "very legitimate"
elplural.com/autonomias/vox…
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21 Feb
On this day in 1934, Nicaraguan anti-imperialist leader Augusto Sandino was murdered by US-backed dictator General Somoza, who violated a peace treaty.

Sandino built a guerrilla army and expelled US colonial occupiers. His legacy has inspired many generations of revolutionaries
Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino was also an internationalist who, in addition to expelling US military occupiers, called for all Latin America to unite against US colonialism

His Army to Defend National Sovereignty (symbol below) included antiimperialists from the region
The US empire's terrorist war on Nicaragua's elected Sandinista government -- from the Contras to a bloody 2018 coup attempt and aggressive sanctions today -- is a continuation of Washington's attempt to re-colonize Latin America and undo Sandino's legacy.
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/23/nic…
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21 Feb
An ex undercover police officer admitted the FBI and NYPD helped assassinate revolutionary Malcolm X.

The US gov't not only surveiled & blackmailed civil rights leaders & socialists in COINTELPRO; it straight up executed some, like Fred Hampton & Malcolm
abc7ny.com/malcolm-x-murd…
A civil court case in 1999 also found that US police agencies were involved in assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.

Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, and MLK were all murdered by the US government. We have strong evidence now; it's an undeniable fact
newsone.com/2843790/did-yo…
The sooner people realize that the US government is not a "democracy," but rather an authoritarian capitalist regime that murders anyone that truly, fundamentally challenges its power (and especially its empire), the better.

They don't just do it abroad; they do it at home too
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14 Feb
The US/OAS is overseeing two coups right now, in Ecuador and Haiti, at the same time.

Unfortunately most of the US "left" is silent, yet alone trying to organize actions to meaningfully challenge imperialism.

The Professional Media Left is too busy still heroizing Pope Bernie
All most socialists around the world want of the US left is to organize to challenge imperialism, to at least try to stop the constant wars, coups, and regime-change ops run by their government.

But most of the US "left" doesn't even bother. If you do, they call you a "tankie"
Serious question: DSA constantly boasts of being the largest socialist org in the US. Cool. But what is it doing in moments like now, when the US is overseeing a coup in Ecuador to try to steal the election from a democratic socialist, and backing a neoliberal dictator in Haiti?
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13 Feb
I cannot stress this enough: What we are seeing in Ecuador is an attempt to steal an election from a popular leftist candidate.

The US, OAS and Colombia are meddling in Ecuador's internal affairs.

And the electoral body is conspiring with the 2nd/3rd place neoliberal candidates
What Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE) has done, holding a private meeting with the 2nd & 3rd place candidates, who used the platform to call to "defeat Correismo," & helping them do a recount of votes overseen by the coup-sponsoring OAS -- all of this is already illegal
Ecuadorian legal experts are stressing this is illegal.

This professor of constitutional law says US-backed candidate Yaku Pérez forcing a recount in Ecuador "passed from being a possibly legitimate claim or doubt to a temper tantrum without legal basis"
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12 Feb
Insane example of how the ultra-left often allies with the right-wing and US imperialism: The (Maoist, anti-Soviet) Communist Party Marxist-Leninist of Ecuador is campaigning for US-backed coup-supporting NGO candidate Yaku Pérez.

They supported banker Lasso in the last election
Ultra-leftism is just as bad for left-wing politics as right deviationism.

The so-called "anti-revisionist" Communist Party Marxist-Leninist of Ecuador hated the socialist Correista movement so much, in 2017 they endorsed right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso
pcmle.org/EM/spip.php?ar…
The cherry on top showing how insane ultra-left politics is: This is a leader of the front group of the (Maoist/Hoxhaite) Communist Party Marxist-Leninist of Ecuador meeting with US coup puppet Guaidó!

They're so anti-Venezuela they're pro-US imperialism
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