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26 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
The coup-plotting criminals and murderers who run the CIA discussed plans to kill journalist Julian Assange when he was trapped in Ecuador's embassy in London

Discussions of kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump admin news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…
Former CIA Director turned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the murderous campaign against Julian Assange

"WikiLeaks was [his] complete obsession." He told the CIA "nothing's off limits"

This is important because Pompeo will likely be a major Republican presidential candidate ImageImageImageImage
The assassins at the CIA not only discussed plans to murder journalist Julian Assange, but also "other Europe-based @wikileaks members."

Conclusion: if you create a media outlet that exposes war crimes, the CIA may make plans to kill you Image
The CIA and top US officials discussed plans to criminalize journalism that exposes US war crimes by redefining WikiLeaks and other journalists as "information brokers," so the US could spy on, prosecute, and imprison them

Their targets included Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras Image
In addition to discussing ways to murder Assange, the CIA plotted ways to destroy WikiLeaks by "paralyzing its digital infrastructure, disrupting its communications, provoking internal disputes within the organization by planting damaging info"

It decided to "sow discord" inside ImageImage

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28 Sep
At the UN, Nicaragua said the pandemic exposes "the irrational & oppressive system of capitalist exploitation"

Rich imperialist countries hoard vaccines while building more weapons. "It's part of the heartless creation of savage capitalism, an insatiable desire for accumulation"
Nicaragua condemned the constant US meddling in its internal affairs, noting that the imperial attacks hinder its fight against poverty, "which is the world's cruelest pandemic."

"It is not the US empire that elects the government of Nicaragua; it is the Nicaraguan people."
At the UN, Nicaragua condemned the illegal, "savage" sanctions the US and EU have imposed worldwide.

"In times of pandemic, these measures become a crime against humanity."

Nicaragua reaffirmed "our solidarity with the more than 2 billion people who suffer from these sanctions"
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27 Sep
At the UN, Syria condemned the US for taking "advantage of the pandemic to scale up their unilateral coercive economic measures against those countries and people who differ with them, despite the catastrophic humanitarian impact of such measures"
The UN's top expert on unilateral coercive measures warned that US/EU “sanctions are bringing suffering and death in countries like Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen”

US sanctions are "killing people and depriving them of fundamental rights"
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Referencing the US and Turkish military occupations of its territory, Syria stressed "any foreign presence on Syrian soil without the consent of the Syrian government is illegal, and constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and the UN charter"
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24 Sep
Peru's new leftist President Pedro Castillo used his first ever speech at the United Nations to call for a "social transformation" that guarantees not just civil and political rights, but also economic and social rights to healthcare, education, housing, and dignified work
At the UN, Peru's President Castillo insisted "health, education, water, and sanitation cannot be for-profit business. They are fundamental human rights that we must guarantee"

He also emphasized the need to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and reduce poverty and inequality
Notably, Peru's President Castillo clearly avoided international affairs in the UN speech, and did not comment on any conflicts in Latin America.

His government’s foreign policy has been inconsistent, and his anti-imperialist foreign minister was forced by the military to resign
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23 Sep
At the UN, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced US imperialism, which "threatens, extorts and pressures sovereign states," demanding its "allies" help "overthrow legitimate governments"

He noted murderous sanctions have "become the central instrument of US foreign policy"
Cuba's president condemned the Biden admin. for continuing Trump's same criminal policies, waging an "unconventional war," with millions of dollars, "through campaigns of manipulation and lies."

The US goal is "to erase the Cuban Revolution."

"They do not accept alternatives."
"For more than 60 years, the US government has not for one minute stopped its attacks against Cuba."

At the UN, Cuban President Díaz-Canel condemns the United States for tightening its murderous blockade "in such a criminal and opportunist way, in the middle of the pandemic."
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22 Sep
Ante la ONU, el Presidente Constitucional de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro pide la construcción de un nuevo "mundo sin imperialismo... sin hegemón dominante".

Quiere un "mundo multipolar, pluricéntrico", según "la doctrina del Movimiento de Países No Alineados, la doctrina sur-sur".
En la ONU, el Presidente Maduro denunció "la campaña feroz contra nuestro país, que se desata desde las élites que han gobernado los EEUU", las "sanciones crueles" y la agresión "contra el derecho a comprar lo que necesita nuestro país y contra el derecho a vender lo que" produce
El Presidente Maduro dijo: "Es una persecución financiera, monetaria, comercial, económica, energética, sistemática, cruel y criminal" por EEUU

Venezuela es "un país sometido a un bloqueo infernal, a una persecución criminal y a una tortura cruel, a su cuerpo económico y social"
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22 Sep
I reported on the historic summit of CELAC, the Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States, hosted in Mexico

It was an important step away from US neocolonial proxy the OAS by strengthening regional integration, although there are contradictions
english.almayadeen.net/articles/analy…
The presidents of Venezuela and Cuba attended the historic CELAC summit in Mexico, defying US coup attempts.

CELAC demanded an end to the criminal 60-year US blockade of Cuba.

In a very impressive step, CELAC also called for decolonization of Puerto Rico
english.almayadeen.net/articles/analy…
Venezuelan President Maduro stressed that the difference between CELAC and the OAS is the difference between Bolivarianism and Monroeism — that is, between Latin American independence and regional unity on one side, or US neocolonialism on the other
english.almayadeen.net/articles/analy…
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