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Alan MacLeod

Oct 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

@MintPressNews

[Thread] Signs are pointing towards Belarus 🇧🇾 being the number 1 target of Western regime change activities right now.

My new investigation for @MintPressNews.

mintpressnews.com/us-writes-bela…

Last month, at the UN, Joe Biden put Belarus number one on the list of states in desperate need of regime change.

“We are committed to support the long-suppressed democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and we stand together to impose costs on the regime for its blatant disregard of international commitments,” the Biden administration wrote, as they announced new sanctions.

The Biden administration has already essentially crowned opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as the new leader of Belarus.

The problem is that she lacks public support. A NATO-funded survey found that only 4% of 🇧🇾 want her to be president.

chathamhouse.org/sites/default/…

In this sense, Tsikhanouskaya appears to be a Belarusian Juan Guaidó; lacking a domestic support base but backed by Washington.

Tsikhanouskaya describes Guaidó as "inspiring." Meanwhile, Guaidó fans in Miami fly the Belarusian opposition's flag in solidarity at their demos.

Also worrying is that she sees "parralels" between what she wants to do and the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, an event which brought the far-right to power there and tripped off a major war scare.

Also on Ukraine, Roman Protasevich, the journalist Belarus downed an plane to arrest, was a member of the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, a group who did the heavy lifting during Maidan.

Completely unreported was that he was arrested right after meeting with Tsikhanouskaya in Greece.

CIA cutout organization, the NED, is currently overseeing 40 separate projects in Belarus.

These mostly revolve around training pro-US activists, funding anti-government media and bankrolling election monitoring organizations.

ned.org/region/central…

@CovertActionMag

For more on this, see this article in @CovertActionMag by @KitKlarenberg

covertactionmagazine.com/2021/06/14/how…

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Its goal is regime change, and it is being led by liberal outlets like the Guardian.

In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, so you can understand how they pass propaganda off as reporting.

What is the "evidence" of electoral fraud the Guardian presents?

Oh, it is an "analysis" carried out by the opposition itself, as well as hearsay from sympatheirc academics.

Let's not inform readers that the opposition has pulled this trick in every election since 2000 (except the ones they won), where they cry fraud, and have never presented any credible evidence whatsoever.

Let's also not inform readers that there were actually nine opposition candidates running against Maduro, and that only Gonzalez refused to say he would accept the results.

That "number" is four countries -- all of them right-wing Latin American nations.

Even the United States 🇺🇸 has walked back its Gonzalez claims, the Biden Administration clarifying that it has NOT recognized Gonzalez as the victor.

Last time I checked last week, more than 40 countries had endorsed the elections and recognized Maduro -- over ten times as many nations as have recognized Gonzalez.

Yet, through verbal slight-of-hand, the Guardian is presenting Maduro as isolated, and the extremist, denialist position as mainstream.

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Israel: Yes, we are genociding them.

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Israel has many powerful backers in corporate media.

Among them is Rueprt Murdoch, the billionaire press baron.

My investigation found a network of links between Murdoch and the Israeli national security state.

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I spoke to dozens of US observers of the Venezuelan election, and they told me they saw nothing suspicious, and they reject the US govt's fraud narrative.

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Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

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[Thread] Western media's finest propagandists are pulling out all the stops, trying to delegitimize the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪.

In this thread, I'll dissect their tactics, line by line, using this BBC article as an example, so you can understand how they do it.

First sentence in, and they have already poisoned the well, directly asserting that Nicolas Maduro "controls" the election, and that the whole process is "carefully curated."

Second: They breathlessly repeat opposition claims of fraud, without informing readers that the opposition has claimed they have won literally every single election since 2000, have produced zero evidence for this, and have, every time, been proven to be lying.

Not telling readers this is a crime against journalism and tantamount to incitement.

This is absollutely ludicrous. There are plenty of opposition-aligned media here.

And the idea that a single person in Venezuela doesn't know that the opposition claims they won is ridiculous.

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[Thread] There is a coup d'etat attempt underway here in Venezuela 🇻🇪, fueled by tons of fake news.

In this thread, I'll debunk some of the most egregious and viral fake stories circulating.

Add your own in the replies.

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A viral video claims that leftist thieves are stealing ballot boxes.

In reality, these are aircon units.

Ballot boxes are small brown cardboard boxes, barely larger than a shoebox.

These giant appliances bear no resemblance to ballot boxes.

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This is what a ballot box in Venezuela actually looks like.

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I ran into the amazing @RaniaKhalek, who told me that the United States is trying to destroy the Venezuelan government, and is already crying fraud in the upcoming elections. 🇻🇪

"There is no comparison" between US and Venezuelan elections, @GloriaLaRiva, former presidential candidate for the @pslnational told me.

In Venezuela fraud is "not possible", while in the US, the Dems and Republicans are fighting to keep 3rd parties off the ballot.

@GloriaLaRiva @pslnational The final pro-government rally was massive.

More than one million people poured I to central Caracas to hear President Maduro talk, sing and dance.

And then they partied for hours.