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20 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Western corporate media propagandists refuse to admit the biggest opposition force in Russia is the Communist Party, which just won 2nd place in the elections, because many people (especially older Russians) are nostalgic for the Soviet Union

Good thread on their disinfo tactics
Good point. When I say many Russians are nostalgic for the Soviet Union, I mean that they miss its incredible social services: guaranteed jobs, housing, healthcare, education, etc.

Polls show 75% say the USSR was the "greatest era" in Russia's history
"Just 18% of Russian respondents said they disagree with the idea that the Soviet Union was the best time in their country’s history."

"Only a small portion of those surveyed said they had negative associations with the Soviet Union."
themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/24/75-…
Crucial point: The main opposition in Russia is not a Yelstin-style neoliberal; it is the Communist Party, "who tend to believe that Russia has been too soft and weak on the West, which is why Western powers have become so comfortable with bullying Russia"
rt.com/russia/535302-…

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21 Sep
At the UN, President Biden blatantly lied, claiming, "For the first time in 20 years, the US is not at war."

FALSE. The Biden admin has bombed Syria, Iraq, Somalia, backing Saudi bombing of Yemen.

The US is militarily occupying Syria and Iraq, and waging economic war everywhere
In his UN speech, President Biden also singled out "Belarus, Burma [Myanmar], Syria, Cuba, Venezuela" -- all targets of US regime-change operations.

This was a clear threat. Washington aims to overthrow all of those countries' independent governments, through hybrid warfare.
At the UN, Biden deified the imperialist NATO military cartel (which destroyed Yugoslavia and Libya, and supported ex-Nazis and fascists in Operation Gladio) as "sacred."

He then emphasized NATO Article 5 on "collective defense," which is an indirect threat to *war with Russia*
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12 Sep
In addition to being the anniversary of the CIA coup in Chile, 9/11 is also the anniversary of the 2012 attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which was being used by the CIA to funnel weapons to al-Qaeda-allied Salafi-jihadist "rebels" in Syria
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…
The CIA rat line in Benghazi "was used to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida"
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/…
The CIA ratline sending weapons from Benghazi, Libya to al-Qaeda-allied Salafi-jihadists in Syria was funded by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, and supported by Britain's MI6.

They used front companies in Libya, under cover of Australian entities. It was led by David Petraeus. ImageImage
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4 Sep
If you want to know why Western governments and their mouthpieces in the media are freaking out so much over US-NATO losing in Afghanistan, this explains it:

The new Taliban government is going to join China's Belt & Road and help build the new silk road
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
A main goal of the 20-year US-NATO occupation of Afghanistan (aside from exploiting its minerals & poppies and building military bases next to Iran) was to try to halt China's rise by putting a US puppet regime in the middle of its planned new silk road

That obstacle is now gone
This is a big deal: A spokesperson for the new Taliban-led interim government said "China is our most important partner and represents a fundamental and extraordinary opportunity for us, because it is ready to invest [in] and rebuild our country."

He also praised the Belt & Road
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18 Aug
I'm hosting a show on the new independent streaming platform @theRokfin, which unlike Big Tech giants doesn't censor alternative media.

This August 19 I'll be doing a livestream to discuss Afghanistan war profiteering and how the CIA created the Taliban: rokfin.com/stream/8332/Ho…
This August 19 I'm also doing a livestream with @MaxBlumenthal discussing the Afghanistan pullout, CIA ratline, pipeline conflict, and new cold war.

Starts at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT / 1800 UTC.

It'll be both on @TheGrayzoneNews YouTube channel and on Rokfin: rokfin.com/stream/8334/In…
"The 'loss' of Afghanistan should be interpreted as a repositioning. It fits the new geopolitical configuration, where the Pentagon’s top mission is not the 'war on terror' but to try to isolate Russia & harass China on the expansion of the New Silk Roads" asiatimes.com/2021/08/the-is…
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15 Aug
The US is to blame, not just Afghan "corruption." The US created a puppet regime with no popular support.

And you "forgot" to mention the *hundreds of thousands of Afghans killed* in this imperial war, not to mention the mineral wealth stolen by corporations & CIA opium pipeline
Stop with this chauvinist "all we got for $2 trillion & thousands of American lives" BS. Afghanistan is not a US colony. It's not some corporate investment.

And the US empire and foreign corporations pillaged Afghanistan for its $1 trillion in minerals
occrp.org/en/investigati…
The endemic corruption in Afghanistan was built into the structure of the neoliberal puppet regime that the US gov't created to enrich itself and US officials.

It's the US that is responsible. Stop with these arrogant colonial tropes about corrupt Afghans
occrp.org/en/investigati…
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15 Aug
Nicaragua's Sandinista government issued one of the most fiery statements I've ever seen, condemning the US client regime in Costa Rica for meddling in its affairs, stressing "Nicaragua is sovereign, and it's not and will never again be a colony of anyone"
el19digital.com/articulos/ver/…
Nicaragua condemned Costa Rica's US client regime for mimicking "pretentious airs of expired [colonial] Europe, which also looks down on them"

It said Costa Rica should treat its own workers better, where "everything is a lie and everything is for sale, including human dignity"
Nicaragua: "If there is something more unreal, fake, fantastical, fictional, it's the supposed policy of the 'Switzerland' of Central America (Costa Rica), which in real life carries out racism and extremism, abusing Nicaraguan migrants and workers, who they mistreat and enslave"
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