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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This coup-supporting right-wing US propagandist -- who spreads constant fake news demonizing Nicaragua, its people, and their elected Sandinista govt -- is now spouting anti-vax disinfo against the *more effective* Russian and Cuban vaccines

Shills like him worship the US empire
Over a million Nicaraguans have gotten vaccinated, with no problems. But a few hundred (mostly wealthy right-wing opposition supporters) traveled to Honduras to get US vaccines because they listen to coup-supporting propagandists like this & worship the US
The major Western medical journal Lancet acknowledged Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is safe and 92% effective. It's also effective the Delta variant.

But the US and its puppets around the world keep spreading anti-vax propaganda to score geopolitical points
thelancet.com/article/S0140-…
Despite Western vaccine hoarding and price-gouging, over 1.54 million Nicaraguans (53% of at-risk population, 24% of total population of 6.5M) have been vaccinated, and more by the week

A few hundred wealthy people going to Honduras for US vaccines is statistically insignificant

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29 Oct
Twitter's politically motivated censorship is again targeting Latin American leftists:

Influential Nicaraguan Sandinista supporters @ElCuervoNica and @FloryCantoX were suspended

This is the SECOND time the US government thought police at Twitter suspended @FloryCantoR's account
The US government thought police at Twitter hired a right-wing Mexican political operative to censor leftists in Latin America
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Twitter recently admitted its algorithm promotes right-wing politicians and media outlets in numerous countries
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23 Oct
My brother works in the film industry and is active in the union @IATSE, so I asked him about Alec Baldwin being given a loaded gun and accidentally killing director of photography (DP) Halyna Hutchins.

He explained that it's a result of union busting, scabs, and negligence
Hours before Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer, camera crew workers walked off the set to protest bad working conditions

They faced grueling hours, long commutes and lack of safety protocols

There were 3 prop gun misfires before
msn.com/en-us/movies/n…
Alec Baldwin accidentally shooting and killing his cinematographer was the tragic result of producers abusing their workers and not respecting safety protocols

Unionized workers walked off the set to protest dangerous conditions. So producers hired non-union, unexperienced scabs
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14 Oct
Peru's President Castillo had a falling out with his socialist Perú Libre party. It now refuses to give a vote of confidence to his new cabinet

It warns of "a clear political turn of the gov't and its cabinet toward the center-right," with neoliberal operatives funded by US NGOs
Peru's new President Pedro Castillo has been gradually moving to the right. Spain's state-backed media outlet EFE praised Castillo for "distancing himself from the [socialist] Perú Libre party and reinforcing the moderate wing of the government"
efe.com/efe/america/po…
Peru's President Castillo fired socialist Prime Minister Guido Bellido, and remade his cabinet with numerous centrists

This has led former supporters in the leftist Perú Libre party to accuse Castillo of "betrayal"

Just 3 months in, it's not looking good
france24.com/es/am%C3%A9ric…
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10 Oct
When Ecuador's socialist President Rafael Correa was in power, there was constant propaganda absurdly claiming he "trapped the nation in Chinese debt"

But in just 4 years of US-backed IMF-loving neoliberals in power, they hugely expanded the debt-to-GDP ratio from 26.6% to 68.9%
Under socialist President Correa, Ecuador built new high-tech infrastructure, rapidly developing the country with the help of China

The corrupt authoritarian right-wing US puppets in power in the past 4 years have DE-developed Ecuador, trapping it in IMF debt, robbing its assets
The US has turned Ecuador into the Latin American front lines of its new cold war on China.

Washington claimed it would "help" Ecuador pay off its debt to China, while in reality nearly tripling its debt in 4 years, but now with US debt instead of Chinese
asiatimes.com/2021/01/us-res…
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6 Oct
All this shows is propaganda works. The US is not a "democracy"; it's an authoritarian capitalist regime in which the billionaire-controlled media spreads disinformation to manufacture consent for US imperial aggression.

The US is the one provoking a war over Taiwan, not China
The US has been trying to provoke a war with China over Taiwan, by encouraging secessionists, selling them tons of weapons, constantly sending warships through

The US wants to turn Taiwan into a colony with a giant military base, like the US had (with nuclear weapons) until 1979
The US had a military base in Taiwan for over 20 years. From the 1950s until the 1970s the US stored nuclear weapons there, which were pointed at China

The warmongers in the US gov't even considered nuking the mainland to hold on to the imperial beachhead
cnn.com/2021/05/24/chi…
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3 Oct
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

Also works with Amazon
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
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