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“Korean War” started today in 1950. The main complaint of US pilots by 1951 was that there was nothing left to bomb. In the North not 1 structure taller than 1 story still stood. But the US kept bombing for 2 more years. 4 million Koreans died. US still won’t sign Peace Treaty
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Police show their true colors in Asheville, North Carolina. They are the real looters and vandals
Medic area in disarray after APD came through stabbing water bottles and tipping over tables.
#avlnews
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To the “horrified” corporate media pundits shocked about the “chaos” at the airport in Kabul: the US dropped 15,000 bombs on Afghanistan in the last 2 years. More than 71,000 civilians have been killed directly from the US war since 2001. Where is your outrage about any of that?
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April 9, 2003 Baghdad falls to the US “Shock and Awe” invasion. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die. No war crime trials for Bush or Cheney. No sanctions on the United States. American cultural figures and athletes were not dismissed. Imperialists act with impunity.
#9_April
is bad day..
This day represents a big slap to freedom, a despicable trick that took the life of my country
#Iraq
#us_occupation
#Ukrainian
#baghdad
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Right Now in Times Square. End NATO!! Stop the US War Machine!!
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U.S. Capitalism snapshot: As the stock market booms the number of Americans living in their vehicles has spiked by 46% in the last year.
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This is the clearest evidence of collusion between police forces and the fascist forces that seized the "seat of government." Notice that when the police open the gates to the Capitol Building they turn their back on the mob - they weren't afraid, they were directing
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Only US heads of state routinely announce which other sovereign heads of state can “remain in power.” They said “Noriega must go” & “Saddam must go” & “Qaddafi must go” & “Assad must go.” Now it’s “Putin must go.” But this is all a cover for US capitalism’s endless war drive.
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Breaking: Mike Prysner, Iraq war veteran, confronts Bush in LA for his war crimes
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Congratulations Senegal -which already succeeded in providing its people with a Coronavirus Test with a four hour turnaround time.Soon they expect to have a ten minute test for $1. They started preparing six weeks ago while American capitalism fumbled & delayed & demonized China
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BREAKING: Pentagon sending aircraft carrier, war ships and fighter aircraft to support Israel. US expanding its proxy wars on two fronts now —- but US militarism is becoming over-extended. Meanwhile, funding ends for 70,000 child care centers
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“Iran-Backed Militias” is an imperialist expression which translated into non-imperialist language means “Syrians who want the United States to stop occupying their country and the rest of the Arab world”
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CNN blasting Trump now for not taking Kim to task for “Human Rights” abuse. They didn’t attack Trump for not blasting Saudi Arabia or Israel for Human Rights abuses. BTW, Isn’t trying to deprive North Koreans of food and medicine through sanctions an abuse of their Human Rights?
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Wise words from Professor Ken Hammond on the awful anti-China coverage in the US corporate-owned media of the 2022 Beijing Olympics
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The US spends five time more than China each year on its military. The US spends more than 10 times more than Russia. But more is never enough for American capitalism and its global empire. This money is not for “defense” but global supremacy
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Taiwan has been a part of China several centuries longer than Hawaii has been part of the U.S. Hawaii was invaded and annexed by the USA. Can you imagine the consequences if China started arming independence movements In Hawaii?
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Virginia: surrounded by cops, Secret Service, Pentagon police. But strong young people!!
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Demonstrate tomorrow in front of the White House at noon. Trump's bombing of downtown Damascus is a war crime. It is illegal. Mattis said yesterday that there was "no evidence" about "chemical attack" tonight he says that the attack was justified and legal
#Syria
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Confirmed! The Pentagon is rushing B61 Thermonuclear bombs to NATO bases all over Europe. This is madness. Demanding negotiations rather than escalation is now condemned in the U.S. as a form of treason by the neocon hawks in the gov’t and mass media.
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103 years ago Pres. Wilson ordered invasion of Haiti. Marines seized the gold of the country & sent it to 1st National City Bank (Citibank) & re-wrote Haiti's Constitution. 15,000 Haitians died. He didn't have to pretend it was for "democracy." That's the difference!
#Venezuela
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Remember: US media “loved” the US/NATO war against socialist government of Yugoslavia
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75 years ago today the French navy bombarded the port city of Haiphong in Vietnam. At least 6,000 civilians were slaughtered. This was the capitalist “Free World’s” response to the desire of the Vietnamese to be free from colonial rule. Important not to forget the real history.
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As predicted, Nancy Pelosi’s provocation against China is being repeated. She opened the gates to the de facto recognition of Taiwan and the trashing of the One China Policy. These Congress-people are worthless war makers unable to solve problems at home
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The US govt actually honors those who commit genocide. Look at a $20 bill. Today, in 1814 Andrew Jackson led 3,000 troops against Creek Nation, slaughtering more than 800 men & imprisoning 500 women & children. US then took 30 million acres of Creek land-half the size of Alabama
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While people in the US were voting on Tuesday the Israeli settler regime, with the support of both US ruling class parties, was destroying another Palestinian village to steal their land. These are criminal acts paid for with $3 billion from US taxpayers
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More awful coverage. Rachel Maddow, CNN and other so-called liberal media are just arch imperialists. Maddow says Trump broke 70 year tradition of US not talking to dictators. Really? The US arms most of them and trains their militaries. The M-I-C is a form of dictatorship
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Ireland just nationalized it’s hospitals for the duration of the crisis . That makes sense. In the United States we have hyper-capitalism run exclusively for the benefit of the billionaire class, the bankers and corporate tycoons. That’s the problem!
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The US has 70,000 bridges that desperately need repair. The US spends nearly $800 billion each year on missiles, nuclear bombs, 900 military bases. Perhaps bridges not bombs would be better for society
Pittsburgh bridge collapse injures 10 on the day Biden visits to talk about infrastructure. But Americans should feel proud because we have the best and most missiles …. compared to all other countries!!
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Abolish the Supreme Court! Take to the streets! Any rights won under under the rule of the capitalists can be taken back by the capitalists. We need a whole, NEW SYSTEM!!
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Trump just announced that South Korea will not be allowed to lift its own unilateral sanctions on North Korea. “They will not do anything without our approval.” S. Korea is 10th largest economy in t/ world. Yet, US politicians arrogantly insist that Koreans are colonial subjects
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About $60 billion is the rent owed to landlords from those about to be evicted. That’s About 8% of the annual “defense” budget. The capitalist government subsidizes death & destruction in the service of imperialism while millions of workers lose their homes.
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Hillary Clinton lectures Europe falsely. Migration "lit the flames" of the ultra-right she insists but it was her giddy destruction of Libya - she literally laughed about the lynching of Qaddafi-that "lit the flames" of the migration wave. Iraq, Syria, Afghan wars lit the flame
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Check your sources. North Korean official Ri Yong-gil, who had been "executed" by Kim Jong-un in 2016, according to BBC, Yonhap and other media, is now reported to have been named the new Army Chief of General Staff in North Korea. Oh, well
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!6 years ago today Shock & Awe Invasion of Iraq began.1 million Iraqis died. Thousands of US GI's perished. Then came Libya. Now the same people attacking Venezuela. Each time John Bolton says its for a noble cause. Each time dumb liberals join in demonizing the target of empire
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Pittsburgh bridge collapse injures 10 on the day Biden visits to talk about infrastructure. But Americans should feel proud because we have the best and most missiles …. compared to all other countries!!
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Elliot Abrams is now announcing new sanctions on Russia for "interfering" in Venezuela. How dare Russia believe that they can sign agreements with a sovereign government at the very moment that Trump is staging an illegal coup against that gov't.19th century colonialism returns!
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NATO and imperialism. At the Berlin Conference of 1884, 14 colonial powers met to divide Africa among themselves. Within just 18 years all of Africa, w/ the exception of Ethiopia, was subjected to colonial slavery. Those 14 countries are the core of NATO today -- similar agenda!
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$9 billion of the $40 billion “aid” package supposedly for Ukraine and Ukrainians actually goes directly to US capitalist corporation that produce weapons. This is the beauty of a proxy war. Mega profits for US capitalists and all the bleeding is done “over there.”
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Tonight the US/CIA backed opposition tried to assassinate Maduro. Hundreds of similar plots against Fidel in Cuba & Chavez. Question for Washington Post: Does this constitute “meddling” or not?
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Socialist Eugene Debs in 1912 Presidential campaign demanded abolition of the Supreme Court. 9 un-elected (mostly begowned corporate attorneys) have life-time appointments & huge power over the lives of the people. They are rich, privileged, mainly racist, sexist men like Brett
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Every time CIA, Pentagon, White House, Media want to destroy a gov't they demonize it on "human rights or "wmd's" or to "protect civilians." Each time "liberals" swallow this hook, line & sinker. Isn't imperialist war, economic sanctions & covert ops a violation of human rights?
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The CIA under John Brennan carried out a covert spying attack on the Senate oversight committee producing the report on illegal CIA torture operations. He “apologized” in 2014 for the attack. Now liberals and Democratic Party are defending him as a bastion of democracy. Really?
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So Israel hijacks a humanitarian ship carrying medicine for besieged people in Gaza. The IDF tasers & jails the crew. And Republicans & Democrats-- the two headed political monster of imperialism--applaud & write the next check financing Israeli crimes against humanity.
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The U.S. incinerated 100,000 civilians in Hiroshima 73 years ago today.Militarily unneeded.Japan was on verge of surrender. This was genocide. US has since spent $10 trillion on nuclear weapons. Will spend $1 trillion more now on nukes while demonizing N. Korea as nuclear menace
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Biden is about to restart massive US-S. Korea war "games" in the Pacific simulating an invasion of North Korea. They will practice the assassination of Kim Jong-un, N. Korean head of state. Let's imagine if North Korea or China held similar war "games" regarding the US!
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The fact that the “liberal” capitalist media is at war against Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders for upholding positions that were mainstream liberal ideas in the 1960’s shows the extent to which the Pentagon now dominates “politics” in America
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says Trump is leading us down a dangerous path towards war with Iran: "They are setting the stage for a war with Iran that would prove to be far more costly, far more devastating and dangerous than anything that we saw in the Iraq War"
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The Vienna Convention declares that the foreign diplomatic compounds & buildings are inviolable even when relations are severed. US seizing Venezuela’s embassies and handing them over to their puppet Guaido is an “act of war”
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The USA is a land of witch-hunts. The country prides itself on being rationale and democratic. But witch-hunting, racism and ethnic discrimination have been ever-present since the creation. Today, anything that is Russian is canceled. A bizarre but real situation.
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The billionaires and their political henchmen: Giuliani, Trump, Bloomberg, Clinton. America has one monstrous capitalist party -- but it has two heads. The multi-national working class needs its own party, its own voice!
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Basic fact: When Jimmy Carter became President in 1977 He declared that he wanted to remove US troops from South Korea. The Pentagon brass went into a state of extreme opposition & insubordination & he was forced to cancel the plan. Now “liberals” want to sustain the occupation
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Really bad coverage by U.S. corporate owned media on the Summit. Vapid pundits & presenters. Koreans want a war that devastated Korea to end. That is receiving no "play" -- instead focused on Trump having "given away" so much by meeting with Kim. Disgusting!
#SingaporeSummit
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I was in Iraq in December 1998. Clinton ordered Operation Desert Fox (yes, it sounds like a Nazi WWll playbook) & US dropped 1,000 bombs & missiles in 4 days. Lots of death & devastation. I watched McCain on TV denouncing t/ attack because he said it was just a “pinprick” attack
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US capitalism is the most dysfunctional wing of the advanced capitalist countries. The absence of a mass socialist movement (until now) & the weakening of unions has allowed unbridled capitalism to tear society apart while billionaires get ever richer
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Five days after they were arrested these 3 individuals have not even been brought before a judge. Excluded again yesterday from bail/bond hearings. This is clearly a punitive detention. A violation of their legal rights. Read below and and see how you can help. Drop all charges!
THEY ARE STILL IN JAIL!
Eliza Lucero, Joel Northam, Lillian House are still in jail after their arrest for bogus felony charges -- incl kidnapping! -- clear political retaliation over their leadership in the fight for justice for Elijah McClain
Here's how you can help ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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American Capitalism is addicted to war & militarism.Fact: nearly 50% of recent economic expansion is based on massive increases in military spending agreed to by both ruling class parties. An economic system based mainly on the endless reproduction of death is truly bankrupt.
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George H.W. Bush, like McCain, becomes a hero for “liberals” because he is indeed not Donald Trump. He came to office riding a wave of racism created by his campaign. Invaded Panama, destroyed Iraq, vetoed civil rights legislation
Literally just a few weeks ago center-left types were ripping Trump for running “the most racist ad since Willie Horton.” Now they are praising the person who ran the Willie Horton ad. Go figure.
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1 year ago US/NATO withdrew from Afghanistan after losing a 20-year war. 240,000 died. 70,000 civilians. US now seized $9 billion in Afghan assets. On the pretext of saving girls & women from the Taliban the US won’t release funds & Afghan girls are literally starving to death
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UK seized $1.2 billion of Venezuela's gold. US stealing Venezuela's bank assets. 19 century colonialists didn't have to pretend they were stealing the resources of other people for a noble cause like democracy & human rights. This is the "progress" of imperialism
#Venezuela
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Will Biden honor the Reuters journalists Saeed Chmagh and Noor-Eldeen, murdered in cold blood by US pilots and exposed by Julian Assange and
@wikileaks
in the Iraq War logs. Biden is honoring "fallen journalists." Do these lives matter to the USA?
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The logic and absurdity of capitalism are revealed as farmers destroy desperately needed food at the moment that millions of now unemployed workers are lining up to get food handouts — all over the USA
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Russia is saying clearly that it will not let Ukraine be used as a staging ground for advanced US/NATO missiles that target Russia with a flight time of five minutes to their targets. NATO will not be allowed to make Crimea into a NATO base. These are Red Lines! Time to listen!
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This is an outrage! After exactly four tweets Twitter has permanently suspended a new peace coalition calling for peace with China. Show your solidarity with Pivot to Peace and sign the petition demanding Twitter restore their account
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Unfurled the names of those killed by Israeli … Right Now in the Lobby of BlackRock … funding the weapons for the Israeli War Machine
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In 1919 the Supreme Court upheld socialist Eugene Debs conviction & ten year prison sentence for his vocal opposition to US entry into World War l. Debs called for the Abolition of the Supreme Court in 1912. He said the court was an undemocratic tool of the capitalist class
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Why are "liberals" defending NATO? !7 years of war in Afghanistan, the destruction of Libya in 2011, dropped 28,000 bombs on Yugoslavia in 1999. A militarist relic of the so-called Cold War (it was formed in 1949) and exists 27 years after the fall of the USSR.
#AbolishNATO
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NY Times: Sanders at 54% and Biden at 17% in Nevada. CNN, NY Times freaking out. CNN still loving Buttigieg who’s coming in under 10%. It’s not Sanders the man but a mass movement for radical change that scares the hell out of the ruling class. And It’s coming!!
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Outrageous! Yellow vest protesters have been killed &mutilated & blinded by golf ball size projectiles fired by police but Macron denounces Venezuela for "mistreating" protesters.
#YellowVests
,
#Venezuela
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In 1967 Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria. Now Israel has granted a U.S. company the first exclusive license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied territory. Surprise! its a Dick Cheney linked company. A local subsidiary of Genie Energy.
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Wall Street capitalists and bankers (and cops) “Exhale in Relief”
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Biden’s top priorities don’t include abortion rights, reducing poverty or saving the planet from environmental disaster. His priority is war and war spending: “U.S. to send new troops and weapons to Europe”
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Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party leadership are meek and mild when it comes to fighting the right-wing inside the US but they are fierce and provocative and ready to risk military confrontation with China. Truly pathetic!!
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Trump & his minions are trying stop the counting of ballots in predominantly African-American cities. This is old-style racism and voter suppression. Violent disenfranchisement of Black voters has to be condemned. Including by socialists who oppose Biden’s reactionary program
Election challengers shout “Stop the count” as poll workers count absentee ballots in
#Detroit
, Michigan in the 2020 general election
@washingtonpost
#Election2020
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The killing of Iran’s most well known General by Trump & Pentagon is an act of war. Trump see’s war with Iran as the way to win re-election. The Pro-imperialist Democrats set the stage. People in the US need to stand up and fight back against Empire that speaks in our name.
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King Charles III is exempt from inheritance tax. His personal portfolio is $1.4 billion. The monarchy’s wealth should be expropriated, made into public funds and used for reparations!
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Tonight in front of the Supreme Court. Nearly 7 million US households will now be evicted from their homes in the middle of a pandemic. This includes millions of kids as the school year starts. This is capitalism- American Style!
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Russiagate is really just a gateway drug to suppress dissent. Now, Facebook, Atlantic Council, NATO & NSA are widening purge of social media pages allegedly "connected to Iran" that promote "anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian themes." Beware of Russia, China, Iran!
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Hoping that China can offer more practical assistance to Cuba which is embargoed, sanctioned and blockaded and consistently punished for daring to remain independent of the nearby Empire.
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After CIA's 1953 Iran coup restored the Shah the "liberal" NY Times wrote: "underdeveloped countries with rich resources now have an object lesson in the heavy cost that must be paid by one of their number which goes berserk with fanatical nationalism." Iran had nationalized BP!
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Fascist forces given their marching orders by the President have seized control of vast parts of the Capitol Building. The police let this happen with token resistance. The fascists are chanting "kill, kill" and marched to the Capitol behind a Confederate Flag
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This was a straight out execution of someone engaged in a protest action. The autopsy shows that environmental activist, Tortuguita, was shot 14 times — they riddled the target with bullets and a final shot through the eye. Shut Down Cop City!
A new autopsy shows Tortuguita was shot 14 times with their hands up. This was an execution by police. And officials in Atlanta still want to build Cop City to train thousands of officers to do the same.
#StopCopCity
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If you're advocating for the toppling of the Venezuelan gov’t, or joining the chorus of condemnation - and you are a “progressive” —how do you justify being a tail to John Bolton’s kite. For others: join the Sat. March 16 National Demo at the White House. Say No to Imperialism!
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276,000 new Covid cases reported today in the USA. Capitalist government, and both ruling class parties, have failed miserably. Anti-vaxx and anti-mask influencers could care less. They are making money in their hustle. An empire in decline manifests extreme dysfunction.
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Kill first, ask questions later or never. That sums up US wars of occupation. In its final days in Afghanistan the US drone strike massacred a family of 9 in Kabul, 4 were children. Media dutifully reported that the target was ISIS suicide bomber. But it wasn’t. It was civilians
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Working class homeowners in the US are about to be crushed, foreclosed & tossed from their homes by the capitalist banks & then real-estate sharks (fronts for the same banks) will swoop in and buy these homes. Parasite capitalism is the correct label for this economic system.
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This act of piracy in DC is unprecedented. It will have a cascading impact and blowback on the empire. Bolton & Pompeo demonstrate unrestrained hubris. Because they enjoy the support of American liberals, however, they feel secure. Still, they will fail.
Outside the illegally seized Venezuelan embassy in DC, Brian Becker
@BrianBeckerDC
of
@answercoalition
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Question: how about making Twitter a publicly owned utility that banned commercial advertising? And made it illegal for corporations, spying services or police agencies to store & track the data of users. Right now the users are the commodity. Wouldn’t that be a better system?
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Truly outrageous that the "liberal" defenders of imperialism protesting at White House now using label "Occupy Lafayette Park" for their pro-CIA, pro-FBI, pro-NSA action tonight. Co-opting the progressive symbols of 2011 for reactionary, pro-war purposes in 2018.
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Explaining the real reason that the US is preparing for war with China. The US is still hoping that China suffers the same fate as the Soviet Union …internal division, regime change and dismemberment. Understanding imperialist strategy is key to understanding the media campaign
50 years ago next month, the US and China signed the Shanghai Communiqué, acknowledging that Taiwan is a part of China.
So why is the US trying to start a war with China over Taiwan?
@BrianBeckerDC
is joined by Dr. Ken Hammond of
@peacepivot
WATCH:
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How wars start! A fast-moving US nuclear attack submarine crashed into a sea mountain in the South China Sea in October. What was it doing? Why was it there? China demands answers but the Pentagon is silent
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Important fact; The Pentagon spending is skated to be $782 billion annually and Russia’s military spending is less than $7O billion. That’s less than 10% of what US spends on war. All NATO countries military spending combined is about $1.2 trillion annually
Last night, the house passed a spending bill that raises the Pentagon budget by $32,500,000,000 to a total yearly budget of $782,000,000,000.
Reminder: roughly half of the Pentagon budget goes directly to private military contractors.
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The 1% grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017. Capitalism is conflated with "democracy." But it is a form of organized crime. And the foundations of US capitalism was slave labor. 40% of Virginians, for example, were enslaved people
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BREAKING: Police moving in front of Lloyd Austin residence . Threatening arrests
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Notice how the US “cares” about Muslim peoples when it prepares to bomb or go to war against targeted countries. Suddenly the US “cared” about Kurds in Iraq in 1991, Muslims in Yugoslavia in 1999, Libya in 2011 and now in China. Muslims in Palestine nor so much.
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