U.S. military war game over Taiwan.
Pictures on the wall depict U.S. Marine occupation of Chinese capital city of Beijing during the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion to China in 1900.
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The US empire fantasizes about re-colonizing China.
The US had a military base on China's Taiwan island from the 1950s to the 1970s, with nuclear weapons aimed at the mainland. Washington now wants to bring it back.
But it will never be able to. China can and will defend itself
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U.S. military war game over Taiwan.
Pictures on the wall depict U.S. Marine occupation of Chinese capital city of Beijing during the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion to China in 1900.
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In this propaganda, warmonger Tucker Carlson says it clearly: "Russia is not America's main enemy... Our main enemy is China. The US ought to be in a relationship with Russia, aligned against China".
He claims China is a "profound threat" that is "murdering" thousands in the US.
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Tucker Carlson: "We are...the only country that doesn't seek hegemony in the world. I do think, I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this, I think Iran deserves to be annihilated..."
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Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany.
Instead, Facebook forces its users to read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.
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"The dollar suffered a stunning collapse in 2022 in its market share as a reserve currency, presumably due to [the US government's] muscular use of sanctions", warned a prominent financial analyst, as the Global South creates new economic alternatives
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En esta entrevista, hablo del regreso de Lula, la política exterior independiente de Brasil, la importancia de los BRICS, la desdolarización, la diplomacia de la paz de China y las relaciones entre EEUU y México.
Míralo aquí, con
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No se pierdan la entrevista que le haré al periodista . Hablaremos de la visita del presidente a China.
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Tucker Carlson and the far-right's "anti-war" narrative is that Russia is white, capitalist, and Christian, and therefore the West should try to recruit it to wage war on China, which these racist imperialists see as an Asian, communist, atheistic threat to "Western civilization"
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Anyone claiming Tucker Carlson is "anti-war" is a useful idiot. He's just a neocon 2.0
The only reason he criticizes NATO's war on Russia is because he wants war on China instead
Tucker lamented, "If Russia ever joined forces with China, American global hegemony would end"
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While meddling in Brazil, making propaganda for fascist Bolsonaro, Tucker Carlson complained, "Under Biden, the Monroe Doctrine is no longer enforced", praising the 200-year colonial policy.
He also spread new cold war propaganda fearmongering about China
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In 2006, white-supremacist neocolonialist Tucker Carlson said:
“Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of semiliterate primitive monkeys...
I have zero sympathy for them or their culture, where people don’t use toilet paper or forks...
They can just shut the fuck up and obey"
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Reminder that Tucker Carlson
-applied to join the CIA
-travelled to Nicaragua to support CIA's fascist Contra death squads
-is son of head of CIA propaganda front
-constantly lobbies for war on China
-supports colonialist "Monroe Doctrine" in Latin America
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Russia plans to completely abandon the dollar and euro in all of its energy trade very soon:
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said most settlements for oil and gas are already made in national currencies, mostly Chinese yuan and Russian rubles
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La desdolarización avanza. El viceprimer ministro ruso declaró:
"Nuestros colegas ya nos pagan en yuanes por el gas en China y parcialmente por el petróleo. También se llevan a cabo transacciones en rublos. Continuaremos perfeccionando estos mecanismos"
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“Hay una conspiración que se está formando y eso tiene que quedar claro en el pueblo hondureño”,, presidenta de Honduras.
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Honduras' leftist President Xiomara Castro warns a coup is being planned against her elected government, by the same (US-backed) right-wing forces that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya (her husband) in 2009.
Castro recently formed an alliance with China, angering the US
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“Hay una conspiración que se está formando y eso tiene que quedar claro en el pueblo hondureño”,@XiomaraCastroZ, presidenta de Honduras.
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La Presidenta de Honduras, Xiomara Castro, denuncia una conspiración que se está formando contra su gobierno de izquierdas por los mismos que contribuyeron al golpe de Estado en 2009 contra Manuel Zelaya, es decir, la oligarquía y el imperio.
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Venezuela has lost $29 billion per year since 2015 due to illegal sanctions imposed by the US and its allies, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez reported
In total, Venezuela lost c. $232 billion due to the illegal sanctions, 99% of its foreign currency income
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El bloqueo de EEUU a Venezuela "es una forma de aniquilar por completo a pueblos enteros", dijo la vicepresidenta Delcy Rodríguez.
El $29 mil millones que el país perdió cada año "se traduce en pérdidas de vidas, alimentación y educación", así como en "pérdidas en el desarrollo"
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La vicepresidenta de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, dice que desde 2015 el país ha perdido $29 mil millones cada año, debido a las sanciones ilegales de EEUU y sus aliados
La pérdida ha sido de $232 mil millones, el 99% de los ingresos en divisas
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One of the first victims of the 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua was a student, burnt to death when a university building in Leon was set on fire by the opposition. In reports by the OAS etc, he was counted as killed by government. Here Sandinistas in Leon commemorate his life.
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Un 20 de abril del año 2018, cae nuestro hermano, héroe de la Paz, Cristhiam Emilio Cadenas. En conmemoración se realizó entrega Floral y Guardia de Honor en sitio donde cayó durante el fallido golpe de estado. Presente!!! 
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China has competitors to US Big Tech corporations, so Microsoft is cynically claiming Chinese AI threatens "democracy" in order to lobby for more aggressive US actions to kneecap and weaken China's tech sector.
The new cold war is a gift to US monopolies
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This absurd Bezos Post propaganda admits the alleged documents from an EU spy agency "do not contain any material that records communications between the Russian strategists and any allies in Germany".
Fake story. No evidence.
They simply don't want anyone protesting NATO's war
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The corporate media is attacking Brazil's President Lula for welcoming Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov, calling for peace in Ukraine, criticizing US escalation of the war
Brazil's newspaper O Globo published a thinly veiled coup threat
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The President of Cuba explains how his government views the Ukraine war, the origins of which he says have been “distorted” in the West.
Miguel Diaz-Canel was just re-elected President by the newly seated National Assembly, which was elected with 76% turnout last month.
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Brazil's former state electric company, Eletrobras, warned regulatory agencies yesterday that it's on the verge of being renationalized. Bolsonaro's 2021 privatization of the national electric grid, that Lula calls a "crime of treason", is object of 23 criminal investigations.
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The assistant attorney general of the US Justice Department said "Russia’s foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights"
So the US is arguing these Black anti-imperialist activists don't deserve free speech, because Russia
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Authoritarian crackdown on free speech in the US: 3 members of the African People’s Socialist Party face 15 years in prison for supposedly helping Russia spread "disinfo" (read: inconvenient facts) about NATO's proxy war in Ukraine
McCarthyism + racism
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The Western media constantly claims there are no Nazis in Ukraine, but seemingly can't do a single report without interviewing soldiers who choose the name "Adolf" and fight in a brigade that calls itself Spartan Storm (SS) 🧐🧐🧐
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🤨 that’s Cap you brought 6 unions leaders including myself to the Whitehouse and we was handed a pamphlet THATS IT!…. It’s been crickets ever since all we got is US no pro act no accountability just people power photo ops doesn’t make you pro union nor do tweets.
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
On December 22, 2022, President Biden signed a bill to block the railroad union from striking.
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Political economist explains the imperialist nature of the US dollar-dominated financial system, which systematically undervalues currencies, labor, and resources in the Global South
The US often wages war on countries that try to create alternatives (eg, Libya, Iraq)
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This is the same propaganda strategy the corporate media used to smear anti-imperialist leftists who opposed NATO's neocolonial wars on Libya and Syria
If you don't support Western imperialism, they claim you're a "crypto-fascist" in cahoots with the far-right
CIA-style disinfo
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This German Left Party MP
says the absurd Washington Post article is fake news
She helped organize the protests against the Ukraine proxy war, and makes it clear the far-right was not welcome
The US gov't stenographers at WashPost are spreading disinfo
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Fake News from @washingtonpost about alleged „coming together of political opposites in Berlin“ -Jürgen Elsässer was explicitly NOT WELCOME at the huge peace rally at Brandenburg Gate & left therefore soon. Greetings to the “research team” in Washington!
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Information warfare: WashPost (owned by oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has big CIA contracts) is smearing the anti-war movement with ridiculous propaganda
It cites a "European intelligence service" to absurdly link Germany's anti-war left to Russia and the far-right with ZERO EVIDENCE
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Exclusive: Marrying Germany’s far right and far left is a Kremlin goal, according to a trove of Russian documents reviewed by The Washington Post. wapo.st/41M6WE9
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Fake News from about alleged „coming together of political opposites in Berlin“ -Jürgen Elsässer was explicitly NOT WELCOME at the huge peace rally at Brandenburg Gate & left therefore soon. Greetings to the “research team” in Washington!👇
twitter.com/felixhuesmann/
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Exclusive: Marrying Germany’s far right and far left is a Kremlin goal, according to a trove of Russian documents reviewed by The Washington Post. wapo.st/41M6WE9
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