End of the year thread👇

So, it's the end of the year- the day where all the elected officials pretend that they've done so much for you, or if they're in the opposition party, how much they could have done for you if their party was in power, even though they didn't when it... was. Tonight they'll probably be at high end parties, dancing like the smooth criminals they think they are.

20-30 million renters never got help with their rent, even though the government took away their income sources, especially small business owners and independent...

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@YouTube is killing Primo! It's also killing @JordanChariton. At the same time, it's also keeping other independent journalists down. YouTube (owned by Google), like Facebook and Twitter, is so intertwined with the government that...

it is essentially an arm of the government. And the government is silencing dissent with many forms of censorship.

There will be no questioning of the US support of violent extremists all over the world, no questioning illegal voter purges or other...

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"The government always seeks to give just enough wealth to just enough people to avoid revolution." That is an over arching theme of Howard Zinn's writing.

Today, after 45 years of rapidly growing economic inequality and barely staving off a political revolution... through primary election rigging, we see a Congress and a president who are traditionally right wingers giving poor families a few hundred extra dollars, providing stimulus checks and now, pushing a green infrastructure bill, despite Biden's refusal to ban fracking and...

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Why is it important to pay attention to what they DO and not what they SAY? This is the perfect example: HR 4373, introduced by @RepBarbaraLee, is yet another bill funding coups and funding Israeli crimes as well. The bill, which incidentally....

congress.gov/bill/117th-con… continues to use "Russian aggression" as an excuse, gives $3.3 billion to Israel unconditionally, gives money to the National Endowment For Democracy (which is a CIA front), USAID, which is a regime change engine, pays Juan Guaido's salary and funds....

congress.gov/bill/117th-con…

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My cannabis themed comment for today's city council meeting:
"I am asking again for the council to re-examine the city's cannabis ordinance based on 4 points:
1. The ventilation requirement is illegal and discriminatory.
2. The city should not be banning people from... growing a plant in their back yard.
3. Residents should be able to purchase their products here in town. As stated in previous comments, cannabis is less harmful and less addictive than tobacco, alcohol or opiates- all of which are available in town.
4. This council gave the...

Thread: This was a flyer from my first city council race. Although I did not win election: glyphosates were banned in public spaces, the skate park war repaired and a new section added, and because of my advocacy left turn lanes were added to American Canyon Road between.... the highway and Flosden Rd, making that stretch of road safer for the residents on that section as a number of people had told me was their priority when I canvassed it for the race. I also happen to know I have the ear of a few city council members regarding bringing back the...

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So, Congressional progressives have been trying to rally support around extending the eviction moratorium. Somebody was angry at the Squad for not withholding a key vote to force a vote on Medicare For All, and they made excuses to this person...

for about an hour. The next day, Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal asked Cori Bush if she would explain why the Squad chose not to withhold said votes, and the response @CoriBush gave was a totally dishonest erasing of Medicare For All activists that...

Independence Day thread⬇️
Independence Day is such a ludicrous, gaslighting holiday it's amazing! This is the day where the government says "Hey, congratulations! You're living on land stolen from Indigenous Americans, using an economic infrastructure that was built on.... excluding everybody who wasn't a White male, and has never been redesigned to make it equal and fair for everybody who lives here, but at least the forces of greed that are crushing you and everyone around you, driving people to live under overpasses and stand on street....

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When Israel conducted another massacre in Gaza in May, US media told us that antisemitic attacks against Jews were rising. The truth is that the pro-Israel lobby paid for an advertising campaign that included deceptively edited videos and...

misinformation, to convince American Jews that they need Israel in order to be safe.

For example: a video of a Jewish guy being beaten by Arabs, one of them using a crutch, did not include the part where the guy (who no one could have known was Jewish)..

You have got to be kidding! You're not pushing Medicare For All (which you co-sponsored) forward, you're not worried about the climate crisis beyond offering tax incentives, you're not trying to get low income households electric vehicles, you're not worried about rents or...

https://twitter.com/RepThompson/status/1410312244802510850

the coming eviction crisis, not worried about workers earning livable wages, not worried about Joe Biden supporting a Haitian dictator that refuses to leave office or funding neoNazi militias in Ukraine or helping ISIS by bombing anti-ISIS militias in Iraq and Syria, not...

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Some people seem confused: from 1976 until the present, the Democrat Party moved farther and farther to the right until in 2016, Bernie Sanders and the rest of the left said "Enough is enough. We have to move to the left and enact some of these common sense policies." To protect their donors, especially in the healthcare and weapons industries, the DNC rigged the 2016 primary election for someone they knew would lose, and pretended that Russia was the reason she lost.

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With Nicaraguan elections coming up, the anti-socialist trolls are out already. I want to share this article by @BenjaminNorton from a few months ago, about a law requiring foreign agents to register. One name you'll hear a lot is Chamorro.

thegrayzone.com/2021/02/11/bid… Nicaragua’s neoliberal former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, came to power in 1990 thanks to a US-backed terror war and blockade of the country, along with funding from Washington’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

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330 Members of the House of Representatives signed a letter saying that $3.8 billion to Israel for weapons (we need to stop referring this as "aid". This isn't aid.) should be unconditional. "Since the Biden administration is already firmly....

truthout.org/articles/125-d… committed to continuing unconditional military aid to Israel’s right-wing government, the letter appears to be a reaction to the recent introduction of a bill that would prohibit U.S.-provided arms and security assistance from being used in certain...

truthout.org/articles/125-d…

And yet what have you said in defense of Julian Assange, a multiple award winning FOREIGN journalist who is being charged with crimes that amount to basic journalism and making sure his source is safe, you government stenographer?

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1390789903412338694

Bob Woodward says that ALL journalists will use stolen information, arrange for meetings to accept documents and make sure their sources are safe. This is what the government is trying to convict Assange for 175 years for doing.
mintpressnews.com/bob-woodward-r…

Tonight is the City Council meeting that was delayed last week for contract talks with the Fire Protection District Board. Once again I have submitted a comment about cannabis, in advance of the Council re-examining the illegal ordinance they passed several months ago. Here is... my comment:

"I'm sure you are quite aware that a number of your constituents want to be able to have a cannabis dispensary. Some number of folks don't have a strong opinion on the subject, while others are vehemently opposed to allowing dispensaries.

Some of those people...

I've posted this before, but I'm posting it again. A Christian conservative nutjob, named Adrian Zenz, who thinks God created him to take China down cooked up a totally fake report with manipulated numbers and links that don't say what he claims they...

do, and reported that China is conducting a genocide of its Uyghurs.

US politicians and US media, seeking negative publicity to use in economic warfare, to manufacture consent for future sanctions (and potentially war) grabbed onto this fake report and...

In anticipation of the American Canyon City Council reviewing the illegal ordinance it passed a few months ago, I am focusing my public comments (as you may have noticed) on #cannabis. Here's the comment I submitted ahead of Tuesday's meeting:

Today I would like to talk... 1/8 about how many seniors I've seen stand up and give testimony to how cannabis has helped them and demand the right to be able to go to a local store for their medicine. Getting it from a delivery service is very complicated. But don't just take it from me. I've solicited... 2/8

This is not a democracy. And it's not peacetime. You live in a brutal #empire that exploits and enslaves people throughout the global south, and leaves a wake of putrid oil, poisonous acids, mined-out pits and blood behind it. This empire enforces... 1/5

thegrayzone.com/2021/03/08/cen… extreme poverty and racist violence and gang violence throughout much of the world. And when poor people try to rise up and replace oppressive governments with popularly elected ones, the empire will help rig elections or overthrow elected leaders. 2/5

thegrayzone.com/2021/03/08/cen…

For five years, people on the left have felt the need to attach a disclaimer to any statement about someone or anything that criticizes a Democrat. We didn't used to have to do that, didn't have to say "Not that I like Bob Dole" or constantly defend...1/4

against people accusing you of being a Bush supporter. Nowadays it seems like the truth isn't ALLOWED to fall outside party lines, and it happens on the left and the right.

And I think that the very disclaimers that we've all felt like we HAD to... 2/4

In most years, this would be a taste of what the average person might spend into the economy. Almost every other country in the industrialized world has been covering most of people's paychecks since the lockdown began. The US hasn't. Instead we got $1200, then $600, and... 1/10 in the newest bill we'll get $1400. Except that not all of us have gotten them.

This $1400 check is being hailed as a great bill by all the establishment Democrats and by the media that seldom challenges anything they say. But Joe Biden DID promise us $2000. He promised... 2/10

If a network or a newspaper doesn't send reporters to other places to ask questions and report on what they see and hear, then that network or newspaper is just a mouthpiece. Period. @CNN may go to Texas or California, but did they go to Myanmar? Did they go to Syria? Or... 1/3 Venezuela? Did they go to Brazil when the Amazon was burning? Germany? They told you that Putin poisoned Navalny, but did they go to Germany and talk to Navalny? How about India? There have been huge farmer protests against Mohdi. Did they send someone? How can... 2/3