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27 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The Belarusian regime-change activist being heroized by Western govts & media as a supposed "democracy" activist, Roman Protasevich, joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and his career was cultivated by the US.

He's another Western-backed fascist "moderate rebel"
thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/bel…
It's not an "accident" that the "moderate rebels" the US/EU/NATO imperialist axis supports keep being exposed as fascists, in Ukraine, Hong Kong, Syria, Libya, Bolivia, etc.

They supported fascists all throughout the 1st cold war, going back to Op. Gladio
thegrayzone.com/2019/12/04/ukr…
Newly discovered photos show the Western gov't-funded fascist
Belarusian regime-change operative Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, with assault rifles in the ranks of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

More here: thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/bel… ImageImageImageImage
The 4th photo here on the bottom-right shows this Belarusian Nazi at the US State Department in April 2018.

The fascist US/EU-funded regime-change operative was invited to Washington, DC for what he called “the most important week in my life”
It gets crazier: In 2015, US govt-funded propaganda outlet RFE/RL interviewed this Belarusian fascist Protasevich, promoting him as a foreign "soldier" in Ukraine's neo-Nazi Avoz Battalion.

He admitted he was fighting on the front line, not a "journalist"
thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/bel… Image

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26 May
The latest poll from Nicaragua's top firm shows the leftist Sandinista Front remains by far the most popular force, while support for the right-wing opposition is tiny

69% approve of President Daniel Ortega's gov't

73% say it gives them hope

76% feel the country has progressed
61% of Nicaraguans say the country is better with a leftist Sandinista government.

Just 4% strongly sympathize with the right-wing opposition.

The US govt-backed opposition groups, which have millions of dollars in foreign funding, can't even get 1% support from the population.
63% of Nicaraguans say they and their families will have better lives and jobs with a leftist Sandinista government

Only 14% think their lives would be better living under rule by the US-backed right-wing opposition (those are the rich elites, who Washington wants back in power)
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24 May
Corrupt, extremely right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso takes power as Ecuador's new president today

Attending his inauguration is a who's who of Latin America's far-right:
-Brazil's Bolsonaro
-Colombia's Duque
-Chile's Piñera
-Venezuelan terrorist Leopoldo López

Also Spain's king
Ecuador's new banker-turned-President Guillermo Lasso is an ultra-conservative, filthy rich oligarch known for stashing millions in offshore bank accounts.

He helped destroy Ecuador's economy as "super economic minister" during a financial crash in 1999
cepr.net/tens-of-millio…
Also attending the inauguration are:
-Honduras' drug-trafficking dictator JOH (installed after a US coup)
-Haiti's US-backed dictator Jovenel Moïse
-Colombia's right-wing ex-President Pastrana (a Jeffrey Epstein associate)
-and of course a top US diplomat
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23 May
The situation in El Salvador is interesting. President Nayib Bukele at first followed US orders, backing Venezuelan puppet Guaidó and attacking his neighbor Nicaragua

But gradually Bukele has distanced himself from the US and is instead allying with China
eluniverso.com/noticias/inter…
The US government is now even threatening sanctions on its ally El Salvador. Why? Because its former puppet Bukele has become increasingly independent and is no longer obediently following orders like before, and he just signed an agreement with China
cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/05/18/buk…
El Salvador's leftist former FMLN gov't broke ties with US colony Taiwan, recognizing China. During his presidential campaign, Bukele criticized China, saying he would reexamine ties.

But in the past two years he has done a 180, growing closer to China
laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Buk…
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19 May
The UFO stories all over corporate media are being pushed heavily by the US military & spy agencies.

Looking back at history, this looks like a psyop to hide new experimental technology and/or manufacture consent for increased military budgets & a new arms race with China/Russia
After the end of the first cold war, the CIA admitted that the US military lied about its experimental spy planes and promoted fake stories to make people believe they were UFOs.

In reality they were used to spy on the USSR and Socialist Bloc countries
nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/…
Look how the Pentagon is pushing the "UFO" story: a supposed "intelligence failure"

Translated: We need to shovel trillions more tax dollars into the blackhole of the Military-Industrial Complex

Wait until they claim UFOs could be Chinese/Russian tech and thus a "natsec threat"
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30 Apr
Economist Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant, clear-eyed analysts of imperialism: "Today’s Cold War 2.0 aims to deter China and other counties from socializing their financial systems, land & resources, and keeping infrastructure utilities public"
michael-hudson.com/2021/04/americ…
"In today’s New Cold War the mode of destruction is largely economic, via trade and sanctions such as the US has imposed on China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela... The idea is to deny them key inputs, raw materials, and access to bank and financial connections" michael-hudson.com/2021/04/americ…
"The U.S.-China confrontation is not simply a national rivalry, but a conflict of economic and social systems... [It] is to be found in the prospect of socialist control of... money and banking, land and natural resources, and infrastructure monopolies."
michael-hudson.com/2021/04/americ…
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23 Apr
This should be getting more attention: A terrorist attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province targeted the hotel where China's ambassador was staying, narrowly missing him.

Extremists have also been attacking Chinese infrastructure projects in Pakistan
abc.net.au/news/2021-04-2…
Some American neocons (like US Army officer Ralph Peters, who drew this map) fantasize about carving up West/South Asia on ethnosectarian lines, making an independent Balochistan

As Pakistan grows closer to China, Balochi separatists are launching more attacks on infrastructure
The multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative, transforming trade by linking China's Xinjiang province with Pakistan's southern Gwadar port.

This has made it a top target of terrorist attacks
scmp.com/news/asia/sout…
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