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Mar 13 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
There is certainly no justification for this abomination of a @guardian article on the #ukrianerussiawar

No wonder the "west" is going apeshit with censorship.
"Journalism" like his literally puts the entire world at risk

Some counterpoints follow
Yes there was a western backed coup in #Ukrain in 2014.

The power exerted by Nazis in #Ukriane is not reflected in dismal electoral performance. Only 3 months ago Ukriane stood alone at the UN with the US voting down a resolution glorifying Nazis

here is the resolution
documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/…
The proxy war the "west" has been waging thru #Ukraine could hardly be more obvious.

As former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who has also worked extensively in Russia just put it

I pointed to a revealing video that drives home Ritter's point
Another painfully revealing video clip (from 2020) that @aaronjmate pointed out

This war was clearly provoked by "west's" (US & its vassals sometimes called NATO) effortd to wage a proxy war on #Russia through NATO. It brought a civil a war to Russia's door step along with a Nazi-infested government in #Ukraine
Hence the censorship

Does any of that mean that #Russia's invasion was justified cuz it was a response to years of western provcation? No. It doesn't.

But the US & its vassals have become very accustomed to terrorizing states with no other options other than legal ones to western aggression. Why?
Because the US and its accomplices are never held accountable for their crimes. That level of impunity clearly played into Russia's calcualtion that force is all the West understands. And the threat ofWWIII clearly wont change the behavior of western media

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Feb 20
It's hard not to fall into complacency about the depravity of all western institutions. They faunt it so relentlesly
And again
As @caitoz said “ One of the main things I do here is try to help articulate the scope of the horrors of the empire. Because we're in it, and it's so aggressively normalized by the mass media, it becomes easy to overlook, like water for a fish”
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Russell was my 1rst intellectual hero many decades ago, but today I see a western imperial bias in him that I didn't back then. For example, in his summary of Hegel, Russell caually asserts that the USA was a "society without extreme poverty"
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Not clear if Russell referred only to 1946 (when History of Western Philosophy came out, but it was an absurd thing to say even if referring only to that year, never mind any period before that in US history. And he says this as he bashes Hegel (justly) forGerman state worship
That said, I believe Russell saying that the theoretical underpinnings of Hegel's philosophy - as far as nature of truth/reality go - was based on faulty logic. But that's not same thing as Hegel's theory of history, which cld be useful even if theoretical foundations were shaky
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Feb 19
In #Ecuador the rightwing Lasso government has used police to ram through changes to the CPPCS (a body that overseas selection process for judical council, auditor general & prosecutors etc..)

Here is some brief background on that. The sad story begins in May of 2017

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A key target of Moreno was immediately the CPCCS
In 2018, Moreno handpicked a "transitory" CPCCS that was supposed to step aside for an elected one. BUt the trasitory CPCCS (CPCCS-T) was grossly illegal. It was put together illegaly and then behaved even more illegally & tyranically once convened.
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Quotes from Domenico Losurdo's book "STALIN: THE HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF A BLACK LEGEND" will be placed in this thread - along with comments on it
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Losurdo's refutation in Chpt 1 is absolutely devastating
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Dec 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu deserves to be remembered for the things he got right, but also for things he got badly wrong. I elaborated on some in a piece I wrote in 2015

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4) To speed up & populaize the us e of electionic money Ecuador should have made use of Nano lending ("which is basically to lend a citizen 30 bucks or 50 bucks or 100 bucks with an indefinite term to pay back, which can be 10 years, 30 years, 50 years")
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