So Ellen DeGeneres is excoriated for hanging out with Bush because he is a war criminal - which he is - but its alright to hang out with Obama who is also a war criminal? Someone who understands the Western mind please explain that one to me.
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I just realized I dislike Zelensky almost as much as I dislike Obama.
Do not be confused. Twitter, google & Facebook are part of the ideological apparatus of the state & are carrying out the political agenda of the dominate neoliberal rulers. The argument that they are "private" is the point. Mass control of thought & speech has been privatized.
When you know how it feels to go hungry, to never feeling full because you never have enough to eat, you can understand why he feels so intensely about heartless right-wing policies, like in the U.S., that deny the human right to food.
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Don't forget when Obama administration resupplied Israel in the middle of their slaughter of innocents in Gaza in 2014. Obama, Biden, Trump, the democrats & racist corporate media are all complicit with the war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel is committing.
I will not make jokes about Biden' obvious early stage dementia. It is not funny but cruel that he is being pushed out there to be ridiculed & criminal that DNC would sacrifice him & hopes of their supporters just to maintain control of their party.
Do y'all understand the fear that went through ruling class when the people burnt a police station to the ground?? And while they tricked some of you into worrying about property & respectable protest, the people learned lessons about their power that they will never forget.
No 3rd party to blame this on because the anti-democratic democrats pushed the Greens off the ballot in key states. No Russia BS, just the smug arrogance that they could re-run the 2016 non-issue campaign with a corpse at the top of the ticket and they would win.
Accept it or not, from Russia's view it is fighting in Ukraine to keep NATO from significant parts of its borders & the U.S. & NATO responds by encouraging Finland with almost two thousand mile border with Russia to join NATO? It is clear the policy-makers in the West want war.
I have come to the conclusion that this war in Ukraine may be the most morally obscene war the U.S. has ever engaged in. Even wars like Vietnam, U.S. rulers sacrifice U.S. solders. But the wholesale sacrifice of Ukraine & its people for U.S. geostrategic goals is hard to watch.
Tonight a child is dying in Yemen because your government is participating in blocking food & medicine to innocents in a war it helped to create. Have a good night.
Now it should be clear why the government only provided a measily $1200 check. The plan was to drive hungry and desperate people back to work. That's capitalism folks. Enjoy your freedom.
For anyone who understands the liberal mind, please explain to me why the lives of Ukrainians are more precious than Haitians, Palestinians, Ethiopians, Afghans, Syrians, Iranians, Africans. Is it only the images of white suffering that moves them?
Trump is toying with idea of expanding Medicare to include 30 million unable to afford insurance. In other words he may go the left of Biden and clown ass DNC on this issue. If he did that it really would be game over for democrats. The democrats are such a joke.
So after this "debate" the U.S. pretends to be able to lecture Venezuela on how to conduct their democracy.
I can't believe how many law and order leftists we have in the U.S.
Fox news is advocating attacking North Korea, CNN is pushing confrontation with Russia and all this is seen as normal. This culture is sick
What a joke. Iowa democrats don't seem to want to announce what seems obvious & that is Sanders won & Biden got wiped. This is corruption pure & simple. Biden is now challenging legitimacy of results. But this is nothing compared to what might happen at the democrat convention.
The UN says almost 4 thousand civilians have, unfortunately, died in Ukraine. Yet, Zelensky suggest the war in Ukraine is greatest crime since the end of second imperialist war in 1945. Conservative estimates say 25 thousand civilians died in NATO assault on Libya. But who cares?
I echo the call for full pardons for Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and reparations for Chelsea Manning.
Politics in the U.S. is so right-wing that a ticket of two neoliberal pro-imperialist servants is actually being pushed as progressive. Meanwhile, workers are living with uncertainty, fear & desperation while bourgeois politics play politics with providing social protections.
Folks we are entering a revolutionary period. The embedded class interests of the oligarchs have been exposed and politics will never be the same again in the U.S.
I'm a Vietnam era Vet who worked at two Vet Centers that serviced Vietnam combat vets - war is horrible. Yet the chickenhawks who never had a uniform on, are first to play with issue of war. For three months the Russians asked for security, but it seemed the U.S. wanted war.
War is not inevitable. Do not let them convince you of that. Don't let them march your sons and daughters, brothers and uncles off to fight for the 1% under the guise of fighting for our "national interests" or the threat posed by some poor, third-world nation.
Look at this racist criminals. When they can no longer plunder they demonstrate their Western values. twitter.com/edward_chimedz
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The U.S. government is deploying the army ( that is what the national guard is) against its own citizens. Isn't that now when someone calls for regime change if that was happening in another nation?
The U.S. has organized 34 coups d’état just in the Americas since 1945. Let's see if the corporate press calls Biden out on his lie about the U.S. not interfering in elections.
I am a human being so I cannot be silent about the 10 million facing starvation in Yemen from U.S./Saudi war, the 300 thousand facing death because of the blockade of medicines for HIV, diabetes and hypertension in Venezuela. Who protects the people of the world from the U.S.?
Why is it that a number of governments are using a drug produced in Cuba, including China, in fight against coronavirus but media in U.S. is not reporting this?
Folks lets keep it straight. If Trump wins, it will because the democrat party was more afraid of the Sanders wing of the party than defeating Trump. Remember that, because they are going to point to everything to deflect from their role.
I have to give it to the state & corporate propagandists on McCain death, they have been brilliant. Vietnam became "honorable," McCain's warmongering imperialism normalized & the people further conditioned to accept the next illegal military attack - probably in Syria. Nice work.
I can't believe there are some Black people who actually believe Amy Klobuchar is taking herself out of the VP search because she is an ally of Black people! Klobuchar is an opportunist hack. She was told or found out that she was not going to get the position. Get serious.
If it is this easy for Sanders folks to descend into despondency clearly you were not prepared for the attack by the rulers. If you believe in your principles fight for them. There is reason they are frightened by your movement.
Feel sorry for those Sanders supporters who really thought they were taking part in a revolution.
The new propaganda line the U.S. is using in Africa is that China & Russia Federation are colonialists! Incredibly even the French are pushing this - the French! :-) Like I said, these people exist in a different world from the rest of us. White supremacy is a hell of a drug.
Malcolm X said "you show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker." The parasitic nature of capitalism is on full display with workers being driven back to work to have their blood sucked to make money for capitalists in the U.S.
The idea that "disinformation" is something that just happened during the last four years is absurd. How did the U.S. public become the most ill-informed, easily manipulated public on the planet if not as a result of systematic "disinformation" from the rulers?
Most young people today don't know that the liberals turned on Dr. King because he came out in opposition to the Democrat party initiated war on Vietnam. But some of us will never forget.
Is this made-up. Are they actors? Folks this is what has been happening in Ukraine for months but your "free press" won't cover it. This is the character of that regime. But hey, I don't expect this to move the same people who can proudly support Israel.
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This is the Person of the Year's Ukraine. Pure evil.
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Folks I hate to break it to you but neoliberalism is fascism. If you are really concerned with fascism work to destroy its source - the colonial/capitalist system.
BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. & Europe, representing just 10% of global population, are not the "world."
The comments by the actor president of Ukraine on the missile strike in Poland demonstrated once again why his reckless & immature leadership poses a threat to global security. The madness of evoking, without evidence, a NATO art 5 response then echoed by press was incredible.
Zelensky now implies that Amnesty International has now fallen under the spell of Kremlin propaganda for pointing out the obvious that Western press would not report & that is Ukrainian forces have been using civilians as shields.
The U.S. & U.K. have journalist Julian Assange in prison in the U.K., award winning journalist Chris Hedges has all of his work taken down from YouTube, U.S. Anti-war sites are being taken down & FB & twitter closing accounts, & the U.S. talks about repression in Russia?
Biden & Harris proclaim that U.S. & Israel share the same set of values. This is one statement that I am complete agreement with. The de-valuation of non-European life, colonial fascism, white supremacy, moral double standards are the shared values of settler colonial states.
People don't seem to understand that I consider Obama, both Clintons, Kamala Harris and all neo-liberals part of the right.
Sorry, I can't take anyone seriously about gun control who has not opposed Yemen, drone warfare, war in Syria, 1033, and U.S. arms industry.
I guess the 78 day bombing of Serbia & its historic capital Belgrade as part of the bloody process of breaking up Yugoslavia does not count as war in Europe. Why? Because crimes are not crimes when carried out by the West. They are "humanitarian interventions."
The U.S. puppet in Venezuela has crossed a line by engaging in an armed attempt to take power. He will be defeated because the Venezuelan people are not going back to days of rule by the oligarchy. The traitor & his supporters will be in Miami before the week is out.
Recently, FBI comes out with absurd notion that conspiracy theories are threats to national security & Esptein is found dead in his cell. But like when Garry Webb who uncovered intelligence collusion in crack cocaine epidemic shot himself in the head - twice! Don't ask questions
The absurd criticism of Gabbard's exposure of Harris's record as a right-wing, anti-Black prosecutor as being the work of Russia is another example that the greatest threat to democracy in the U.S. is emanating from MSNBC, CNN, democrat party and their silicon valley friends.
There are people who vote democrat who think that Biden coming into race is about defeating Trump - it is not. It is about stopping Sanders. The democrat party establishment is prepared to split party and lose to Trump before conceding power to its "left" pole.
Hey folks, North Korea went five years without testing or firing missiles. What changed? The warmongering policies of the democrats under Biden. Not only in Korea but across the planet. The democrats are the party of war.
I will say again if you don't oppose U.S. militarism warmongering and arms sales as #1 arms dealer on the planet then you are a moral hypocrite on issue of gun violence in the U.S.
Stocks hit 30,000. The pandemic has been good for big capital while 8 million people fell into poverty and thousands line up for food. The evidence of capitalism's failure is all around. That is why I am a socialist.
The U.S. & NATO violently facilitated the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 90s that also include 78 days of bombing Serbia but that doesn't count as violence or subverting international law because the rules don't count for the exceptional nation, the nation protected by God.
Where are the democrats condemning the slaughter in Gaza? If this was Assad they would be joining the republicans calling for military action pretending like they cared for Arab life.
Everyday the people of the U.S. get another piece of evidence that they are living in a failed state with an economic system that is unable to provide human rights.
Black people are dying in droves every week unnecessarily but BLM is neutralized, completely corrupted & disarmed by its' subordination to the democrat party and neoliberal tokenism of the Biden administration.
I will repeat again. If democrats rally behind bumbling Joe as party standard bearer they are either delusional or have written off defeating Trump opting instead to defeat the left within their party.
It is really incredible how propaganda works. The U.S. with over 800 to 1000 bases in 140 nations, a military budget bigger than next seven nations combined & a history of subversion & interventions globally, but Russia & the Chinese are aggressors according to capitalist press.
Question. How many nation's has Iran invaded? How many for US? Now which nation is a threat to international peace?
Hey folks, do you think in your free society there may be a reason why the public is bombarded with images from protests in Hong Kong but the protests in Iraq, Haiti and Ecuador have been disappeared from media? The "free press" is just reporting the news with no agenda - right?
FaceBook and twitter have revealing their full totalitarian nature. Everyone who really believes in free thought, speech and the right to information should be concerned by the naked abuse of power by these corporations. Don't let them use Trump to enslave us.
Don't fall for it. The trial of Derek Chauvin is a set-up. It's mass propaganda, a show trial meant to re-legitimize the white supremacist state. Chauvin is the sacrifice to give impression the U.S. system can render "justice" for colonized Black folks - it cannot.#BlackTwitter
I stand with Jimmy Dore. We have to call all these individuals who wrap themselves in progressivism & then collaborate with the neoliberal right-wing from Medicare for all to obscene budget increases. Later for the tone police. People are dying, Dore is angry. Why aren't more?
If democrats believe that Trump is reckless with use of the military option, why did they vote with republicans to increase military budget?
Don't fall for it: Black, Brown and white working class and poor folks have nothing to do with a fight between the U.S. capitalist elite and the elite of any other capitalist state. The cops that gunned down yet another black person in Chicago wasn't Russian! Wake up!
Why isn't there more resistance and even outrage that the U.S. plans to illegally occupy another country - Syria? Answer: the public has been conditioned to accept this kind of gangsterism from both war parties who ignore the anti-war sentiments of the people.
The Russians today, the Chinese tomorrow, Putin's a devil while Benjamin Netanyahu is honored even though his hands drip with the blood of unarmed Palestinians. It is very dangerous, especially for the oppressed, when the rulers know how easy it is to manipulate public opinion.
The real left is in more danger under the hegemony of the neoliberal totalitarians. Look at the level of censorship that has now become normalized. Big tech in alliance with democrat party are now the primary threats to liberal values like free speech & access to information.
The assassination of Fred Hampton was one aspect of the counter-revolutionary COINTELPRO unleashed against not only the Panthers but the entire Black liberation movement. Let's remember that our movement still has the longest held political prisoners in the world in the U.S.
Did I miss the call for the expulsion of Israeli diplomats as a protest against the slaughter of unarmed Palestinians?
If the right-wing democrats win, the last thing Biden really wants is democrat control of the Senate. Why? Because republican control of the senate will provide the political cover they need for the neoliberal agenda they are committed to advancing.
Thank you Biden administration for blocking RT America. I have to admit I was being confused by perspectives on Ukraine other than CNN. Now I can focus on U.S. military advisors & won't be confused by voices questioning or opposing war because they won't be on. I love freedom.
Do not talk to me about gun violence unless you also oppose U.S. arms industry and U.S. militarism & war. End arms trade, defund war.
Every time there is pending military victory by Syrian forces they then decide to use chemical weapons. That is what we are supposed to believe. But those of us who can think reject this.
Hey, I wonder why we are not seeing more coverage of the story on the sabotage of Nord stream pipelines in the West. I thought they were outraged by the sabotage that they attributed to Russia. But we know the answer - don't we.
Sheepdog Bernie Sanders will cap off his sheepdogging duties tonight. No Medicare for All, no reduction in military spending, no defunding the police, no universal free childcare, no elimination of student debt - nothing - but the people are supposed to shut up & vote Blue.
Zelensky is a fraud that allowed the U.S. to make his people sacrificial lambs for U.S. strategic objectives. He just witnessed how they used & discarded the people of Afghanistan. But wait, I am making same mistake others make pretending like he is really in charge.
Nope, not in the colonial West where violence against the non-European colonized was normalized 500 years ago. How else can you explain how Israel can get away with calling itself a democracy & Western nations the defenders of human rights? twitter.com/Harley_Ride/st
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Biden just tweeted that Trump is not tough enough on Venezuela & that he will stand up against Maduro the "thug." Thousands of Black people and working class people are dying as a result of U.S. sanctions - that is not tough enough? But for Biden - "Black lives matter"!!
I have been asked a couple of times in interviews over the last few weeks about Trump pardons. Let me say for the record here. I support pardons for Snowden, Assange & especially Chelsea Manning. All exposed the criminality of the Bush-Obama/Biden period.
Look, don't be confused. Tha attacks on Rep Omar has really little to do with anyone really believing she is anti-Semetic. They know she isn't. This is powerplay aimed at the "progressives" to make sure they toll the line on the racst Isreali settler-colonal apartheid state.
The arrogance & boldness of U.S. propaganda still amazes me. A culture that justified 78 days of bombing of Serbia, the attacks on Afghanistan & Iraq, the destruction of Libya, war in Yemen, mass incarceration in the U.S., support for Saudi Arabia - can pretend it's innocent?
I will stop referring to CNN as Clinton News Network & refer to it for what it is- the Criminal News Network (CNN) for pushing straight up U.S. gangsterism. CNN believes the U.S. has right to invade, occupy, disrupt and destroy nations? And they call Trump a white supremacist!
I say again. You have a human right to information & to hold views that are not approved by the state.
Some of us don't have the luxury of engaging silly propaganda. Any inquiry into the attack on the Nord stream pipelines has to begin with this simple question. What state benefits the most from a permanent severing of economic relations between Russia & Europe? Let's get serious.
I didn't think I could dislike another opportunist neoliberal hustler politician more than Obama but this Zelensky fraud might be even more despicable. He has not only failed his people but has become the spokesperson for a normalized Western white supremacy.
Give me a break with this pretend innocence. The U.S. is pouring billions of dollars into one of the most corrupt governments on the planet & people are surprised that Ukrainian gangsters are selling Javelin's are dark web for $30K!
Its official now - Israel is an official apartheid state. Oh and by the way, as you were focused on Putin-Trump summit, Netanyahu's military has now murdered 130 unarmed protestors and wounded over 14 thousand.
This is what I'm talking about. All medical supply and equipment companies as well as hospitals and pharmaceutical companies should be nationalized. That is only way to eliminate profiteering at expense of public health.
Bernie go away. You had a chance to make history and you were not up to the task.
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We must do everything we can to ensure @JoeBiden wins by the largest possible margin. We also must consider what happens if Trump loses but refuses to abide by the results and does everything he can to hold onto power.
We need everyone to tweet out in opposition to the UN invasion of Haiti. #stopUNinvasionofHaiti The UN must stop being a puppet of Western powers. Russia & China if you abstain on this like you did on Libya, you will be called out.
Any candidate not willing to take a public stance against war & militarism should be rejected by electorate. Why is U.S. still in Afghanistan, illegally in Syria, bombing five other nations, escalating military tensions with the Russians? Both ruling class parties support war.
Israeli's shoot down unarmed Palestinians with U.S. weapons, Yemen is experiencing a genocidal war assisted by the U.S., black and brown people still being murdered in the streets by homicidal police, Libya destroyed, Syria bleeding & you tell me Russian are my enemies. A joke