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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Ukraine's authoritarian US client regime is arresting all challengers to NATO-backed dictatorial President Zelensky.

After locking up the main opposition leader and closing critical media, he now even seeks to arrest former US puppet President Poroshenko
aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/2…
The claim Ukraine's ex President Petro Poroshenko conspired with Russia is hilariously absurd.

The billionaire chocolate oligarch was a loyal NATO puppet who came to power after a US-backed 2014 coup.

But Ukraine's regime arrests anyone it wants by accusing them of Kremlin ties
Ukraine's autocracy is one of the most cartoonishly corrupt regimes on Earth, which absorbed armed Nazi gangs into its national guard.

Yet while he arrests all of his rivals, President Zelensky proudly spoke at the US govt's bogus "Summit for Democracy"
president.gov.ua/en/news/odnim-…
Ukraine's billionaire oligarch turned post-coup President Poroshenko was one of Washington's most loyal puppets

He gave awards to neocon John McCain & was a friend of John Bolton

But he outlived his usefulness, so the new US client regime seeks to arrest him

Never trust the US

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25 Dec
Fake news. The study shows the opposite:

It only analyzed people who *tested positive for Covid-19* (and you're much less likely to test positive if vaxxed)

It shows that if you're vaccinated & test positive, it's more likely to be Omicron than Delta (which is good—it's milder)
This is fake news. But we see the same problem, where right-wing pundits with bad reading comprehension skills and no scientific literacy misrepresent studies they don't understand.

The study shows the opposite: vaccination makes Covid milder. That's good
The ONS study only looks at people who test positive for Covid, the majority of whom are unvaccinated, only a minority vaccinated

And it shows that unvaxxed and positive are more likely to have Delta (more dangerous), whereas vaxxed and positive more likely have Omicron (milder)
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22 Dec
Right-wing US corporate lobby group AS/COA, which is funded by most major US corporations, is not at all scared of Chile's new liberal President-elect Gabriel Boric

It praises him for demonizing Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and says he's a safe moderate
americasquarterly.org/article/what-i…
Right-wing corporate lobby group @ASCOA is funded by this Who's Who of US corporations

It reassured them that Chile's new President-elect Boric is not a threat. He promises "fiscal responsibility," won't redistribute wealth, and emphasizes “dialogue” and “consensus” (like Obama)
It's historic that the Chilean people voted overwhelmingly against a far-right candidate who represented Pinochet's legacy, but don't let this blind you to the fact that millennial liberal Gabriel Boric is far from being some kind of leftist revolutionary
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17 Dec
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/…
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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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