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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In a historic blow to US neocolonialism in Latin America, Bolivia's socialist President Arce just visited Mexico's progressive President AMLO, and they signed a declaration challenging coup-plotting US proxy the OAS for meddling in their internal affairs
elpais.com/mexico/2021-03…
During his historic visit to Mexico, Bolivia's socialist President Arce joined AMLO in celebrating the Day of the Victory of Chakán Putum—when the region's Maya resistance defeated Spanish colonial invaders in 1517

A clear message to neocolonialists today
elciudadano.com/mexico/mexico-…
The US gov't created the Organization of American States (OAS) as a coalition of reactionary anti-communist regimes at the beginning of the first cold war.

USAID boasts that the OAS "promotes US political and economic interests in the Western Hemisphere"
thegrayzone.com/2018/06/01/oas…
US imperialism is facing massive resistance:

US-sponsored coups failed in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua

Brazil's Lula, Ecuador's Correísmo, and Chile's communist party are leading the polls

Argentina repudiated neoliberalism

Mexico has its first left-wing gov't in decades

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24 Mar
Nicaragua has an election in November and concerns are growing the US may try to impose a fake "interim president" like Juan Guaidó

The US State Dep't special envoy and right-wing Central American leaders recently referred to opposition oligarch Cristiana Chamorro as "president"
At an event with right-wing Central American leaders, hosted by a US govt-funded DC think tank, the Biden State Dept's special envoy Ricardo Zúñiga called Nicaragua's opposition oligarch @ChamorroCris "president" - before others replied "Not yet! Hold on!"
thegrayzone.com/2021/03/08/cen…
Nicaragua's opposition oligarch Cristiana Chamorro, the daughter of a right-wing ex-president, is from the country's most powerful dynasty. The US gov't funds her "NGO" with millions of dollars.

CNN propaganda is already claiming she will "save Nicaragua"
cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/cristian…
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19 Mar
Today is the 10th anniversary of NATO's war on Libya.

On March 19, 2011, the US-led imperialist military cartel began bombing what had been the most prosperous country in Africa.

Today Libya still has no central gov't. But NATO did bring it slave markets thegrayzone.com/2017/12/05/how…
When US-backed Salafi-jihadist fascists murdered Libya's leader Qadhafi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gleefully replied, not at all like a sociopath: "We came, we saw, he died!"

Those NATO-sponsored extremist "rebels" then ethnically cleansed and enslaved Black Libyans
Of course the obedient Western corporate media that 10 years ago helped sell the NATO imperialist war on Libya, spreading blatant lies and propaganda, later erased the role of the US/Britain/France in destroying the country and supporting fascist "rebels"
fair.org/home/media-nat…
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12 Mar
Ian Bremmer is an "intellectual" fraud whose life mission is to defend imperialism. He has helped sell many regime-change ops, and his firm advises colonial Western govts

Of course he opposes Global South nations uniting in solidarity against US global dictatorship. He's obscene
Never forget that professional imperialist propagandist @IanBremmer spread lies and cheered on the US-backed fascist military coup that overthrew Bolivia's elected, socialist, Indigenous-led government and installed a murderous racist authoritarian regime
This group was created to defend international law and oppose unilateral, murderous US sanctions and military aggressions, which are criminal.

But arrogant, racist imperialist apparatchiks like this get paid handsomely to defend the US global dictatorship
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25 Feb
I can't respond because Sana Saeed blocked me for exposing the US/Saudi/Turkish/Qatari/Israeli dirty war on Syria, but Qatar-funded Al Jazeera Arabic was always very right-wing

AJ English/AJ+ were just created to push imperial regime-change propaganda with a liberal IDpol veneer
Al Jazeera Arabic is basically a far-right propaganda network, funded and controlled by the Qatari monarchy


Its star hosts have repeatedly called for ethnically cleansing Shia from Syria, while whitewashing Salafi-jihadist fascists
albawaba.com/loop/famous-al…
Al Jazeera Arabic celebrity host Faisal al-Qassim @KasimF has also, in addition to calling for ethnic cleansing of Syrian Shia Muslims, whitewashed ISIS and other Salafi-jihadist fascists, while praising Israeli colonialism

AJ has always been right-wing
timesofisrael.com/al-jazeera-hos…
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25 Feb
Far-right extremists are gradually taking over Italy's government: This fascist who liked a Facebook post calling to put migrants in ovens was appointed Undersecretary of Defense.

She's a member of the far-right Lega party and friend of its leader Salvini
nextquotidiano.it/stefania-pucci…
Italy's neo-fascist politician Stefania Pucciarelli, of the far-right Lega party, liked a Facebook comment calling for migrants to be put in ovens

First she was appointed chair of the Senate’s "Human Rights Commission." Now she's Undersecretary of Defense
anpibrescia.medium.com/italy-a-senato…
Like many far-right parties in Europe, Italy's Lega party and its extremist leader Salvini wholeheartedly embraced Western imperialism.

He loves apartheid Israel, hates Iran, scapegoats China for everything, & supports the US-led coup attempt in Venezuela
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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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