UNIFOR member w/ Ecuadorian roots. Co-Author of "Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the media and twenty years of coup attempts in Venezuela" (Monthly Review)
Clare Daly did what
@aoc
pretended she was going to do when AOC first achieved prominence. Daly took moral and principled positions without regard for the political price she may pay. We need more politicians like Daly
Asked how she felt after losing her seat, Clare Daly told RTÉ News: "You had no interest in talking to me for five years so I've no interest in talking to you" | Read more:
Why can’t Evo Morales walk around freely in
#Bolivia
while Guaido does so in
#Venezuela
? Cuz Bolivia is now a dictatorship and Venezuela isn’t. Venezuela is actually less authoritarian than the USA where a Guaido equivalent wld be quickly droned
How does Venezuela's dictator, Nicolás Maduro, prevent his leading opponent, Juan Guaidó, from being re-elected by the National Assembly, which was eager to do so? Bar him from entering the National Assembly. Not even the pretense of democratic procedure.
Fuck every scumbag who gave the slightest credence to genocidal
“Israel’s” unsubstantiated rape claims while the horrors endured by Palestinians every day are right before our eyes
Been a while imo, but
@jeremycorbyn
shows here why he is so feared by the Establishment across the spectrum. A decent person must not be allowed to become Prime Minister. Too dangerous for the creeps accustomed to running the place
Navalny’s infamous “Muslim migrants are cockroaches” video with English subtitles.
At the end, Navalny shoots person representing Muslim migrants from North Caucasus. [Small correction: opener is “Alexei Navalny Certified Nationalist” not “specialist”]
Michael Hudson: "Trying to force Russia to respond militarily...is turning out to be a stunt aimed simply at ensuring Europe contribute more to NATO, buy more U.S. military hardware and lock itself deeper into trade and monetary dependence on the United States"
This tactic of highlighting some RandomGuy234354637 account with a few dozens followers to smear somebody by association is one of the most pitiful aspects of any Twitter war
This "person" who is "Palestinian" and "left-wing" supporter of
@aaronjmate
, etc. is making fun of my Turkish name and telling me to go back to Turkey. You'll excuse me if I don't believe he is actually Palestinian or any of the things "he" claims to be. So progressive!
Five years of social reform driven by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have drastically loosened the conservative grip on Saudi society. CNN's Nic Robertson says it could yet prove to be a magnet for tourism.
Ian Austin screamed out at Corbyn "sit down you're a disgrace" as Corbyn apologize in Parliament for Labour's role in the Iraq War that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Austin should have been expelled years ago.
Reminder: Owen Jones helped destroy Corbyn's movement and smear good people like
@DerbyChrisW
and
@AsaWinstanley
as antisemitic. Failing to see Jones or his employer (
@theguardian
) as the Establishment goons that they are is a huge mistake.
This sentence by Kirby will go down in history books: " [We] have not found [that] the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law".
Probably exhibit 1 in the book "Demise of the American Empire", chapter "Gaslighting and Collapse of Morality".
"Here’s how to avoid being called a Russian agent online:
Don’t be Russian
Support all US wars
Trust the CIA
Believe everything the TV tells you
Get excited for President Pete
Reject the evil Hawaiian woman
Believe all problems began January 2017"
Self-Validating Circle Jerk Of War Psyops: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
"It’s not fucking complicated. If a narrative serves the interests of powerful groups with a known history of lying, be skeptical of that narrative."
A statement
@SDonziger
released from prison.
"I am now in custody in the federal prison in Danbury, CT. This is a far cry from the nightmarish conditions in the Brooklyn jail where Judge Preska tried to send me...
[continues in thread]
About 160 years ago Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in which he pointed in great detail to child labor - & feeble efforts to regulate it- to illustrate that capitalism’s vampire urges never go away.
Our representatives are so beholden to corporate lobbyists that they can’t even muster the courage to threaten legal action against companies who use child labor in slaughterhouses.
It's the scariest word in politics but we need to say it: rationing. We hear, and feel, that we on the cusp of WWIII. If that’s true, we should take a page from the home-front of WWII, which also required a sudden transformation of energy systems in North America, UK, + elsewhere
Bernie is liar & a coward. UN and ICRC are providing aid to Venezuela with Maduro government approval. If US had an opposition party it would demand end of depraved US sanctions
The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters.
Ignorance about
#Ecuador
, specifically about Yaku Perez & Manuela Picq (his partner), can badly confuse people outside Ecuador who should know better than to promote Perez as a leftist. Let's go over some things again
THERAD
Dubya Bush's former speech writer tweets this the same day Zelensky banned 11 oppoistion parties, and shortly after Zelensky bestowed Ukraine's highest honor on a neo-Nazi Azov Battalion leader
1/2
Any journalist writing about
#Bolivia
who doesn’t use the word “coup” to refer to the ousting of
@evoespueblo
last year should NEVER be trusted on Latin Ametica or anything else. Look for that
Total solidarity with
@BenjaminNorton
who has come under despicable attack, as is often the case for him & his
@TheGrayzoneNews
collegues, for exposing western leftists & liberals who mimic the right when it comes to vilifying left wing governments
1/ Twitter is trolling us all:
"State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, will not be labeled"
“ If you don't think the US empire would happily sacrifice Australia in a proxy war against a major rival, I suggest you take a closer look at Ukraine”
Shitlibs Are Foam-Brained Human Livestock
"The hyperbolic language westerners use to describe fairly normal modern warfare in Ukraine suggests they've invested exactly zero thought in what their own governments have been doing in the middle east"
Here is my interview with
@ORuizCh
on the major assault on judicial independence & the constitution that has taken place in Ecuador & how it relates to the persecution of
@MashiRafael
& the trampling of Julian Assange's human rights
Nulan (State Dept official under Obama & Biden) says Biden people "very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea"
These pychos will kill us all while the "Squad" types lecture us about the "art of the possible"
“You must care about war crimes everywhere!”
- invariably say pundits in the “west” who have an 0/1000000 record holding the top war criminals accountable
You should care most about holding your own accountable, especially when they’re the worst in the world
"At a moment when support for Israel is collapsing within the base of the Democratic Party, here comes Bernie Sanders to the rescue, with soft criticism of Israel and ineffective measures"
The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism - plain and simple.
Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.
"The US put pressure on Cabo Verde to arrest, detain and extradite Alex Saab for the crime of helping Venezuela overcome sanctions that are in themselves illegal”-------Dan Kovalik
Lula's win in
#Brazil
(whatever Canada officially claims) is a defeat for
@JustinTrudeau
's racist government and a blow to its collaboration with the USA's murderous policies in the Americas, in particular
#Venezuela
Hey
@ggreenwald
why do you suppose
@amnesty
has not called her a Prisoner of Conscience?
Amnesty told me the other day that they hope Manning will not be held "any longer than necessary"?
What good is a "rights group" that can't unreservedly defend Manning?
Ramiro Garcia is a prominent law professor in
#Ecuador
Below he celebrates (actually chuckles) over how effectively Moreno persecuted Correaists for the past 4 years, & on that basis argues Moreno should not be called inept [1/3]
@Lenin
les quitó el partido, les tiene fugados o presos, minó su capital político al punto de perder las elecciones y les ha puesto contra las cuerdas cuatro años. Lo chistoso es que le dicen inepto, imagínense si hubiera sido apto 😂😂😂
Zero tolerance for US citizens who claim to be “left” or “progressive” who take a fatalistic & complacent attitude towards the own government’s crimes - rationalize it as “practical” or “strategic” - but suddenly become thundering purists assessing governments under US attack
Western propaganda aims to generate the illusion that nobody disagrees with it, that nobody dares. Large marches have limitations like any tactic but they can effectively unmask a fake consensus
Absolutely unprecedented: Even as the UK government threatens to crack down on pro-Palestine activists and protesters, the masses come out in support of Palestine🇵🇸 on the streets of London amid Israel’s bombardment and siege of Gaza
@billybragg
@guardian
@kennardmatt
What the fuck is an “Assangist”? Is it somebody disgusted with the
@guardian
contribution to savagely vilifying Assange since 2012 along with the rest of the UK Establishment, thereby making his current situation possible?
Always remember two things that paved the way for fascism to triumph in Brazil 1) the ludicrous ouster of Dilma 2) the jailing & disqualification of Lula
Neither 1 or 2 possible without support of Brazil's media
#1
was winked at by Obama
Both winked at by
@JMVivancoHRW
of
@hrw
1/ So
@KenRoth
breaks his silence on
#BoliviaElecciones
- to continue to smear the democratically elected president who was overthrown in a US-backed coup last year.
Let's review how Roth supported the coup last year & also comment on the
@NYtimes
article he cited
THREAD
“Democracy won in Bolivia"--"a promising moment for a democratic system that had been slipping under [Evo] Morales, who bypassed [constitutional] rules [and was known for] persecuting opponents, harassing journalists & stacking the judiciary in his favor."
.
@reuters
“explainer” on
#Bolivia
doesn’t explain that
@evoespueblo
was ousted in a US-backed coup incited by OAS lies about the Oct 2019 election. Nor does the article say squat about the Añez dictatorship massacres.
Che Guevara anticipated ferocious US-based "progressive" China hawks like Stoller.
Che: "not difficult to suppose what will be the attitude of the working class of the North American country when the problem of the abrupt loss of markets and sources of cheap raw materials"
1/2
.
@TheEconomist
is beneath contempt. Maduro is recognized as President by the majority of UN member states. 105 voted his government onto the UN Human Rights Council in Oct defying fierce US lobbying. That vote was more than a simple recognition
Wow. Let’s unpack this remarkably cynical tweet by a prominent human rights fraud. Orgs like
@hrw
are part of the propaganda system that helps the US maintain its sadistic 60 yr blockade on
#Cuba
THREAD
Why is the Cuban government sending so many doctors abroad at a time when the people of Cuba themselves are facing a severe Covid-19 crisis? Because the government confiscates much of their salaries as a source of foreign currency.
Uncritically retweeting the likes of Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan as if they were true allies of the Palestinians is a tell. People who do it expose themselves as uninformed, at best
1/
@mehdirhasan
all but labels
#Venezuela
's democratically elected government a dictatorship but says he opposes a US-backed coup. A basically worthless way to oppose a coup is by spreading Trump's most damaging lie
Four different Human Rights Watch officials (including its executive director
@KenRoth
) all showering prasie on John "I'll always hate the gooks" McCain.
" the overwhelming majority of people in the United States have never had any intellectual property stolen by China. In reality, the complaint is that companies like Boeing, GE, Pfizer, and Merck are upset ...want the rest of us to have a trade war to defend them"
It’s appalling what has happened to Salman Rushdie. It’s also appalling that there are people who will think he brought it on himself or somehow deserved it.
At a Senate hearing, top US diplomat Victoria Nuland celebrated the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing:
"Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea."
You have to marvel at the capacity of various human rights frauds -
@hrw
@amnesty
and
@mbachelet
- to stay silent or (if really pressed) issue the lamest possible objections to US barbarism towards
#Venezuela
How about being ashamed of your shit journalism, or a lawsuit so malicious & frivolous that it was tossed despite your resources, or that your entitled lifestyle is paid for by assets the US government seized from a country it’s been trying to starve for 40 years?
To everyone reaching out to me with concern: I’m fine. I stand by my journalism and I will never be ashamed of writing about my struggles with mental illness and drug abuse. To anyone facing similar demons: you are not alone. I am proof that healing is possible. Stick with it.
Analysis by Christian Parenti is trash. How does Trump, who imposed starvation sanctions of
#Venezuela
, assassinated Iranian general Soleimani, showered Apartheid Israel with support etc. AND hired the likes of Pompeo, Bolton get cast as “anti-Empire” ?
Moreno's government in
#Ecuador
is clearly looking to intensify its repression of people like
@Sandinin
who back former President Rafael Correa.
I will soon be posting an interview I did with
@Sandinin
who is one of Correa's lawyers
Veo circular en redes esto, soy abogado y defiendo a los perseguidos políticos del régimen de Moreno y lo voy a seguir haciendo, No me asustan sus mentiras.
@CIDH
@CorteIDH
@ONU_derechos
@ONU_es
@DEFENSORIAEC
responsabilizo a Moreno y sus autoridades de mi seguridad e integridad!
Latest
@nytimes
editorial on Venezuela makes clear the NYT will cheer opponents who shoot their way into power - exactly as the NYT did in 2002 when a US-backed coup briefly deposed Hugo Chavez, the democractially elected president. CONT'D....
We strongly condemn the Lukashenka regime's brazen and shocking act to divert a commercial flight and arrest a journalist. We demand an international investigation and are coordinating with our partners on next steps. The United States stands with the people of Belarus.
Takes a special kind of Imperial jackass like Hasan to rebuke Palestinians - as if they owed an Apartheid-endorsing, neo-Nazi collaborator like Zelensky or his US puppet masters a goddam thing.
Deeply disappointing to see the Palestinian parties in the Knesset boycott Zelenskyy’s speech and blame NATO, and not Putin, for ‘imposing’ this war on Ukraine. No excuse for this kind of awful behavior.
Venezuela has a democratically elected government.
#Bolivia
does not. Saudi Arabia does not, nor Israel, Honduras, Egypt, etc...a bunch of US allies.
The USA's claim to being a democracy is weakened when voters must choose between you & another oligarch -serving thug in Nov
On this Venezuelan Independence Day, my thoughts are with Venezuelans who continue to work tirelessly for the cause of democracy. It’s time for free and fair elections so that the Venezuelan people can turn the page on the corrupt and repressive Maduro regime.
Arauz has been giving very diligent and lucid explanations why
#PandoraPapers
revelation prove that Lasso's entire election campaign in 2021 violated Ecuadorian law - and he has been doing so in English as well as Spanish
The following thread is on Ecuador's President's offshore bank "Banisi".
@ICIJorg
's
#PandoraPapers
revealed crucial information on Lasso's dealings. In Ecuador, no gov official can have property in havens.
Parliament issued its inquiry report:
Western leftists can’t stop their own governments from terrorizing the world. Their own uselessness in that most basic task should always be heavily factored into any critique of any government tsrgeted by the US
Fidel Castro died four years ago on this day. He was a towering champion of the oppressed, but we shouldn't ignore the limits of the socialism he helped build.
"I am a Latinx managerial class millennial with narcissistic personality disorder...an intersectional imperialist...who slams Evo Morales as an extractivist ...and if you think that's evil then you are not respecting my agency...."
@maxajl
In the article North Korea is referred to twice as the "hermit kingdom" while Israel is just Israel - not the apartheid state or Apartheid Israel.
If you want to punish people for refusing to take vaccines then what do you propose doing to US government officials & allies who DENY billions of people access through economic sanctions &/or the prioritization of patent protection for Big Pharma?
Thomas Mann quote "To place Russian communism and Nazi-fascism on the same moral place, in the measure that both are totalitarian, is superficial at best, fascism at worst...."
The 1933 review of Mein Kampf in the
@nytime
praised Hitler's anticommunism but missed that it was inextricably linked to Hitler's antisemitism. Hitler's remarks about Africans, Chinese, Slavs, indigenous peoples of the Americas were missed as well
THREAD
I'm old enough to remember how the US responded to US-backed fascists murdering & raping US nuns in El Salvador during the 1980s - by disparaging the nuns.
“The Pike Committee estimated conservatively …. that almost a third of the CIA’s budget was spent on propaganda operations… the sum was more than the combined budgets of the world’s three largest news agencies: Associated Press, UPI and Reuters”
My latest: The fact that a UK diplomat tried to recruit me – a freelance journalist far from the center of power – as an informant hints at how common it is for mainstream journalists to be approached by the intelligence agencies
Saagar actually says "I am not for a multipolar world....They [Europe] have no say over the global affairs of the world. I want to write the affairs of the world, the rules of the road,..."
To imperialists, US-based elites imposing a global dictatorship is "freedom"
Psychos
Reuters doesn’t mention the fact that 3 of the Lima Group members (Haiti, Honduras and Bolivia) are US-backed dictatorships. Venezuela is democracy that’s openly targeted for destruction thx to outlets like Reuters
A LONG article about
#Ecuador
‘s exploding violent crime by the hipster US Empire stooges at
@vice
. Takes truly vulgar propagandists to do an article this long without ever saying that during Correa’s government (2007-17) the homicide rate fell by 2/3!
Wow. This is so clever. Anti-imperialsm is actually racist.
Who could of thought of putting it that way, except for every imperialist jackass everywhere?
Consigning Afghanistan to "its" fate and not "our" business is actually disgracefully racist, not magnificently anti-imperialist. Boils down to "let the brown bastards be ground down by other brown bastards, why should we care, that's what they're like.". Not pretty put that way?
@DCKennard
Monbiot did worse than refuse to speak up against what his employer did. Throughout Corbyn's leadership Monbiot often amplified the attacks, most disgracefully the antisemtism smears & - as he often does - pretended he was bravely speaking hard truths to his own side as he did so
I’m glad I didn’t have access to Twitter decades ago. Despite always identifying as “left”, i swallowed a lot of Cold War bullshit about
#Cuba
The process of recovering from the effects of western propaganda is long and ongoing
@brhodes
Did you ever object to
@Amnesty
's reasons for refusing to recognize Chelsea Manning as a Prisoner of Conscience?
I've been after them about that since 2011. Don't recall any support on that from you. Did I miss it?
Grayzone hate is reminding me a lot of
#Assange
hate:
Seems to spring from the same toxic reservoir from which Empire-serving journalists emerge
Keep up the good work
@TheGrayzoneNews
Clarification: GrayZone is a blog written by bootlickers who defend fascists and racists, whose contributors defend authoritarian demagogues and murderers, and whose contributors collaborate with fascists. They are not a part of the left, purge their conspiracy bullshit.
Did I mention recently that
@SenSanders
is a useless coward ?
The vote (even if succesfull) would not have stopped US support for Saudi war on Yemen, but Sanders still manages to wimp out & achieve even less than I thought he would. Impressive
Biden Kills Senate Resolution To End Yemen Genocide
"If intervening to ensure the continued mass starvation of children and mass military slaughter of civilians is not evil, then nothing is evil. It's actually hard to think of anything more evil."
You can’t end gangster rule without taking on the biggest gangsters. In fact if you only go after the Mafia Don’s enemies, you’re just his accomplice
#Ukriane
#russia
6/ During the aid stunt of February 23 the one rare Venezuela-related tweet that
@SenSanders
put out reinforced the lie that Maduro had been refusing "aid". Rather than counter maniacs like Bolton, Sanders reinforced their lies. Bolton doesn't mention it in the chapter.
“The Royal Air Force dropped 150 tons of bombs on India. It was 1925”
HUMAN SMOKE:The Beginnings of World War II, the end of civilization
by Nicholson Baker
Just started it and it is already amazing. Will put noteworthy stuff from it here
George Orwell was a self-professed socialist. The Right’s misreadings of his books like “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” have less to do with his actual work than with its anti-egalitarian agenda.
"Although I am still getting settled, I will get through this better and stronger even though I ache for my family, friends, supporters, and of course my dear colleagues and clients in Ecuador. More soon; stay with me."
Ecuador’s homicide rate fell by an amazing 2/3 while Correa was in office & it became 1 of safest countries in LatAm. But this article is so cynical that it sneakily depicts Correa, and not his sworn enemies who have government since 2017, as being at the root of the problem.