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30 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This time of year is brutal on my mental health.

I don't open up much here but I've dealt with mental health issues all my life, and it's generational in my family.

Tbh trying to build an income through my journalism has not helped. Patreon is an immense amount of work...
And given the economic situation people leave frequently. Understandable. But I still grind on as I believe the work I do is a critical intervention in US Left politics and deserves to be supported...
So on this #GivingTuesday2021 consider subscribing to my Patreon and supporting independent journalism and analysis from a socialist and anti-imperialist perspective. Salute.
Patreon.com/dannyhaiphong

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1 Dec
Thread: China, Cuba, Vietnam, the DPRK, and Laos have more democratic political systems than the United States.

Each model possesses multiple channels for political participation with a strong centralized authority accountable to the people.
Thats why material conditions for majorities have improved in each country. These governments are not beholden to foreign imperialists or the dictates of private capital.

Central planning, communist party leadership and mass political engagement keep socialism thriving.
US and other capitalist countries abhor socialist democracy for obvious reasons. Capitalist democracies are dictatorships of capital.

Elections serve the interests of capital first and foremost, legitimizing oppression and exploitation under the guise of political plurality.
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1 Nov
There are many kinds of nationalism.

Revolutionary nationalism is championed by oppressed nations in the fight for liberation against the oppressor nation.

Reactionary nationalism is championed by imperialist oppressor nations to justify plunder, empire, and colonialism.
The struggle between the two often yields many variants of nationalism on both ends.

Example: Black nationalism is the one of the most revolutionary forms that emerged in the United States.

But as Huey Newton and others explained, Black nationalism is not monolithic.
He identified a "pork chop" bourgeois nationalism of the US organization that focused on culture and pride at the expense of rather than in congruence with the struggle for material liberation from racism and oppression.
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30 Oct
I hate self promotion. But I'm relying on my journalism for income. This allows me to spend more time bringing you the anti-imperialist and socialist analysis you've come to expect.

If you support my work via Patreon, here's what you can expect: patreon.com/dannyhaiphong
Weekly articles published in a variety of outlets but primarily Black Agenda Report and CGTN. My last article in CGTN analyzes the US's presumption of holding a monopoly over "democracy" news.cgtn.com/news/2021-10-2…
I also make audio recordings of published articles. The latest is on my piece analyzing what the US's effort to kill Julian Assange says about the American psyche.
patreon.com/posts/audio-fr…
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13 Oct
The CIA's brief history of targeting China: A thread.

After supporting KMT against revolution, CIA created Radio Free Asia in 1951 to penetrate China with its worldwide propaganda network Board of Broadcasting Governors (now US Agency for Global Media).
The effort failed dramatically when CIA tried air dropping radios via balloons.

Radios were taken by wind. Chinese couldn't use them anyway due to history of semi-colonial underdevelopment. Electricity was still a rarity.
Remember the context: CIA's main role during this period was to stop spread of socialism at all costs. CIA was involved in more than fifty interventions between 1945-1991 alone.
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13 Oct
One...more...week.

In one week, I'll be leaving full-time work to spend more time on anti-imperialist independent media and analysis.

I'll need a bit of help. I've achieved 96 percent of my $$ goal to make the transition sustainable. Here's how you can help me complete it.
I publish weekly and host a YouTube podcast. You can support this work on Patreon in the link in the bio.

On Patreon, I provide public audio recordings of articles. Subscribers get early access to work and first communication on announcements and content...
I plan on relaunching my program, the internationalist transmission, to discuss imperialism and its connections to domestic and global policy. More specifically, I plan on centering solidarity and have on with guests who embody this principle...
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Racism is not just about hate. Racism is about exploitation, it's about oppression, and it's about war.

Racism is a key element of privatization and the Race to the Bottom. It is an economic policy just as much as it is an ideological framework.
Racism prevents universal social policies such as Medicare for All by creating undeserving and deserving poor people.

Class struggle is the weakest in the United States because capitalism here is not organized along class lines alone. Racism is a material problem.
There are material differences between how white workers live in the aggregate and Black workers. The same goes for Mexican workers and indigenous workers, not to mention the workers of the world targeted by imperialism.
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