🧵The promise of BRICS lies in its potential to challenge the current US-led global order established after WWII.

In the aftermath of WWII, the US, who came out of it relatively unscathed, sought to consolidate all the former imperialist powers under Washington’s leadership.

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This was to prevent another “inter-imperalist” war for control of one another’s colonies, which increased the likelihood of socialist revolution spreading. This way, all of capitalist powers could work together against the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc.

We can't talk about the new Cold War on China without explaining its weapon of choice: the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

This once obscure law is now being invoked with increasing regularity to go after political activists and Chinese nationals for being "foreign agents." FARA is a US law ostensibly aimed at curbing foreign influence in politics, requiring “foreign agents” (those who engage in advocacy or lobbying on behalf of a foreign entity) to register w/ the Dept of Justice and comply with its extensive reporting requirements.

China gave Cuba $100 million as a donation to help ease its economic crisis a couple of weeks ago. Virtually zero coverage in US media. Cuba's economic crisis ofc is due to the US blockade. And Cuba has suffered back-to-back disasters this year—Hotel Saratoga gas explosion, the Matanzas fire, Hurricane Ian. Each time there were calls to lift the blockade to deliver aid, but they went ignored by the US.

Reading abt all the failed CIA assassination attempts on Castro in 634 Ways to Kill Fidel by fmr head of Cuban State Security Fabian Escalante. One of the more ridiculous ideas was CIA poisoning a wet suit and trying to give it to Castro as a gift (he was an avid scuba diver) 1/ When Castro didn't accept the gift, the CIA thought to implant a bomb in a seashell and plant it in an area where he went scuba diving. When he picked it up, it would detonate. This plan was foiled when they couldn't find a shell big enough to put a bomb into. 2/

Yan Zhiwen was a Chinese food delivery worker who was shot and killed in Queens last night. He leaves behind a wife, who works in a laundromat, and three kids. This is the GoFundMe set up by his family.

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gofundme.com/f/zhiwen-yan-f… Note: Earlier I shared a different GoFundMe that was a scholarship fund for Yan's kids. While conversations are taking place to make sure the family receives these funds, this GFM is directly linked to his wife's bank account, so best to donate to this one

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Thinking abt the time my white "abolitionist" roommate threatened our Black roommate (who had no steady job, was on EBT) w the full force of the state by taking her to court over the $200 she owed him in utilities bills He had consulted his "socialist" lawyer friend who assured him he'd win in civil court. This was just days after they got into a verbal confrontation, he was screaming at her and said he would call the landlord right then and have her kicked out.

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Amazing coverage of Prakash from @aaww! Not only does a beautiful job highlighting his case but also his charisma and how sharp he is

aaww.org/the-prakash-ch… If you live in NYC and want to support Prakash, we’re holding a rally and court support for him at Queens Criminal Court Monday 1:30pm ahead of his next hearing

Reuters livestreaming a Ukraine "peace activist rally" in front of the White House rn with two ppl near the stage waving black and red UPA/OUN flags lmaoo My bad there are actually three fascist flags near the stage

Famous tankie pro-Putin apologist propaganda outlet NPR echoing what the anti-imperialists have been saying all along NATO’s been expanding steadily eastward since the 90’s toward Russia, absorbing 3 former Soviet republics. Any country would see that as cause for alarm, but ppl so drunk off that US propaganda rn, you get smeared as a “Putin apologist” for pointing this out. This country’s nuts.

We have to be honest w ourselves about how the CIA funding creative writing programs like the Iowa Writers Workshop during the Cold War to push personal narrative literary conventions lended itself to anti communist ideology, and narrowed the scope of literature 1/ Mark McGurl wrote in his book The Program Era that “the rise of the creative writing program stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history” 2/

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention bill is unique in that it automatically assumes guilt, shifting burden of proof onto importers. All Xinjiang products are assumed to be made w 'forced labor'. Companies essentially have to prove a negative, prove they're NOT using forced labor

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This bill was passed by the senate last summer and now just passed thru the House.

It’ll only result in unemployment and destruction of Xinjiang's economy. This'll foment unrest which the US will exploit and use to destabilize the region. It's the same playbook every time.

Today 22-yr-old Prakash Churaman appeared in Queens Criminal Court for the 90th time in his young adult life. 7 yrs ago Prakash, then only 15, was arrested by NYPD and forced into a false confession for the murder of his friend despite no evidence linking him to the crime 1/ Cops drove Prakash around for 3 hours before finally bringing him into interrogation. Faced w an unfamiliar criminal justice system, Prakash's mother urged him to cooperate with the cops. They forced him into a false confession despite no physical or forensic evidence 2/

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in which Israeli forces surrounded the two refugee camps in Beirut and allowed the fascist Phalangist militia to enter. The massacre lasted two days, killing over 2,000 Palestinians and Lebanese Then-Defense Minister (and later Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon ordered the camps be surrounded the night before. Israel fired flares at night to light up the killing field, allowing the Phalangists to see their way thru the narrow alleys of the camps.

Hate promoting myself, but I started a podcast 2 months ago to explore topics ignored by mainstream and even left media. It's my primary source of income & my goal for this month is 200 subscribers! If you enjoy my content I'd be grateful if you subbed♥️ patreon.com/radiofreeamanda The pod launched not too long ago, but we've managed to have really interesting discussions on topics such as the history of Xinjiang....

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To give you an idea of how the US govt and Hollywood collaborate to produce films as propaganda: If the film wishes to use military equipment or portray the military in any way, they have to send the script to a "Pentagon liaison officer" to be reviewed for approval. 1/ The script is then sent to the US military offices who review the script and either approve it, request changes, or rejects it. They review the whole script, not just the parts that involve the military. 2/

Neither does China Chinese 'debt trap diplomacy' is a myth. There has not been one instance of🇨🇳seizing a country's assets after failure to pay a loan. The often cited example is the port in Sri Lanka. But the country had actually leased it to a private firm--which just happened to be Chinese.

Cuba is subject to a devastating blockade, but🇺🇸has also spent hundreds of millions of $$ over the decades on programs/ops to foment unrest & dissent to destabilize the gov't & return it to a vassal state of the US. Considering all this makes Cuba's achievements even more heroic For instance, USAID funded the creation of ZunZuneo, a Cuban twitter which they'd hoped would encourage Cuban youth to revolt and stir up a "Cuban spring"

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We know white labor's resentment against Chinese workers resulted in the US passing the Page Act (1875) and eventually the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). But predating both those was San Francisco's 1870 Cubic Air Ordinance 1/ At that time, organized labor attempted to create an environment so hostile to Chinese workers to force them to go back to China. Public health strategies were often deployed as Chinese were seen as dirty and carriers of disease that would infect the white population. 2/

I’m so tempted to get a blender so I can try this 🍨 Pistachio ice cream is so good 🥺

"Systemic problem" has become a mainstream buzzword phrase that liberals apply nowadays, but they always stop just short of naming capitalism as the system.

"Racism is a SYSTEMIC problem" ok what is the SYSTEM then?? "Racism is a systemic problem," "Policing is a systemic problem," "Prisons are a systemic problem"-- I wonder if there is a larger SYSTEM that connects all these?? 🤔