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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The CIA knows some of its agents are pedophiles and has been protecting them

This is unfortunately unsurprising considering billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was a US intelligence asset

US spy agencies are state-run organized crime rackets buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
The capitalist system is built on organized crime, from drug trafficking to human trafficking

The US is the heart of that system. From its drug rings in the Golden Triangle & Central America to this, Capitalism's Invisible Army (CIA) keeps capital flowing
The CIA financed its fascist terrorist war on Nicaragua's socialist Sandinista gov't in the 1980s by selling cocaine from Colombia to gangs in LA

Journalist Gary Webb exposed this scandal, so he was pushed out of the media. The US gov't destroyed his life
ips-dc.org/the_cia_contra…

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2 Dec
This case of a small city in California seceding is just the beginning. The USA is an extremely unstable country, with enormous, irreconcilable internal contradictions.

It's only a matter of time until the US empire's balkanization policies come home
vice.com/en/article/y3v…
The idea of the USA as an unchanging bloc of 50 states from Atlantic to Pacific is very new, historically, and it will change.

As a genocidal settler-colonial project, the US constantly expanded, stealing half of Mexico in 1848, colonizing Hawaii and making it a state in 1959.
The kind of separatist campaigns the US empire has constantly promoted abroad to balkanize countries -- like in Yugoslavia, the USSR and then Russian Federation (Chechnya), China (Tibet and Xinjiang), etc. -- will eventually come home.

The empire's crimes abroad always come home
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29 Nov
An exit poll shows candidate Xiomara Castro of the leftist Libre Party winning the presidential election in Honduras today, with 11% more than the candidate of the right-wing National Party (the party of the US-backed coup regime)
Preliminary results from Honduras' National Electoral Council show leftist candidate Xiomara Castro winning by nearly 20%

There's still a lot left to count though, so now is time to be vigilant, because the US-backed coup regime stole the last 3 elections
Honduras' leftist presidential candidate Xiomara Castro is consistently leading by 19.4% in the official results from the National Electoral Council

(Although this is with only 38% of the vote counted, so there's a long way to go, and the regime may try to steal it again)
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28 Nov
Today Honduras has very important elections. Ever since a US-sponsored military coup in 2009, it has been run by a right-wing narco-dictatorship, which stole past elections.

But left-wing candidate Xiomara Castro and her Libre Party are leading in polls thegrayzone.com/2019/10/24/hon…
A poll last month showed the left-wing candidate in Honduras' election today, Xiomara Castro, leading by a whopping 17%

She had 38% support, against 21% for right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura, of the corrupt National Party of US-backed narco-president JOH
es.euronews.com/2021/10/28/pol…
Honduras hosts the largest US military base in Latin America

In the 1980s the US used this base to wage the Contra terror war on Nicaragua

After the 2009 right-wing coup (backed by the Obama-Biden admin), Honduras became a key US proxy to attack the left
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/20/max…
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24 Nov
More ridiculous fake news about North Korea. What's the "source"? You guessed it: Radio Free Asia, a US government propaganda weapon created by the CIA

Corporate media standards in reporting on the DPRK are nonexistent. They just make up nonsense and stenographers regurgitate it Image
Remember when major media outlets spread fake news claiming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had died? Yeah, that was just last year.

The lie originated with a website funded by the US government’s regime-change arm the NED, like most of these fake stories
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/04/fak…
Even the New York Times has admitted that Radio Free Asia is part of a "worldwide propaganda network built by the CIA"
nytimes.com/1977/12/26/arc…
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24 Nov
Venezuela's socialist party won regional elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas

So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote—while reaffirming support for unelected coup puppet Juan Guaidó
thegrayzone.com/2021/11/23/ven…
The US supported negotiations in Mexico leading to Venezuela's opposition participating in elections

But because the socialists won, USA moved the goal posts and claimed it was rigged beforehand

USA will never accept Venezuela's election results until its right-wing puppets win
The hypocrisy is mind-blowing: The US government claims it supports "democracy" while rejecting Venezuela's free and fair elections (monitored by the EU), and simultaneously reaffirming support for coup leader Juan Guaidó, who has not received a single vote to be fake "president"
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22 Nov
Venezuela's ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) won in a landslide in today's mega-elections, winning 20 of the 23 states.

The USA tried to crush the will of the Venezuelan people, suffocating them with a murderous blockade and brutal hybrid war. But Chavismo is alive and well!
The US-backed right-wing opposition participated in Venezuela's mega-elections today, after boycotting recent votes... and they were crushed.

The socialist alliance won 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas.

#ArrasoElChavismo is trending, meaning: Chavismo won in a landslide
After competing in Venezuela's elections today and losing badly, it's likely the US-sponsored right-wing opposition will return to trying to delegitimize the elections, boycotting future ones, because they can't win them—while seeking more US intervention
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