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Writer and editor for the World Socialist Web Site. We fight to end war & inequality by ending capitalism. Demonstrate in DC July 24: https://t.co/Q5grhU3AcG
Apr 11, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
There is a huge amount of noise on the issue of internet censorship that is drowning of the signal.

These are the facts.

In 2017/2018, the Democratic and Republican parties launched a campaign to censor the internet. This bipartisan campaign resurrected a term used by Hitler's Nazi party, "Lügenpresse," rebranding it as "fake news."

As Hillary Clinton write in her 2017 memoir, “WikiLeaks… helped accelerate the phenomenon that eventually came to be known as fake news.”
Mar 6, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
On Friday, Johns Hopkins will shut down its COVID-19 tracker.

This is the product of a systematic campaign launched one year ago by the Biden Administration aimed at "conditioning Americans" to live with COVID-19 by shutting down data reporting.

Do not be "conditioned." On February 4, 2022, we explained the White House's modus operandi:

"The motto is: Hear no deaths, see no deaths, speak no deaths. But people keep on dying."

We warned of "systematic campaign to end reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths."

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Mar 1, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
With the FBI declaring that it believes COVID-19 came from a lab leak , what is the actual evidence pointing to the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

Read this thread to find out 👇 The most consistent advocates of the Wuhan lab theory are @R_H_Ebright and @mattwridley.

@R_H_Ebright explained to me in 2022 that he does not know if COVID-19 was engineered or accidentally released, due to lack of "secure evidence."
Jan 29, 2023 14 tweets 6 min read
. @RaheemKassam, the fascist ideologue and an architect of the January 6 coup, is gloating about the fact that the White House and US media have embraced the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory, which he helped invent. 1/

. @RaheemKassam served as the co-host of the War Room: Pandemic podcast that was a nerve center of the January 6 insurrection. Before the January 6 committee heard Bannon's declaration that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow," the screen flashed to Kassam. 2/
Jan 27, 2023 12 tweets 6 min read
One year ago, The White House initiated a systematic, planned campaign to end daily COVID-19 case and death reporting, whose aim was to dull public awareness of COVID-19 in order to "condition Americans" to accept perpetual mass infection and death. 1/

The campaign began in early January with discussions between the CDC and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists of a directive to "would direct states to limit daily case reporting." 2/

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Oct 7, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
Biden has just said the world was on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.

How did things get to this point? A short primer👇 In March 2021, Ukraine's military and civilian leadership approved a plan for retaking Crimea by military means. Ukraine "will move forward in the deoccupation of Crimea," said the head of Ukraine's National Security Council. Image
Oct 3, 2022 33 tweets 11 min read
Stop the war in #Ukraine!

Not since October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, has the world come so close to nuclear war as today. 👇

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#Nuclear #Nuclearwar #Nuclearstrike #Crimea #UkraineWar #Russia #nowar #antiwar #worldwarIII

wsws.org/en/articles/20… It is not necessary to glorify the Stalinist leader Nikita Khrushchev, let alone the imperialist president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, to recognize that there is a glaring difference between the reaction to that crisis and the one gripping the world today.
Sep 30, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
Today, @mehringbooks has released the compilation of the World Socialist Web Site's reporting on year 1 of the #COVID19 pandemic.

Nowhere in the world is there any record like this. We were proven profoundly right on every fundamental point.

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mehring.com/product/covid-… In January 2020, we alerted the public:

“Evidence has emerged that person-to-person infection is occurring”

“The outbreak has exposed the enormous vulnerability of... society to new strains of infectious disease, dangers for which no... government has adequately prepared.

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Sep 15, 2022 21 tweets 4 min read
1/ On Tuesday, a group of former prime ministers, foreign ministers NATO countries published a document proposing a formal alliance between Ukraine and NATO countries tha , threatens to transform the proxy war in Ukraine into a full-scale conflict between NATO and Russia. 🧵 2/ The document, titled the "Kyiv Security Compact," was formally presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who endorsed it, called for its adoption and published it on the website of the Ukrainian presidency.
Sep 13, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
. @BusinessInsider @kelseyvlamis When is this article going to be corrected?

Its claims have been clearly superseded by the fact that all but four US states have ended daily COVID-19 reporting. Daily case/death reporting has de facto ended in the US. 1/

businessinsider.com/misleading-vir… As the WSWS explained, the end of HHS case and death reporting was the prelude to the states ending daily reporting, which is the means by which all daily federal reporting was ended. Our warnings have proven absolutely, undeniably correct. 2/

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Sep 12, 2022 44 tweets 7 min read
1/ Russia’s debacle in Kharkiv

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By all indications, Russia has suffered a catastrophic military defeat near Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine, located in the country’s northeast.
wsws.org/en/articles/20… 2/ In the course of six days, the Ukrainian military, armed and financed by the United States and NATO, has taken dozens of miles of territory. Image
Sep 7, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg writes that the alliance is "making the most fundamental shift in Nato’s deterrence and defence since the cold war."

It will cause "soaring energy prices and costs of living" + the "threat of energy cuts, disruptions and perhaps even civil unrest."(1) The "fundamental shift" described by Stoltenberg is outlined by the latest NATO strategy document, which calls on NATO to prepare “for high-intensity, multi-domain warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors.” This includes not only Russia, but also China. (2) Image
Jul 29, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
It's taboo in the media to say the economy is in #recession.

The reality is that Federal Reserve has deliberately triggered a recession, with the aim of increasing unemployment and lowering wages.

This is to counterbalance bank bailouts + war spending. 1/ Whenever @LHSummers opens his mouth, it's to rail against the supposed terrestrial paradise for workers created by government spending.

But combining Fed money printing + Cares act spending 9/10 of emergency money went to companies or the markets, not workers. 2/
Mar 25, 2022 19 tweets 7 min read
How the US prepared for World War III

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Seemingly overnight, the terms #worldwar3 and #NuclearWar are everywhere.

In reality, the US military has been expanding its #NuclearWeapons fight 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 for years.

This 🧵 is a 📰 recap of WSWS articles.

1/ 23 September 2014 - The Obama administration is planning to spend more than $1 trillion over the next three decades to significantly upgrade its nuclear weapons capability.

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Mar 25, 2022 23 tweets 6 min read
As the proxy war between NATO and Russia over Ukraine spirals out of control, the use of nuclear weapons that could kill hundreds of millions of people or more is being actively contemplated.

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wsws.org/en/articles/20… On Thursday, NATO held a summit without precedent. In total secrecy, with not only cameras and phones prohibited but even aides, the leaders of the Western powers met to plan out the unthinkable: A full-scale war between nuclear-armed states.

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Feb 5, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
. @11AliveNews
You say our claim that "US Government to end daily COVID death reporting" is false.
Because the CDC will continue to archive death stats, with a delay of days to weeks. But CDC reporting is not DAILY. It is at the frequency states report.1/
11alive.com/article/news/v… The majority of states do not report EVERY day; many report once per week, and are reducing frequency.

Say you hire me to shovel your driveway every day it snows. Last month I did it every day. I did it "daily." This month I do it once a week. I stopped doing it "daily."

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Feb 5, 2022 23 tweets 9 min read
The COVID-19 cover-up

🙉 no deaths, 🙈 no deaths, 🙊 no deaths

As 3000+ Americans die every single day, the Biden administration is carrying out a campaign to cover up the pandemic and accustom the population to mass death in perpetuity.

Please share this 🧵 1/ Every day for the past week, an average of 2,700 Americans have lost their lives to COVID-19.

✈️It is as if seven Boeing 777 passenger aircraft crashed into the ocean each day, with everyone onboard dead

🚢 or two Titanics sank each day.

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Feb 3, 2022 18 tweets 5 min read
🚨 US states end contact tracing 🚨

Many of the largest American states have officially ended their contact tracing programs, surrendering to the infection of large portions of the US population to COVID-19.

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In recent weeks, over a dozen states have ended or reduced contact tracing, including Michigan, New York, Ohio, Virginia, New Hampshire, Indiana and others.

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Feb 3, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
⭐ Exclusive interview⭐

The "only consistent, reliable and actionable dataset at the federal level" for tracking #covid19 deaths ended Wednesday, a US health official said.

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wsws.org/en/articles/20… On Wednesday, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially ended its system for hospitals to report COVID-19 deaths daily to the federal government, amid a worldwide campaign to reduce the reporting of COVID-19 deaths and cases.

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Jan 26, 2022 15 tweets 5 min read
American capitalism demands the infection of China

On Tuesday, @nytimes published an op-ed calling China’s decision to prioritize saving lives a “mistake” and extolling the benefits of “natural immunity through infection.”

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wsws.org/en/articles/20… "Other countries can provide a road map that China can put into action. Denmark, Germany and some other European countries, as well as Australia, have achieved strong immunity... Community spread resulted, but it would have been inevitable." 2/
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Jan 22, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
On Jan 6 I tweeted the CDC graph on the left, joking that somebody at the White House will change it because it looked too scary. They took my advice and flattened the curve (in the y axis).

Just one problem: 3,707 people died today, just like the graph on the left suggests. 1/ 2/ Source for old graph
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