Jeb Sprague

@JebSprague

Research Associate at the University of California Riverside

Joined January 2011

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    13 hours ago

    SHOCKING MAP OF HOW CHINA HAS TAKEN OVER AFRICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE.

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    And I don't even take money from Thiel, only from a company he invested in 8 years after its founding -- unless those who make money from YouTube work for Google and those on FB work for Thiel (where he was an early investor and is on the Board). But yeah.

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    14 hours ago

    Glenn Greenwald taking money from Peter Thiel to post videos that questions the CIA on Rumble is “fascism” Hasan Piker signing a contract with Twitch, owned by Jeff Bezos, to sit around like a NEET & play video games while telling people to vote Joe Biden is “socialism”

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    Millions of people losing their economic security over night: Bad or good? Who’s to say really when this Ft Lauderdale Wendy’s is having a hard time finding a 5pm-3am fry cook for $9.25/hr

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    Some of the discourse about ‘sectarianism’ within ‘the left’ is what i think people now call or identify as ‘gaslighting’ — a short thread

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    Sep 1

    "military operations" to remake countries? bad. Starving them with sanctions, backing coups and CIA-drone bombing to remake them? Still cool

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    Sep 2

    lmao they literally put a picture of their boss on this article.

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  11. 19 hours ago

    All of this provides evidence of the illegality of waging economic warfare in peacetime.

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  12. 19 hours ago

    draconian neoliberal solution. This is highlighted by Luis Almagro’s recent call for Nicaragua to be ‘strangled‘ through sanctions and other means.

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  13. 19 hours ago

    country’s diaspora to wire money to family members. Meanwhile, the US congress has expanded funding to influence Nicaraguan civil society. The end goal of Washington’s NICA Act and EU sanctions is not to promote peace, but rather to push for a

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  14. 19 hours ago

    They’re having a growing impact on the small Central American country beyond individuals: increasing risk calculations for businesses investing in the country, slowing and hurting the likelihood for loans to be refinanced, and – over time – it will make it harder for the

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  15. 19 hours ago

    Two paragraphs in an article for The Canary UK: Whatever one’s view on Nicaragua’s 2018 violence carried out by some police and government and opposition supporters, US and EU sanctions are not the answer.

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  16. 20 hours ago

    economic sanctions through the bipartisan NICA Act (The Nicaragua Investment Conditionally Act of 2018).”

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    media) some U.S.-backed anti-government groups lashed out violently against supporters of the elected government (Blumenthal, 2018). This has led to an even more tenuous and escalated fight over political power, especially once the United States in late 2018 targeted Managua with

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    and its local business allies (Blumenthal, 2018). Soon some within the Nicaraguan police and groups supporting the government carried out a violent response against antigovernment demonstrators (Robinson, 2018), while at the same time (though receiving much less coverage in the

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  19. 20 hours ago

    In mid-2018, with ALBA weakened due to mounting crises in Venezuela and a right-wing counteroffensive across South America, Nicaragua’s government faced unrest as it sought to reform its pension system though in a manner conflicting with the neoliberal plans promoted by the IMF

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  20. 20 hours ago

    This balancing act has proven difficult, and it is a scenario that reflects both the contradictory and tenuous nature of attempting to construct an alternative political project with so few resources and with so many limitations and tensions.

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