Mark Weisbrot
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Co-director, Center for Economic & Policy Research ( @ceprdc ). Latest book, ''Failed: What the Experts Got Wrong About the Global Economy" Oxford U Press.
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2 minutes of truth about US intervention in Syria from Jeffrey Sachs
@JeffDSachs
is worth more than 98 percent of the bullshit we are hearing on TV -- worth clicking on this:
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They never did find any evidence of fraud in the October 20th election, but the media repeated the allegation so many times that it became "true," in this post-truth world. Thread:
Well it's officially a military coup now in Bolivia. And, as usual, backed by the United States government. Without the US-dominated OAS, & a lot of terrible and even false reporting, it probably wouldn't have happened.
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Well it's officially a military coup now in Bolivia. And, as usual, backed by the United States government. Without the US-dominated OAS, & a lot of terrible and even false reporting, it probably wouldn't have happened.
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And this is still a military coup. Nobody voted for Williams Kaliman, the Commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces. Some of the major media are already burying the fact it was he who pushed Evo out of the Presidency. Bolivia no longer has an elected, legitimate government.
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This is amazing: buried deep in this NYT article is a sentence indicating the Trump economic sanctions are a major cause of the deadly blackout in Venezuela, contradicting the rest of the article. No one has noticed; this should have been the main story:
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White House statement yesterday: Venezuela "poses an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security" of the US. It's clearly false, but legally necessary in order to continue Trump sanctions that are killing Venezuelan civilians every day.
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To the vast majority of the world, the sight of a US Admiral who heads the US Southern Command deciding who should be president of another country -- in this case
#Venezuela
-- and openly encouraging a military coup, looks like 19th century colonialism.
When invited by
@jguaido
& the legitimate gov't of
#Venezuela
, I look forward to discussing how we can support the future role of those
@ArmadaFANB
leaders who make the right decision, put the Venezuela people first & restore constitutional order. We stand ready!
#EstamosUnidosVE
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The world needs more journalists willing to report on how US economic sanctions are killing people in
#Venezuela
. Here are 2 minutes of truth on BNN Canada:
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This fight is not over yet. The right-wing forces who have pulled off this coup with help from Rubio & the Trump administration still have to deal with the 47% of the country who, despite a media onslaught, voted for Evo. Bolivians may need international support for their safety.
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The latest OAS "audit", repeats a major falsehood from their previous reports, pretending that there was an "unusual" jump in Evo's vote margin towards the end of the quick count. But the change was in fact gradual, as later-reporting areas were more pro-Evo than earlier ones:
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Economic sanctions have become the most destructive form of US warfare. They target civilians & can kill them by the 1000s & 10,000s, depriving them of medicine, food, & life-saving infrastructure e.g. for clean water. It's criminal & the next US President must put an end to it.
WSJ SCOOP: U.S. officials warned Iraq that it risks losing access to its account at the New York Fed, where international oil sale revenue is kept, if it moves to expel U.S. troops
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Here, 97 economists and statisticians point to a few facts about how the OAS helped deceive the public about Bolivia's election. Who in the US media will report these facts? This isn't rocket science. In the Guardian:
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Once again, on US intervention in Venezuela, Trump throws the dirt and shit out in the open. Why are so many Democratic politicians trying to look the other way?
Donald Trump: "I don't understand why we're not looking at Venezuela. Why we're not a war with Venezuela? They have all the oil and they're in our back door" |
@TheLastWord
with
@Lawrence
— Fmr. FBI Dir. Andrew McCabe on 2017 meeting with President Trump
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For those who want to see what actually happened, some links: (1)
2)
3) statistical analysis here:
4) My interview last night on BBC TV World News:
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More evidence that US government is not doing what it can even with US allies to allow for more vaccine production by the rest of the world -- no excuse for this. From The Financial Times
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Marco Rubio is a sick individual who should not have responsibility for anything, much less a Senate seat, or play any role in the foreign policy of the United States.
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I can't believe that there is even a debate in the media in this country over whether the US-supported military coup in Bolivia was a coup. What does the military need to do for these pundits, press a rifle against Evo's forehead on international TV?
What’s happening right now in Bolivia isn’t democracy, it’s a coup.
The people of Bolivia deserve free, fair, and peaceful elections - not violent seizures of power.
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"The missiles that kill us, American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks, Abrams, American-made. You are saying to me, where is America? America is the whole thing." Your tax dollars at work in Yemen. From PBS:
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More Courage from Congressman Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
, writing in Washington Post against the Trump regime change operation in Venezuela. Why are so many sitting on the sidelines as neocon extremists create chaos and destruction and prepare for another war?
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This letter in the Nation, from more than 300 academics, makes some solid arguments that the NYT editorial board made a serious mistake when it endorsed the recent military coup against the democratically elected President Evo Morales of Bolivia:
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This is the bottom line on how the OAS lied about the election in
#Bolivia
, in 80 seconds.
Such a simple point that it's amazing so many people can get it wrong.
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A very big change from Congressional leadership. McGovern is Chair of the powerful Rules Committee. He is telling the ugly truth, and for the first time demanding an end to the US sanctions that have killed tens of thousands, & probably more, Venezuelans. Worth reading it all.
I am asking the Biden administration to lift all secondary and sectoral sanctions imposed on
#Venezuela
by the Trump Administration.
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Welcome to Washington DC, where no good deed goes unpunished. Or good person. Ilhan Omar (
@IlhanMN
) is great, we need many more like her in the US Congress. So many lives in the world could be saved.
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This is based on a large body of research and is without exaggeration. The US gov't gets away with implementing these lethal sanctions, which have killed tens of thousands of people in some countries, because most people here don't know how many people are being killed.
The evidence shows that economic sanctions lead to declines in income and life expectancy similar to those in armed conflicts, making them one of the deadliest weapons used by western powers. My article on the human cost of sanctions today at
@FT
.
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Important message from Dr Mark Perlmutter, just back from volunteering in Gaza. He is president of the World Surgical Foundation and a former president of the Int. College of Surgeons: US Congress needs to stop sending arms shipments to a state “that’s recklessly killing innocent…
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Some very good news, Honduran election reversed a US-backed coup of 2009, getting rid of violent US-backed right-wing gov't; 2nd time in a year (Bolivia 2019 US/OAS coup reversed 1 year ago); Brazil is next US-backed coup reversal, Lula in 2022.
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Social Security is one of the most remarkable examples of how, with massive disinformation, Americans can be deceived. Not about what's happening on the other side of the world, but something that 1/6 of Americans get a check from. My explanation here:
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Wow, this is pretty Orwellian: Facebook chooses 2 US-government-funded organizations who specialize in overseas propaganda and sometimes regime change to fight "malicious propaganda" Reuters reports without irony or any awareness of who these groups are:
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We saw a big partisan divide in responses. Fully 62% of President Biden’s 2020 voters support halting arms shipments to Israel. Only 14% of Biden voters do not. This is his electoral base
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Where are the people in US foreign policy and human rights circles who claim to care about the rule of law? Nobody denies that Evo was democratically elected in 2014, & his term doesn't end until January. How can the military have the right to tell him to resign?
Esta autoproclamación atenta contra los arts 161, 169 y 410 de la CPE que determinan la aprobación o rechazo de una renuncia presidencial, la sucesión constitucional sobre presidencias del Senado o Diputados y la Supremacía de la CPE. Bolivia sufre un asalto al poder del pueblo.
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There is growing opposition in the Congress to the coup in Bolivia. This can help, because so far the OAS has allied with Trump & has made false statements about the election that have driven media coverage. Members of Congress can hold OAS accountable.
I'm deeply worried about the
#HumanRights
of Bolivians, including their right to peacefully protest. A peaceful transfer of power after elections is a cornerstone of democracy — the time for military coups, in Latin America or elsewhere, is over.
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1) No one should underestimate the change that the anti-racist protests sweeping the country are capable of producing. (Map below from New York Times):
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THREAD: Bolivia held its presidential election on October 20th — and since then, there has been a lot of confusion around the vote tallying process, which is still ongoing. 1/x
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Many thanks to
@IlhanMN
We need more elected officials to take a stand on this. Besides the ones from the Trump administration who have supported the coup from the beginning.
There's a word for the President of a country being pushed out by the military. It’s called a coup.
We must unequivocally oppose political violence in Bolivia. Bolivians deserve free and fair elections.
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These numbers from Jeffrey Sachs say more than tens of thousands of words:
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Yes, it's clear that the alleged "fraud" in Bolivia's election was a lie from day one. Almost everyone who has looked at the evidence knows it. And yes, as explained below, Evo Morales, despite his overthrow by the military, is therefore the legitimate President of Bolivia.
[OPINIÓN] ¿Y si ahora se comprueba que no hubo fraude en Bolivia? ¿Qué se debe hacer? Esto es lo que pregunta
@PedroBriegerOk
ante diversas investigaciones y publicaciones que cuestionan lo que ocurrió en las elecciones del 20 de octubre.
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This is great: Chomsky at Reuters negates the day's reporting on Venezuela; if big media did this every day, we would have far fewer wars:
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Every time Trump imposes sanctions on Venezuelans, he has to declare a "national emergency" for the US under the same law that he used for his wall. More detail here on how these sanctions are killing Venezuelans:
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This scandal in Brazil keeps growing; it was all obvious more than 2 years ago when President Dilma Rousseff was impeached without a crime & former President Lula da Silva was imprisoned without evidence -- but too many people just looked the other way:
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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights once again states the obvious, that US economic sanctions, including in
#Venezuela
are massive violations of human rights. Could Trump get away with this so easily if US media reported the facts?
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Bernie's being polite here, as is his custom especially with his opponents for the nomination. But Biden did vastly more than just support the Iraq War, he played one of the most important roles in making it happen:
I do not believe we will defeat Donald Trump with a candidate like Joe Biden who supported the Iraq War.
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Trump sanctions have already killed 10s of thousands in Venezuela & an unknown number in Iran & other countries. This piece by economists Jeffrey Sachs and Francisco Rodriguez explains how US sanctions during this pandemic will kill many more people
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Here is some more detail on MarketWatch, on how the OAS lied about the election in
#Bolivia
, thus contributing to the
#BoliviaCoup
. It's not the first time the US has used the OAS in this way, but we are going to hold them accountable this time:
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This is what happens when the OAS lies about an election, providing the political foundation for a military coup against a democratically elected government, and most of the media goes along for the ride. The damage to democracy is immense and ongoing.
Bolivia's coup leader, Fernando Camacho, has asked the OAS to intervene to stop democratic elections taking place on September 6th.
Camacho says that "we mustn't allow the elections to become an act of resurrection" for the MAS.
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Every journalist who covers South America knows exactly what happened here and who is responsible -- especially at the OAS. This scandal is not going away, I promise.
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This is Senator Rick Scott of Florida, responding in the Miami Herald to the report by myself and Jeffrey Sachs. He makes it clear he does not care how many Venezuelans have to die so that he & Trump & Rubio can get the government they want in power. …
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I wrote this because most Americans do not understand how the confiscation of a country's international reserves -- in this case by Washington-- can cause the rapid increase in hunger and malnourishment seen in Afghanistan (see tweet below): please share
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Yes, anyone who looked at the data knew this 8 months ago.
“For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never any doubt that the
@OAS_official
’s claims of fraud were bogus,” said
@JakobJohnston
in reference to new study reported in the
@nytimes
.
#Bolivia
#BoliviaCoup
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Elliot Abrams, war criminal and Trump "Special Representative for Venezuela," runs into trouble with reporters who are not buying the idea that he can toss out Venezuela's constitution in order to install a new president. So much for the rule of law ...
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2) Can everyone call Speaker Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-4965 & inform her that recognizing a parallel gov't in Venezuela has imposed a trade embargo & therefore is depriving millions of Venezuelans of food & medicine, and politely ask why she would support that?
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Not surprisingly, the Venezuelan military is reacting like most military officers in the world would react when a foreign leader (in this case Trump) directly threatens their lives in public. Did Trump expect them to say, "Yes, sir, Mr. Trump, sir ! " ?
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Nice to see this courage from one of the United States' largest labor unions, the American Federation of Teachers, on the Trump team's illegal regime change operation in
#Venezuela
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Here is a letter released yesterday from members of the US Congress demanding that charges against Julian Assange be dismissed. The biggest US organizations (see here ) concerned with press freedom, human rights, or civil liberties agree. 🧵
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This is good; bad things happen when the Trump & Congress & the media all work together to overthrow a foreign government that -- incidentally -- has never posed even the slightest threat to the United States. And Trump's illegal sanctions are literally killing many Venezuelans.
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Yes and there needs to be an investigation of the OAS to find out who was responsible for promoting this so obviously false narrative for 4 months, when the Trump administration and OAS used it to support a military coup and violent political repression
OAS responds to
@Master0fNull
's criticism of its statistical analysis by...failing to defend its statistical analysis. This is the research equivalent of pleading the Fifth Amendment. If the OAS cannot defend its analysis, it should withdraw that analysis from the report.
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This is a victory due to grassroots organizing: the fascist president of Brazil had to cancel his trip to New York. Someday the role of the US government in paving the way for his presidency will be known to the whole world:
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This is what fascism looks like. It's what the President of Brazil stands for. It's Trump's strongest and closest ally in Latin America.
The Rio investigators who arrested 2 of the police officer/militia-members who assassinated Marielle say that the 2 assassins have since monitored other left-wing politicians, journalists & human rights activists, including my husband
@davidmirandario
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This debunks the OAS's 5th publication on Bolivia's election. Tellingly, the OAS still doesn't even look at how Evo's margin increased as later precincts reported because these were from more pro-Evo areas-- the very first thing that any honest observer would have looked at.
THREAD:
@OAS_official
released its final audit of the Bolivian elections. In the 35 days since it released a preliminary report: Evo Morales was ousted in a coup; an opposition Senator swore herself in as president; 30+ have been killed, most by state security forces.
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Human Rights Watch
@hrw
,
@ACLU
,
@amnesty
International & Committee to Protect Journalists
@pressfreedom
all agree: prosecution of
@wikileaks
' Julian Assange threatens press freedoms everywhere. But still no respect for press freedom from US or UK gov’ts:
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Trump now officially supports the military coup in Bolivia. No surprise here, the Trump/Rubio team has been helping the coup all along. But his statement, like his "I like oil. We're keeping the oil." in Syria, is embarrassingly blunt and also menacing.
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Most of the world sees Assange as a political prisoner, and correctly so; and he has never been charged with a crime until Trump did it. The Obama DOJ wouldn't do it because of what it called "the New York Times" problem --that the "crime" was exactly what the NYT did, and does.
@Claudiashein
leading the way by presenting the keys to Mexico City to Julian Assange.
#FreeAssangeNow
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So, for years I have occasionally commented on crazy shit from OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro. Did u think I was exaggerating? Check out this part of his screed from yesterday, pasted below; (whole thing at this link):
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We have the power to stop this. Everyone knows that the U.S. could end this today if we wanted to. This is Josep Borell, the highest official of the European Union in charge of foreign policy, telling the United States government that they need to do something, like cut weapons…
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Great interview with
@GuillaumeLong
at CNN, shows how non-credible it is that US gov't wants to extradite
@wikileaks
@JulianAssange_
for alleged conspiracy to obtain a password. Just like it was stupid to believe that his long detention was because of Swedish investigation.
My interview with
@RobynCurnowCNN
on
@CNN
about the illegal termination of Assange’s asylum, freedom of expression and why it was about the persecution of
@wikileaks
all along:
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Some people are questioning why this is important. In fact, it is part of a much larger omission by the media of the enormous destructive impact of US sanctions that have been in place before the Guaido trade embargo. See
This is amazing: buried deep in this NYT article is a sentence indicating the Trump economic sanctions are a major cause of the deadly blackout in Venezuela, contradicting the rest of the article. No one has noticed; this should have been the main story:
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Bolivia's election was a huge win not only for Bolivia, but for the hemisphere, where Washington has pursued a policy of anti-democratic regime change (including last year's coup in Bolivia) for the whole 21st century. More here:
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@BootsRiley
Actually,
@Dany_bahar
look at your twitter feed you will remember that I responded to your "public challenge" & offered you, and others, a public debate. Which I am still waiting for. None of the advocates of regime change are willing to defend their views in a public debate
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Members of the US Congress ask the Organization of American States 10 questions about their reports on
#Bolivia
that the OAS can't answer without telling more lies. Full letter here:
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Last year I wrote in NYT ( ) the first discussion in major US media of lack of evidence in the trial that sent Lula da Silva to prison and kept him from being re-elected. Now thanks to the
@theintercept
this trial is exposed as a corrupt farce.
Here's Part II of
@Glauber_Braga
's explanation - directly to Bolsonaro's Justice Minister, Sergio Moro - of the corruption exposed by our journalism. This gives a sense of the climate created here, and why they are now using brute (& futile) threats against us for our reporting:
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One reason that right-wing Latin American governments who have come to power with US support, as in Argentina and Brazil, may not produce long-lasting change is that they are too incompetent to manage an economy. My oped below:
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This is great: Bernie tell tells the pro-war crowd and their enablers to bring it on. Can't remember when a presidential candidate of his stature (he got 43% percent of the vote the 2016 Democratic primary) said something this honest about US wars.
I was right about Vietnam.
I was right about Iraq.
I will do everything in my power to prevent a war with Iran.
I apologize to no one.
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This is the result of a 2019 military coup backed by the US gov't and Bolivian white supremacists, that overthrew the democratically elected government of Evo Morales. With decisive help from Luis Almagro, still Secretary General of the OAS.
Illegal para-state group, Santa Cruz Youth League set fire to the Campesino Federation (Fed. Unica), has sacked the Departmental Workers Union (COD), are attempting to take over the State TV station. At least 4 have been attacked. It's getting worse.
#Bolivia
. PLEASE SHARE!
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Incredible: Marco Rubio tweeted today re/Venezuela "Until last week, all sanctions were on individuals,not government" -- Is it possible he doesn't know that the August 2017 sanctions imposed a financial embargo that included most government borrowing? Maybe ...
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These sick fucks really think they run the world and they don't care how many people they have to kill anywhere in order to prove it.
Pleased to hear that my good friend Elliott Abrams is rejoining State as Special Envoy for Venezuela. Welcome back to the fight.
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We specifically asked about stopping arms shipments to Israel, not a ceasefire, because “ceasefire” means so many different things to different people. “Stopping arms shipment” is specific and unambiguous.
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Washington has often refused to accept election results it doesn't like, especially in Latin America, but this is a new extremism, declaring elections invalid before we know anything about them. Of course they had no problem with the fraudulent November 26 election in Honduras.
JUST IN: Senior U.S. official says results of Venezuelan election will not be accepted, additional sanctions on Venezuela are always under consideration
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Many thanks to
@democracynow
for reporting both the crimes of Russia's war in Ukraine and also how the US is directly involved in the crimes of the war in Yemen, for 7 years, which has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians there. And thanks to
@sarahleah1
for explaining.
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Jeremy Corbyn and Álvaro García Linera have principles. We need more political leaders like them, in Europe and Latin America.
Great to meet Bolivia’s Vice President Álvaro García Linera today, who along with Mexico and Uruguay are already playing an important role in mediating a negotiated political solution in Venezuela.
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7) Anyone who cares about the lives of Venezuelans, no matter what their political views are, should oppose these illegal and increasingly lethal US economic sanctions. 7/7
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What does this tell the world about the US government, which continues to prosecute Julian Assange for the "crime" of journalism, using its prosecution to keep him locked up in London's Belmarsh prison for four years?
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What is he saying, the Secretary General of the OAS? More sanctions, because kids were malnourished before the sanctions? So it's ok to cause more death and suffering for as long as it takes to get what he & Trump want in
#Venezuela
? This is heinous.
Today I spoke at
@ShenandoahU
about the recent struggle against authoritarianism and dictatorship in the Americas. In
#Venezuela
, we need more sanctions, no less. Kids are malnourished and were starving long before sanctions were applied to
@NicolasMaduro
´s mob
#OEAconVzla
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This article on Bolsonaro has some useful info but sadly glides past important truths about his rise to power: the impeachment of President Dilma without a crime, & political trial & imprisonment of Lula, the leading candidate in the election, without material evidence:
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With the exception of Brazil, which has a right-wing extremist president who was allied with Trump, it's pretty much the high-income countries against the vast majority of the world-- where lives would be saved if this were allowed.
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Rubio and Trump want you to think that there was something wrong with Bolivia's election because they want regime change. And they own the OAS leadership right now. But their allegations are false. I explain that here:
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This should put last nail in coffin of Honduran gov't "explanation" for huge unexplained shift in results, unless The Economist made a data error. No correlation between rural vote and JOH gain
#HondurasVoto2017
#Honduras
#HondurasDecide
@hondurassol
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1) A new article from Foreign Affairs cites independent (academic and definitely not pro-government) research showing that the government is now providing food to 90 percent of Venezuelans
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The State Department this week is trying to exert pressure on Russia to release WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich; "Publishing is not a crime," said the State Department. Note the NYT above, on Assange's imprisonment, "Journalism is not a crime." 🧵
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Even a sizable minority (30%) of Republicans favor stopping arms shipments. But there is another result that the Biden campaign should be worried about: Of those who did not vote in the 2020 presidential election, fully 60% agreed that the U.S. should block weapons shipments.…
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All this is to say that the American public may have already moved past the idea of a “ceasefire.” We all see the images on TV. The heartache of 30,000+ dead– most of them women and children.
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This is some pretty dumb generational warfare on Vox. Besides the silliness on the public debt, why blame all the failed policies that have damaged this country on people with certain birth years rather than neoliberal slobs who did the damage?
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This should be a much bigger part of the news on Argentina's crisis: the government did do what it promised the IMF in its record $56 billion loan program; but it just made the crisis worse. Where is the IMF's accountability?
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More impact of the Trump sanctions that will deprive millions of Venezuelans of food and medicine; that is the strategy, targeting civilians, as in Yemen. From CNN:
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Maybe the Trump administration should adopt the slogan from the Simpsons' Fox News helicopter: "Not Racist, but
#1
with Racists."
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Excellent analysis and proposals on Ukraine war, with
@yanisvaroufakis
on
@democracynow
... prescient too, given what Biden said the next day (Saturday March 26-- see tweet below)
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Most of the world knows that Julian Assange is a political prisoner of the U.S. government. President Lula Da Silva of Brazil at UN General Assembly: "A journalist, like Julian Assange, cannot be punished for informing society in a transparent and legitimate way." 1)
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Here's Katrina vanden Heuvel
@KatrinaNation
with real knowledge and right on target as usual,
@democracynow
and
@washingtonpost
... pushing for sanity on the Ukraine War. Courage.
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This 2018 letter from Senate Ethics Committee makes you wonder how Menendez is still in the Senate; & was not convicted of criminal charges last time. A powerful example of how the rotten foreign policy that he championed undermines democracy at home.
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