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What a coincidence that there are zero US politicians included in the "Pandora Papers" list of offshore bank accounts. I guess they're all pure and free from corruption!

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that the so-called "leak" was likely a hack by US spy agencies
The group behind the Pandora Papers, ICIJ, which left out all US politicians, is funded by:
-CIA front Ford Foundation
-NATO member Norway
-Open Society of billionaire Soros, longtime CIA asset
-Big Tech oligarch Omidyar, close ally of US regime-change ops

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The "journalists" in Nicaragua that billionaire-funded @ICIJorg worked with on the Pandora Papers are all US govt-funded anti-Sandinista activists

Carlos Fernando Chamorro is from the richest oligarch family. His right-wing propaganda rag Confidencial is funded by the CIA's NED
For the Pandora Papers, ICIJ worked with a huge team of 16 opposition activists in Venezuela, all of them anti-government.

ICIJ's Venezuelan partner is Armando.info, a right-wing anti-Chavista website funded by the US NED and CIA-linked billionaires Soros and Omidyar
The goal of these right-wing opposition activists was to show how Venezuela found ways to get around illegal US sanctions, and portray that as "corruption"

That's not journalism; it's US govt-sponsored information warfare to justify a murderous blockade
This is the latest in the US disinfo war on Venezuela. US mouthpieces absurdly claimed imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab "looted billions," when he was trying to circumvent US sanctions to buy FOOD for Venezuelans

The message? Evading illegal US sanctions = "corruption"
The growing number of hack-and-dump ops (likely by the CIA or other spy agencies) is part of the US empire's increasing use of lawfare.

US imperialists realized they can use "anti-corruption" as cover for destabilization campaigns, like they did in Brazil
There are ZERO US politicians in the Pandora Papers, but there are 1200 Venezuelans: diariolasamericas.com/america-latina…

What a coincidence! ICIJ had an enormous team of nearly 100 US-based journalists, but couldn't find any corrupt US politicians. I guess only foreign countries are corrupt
No major US assets were hurt by the Pandora Papers. Yes, a few minor US allies were thrown in to maintain a veneer of impartiality, such as Chile's Piñera (who is on his way out of power soon) and Ecuador's Lasso, but his corruption and use of offshores was already publicly known
Lawfare has become a central tool in US imperial machinations, especially for Democrats.

The Obama admin oversaw the lawfare op to overthrow Brazil's Workers' Party. And the Biden admin, with its bogus "rules-based order" rhetoric, is weaponizing it too
brasilwire.com/white-house-ad…
Even establishment DC think tank Brookings acknowledged back in 2016, when the Panama Papers were published by the ICIJ -- the same group behind the Pandora Papers -- that the so-called "leak" (read: hack) was likely part of Western (read: US) information warfare targeting Russia
One of the main groups behind both the Pandora Papers & Panama Papers is top @ICIJorg partner @OCCRP

OCCRP is funded by
-US State Dept
-USAID
-NED
-EU
-UK
-Sweden
-Denmark
-billionaire Soros
-billionaire Omidyar
-Ford Foundation (CIA front)
-Rockefeller Brothers Fund (CIA front)
Here is actual whistleblowing journalism website WikiLeaks pointing out in 2016 that ICIJ, which published the Panama Papers and now the Pandora Papers, partners closely with US govt-funded orgs and CIA cutouts to wage information warfare against Russia
Further confirming my point that the US gov't increasingly uses "anti-corruption" efforts as a weapon of lawfare, here is NATO's de facto think tank the Atlantic Council admitting this openly, saying the Biden admin should use it to attack Russia and China
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

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