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8 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Basically all English-language media reports on the death toll in Myanmar are based on unverifiable claims by a pro-Western opposition group, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which is supported by the US govt's NED, a CIA cutout
ned.org/fellows/ko-bo-…
There are a lot of parallels between Syria and Myanmar. For years, Western media reporting on Syria has also reported death tolls by uncritically regurgitating unverifiable statistics from a UK govt-funded, UK-based opposition group called the SOHR
thegrayzone.com/2018/06/06/syr…
Nothing to see here, it's extremely normal for "peaceful pro-democracy protesters" to attack and burn down Chinese factories

(This AP article is also careful to note that Taiwanese and South Korean factories in Myanmar have not been purposefully targeted)
apnews.com/article/beijin…
Western-backed "peaceful pro-democracy protesters" in Myanmar are burning down Chinese factories and attacking workers.

Meanwhile, Taiwanese and South Korean companies are putting up national flags so the protesters know not to attack them. Totally normal
upi.com/Top_News/World…
Love to get my news on Myanmar from a totally "free" media that cites independent sources like... the US government's Radio Free Asia, which was created by the CIA as a propaganda weapon against China

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9 Apr
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Regular reminder that the British royal family is full of Nazi sympathizers who praised Hitler and Mussolini as allies against communism, and the sooner the monarchy is abolished the better for humanity
The UK monarchy is led by a monster who was raised to Nazi salute as a child.

The Third Reich and the British empire had a lot in common. The genocidal crimes the UK committed against its colonial subjects abroad is what Hitler did to people within Europe
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8 Apr
The US regime-change network has kicked into high gear targeting Myanmar. And Silicon Valley social media corporations are functionally an arm of the US government, pushing regime-change propaganda on its behalf.

This is yet another battle in Washington's new cold war on China
There is obviously an astro-turfed regime-change campaign targeting Myanmar. A bunch of US-based troll accounts created in February 2021 spread nonstop propaganda calling to "implement R2P," demanding Western intervention under the imperialist "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine
A ton of these "Save Myanmar" troll accounts were created in February 2021, and they are amplifying US government propaganda from Radio Free Asia (a CIA cutout) while calling nonstop to "implement R2P" - just like the imperialist interventions targeting Yugoslavia, Libya, & Syria
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6 Apr
The Western left's favorite "anarchists," the Kurdish-majority SDF/YPG, who were fetishized in media (and are helping the US occupy 1/3rd of Syria), are being trained to call in US airstrikes.

It's the first case of non-state actors getting this training
airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-…
While Western "leftists" like DSA's so-called "Libertarian Socialist" Caucus @DSA_LSC lavish praise on the SDF/YPG, the Air Force Times proudly refers to them as "US proxies," as they help the US empire militarily occupy Syria's oil/wheat-rich territory
This Air Force article on the US military training the SDF/YPG to call in airstrikes repeatedly cites this neoconservative operative who called for the US empire to use its Kurdish proxies to starve Syria's civilian population, boasting "wheat is a weapon"
thegrayzone.com/2019/06/19/whe…
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29 Mar
This interview with @RaniaKhalek is excellent: @EHSANI221 explains how Western imperialism will prop up entire economies like Lebanon's, which was built on a huge bubble that was basically just a Ponzi scheme, in order to advance its geopolitical interests player.fm/series/unautho…
The financial implosion in Lebanon shows how economics is mostly politics and only a small part science.

Lebanon's economy was built on a huge Ponzi scheme kept afloat by periodic infusions of capital by Western states and Gulf monarchies, in order to keep Hezbollah out of gov't
Lebanon shows how neoliberal economics is predicated on imperialism.

Its private banks were giving loans to the central bank (in dollars!), and Western financial institutions praised the con artist who oversaw the scam as brilliant, because he served their geopolitical interests
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28 Mar
This should be a huge scandal: A Western govt-funded regime-change org that collaborated with Syrian al-Qaeda, @CIJAonline, was accused by the EU of fraud.

So CIJA ran a dishonest sting op on a UK academic to discredit critics and cover up its corruption
thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…
.@CIJAonline was given tens of millions by the EU, UK, US, Germany, Canada, etc. to wage regime-change lawfare against Syria.

But the European Anti-Fraud Office investigated and found major corruption

So CIJA's pro-war friends in the media covered it up: thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…
The man who runs @CIJAonline, William Wiley, directs another Western govt contractor called Tsamota, which is named in the Panama Papers

He cashes in on conflicts that advance Western foreign policy interests, advising Canadian mining companies in Africa: thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cij…
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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
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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
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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…
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