By aiding the 🇮🇱 slaughter in Gaza, Joe Biden has been accused of participating in war crimes.
But "Genocide Joe" is far from the 1st president to have done so
In this thread, I will show how successive presidents have perpetrated war crimes & crimes against humanity
1. Joe Biden
Apart from directly funding and facilitating the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Biden:
+ Strongly supported the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, helping push through conflicts that would go on to kill millions of people, according to a study from Brown University - watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…
+ Biden was also the architect of "Plan Colombia" - the militarization of the drug war in Latin America, whereby the US sent vast amounts of money and military hardware to the far-right Colombian government, who used it to fight a bitter counter-insurgency war against leftist guerillas under the guise of eradicating drugs. The United Nations estimates that 7.4 million Colombians were internally displaced in this war, which few in the US have even heard about. mintpressnews.com/mass-incarcera…
2. Donald Trump
Some of Trump's worst actions included:
+ Removing the US from global anti-nuclear weapons treaties.
+ Supporting a Saudi-led genocide in Yemen, supplying arms and political support to the government in Riyadh.
+ Dropping "The Mother of All Bombs" on Afghanistan - the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat.
+ Ramping up illegal sanctions against Cuba 🇨🇺, Venezuela 🇻🇪, Iran 🇮🇷 and many other countries.
3. Barack Obama
Obama rapidly expanded the US drone program. He also led a successful regime change attempt against Colonel Gaddafi in Libya 🇱🇾, turning Africa's most prosperous nation into an open-air slave market.
The 44th president spent more than a billion dollars on a regime change operation against the government of Syria 🇸🇾, which included training an army of Jihadists and supporting Al-Qaeda.
By the time he left office, the US was bombing seven nations simultaneously: Iraq 🇮🇶, Syria 🇸🇾, Pakistan 🇵🇰, Libya 🇱🇾, Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Yemen 🇾🇪 and Somalia 🇸🇴.
4. George W. Bush
President Bush launched the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, lied the United States into invading Iraq, oversaw a massive global torture program, and implemented the beginnings of the surveillance state we know today.
5. Bill Clinton
As president, Bill Clinton:
+ Ramped up deadly sanctions against Iraq, killing an estimated 1 million people, including half a million children under five.
+ Bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan 🇸🇩, causing a huge shortage of medicines that led to tens of thousands of deaths across the country.
+ Bombed Yugoslavia under false pretenses.
6. George H. W. Bush
The elder Bush was CIA director during the "Dirty Wars" in Central America, whereby the US government funded, trained and armed far-right death squads across the region, who killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people.
He also oversaw the first Gulf War and invaded Panama 🇵🇦, deposing President Noriega in the process. Bush's excuse was that Noriega was wanted to stand trial for drug trafficking charges -- crimes Noriega committed while on the CIA payroll.
7. Ronald Reagan
While president, Reagan:
+ Supported fascist death squads in Nicaragua 🇳🇮 in an attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government.
+ Helped to implement a genocide of the Maya people in Guatemala 🇬🇹.
+ Helped Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons against both Iraqis and against Iran 🇮🇷.
In 1986, the International Court of Justice found Reagan guilty of what amounted to international terrorism.
8. Jimmy Carter
Carter is often remembered as among the least violent US presidents. Yet he still:
+ Armed and supported an Indonesian genocide against East Timor 🇹🇱 that killed around 250,000 people.
+ Supported fascist military dictatorships across Latin America.
+ Defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 🇰🇭.
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And check out my latest article, where I uncovered a network of (ex-)Israeli spies working in top US media outlets, including the New York Times and CNN.
In 2018, Facebook announced a deal with the Atlantic Council, which would give the latter significant influence over the world's news feeds, controlling what billions see -- and what they don't see.
The Atlantic Council is a Pentagon-funded think tank with no fewer than 7 former CIA directors on its board. It was founded as a NATO offshoot project, is staffed by NATO generals, and acts as the military alliance's brain.
In other words, giving the Atlantic Council control over 3 billion people's newsfeeds is a half-step away from state censorship, but on a global level.
Even more worryingly, Facebook is absolutely teeming with US spies.
My research has uncovered dozens of former national security state agents working in key positions in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, and Security.
Here, in this official Meta (Facebook) video, a guy called "Aaron" is identified as the company's face of content regulation.
You'd never guess from this video that Aaron is a CIA agent.
Football legend Diego Maradona showing his Fidel Castro tattoo to Castro himself (2001).
A poor boy from the slums of Buenos Aires, Maradona grew up to become a sporting legend.
Despite his riches, he remained a revolutionary socialist throughout his life; one who described Castro as a "father," and said that he "hated the United States with all my strength".
He also supported liberation struggles around the world. "In my heart I am Palestinian," Maradona said
Maradona with his Che Guevara tattoo.
Maradona with socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sporting a "Stop Bush" t-shirt.
He considered the US to be the center of capitalism and imperialism. "I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength," he said.
Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world.
In March, Trump carried out 14 separate attacks against the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble.
The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital, Sanaa, for therapy.
The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”
“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.
These images give a taste of what repeated US bombardment did to it.
Syria 🇸🇾
In 2017, on Trump's orders, US forces repeatedly bombed the National Hospital in Raqqa, Syria, carrying out 20 separate attacks against the building, including using white phosphorous munitions.
A highly controversial and widely-banned weapon, white phosphorous instantly ignites upon contact with oxygen, sticks to clothes and skin, and burns at an extremely high temperature. It cannot be extinguished by water, leaving those affected to suffer excruciating – and deadly – injuries.
At least 30 civilians were killed, some likely due to the effects of the white phosphorous, which causes respiratory damage and organ failure.
Thread🧵 In light of Iran's allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it's important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes.
Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200.
Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board - a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed.
Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.
Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science.
Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain.