Ereth

Mostly political retweets. Occasional blazblue posts.

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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Think about what the timeline actually requires you to believe if you accept the "Jewish/Israeli control" framework.

The Monroe Doctrine, 1823.
Israel does not exist.

The annexation of half of Mexico, 1848.
Israel does not exist.

The Spanish-American War and the seizure of the Philippines, 1898.
Israel does not exist.

The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1893.
Israel does not exist.

The Banana Wars across Central America, 1898 to 1934.
Israel does not exist.

The CIA coup in Iran, 1953.
Israel is five years old.

The CIA coup in Guatemala, 1954.
Israel is six years old.

American imperialism has a history that predates the State of Israel by over a century and predates the alleged dominance of the Israel lobby by considerably more.

It does not need an external explanation.

It has its own perfectly coherent internal logic: capital, resources, markets, strategic control, the maintenance of a global dollar system that requires military enforcement.

That logic was operational long before anyone could blame it on Israel.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

To convince people China is doing "terrible things" in Tibet - I have an actor here to tell you about it - a man whose job is literally to read any script put in front of him for money...

In reality, the US State Department admits tensions over Tibet are part of a CIA operation spanning decades seeking to violently, maliciously, and dishonestly carve territory off from China...

The full document can be seen here: https://t.co/eAvm190mOr

It literally admits these sort of information operations are part of the plan.

If you still don't get it - just imagine if China was hiring actors to talk about how Chinese-funded separatists in Texas "have the right to choose who governs them" and how the US government and the American people would view that.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.

Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947.

At the same time corporate profits are now at the highest point since 1950.

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

“[equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis] would be the end of the state of Israel and I support Israel” - Bernie Sanders

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The US only attacks in self-defense.
Bombed a country on the other side of the planet? Self-defense.
Started an unprovoked war of aggression? Self-defense.
Broke into your house and stabbed you in your sleep?
Self-defense.
If the US kills you, you needed killing.
You're welcome.

[Camila @camilapress]

Venezuelans from the 23 de enero Chavista neighborhood reflect four months on from the U.S. attack

We heard from leaders of the Comuna Socialista Simón Bolívar in Caracas 🇻🇪 @KawsachunNews

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Normalize telling warmongering gusanos to shut the fuck up. US regime change interventionism is evil regardless of wherever your family happens to come from. Your family fleeing Cuba in the sixties does not magically make siege warfare and mass murder acceptable. Shut up.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States

In a sign that the US is preparing for yet another evil war, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Cuba poses a “national security threat” to the United States, saying the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is “not high”.

“Cuba not only has weapons that they’ve acquired from Russia and China over the years, but they also host Russian and Chinese intelligence presence in their country — not far from where we’re standing right now,” Rubio told the press on Thursday. “So Cuba has always posed a national security threat to the United States. They, by the way, have been one of the leading sponsors of terrorism in the entire region.”

Rubio��s comments come as a US intelligence report laundered through Axios claims that Cuba may be preparing to launch a drone strike against US military forces. Havana said the Axios report misrepresents Cuba’s defensive measures as a preparation to attack, accusing the US of “fabricating pretexts, creating and spreading falsehoods, and distorting as extraordinary the logical preparation required to face a potential aggression.”

The US has also unsealed an indictment for Raul Castro, the 94 year-old brother of Fidel Castro, in a move that resembles the playbook used for the kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.

The excuses for military action are already being rolled out. This happens as US war machinery relocates to the Caribbean, and as Cuba flounders under a crushing US oil blockade that is already inflicting a severe humanitarian toll.

And everyone knows it’s all based on lies. You know it. I know it. Marco Rubio knows it. The war propagandists know it. The gusanos brigading social media begging for war know it. We all know it’s a sham.

Not one person sincerely believes Cuba poses a threat to the United States.

No one sincerely believes Cuba just coincidentally became an urgent menace to US national security all of a sudden right when the US began scrambling to consolidate geostrategic control in the middle east and the western hemisphere.

Nobody actually thinks that a tiny, impoverished island nation is preparing to launch a war of aggression against the United States.

This is a performance put on by warmongers and bootlickers. It insults our intelligence and robs us of dignity.

If things cool down with Iran, then it’s a safe bet they’re going in for the kill shot on Cuba. The US empire never makes peace, it just moves the crosshairs of its war machinery from nation to nation.

We see this over and over again.

Yay! The troops are leaving Afghanistan — oh, now they’re waging a proxy war in Ukraine.

Excellent, they’re deescalating against Yemen — whoa, now they’re kidnapping the president of Venezuela.

Oh hey, it looks like the mass slaughter in Gaza has slowed down — oh, now they’re going to war with Iran.

Look, they’re pulling thousands of troops out of Germany —��oh, it’s so they can move them to Poland.

Hey these Iran negotiations are finally getting somewhere — ah man, now they’re invading Cuba.

Over and over and over and over again. As soon as the human butchery slows down in one place, it picks up somewhere else.

The US empire exists in a constant state of war. War is the glue that holds the empire together. If the wars stop, the empire stops.

That’s why the denizens of the empire are never allowed to vote for an end to wars. You can vote for candidates who will end abortions or trans rights or corporate regulations, but you can’t vote for a candidate who will actually end the wars. Peace is never on the ballot, because war is too critical for the functioning of the empire.

Which is why it’s so important for us all to stand against the war machine. If we can end the wars, we can end the empire. Not until then will we have a shot at building a healthy world.

[Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez @DiazCanelB]

Ahora dicen cínicamente que no existe bloqueo petrolero a #Cuba, que todo lo que sufre nuestro pueblo es culpa del Gobierno cubano.

Mienten una y otra vez sin ningún pudor, con una desfachatez alarmante, sin presentar una sola evidencia que sustente sus afirmaciones.

La culpa es de quienes ordenan cerrar todos los accesos a recursos materiales y financieros.

¿O acaso se suspendió la orden ejecutiva del 29 de enero del 2026 que penaliza con aranceles irracionales a cualquier país que provea de combustible a Cuba?

¿Cómo entender entonces que el Departamento del Tesoro siga restringiendo los envíos de combustible a Cuba en sus sistemáticas actualizaciones?

Solo mentes muy retorcidas podrían negar ante el mundo ese castigo colectivo que se ejerce contra todo un pueblo y ya se va convirtiendo en acto de genocidio.

Ha sido la práctica de ese imperio, armar guerras y exterminar pueblos sobre la base de la mentira.

Hechos y no palabras son las respuestas que Cuba y el mundo reclaman.

Quiten el #Bloqueo y vamos a ver a cómo tocamos.

#LaPatriaSeDefiende 🇨🇺

[Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez @DiazCanelB]

Las amenazas de agresión militar contra #Cuba de la mayor potencia del planeta son conocidas.

Ya la amenaza constituye un crimen internacional. De materializarse, provocará un baño de sangre de consecuencias incalculables, más el impacto destructivo para la paz y la estabilidad regional.

Cuba no representa una amenaza, ni tiene planes o intenciones agresivas contra ningún país. No los tiene contra EE.UU, ni los ha tenido nunca, lo que conoce bien el Gobierno de esa nación, en especial sus agencias de defensa y seguridad nacional.

Cuba, que ya sufre una agresión multidimensional de EE.UU, sí tiene el derecho absoluto y legítimo a defenderse de una arremetida bélica, lo que no puede esgrimirse lógica ni honestamente como excusa para imponer una guerra contra el noble pueblo cubano.

[Døm ツ @malcxlmflex]

going through my bookmarks and came across this. i will never forget what the democrats & biden were saying to deny the genocide when it began

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

If you need any more evidence that democratic congressional leadership supports the Iran war. They miscounted the votes so an actual co-sponsor of the bill had to vote against it to stop it from passing!

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Lately I've caught myself slipping into thinking things like "Sure Obama bombed a hospital, at least he apologized for it!" but we really can't allow recency bias to obscure the monstrous scale of everything he actually did.

[Adam Thomas @TheHonorableAT]

30 minutes researching the Korean War will make everything North Korea does make sense to you.

The US committed a genocidal campaign and wiped it from our history books

[kenziestar ➡️ CEO26!! @_kenziestar_]

if evo taking saudi money is bad (it is) then this is 100x worse btw

if any event has a sponsorship from the US fucking military, boycott before your entry fees going towards bombing children in tehran becomes standard

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

"The blackouts wear us down. 96,000 people waiting for surgery -- 11,000 of them children. Things we know how to do, and do well. Yet we are held back by what is collective punishment, a criminal policy, a truly genocidal policy."

-- President Diaz-Canel, on the US blockade.

[Ereth @Ereth322]

@Edgedark_ Didnt read the whole thing but it just reeks of not understanding abuse dynamics

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One common feature in western empire propaganda is that we are always given reasons for the empire's violence, while the violence of those who resist the empire gets framed as happening for no reason at all.

We've all been fed reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, and we all know what those reasons are. Even less-informed members of the western public have heard something about the Iranians being a nuclear threat, having a tyrannical government, and maybe something about sponsoring terrorist groups.

But the so-called "peaceful protesters" who were killed in an uprising fomented and facilitated by the United States? They were killed for no reason, simply because the Iranian government is evil and hates dissent. All the Iranian police officers who died in the uprising perished for no reason, perhaps of natural causes. It is only by pure coincidence that this happened at the exact same time the US empire was making the decision to try to topple the Iranian government.

We've all been given the official reasons why Israel has spent years blanketing the Gaza Strip with military explosives: Israel was attacked by Hamas on October 7 2023, so it needs to get rid of Hamas for its own security.

But why did the Hamas attack happen? It happened for no reason. If you look to the propagandists in the western press for answers, October 7 happened solely because Hamas are evil and wanted to kill Jews because of their religion. Absolutely no mention of Israel's savage treatment of Palestinians for generations, or the dreadful living conditions imposed upon the giant concentration camp that Gaza had become.

We've been told why the western empire is pouring weapons into Ukraine: Ukraine was invaded by Russia. The empire wants to protect the freedom and democracy of the Ukrainian people, and to deter future expansionism by Vladimir Putin.

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? No reason. Putin's just evil and hates freedom, that's all. Sure, countless western experts and analysts had been warning for years that NATO aggressions were going to lead to a war on Russia's border, but they were just rambling lunatics whose forecasts of war were proven correct by pure coincidence.

Our entire understanding of history is framed in this way. Fidel Castro killed people in Cuba. Why did he kill them? No reason; he was just a mean jerk. All the violence of the socialist revolutionaries around the world overthrowing the abusive governments which preceded them is framed as causeless genocidal carnage inflicted by murderous tyrants who simply loved killing people. The desperation caused by the capitalist exploitation that had been imposed upon those populations is completely redacted from our history books.

A mature understanding of our world begins with a curiosity about why the violence is happening. Violence is not always justified, but there is always a reason why it happens. Western pundits, politicians and newscasters will very seldom tell you what those reasons are unless it advances the interests of the western empire, so if you want to have a truth-based understanding of what's really going on in our world, you need to actively seek out the answers for yourself.

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

Only Israelis make a point in saying “double-sided” ceasefire which’s different to normal ceasefires where Israel only continues to attack