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17 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Russia and China are developing an alternative to the US-controlled global financial system, to weaken US sanctions

This will "deter the threat of the US government's long-arm jurisdiction based on the US dollar-denominated international payment network"
globaltimes.cn/page/202112/12…
The increasing political and economic integration of China and Russia into a Eurasian bloc is a huge historical watershed moment:

President Xi Jinping just met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a virtual summit, ***for the 37th time since 2013***
globaltimes.cn/page/202112/12…
China and Russia signed a roadmap for closer military ties, pointing to the increasingly frequent US strategic bomber flights near both countries’ borders

The more Washington threatens Beijing and Moscow, the more they unite
abcnews.go.com/International/…
In November, “during the U.S. Global Thunder strategic force exercise, 10 strategic bombers practiced the scenario of using nuclear weapons against Russia practically simultaneously from the" west and east, as close as 20 kilometers from Russia's borders
abcnews.go.com/International/…

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15 Dec
To try to compete with China, which is building high-quality infrastructure, the USA announced its plan to supposedly "help" Central America:

$1.2 billion of investment by exploitative US corporations like Pepsi, Cargill, Parkdale Mills, Microsoft, etc. infobae.com/america/eeuu/2…
If you want to know why countries are partnering with China, it's not because of coercion; it's because Beijing doesn't meddle in their affairs and builds top-notch infrastructure, while the US forces them to impose neoliberal policies and sends in its corporation to exploit them
China: We will build world-class infrastructure in your country and won't impose conditions or meddle

USA: You need to cut wages, slash social spending, and privatize your resources, and we'll tell our corporations to "invest" (ie, exploit your people)

It really is that simple
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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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2 Dec
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
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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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