McFaul, former Embassador to Moscow, is of course wrong but it's also revealing that US warmongers cannot help absolving Nazi crimes.

Also note that McFaul is the one who lobbies for funds for regime change activities (Source: Stratfor emails from 2008 released by Wikileaks).

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1502499687290617856

They are telling the public that German Jews, German Communists, German queer people, German disabled people, German dissidents; none of them are real Germans and deserved to be murdered by the Nazis.

When you defend arming Nazis, you usually have to think like them.

Western Media has made the entire world forget that Zelensky was elected on a platform to make peace with Russia.

Here's a video of him before his Presidency where he calls out Banderites for what they are (Nazis trained by Americans who want them as NATO henchmen). Last week, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a bill that legalized the very thing that Zelensky was correctly characterizing as fascism: seizing and confiscating Russian and Russian-owned assets.

There are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who also hold Russian passports.

In 2014, French magazine Elle featured Aidar Nazi Vita Zaverukha as the Ukrainian Joan of Arc fighting against Russia.

Zaverukha is best known for her calls for genocide, posting videos of her shelling villages and for taking part in the Odessa Trade Unions House massacre. Valentina Listsa, American pianist of Ukrainian origin who became famous through Youtubee, was the one who exposed Zaverukha, forcing Elle to apologize for glorifying Nazis.

Lisitsa was banned from performing with Toronto Symphony Orchestra for her anti-war anti-genocide views.

Already voices mildly critical of NATO are being attacked as Russian stooges and a fifth column wrecking Western nations.

To be read along with growing censorship of anti-imperialist voices and glowing coverage for those deciding to go to war in Ukraine.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-sta… Private Russian individuals working in the West are now being put through loyalty tests.

Politicians and media figures are calling for expelling Russian students from the US. Next is Western citizens connected to them. McCarthyism 2.0.
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THREAD 👇🏾

Economic Survey 2022 ranks the pandemic response of different states in India according to expected covid19 deaths (based on population, population density, demographics and number of tests conducted) to actually reported deaths.

Kerala comes out on top. 1/n Note that this ranking is based on reported covid19 deaths, which is comparably very high in Kerala, and not excess deaths/all-cause mortality, which is what should actually be looked at to evaluate the impact of government policies during the last couple of years. 2/n

MUST WATCH: Comrade Mythili Sivaraman giving an interview and talking about her entry into the communist movement, the victories achieved, the difficulty in organizing in the present situation and how she is hopeful about the future.

On Patriarchy.

What's happening in Lakshadweep? A thread.

Ever since former Gujarat MoS Home Minister and Modi's close confidant Praful Khoda Patel was appointed as Administrator late last year, he has taken the following repressive measures using the pandemic as cover:
👇🏾1/n 1. Changed the SoP in place that had resulted in 0 covid cases in Lakshadweep in all of 2020. Cases have sky rocketed since and 317 cases were reported just yesterday. Total of 22 deaths.

2. Arrest people who had erected anti-CAA/NRC boards earlier. 2/n
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Those who are now outraging on behalf of Comrade Shailaja Teacher are the same ones who would have asked whether she had any qualification to be a minister when she was appointed as one in the previous government.

She doesn't share your outrage as she has clear political aims. + Her aims are not individual glory but working for the project of a communist party. The party needs an array of new leaders with mass appeal so that a sudden vacuum won't appear when the current leaders can no longer contribute.

Hence the importance given to new faces. +

The Department of Women and Child Development in Kerala is running a campaign on Mother's Day and CMO Kerala has put up a post on Facebook.

Since the one on Twitter is too short and doesn't adequately convey the message, here's an English translation of the Facebook post. 👇🏾 There is a popular notion in society that a mother is someone who has to sacrifice for the sake of others. Ours is a male dominated society where the vestiges of feudal culture are still prevalent. Capitalism profits from exploiting gender inequality. +

Samyukta Kisan Morcha has decided that farmers unions in Punjab will oppose state-wide lockdown starting today. Media will no doubt begin demonizing farmers again. So before that:

Here's why complete lockdowns are only KILLING the poor and working class in India. A Thread.👇1/n Every single move of the Modi Government post the imposition of the nation-wide lockdown last year has not been in controlling any pandemic, but in impoverishing and killing off the vast majority.

The billionaire class knows this is to their benefit. Let's see why.👇 2/n

Many are outraged at the abuses hurled by Prof. Seema Singh of IIT Kharagpur at her students in the preparatory course for SC/ST/PD candidates. And rightly so.

But ever stopped to think why this is so? How can a professor behave with such impunity?

Here's why. A Thread. 👇 1/n Over the years, premier institutions of higher education have been built up as fiefdoms of upper caste faculty and students. Read The Caste of Merit for more.

But cracks have appeared in these 'agraharas' since the implementation of OBC reservations. 2/n
thehindu.com/books/books-re…

Wait. What exactly happened in the space of 2 hours which made TN government make a U turn in their position in court and allow Vedanta to re-open their Sterlite plant, supposedly to produce oxygen?

Does DMK and Congress agree with this? Or have they been hoodwinked?
Thread 1/n Earlier today, according to TN government itself, Sterlite only had the capacity to produce 35mT liquid oxygen and even that wasn't suitable enough for medical needs.

CPI(M) had already made it clear that they were in favor only of the state taking over the plant and running it.

There is no discrimination in premier institutes? This is what happens in IITs. IIT Kharagpur Prof. Seema Singh openly abuses freshers enrolled in Preparatory English Course for SC/ST/PD students and challenges them to complain.

Will the government book her under PoA Act? How are students from oppressed/minority backgrounds expected to study in premier institutes of higher education when this is the treatment they receive? The professor is brazenly abusing them AND their parents.

Would she have found this confidence if this weren't the norm?

Wow. After approaching Supreme Court to allow it to open its Sterlite Plant in national interest, supposedly to supply oxygen to the country, Vedanta has now..

Wait for it..

Filed an affidavit demanding injunction against TN government taking over the plant to produce oxygen! Vedanta does nothing in the national interest. In fact it acts directly against national interest by trying to privatize anganwadis and create in-roads for the private health care industry in to the lives of people in rural India.

https://twitter.com/lonelyredcurl/status/1385510801428017152

We didn't need tonight's 8.45pm tamasha to realize this, but what we are currently witnessing is MASS EXTERMINATION as State Policy.

The Modi Government is waging a war on behalf of the billionaire class against the vast majority of people in the country. Here's why 👇 1/n Modi Government's so-called response to Covid19, from the very beginning, has been about 3 things:
1. increasing the misery of the masses
2. crushing federalism and centralizing power
3. enabling billionaires to accumulate more wealth

Don't believe me? Well scroll down then 2/n

Thread: The Hindutva government under Modi/Amit Shah is not only facilitating the take over of farming in India by the big capitalists, but making sure that they also control basic health care in rural villages, all under the auspices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This project was started under the PPP model more than 5 years ago. Land would be provided by local bodies in rural villages, and the construction would be done by a public sector enterprise.

But who would control its functioning and take credit? None other than Vedanta.

After reading today's SC judgement, it is clear that reports suggesting that this is somehow a restoration of ownership rights and/or sole trusteeship of the temple to the royal family (and then going on to either celebrate or criticize it) are just plain wrong. (Thread) The Administrative Committee entrusted by the SC to run the temple will be formed by District Judge (Chairman) and Nominee of the Trustee, Thantri (guided by an advisory committee), Representative of Kerala Government, Representative of Central Government (Members).