On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
110 things Ben Norton said, verbatim, from July 24, 2026 to October 18, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“Global public opinion polls show Israel is now the most unpopular country on Earth. A top Israeli official published a report that calls for waging never-ending war, in a "permanent Israeli-Arab conflict". He said peace is "weakness". I explain here:”
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“These Western regime officials have spent years supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza. Now the EU expresses its "full solidarity" with the Saudi dictatorship, as it bombs Yemen. What Von der Leyen conveniently didn't mention is that the Saudi monarchy attacked Yemen first, and Yemen retaliated proportionately. With US and EU support, the Saudi regime has been bombing Yemen on and off for 11 years. The Saudi monarchy has massacred Yemenis in funerals, schools, and residential homes, while intentionally targeting food production sites to cause mass hunger and famine, to kill as many Yemeni civilians as possible. The White House recently gave the Saudi dictatorship the green light to restart its war of aggression against Yemen. The Saudi regime has repeatedly bombed Yemen's airports. So Yemen is retaliating by hitting Saudi airports. If Saudi Arabia doesn't want to be targeted, it should stop killing Yemenis. Simple.”
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“This is exactly the kind of barbarism that warmongering think tankers in Washington, DC support. This Brookings Institution fellow and former Goldman Sachs executive strongly supports the murderous US blockade and sanctions against Iran. He gloats that Iranian nurses, teachers, and pensioners are suffering. This is the intended goal of US sanctions: to kill and hurt as many civilians as possible, to destabilize the economy of the targeted country, to try to cause social collapse.”
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“The head of the EU declares, "We stand in solidarity with Saudi Arabia". The West loves dictatorial absolute monarchies, when they serve the interests of Western imperialism. Von der Leyen "forgot" to mention that the Saudi regime attacked Yemen first, with a US green light.”
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“The fascist Israeli regime plans a "final solution" for Gaza: Israel's "Defense" Minister Israel Katz admitted the regime plans to soon restart its "war" (ie, genocide), in order to "finish the job" and expel all 2 million Palestinians from Gaza. He boasted that Israel has already ethnically cleansed 70% of the territory of Gaza.”
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“Photos obtained by CBS News show that Iran has done significantly more damage to US military bases than has previously been admitted. Trump has claimed dozens of times that the US is "winning" its war of aggression. These photos prove otherwise. https:// cbsnews.com/news/new-photo s-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/ …”
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“The far-right drug cartel-linked US citizen now governing Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has only been president for 3 days, and he already re-established diplomatic relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and recognized its illegal occupation of Syria's Golan Heights.”
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“The Israeli media reports that Mossad's director removed the head of the spy agency’s intelligence directorate and its Iran division, because their regime-change attempts failed. Their plan was to kick off protests in Iran among minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds.”
on Mossad leadership changes after failed Iran regime-change efforts
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“In its war of aggression against Iran, the US Army has used up "virtually all" of its stockpile of long-range precision missiles, Reuters reports. And the US still lost. The US is also running out of interceptors needed for its air defense. Source: https:// reuters.com/world/us-has-u sed-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-2026-08-04/ …”
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“Not satire: The fascist Israeli regime wants to make a medieval moat with crocodiles to surround Palestinian political prisoners. But the barbaric, 12th-century plan was delayed because... an animal rights group complained. Israelis care more about crocodiles than Palestinians.”
on Israel's plan for a crocodile moat around Palestinian prisoners
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“The imperialist gangsters who run the US and Israeli regimes are preparing massive attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure. They plan to destroy power plants and refineries, in a terrorist plot to leave Iranians in the dark. This is a huge escalation, and Iran will retaliate.”
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“We live in an absolutely insane world where this genocidal war criminal who has slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinian women, mutilating their bodies, openly boasts of how the US & Israeli regimes ousted the prosecutor of the ICC, and cynically claims it's justice for women”
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“China invests in the real economy, focusing on raising wages, developing the country, and moving up the value chain in advanced manufacturing. The US enriches oligarchs by inflating stock market bubbles based on financial speculation and hype, and calls this "growth".”
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“Unlike the US, China's goal is not to inflate stock market bubbles. China's goal is to develop the real economy and raise the living standards of the majority of the population. In the US, nearly 90% of stocks are owned by the richest 10% of the population. The US government serves the interests of these rich elites, and does not carry about the majority of working-class Americans. That's why everything in the hyper-financialized US economy revolves around inflating stock market bubbles, while the real economy has deindustrialized and atrophied for decades.”
on how China's economy compares with the US economy and who benefits
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“At its 19th National Congress in 2017, the Communist Party of China officially changed its analysis of the "principal contradiction of Chinese society". Since the Reform and Opening Up era initiated by Deng Xiaoping, it had been the need to developing the productive forces and promote high levels of economic growth. Since 2017, the top goal is now to rectify "unbalanced development" and promote "balanced urban and rural development and equitable income distribution". In other words, the CPC's chief priority is to reduce inequality. And that is exactly what it is doing, in many ways. One of those is by forcing the rich and large corporations to pay significant taxes. https:// za.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng//zt/19thCP Cnationalcongress/201711/t20171101_7633990.htm …”
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“In this article, I explain the real reason for Trump's summit with China's President Xi Jinping in Washington. The trade war backfired, and there is a temporary truce. Now US corporations want to access the Chinese market. That’s why Trump invited them:”
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“Donald Trump invited a who's who of top CEOs to his White House dinner with China's President Xi Jinping. This info comes from the official White House guest list. These US corporations are desperate to access to the huge Chinese market. This is why Trump organized the summit.”
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“An ex White House staffer proposed US military attacks on China to prevent it from developing advanced AI tech. This warmongering insanity is bipartisan in Washington. It's not just Trump/Rubio/Hegseth. This is a neoconservative Democrat who worked for Biden in the Obama admin.”
on a former White House staffer's proposal for US strikes on China's AI
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“Of course the biased Western media tries to make this sound bad, but it's actually awesome: The Communist Party of China runs mass service centers that are open to the public and offer free internet, cheap food, work desks, training and classes, plus sometimes child care & gyms.”
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“The Communist Party of China also runs many community service centers for the elderly, offering free cultural activities, medical attention, classes, and gyms, as well as canteens with subsidized food. I took these photos during a visit to a service center in Shanghai.”
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“Cold War Two: The new US ambassador to Colombia declared in his confirmation hearing, "I think all nations have to make a decision, that it's either the United States or China". He boasted that Colombia's incoming far-right, pro-Trump President Abelardo de la Espriella (a dual US citizen) will limit ties with China and withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative.”
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“Poll after poll shows that China is much more popular than the US around the globe. The US empire has nothing positive to offer the world, only war & genocide. So the US government is spending more and more money to demonize China. That's all it can do. https:// pbs.org/newshour/world /u-s-looks-to-boost-anti-china-spending-worldwide-by-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-documents-say …”
on US spending to counter China's global popularity
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“Marco Rubio gave a speech that openly praised colonialism, erased the history of the genocide of Indigenous nations, and declared that the West must use military force to "maintain its place at the head of the world". I made a video debunking his lies:”
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“Some people don't understand why Marco Rubio is so extremely pro-colonialist, because he is technically of Cuban descent. But it's important to understand that Rubio does NOT see himself as Cuban. He constantly emphasizes that he is of Spanish (and Italian) descent. In his latest speech in Greece, in which he again heaped praise on Western colonialism, Rubio proudly described himself as "a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain". He heroized European colonialists Hernán Cortés and Christopher Columbus. Rubio does NOT see his family as Cuban; he sees his ancestors as European colonialists who temporarily lived in Cuba (as wealthy, light-skinned elites who supported the right-wing US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista), before re-settling in Florida. This, in fact, is exactly how many conservative, pro-imperialist elites in Latin America see themselves, by the way.”
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“There are still useful idiots out there who deny that the US is an empire. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave another explicitly pro-colonialist speech, boasting that the US is a "continental empire". He proudly identified the origins of the US empire in the colonization of North America. He totally erased the Indigenous peoples who lived there, referring to it as an "open and wild land" at the time of colonization. Rubio waxed poetic on the "American frontier spirit", with no mention of the millions of Native Americans who died in the largest genocide in human history. Rubio also praised the genocidal colonialists Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés. Rubio traced the origins of the US empire back to Alexander the "Great", whom he heroized for "conquer[ing] the entire known world". The US empire has tried to do exactly the same, on top of many millions of corpses. (This is the official transcript of Rubio's speech: https:// state.gov/releases/offic e-of-the-spokesman/2026/10/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-remarks …)”
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“In Marco Rubio's absurd, ahistorical paean to Western colonialism, he praised the "empire of Christendom". Rubio extolled the "architects of European Christendom", and then applauded Galileo... who was persecuted by the Church and charged with heresy for doing basic science.”
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“Brazil's attorney general's office has evidence that the US government meddled in the country's election. Brazil's federal police is now officially investigating the US intervention in the election. The Trump admin openly supported far-right US puppet candidate Bolsonaro.”
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“The US ambassador to Greece declared Washington can overthrow any foreign government it doesn’t like, threatening, “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”. US-backed coups aren't just history; they still happen today, as I show here:”
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“The US empire has installed neocolonial puppet regimes in almost every country in Latin America. Marco Rubio's State Department published a joint declaration praising the politically motivated arrest of Bolivia's attorney general, who was investigating the crimes committed by right-wing US asset Fernando Cerimedo, who oversaw a massive operation of election meddling, bots, and disinformation in Latin America, who was deeply involved in drug trafficking, and who hired hitmen to try to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend. This joint declaration was signed not only by the US but also by the following right-wing puppet regimes: Argentina Bolivia Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guyana Honduras Panama Paraguay Peru Trinidad and Tobago The only remaining independent, sovereign governments in Latin America are in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua. And the US empire is waging a ferocious war against all of them.”
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“Ridiculous propaganda from the supposedly "independent" US corporate media: The US regime has imposed a murderous naval blockade of Cuba, in flagrant violation of international law. But the New York Times falsely claims it's "illegal" to circumvent this blockade, which is actually illegal. The NY Times is often portrayed as a liberal anti-Trump media outlet, but when it comes to Trump's imperialist wars on Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Palestine, Yemen, etc., the Times is 100% supportive and more than happy to print imperialist propaganda to assist the war efforts.”
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“The US ambassador to Greece openly threatened to organize a coup if its government didn't do what Washington wanted. US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle is a top Trump ally who was previously engaged to Donald Trump Jr. Guilfoyle had a fight with Greece's energy minister, and she referenced the collapse of the Romanian government, saying: “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”. This quote is from a Wall Street Journal report: https:// wsj.com/articles/kimbe rly-guilfoyle-mystery-man-energy-5adeb541 … This is reminiscent of what was said by Elon Musk, the world's richest oligarch, following a US-backed coup against Bolivia's left-wing President Evo Morales in 2019: "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it".”
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“Saudi Arabia has clearly chosen a side: Riyadh withdrew from mBridge, a project connecting central banks with blockchain technology in order to avoid the dollar and potential US sanctions. Saudi also refused to accept the invitation to join BRICS. Meanwhile, CNN reported that the US military is preparing a massive attack on Yemen in order to prop up the reactionary Saudi monarchy. These were likely concessions that the US demanded in order to protect the Saudi crown.”
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“The US empire is in its decadent fascistic phase where the head of the newly named Department of War openly cites the Bible and declares that the US military is waging a holy war against "communists" and "Islamists".”
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“The US government has taken $11 billion of Venezuela's oil revenue since January. Only $3.5 billion has gone to Venezuela. $7.5 billion is unaccounted for. Good summary of the imperial pillage here: The US took Venezuela's "primary revenue stream at gunpoint, routed it through a bank in Qatar, then a Citibank account, handed the sales to two Swiss traders with federal bribery cases, put the Pentagon in business with a man the Justice Department once named in a $1.2 billion PDVSA laundering case, and declared the whole thing immune from American courts by decree".”
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“If this is not an empire, nothing is. The US military literally says it must be able to attack anyone, anywhere on Earth, at any time. It's a globe-spanning imperial war machine. Imagine how the US would feel if China vowed to develop the capacity to "strike anywhere on the globe, at the time and place of our choosing". (Fortunately, China has no interest in this, as it has not fought a war since 1979 and has a non-interventionist foreign policy.)”
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“Corporate colonialism: The US empire is suffocating Cuba with an oil blockade and brutal sanctions, trying to overthrow its revolutionary government. US corporate vultures are already trying to take control of Cuba's assets. Billionaire oligarchs who funded Marco Rubio and other Miami politicians are salivating at possible regime change. US mining, shipping, and real estate companies want to take over Cuba's publicly owned assets. This is an important report: https:// theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s ep/17/trump-marco-rubio-cuba …”
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“Trump's extreme unilateralism and tariffs have done a great job in pushing China, Russia, and India closer together. Xi, Putin, and Modi are currently meeting at the BRICS summit in New Delhi. China and India obviously still have many differences, but they are improving ties.”
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“The US rogue state was the only country on Earth to oppose a UN resolution that replaces a colonial world map from year 1569, which misrepresents the size of Africa. I explain here how this is part of the Trump admin’s overt attempt to revive colonialism:”
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“It must be emphasized how insane this is: Trump is openly threatening to colonize and annex Mexico, Canada, Greenland, Cuba, and several other Caribbean countries. This is not just an empty threat. He's already at war with Iran. The fascistic US empire is a mad dog with rabies.”
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“The new right-wing, oligarch-backed, US puppet president of Costa Rica, Laura Fernández, is giving the US military the green light to intervene in her country. Costa Rica has no armed forces of its own, so it is becoming a de facto US colony.”
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“The US is a crazy rogue regime that opposed the entire world at the UN, in a vote of 164 to 1. Everyone else supports adopting a more accurate world map, showing the true size of Africa. The US rogue regime wants to keep the colonial Mercator map, which makes it look bigger.”
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“The central bank of the Netherlands has moved its gold reserves out of New York, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”. In other words, European countries now fear that their US "ally" (ie, imperial overlord) may seize their gold. This is a wise move. https:// ft.com/content/1749e7 53-9c90-4ff5-91ec-8df764f3b26d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 …”
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“The new far-right US puppet regime in Peru has cut off diplomatic relations with Iran, obediently following US orders. Peru's new far-right leader Keiko Fujimori is the daughter of a fascist US-backed dictator who committed genocide. The US blatantly meddled in Peru's election.”
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“Peru's foreign minister was the US embassy's director of communications for 15 years. The US empire totally controls Peru's government. It is naked neocolonialism.”
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“Ecuador under US imperial rule has become a failed state run by drug cartels. The Ecuadorian journalist who helped expose how police are working closely with organized crime has just been murdered. Any Ecuadorian journalist who exposes the crimes of the drug-trafficking oligarch family of the country's right-wing narco-dictator Daniel Noboa (a US citizen and close Trump ally) is killed. Any Ecuadorian journalist who investigates the Noboa narco-regime's collaboration with the US military is killed.”
on the killing of an Ecuadorian journalist who exposed police-cartel collusion
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“Neoconservative propagandist Gordon G. Chang has been wrong about China for his entire career, but he always fails up and is published in the corporate media because he's a loyal imperialist. Chang is now calling for the US to prevent Cuba from importing food and solar panels -- in addition to cutting off its oil supply, as Washington has already been doing. This is sociopathic sadism. US imperialists are trying to kill as many Cubans as possible, to cause societal collapse, so they can recolonize the country and make it into a new Epstein island.”
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“Bombshell: a former electoral counselor in Honduras has published leaked recordings proving his country's 2025 election was stolen. The US helped put in power far-right politician Nasry "Tito" Asfura, who is closely linked to drug trafficking. Trump personally interfered in Honduras' election, and he pardoned and released from prison the country's former US-backed dictator, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was imprisoned for trafficking tons of cocaine and machine guns. JOH is from the same right-wing National Party of Asfura. His drug cartel buddies are now running Honduras once again, with Washington's full support. The fraud in Honduras was overseen by a US-backed far-right Argentine specialist in election meddling, Fernando Cerimedo, who was recently arrested in Bolivia for hiring hitmen to try to assassinate his pregnant ex girlfriend (although they failed). This close US ally is also being investigated for drug trafficking. I repeat: the US empire's most obedient allies/puppets in Latin America are drug traffickers and criminals.”
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“The US empire continues to accelerate the global transition away from the dollar system: By weaponizing the dollar, the US empire is telling all countries that they must seek an alternative financial architecture, because they could be the next target of US economic terrorism.”
on US dollar sanctions pushing other countries toward alternative financial systems
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“How USA & Israel put drug cartel-linked US citizen in power in Colombia Colombia's ex President Gustavo Petro accused USA and Israel of meddling in the election to put in power a far-right, Trump-backed, pro-Israel US citizen and ally of drug traffickers.”
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“Colombia has a new far-right multimillionaire president, Abelardo de la Espriella. He is a US citizen who voted for Trump. He wants Colombia to adopt the US dollar. He worked for years as a lawyer in Miami, defending drug traffickers. He also loves Israel. Neocolonialism.”
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“In the past year alone, the US empire: - stole the elections in Colombia (with help from Israel), putting a far-right US citizen in power; - meddled in the elections in Honduras, after releasing narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernández from prison, to put in power another right-wing US puppet from the same political party of that drug trafficker; - meddled in the elections in Peru to put in power the daughter of fascist US-backed dictator Alberto Fujimori, who committed genocide against Indigenous peoples; - supported the right-wing narco-dictator in Ecuador (another US citizen), from the Noboa oligarch dynasty, as he banned the main left-wing Correísta opposition party from participating in elections; - meddled in Argentina's elections by offering tens of billions of dollars to fund the right-wing party of US puppet Javier Milei; - and is now meddling in Brazil's upcoming elections to put the son of far-right coup-plotter Bolsonaro in power. Nicaragua's constitutional reform is aimed at preventing the US empire from repeating this in its country. Nicaragua is defending its sovereignty. Imperialism is the real threat to democracy.”
on alleged US election interference across Colombia, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Brazil
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“Colombia's new far-right, drug cartel-linked US puppet president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has only been in power for 5 days, but he has already given the US and Israeli militaries permission to enter Colombian territory. The cynical reason he gave for inviting US/Israeli intervention is supposedly to fight "drug cartels". This is deeply ironic, because when de la Espriella spent years living in Florida (he is a dual US citizen), he worked as a lawyer defending... drug traffickers. He is a best friend of narcos. The situation is similar in Ecuador, which is now a dictatorship run by another far-right US citizen, Daniel Noboa, whose billionaire oligarch family is deeply involved in drug trafficking. Noboa, a literal narco-dictator, also allowed the US military to intervene in Ecuador, in the name of fighting "drug traffickers". The US empire's closest allies in Latin America are the worst drug traffickers. But they claim they need the US military to intervene to fight "drug trafficking". It's a neocolonial farce.”
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“The far-right narcos now governing Colombia have surrendered their sovereignty to Washington. Their foreign policy is dictated by the US. Colombia now supports Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara, and it has cut off relations with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.”
on Colombia's new government aligning foreign policy with the US and Morocco on Western Sahara
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“Colombia was just hit by a massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake, and hundreds of people are losing their lives... But the new government, led by far-right narcos and US puppets, is busy publishing press releases about how it supports Israel's illegal occupation of foreign land.”
on Colombia's government response to a deadly earthquake amid its Israel stance
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“The far-right US citizen whom the Trump admin installed to govern Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, started his new presidential term by: -meeting Israel's FM, praising the genocidal regime -recognizing Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara -vowing to reduce ties with China”
on Colombia's new president meeting Israel's FM and other early moves
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“Colombia's outgoing left-wing President Gustavo Petro cut diplomatic ties with Israel, condemning its genocide in Gaza. The US regime demonized Petro as a "Marxist terrorist" and imposed sanctions on him. The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election in order to put in power the new, incoming far-right US puppet President Abelardo de la Espriella, a multimillionaire dual US citizen who is closely linked to drug trafficking and organized crime. De la Espriella is extremely pro-Israel. He is already holding meetings hugging genocidal Israeli officials.”
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“While the US empire tries to kill as many Cubans as possible with a barbaric medieval-style blockade of the island, the CIA has set up a coup-plotting "task force" aimed at overthrowing the revolutionary government. It is reminiscent of the CIA task force that oversaw the Bay of Pigs terrorist invasion in 1961. The Trump administration has designated Cuba as "priority 1" (for regime change), alongside China, Iran, and Russia.”
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“Peru's far-right US puppet leader was just inaugurated as president, and immediately, in her 1st speech, she announced a state of emergency to deploy the military locally to maintain "order". Keiko Fujimori is the daughter of a US-backed fascist dictator who committed genocide.”
on Keiko Fujimori declaring a state of emergency and deploying troops after her Peru inauguration
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“The far-right US puppet leader in Peru, Keiko Fujimori (the daughter of a fascist dictator), has only been in power for 3 days, but she has already: -used a state of emergency to deploy the military locally -ordered the arrest of social movement leaders”
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“When Colombia's incoming far-right US puppet president Abelardo de la Espriella lived in Miami, he worked with "white powder lawyers", defending Latin American drug traffickers. The US empire loves drug lords: they have no problem selling off their countries to US corporations.”
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“The celebration of the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution this year in Nicaragua featured something unique: a large military parade. It was a clear message to the US empire: The Sandinistas will fight to defend their country against constant US attacks.”
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“This is the president and CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout that destabilizes countries for the US empire. He lies about Nicaragua and vows to continue funding its right-wing, anti-Sandinista opposition. The NED helped fund the 2018 coup attempt.”
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“The US Department of War has created a new military command, using AI and robots to wage even more wars. It's called Autowarcom: Autonomous Warfare Command. We saw an example of the kind of horrific atrocities the US military will carry out using AI, when the US carried out a triple-tap strike on an elementary school in Minab in southern Iran this February, massacring 120 children and 35 adults, all civilians.”
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“Why is Trump meeting with President Xi, after constantly demonizing China, waging a trade war, and scapegoating it? Because Trump's trade war and tariffs backfired, and US corporations desperately want access to the massive Chinese market. The White House invited the following US corporate executives to join the dinner with Trump and Xi in Washington: Microsoft's Satya Nadella Nvidia’s Jensen Huang OpenAI’s Sam Altman Google’s Sundar Pichai Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk Citigroup’s Jane Fraser Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Apple’s Tim Cook Dell’s Michael Dell These oligarchs are the US government's real constituents. Source: https:// cnbc.com/2026/09/22/her es-who-we-know-is-going-to-the-trump-xi-dinner-so-far.html …”
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“This says everything: Germany's multimillionaire Chancellor Merz (the former head of the German arm of BlackRock) constantly complains about "productivity". He is telling workers to work more and restricting sick leave. Germany accuses China of supposedly engaging in "unfair" competition. So what are German companies doing? Are they investing in R&D, experimenting with new technologies, and opening more factories to better compete with China? No, they're closing down factories, because crazy German policy has made energy insanely expensive (by shutting down carbon-free nuclear power plants, boycotting cheap Russian gas, and importing expensive LNG from the US). Meanwhile, the same German companies that complain about China's so-called "overcapacity" and that are begging the government for protection are... spending billions buying back their own stock, to further enrich wealthy shareholders. If you truly want to be more productive, it should be the corporate executives and rich shareholders that take the haircut and tighten their belts. But they always insist that the burden should be put on workers.”
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“What's ironic about this bad-faith US propaganda (which is aimed at undermining China's economy) is that the same argument -- that their currency is intentionally undervalued to boost exports -- could also be used to criticize the US allies in South Korea, Japan, India, and Taiwan province. In fact, their currencies are even more undervalued than the Chinese mainland's yuan, according to the Big Mac index that is maintained by the neoliberal spokesmen of billionaire oligarchs at The Economist. The other important point to make here is that it's actually not just that East Asian currencies are undervalued, but that the US dollar is chronically *overvalued*, as a product of the financialization of the US economy and the enormous bubbles in the stock market and real estate, which have de facto backing from the government, and which encourage wealthy foreigners to hold their savings in USD assets.”
on US claims that China undervalues its currency to boost exports
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“The Wall Street Journal and US government officials want to set the same economic trap for China that they set for Japan. The US was very concerned about Japan's industrial might and technological progress in the late 1970s and '80s. Ezra Vogel's book "Japan as Number One" was a”[post continues]
on US trade pressure on China compared to its 1980s pressure on Japan
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“The White House published an insane screed falsely claiming that Canada is "ripping off the United States". The first supposed example it cites is... Canada DEFENDING ITSELF against Trump's economic attacks. The White House complains that only two countries have responded to Trump's aggressive tariffs by actually fighting back: China and Canada. This is why Canada deserves some credit here. Unlike the US vassals in, say, the EU and Japan, which immediately surrendered and accepted completely unfair trade deals, Canada is actually defending its sovereignty. This is why the White House is furious. The US empire literally claims a country defending itself against US abuse is "abuse".”
on Canada fighting back against Trump's tariffs while other allies capitulated
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“Trump restarted his trade war with Canada. PM Carney revealed the US made last-minute demands that violated his country’s sovereignty. I explained why this will blow back on the US and exacerbate the energy crisis, as the US depends on Canadian crude oil:”
on Trump's renewed Canada trade war and Carney's sovereignty complaint
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“When China produces superior cars at a lower price, and people around the world want to buy them, economists who worked for the US government claim it is an "assault" on the market. But when US allies Germany and Japan dominated the market, they thought it was good and natural.”
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“The problem with this argument is it rests entirely on the widely misunderstood concept of labor productivity. Many people, especially non-economists, hear calls to "increase the average labor productivity of Brazilian workers" and think that means the reason Brazil is so much poorer than Switzerland is because Brazilian workers are supposedly lazy and don't work as hard as Swiss workers. But that is false and absurd. Labor productivity is simply defined as worker contribution to real GDP per hour of labor. The reason labor productivity is low in Brazil, and in the periphery in general, is because of the productive structure of the economy. Brazil, like most of Latin America (and the periphery as a whole), has an economy centered on exports of agricultural goods, minerals, energy, and other commodities. These are very low value-added, labor-intensive sectors with lots of international competition (and therefore low profit margins). The reason Switzerland's labor productivity is so high is because it has monopolistic "moats" in some very high value-added sectors like specialized financial services (ie, banking for global oligarchs) and advanced manufacturing. A Swiss banker working on a computer in an air-conditioned office will have an exponentially higher labor productivity than a Brazilian farmer or miner (or even a Brazilian banker), not because the Swiss banker works harder (they objectively don't), but because they work in specialized high value-added services and can simply charge exponentially more for their labor. These high value-added industries can't just be magically recreated in the periphery. Every country in Latin America and Africa would love to be the next Singapore (and many have tried), but you can't skip stages of development. Not everyone in the world can just work in the high value-added service sector -- especially when the high labor productivity in the advanced economies fundamentally depends on cheap energy, food, and minerals produced by workers in the periphery. When we talk about the global value chain, we're really talking about a highly stratified global division of labor. And it is very, very difficult to move up it. That takes years of careful planning, investment, education, training, infrastructure build-out, technology transfer, etc. -- which in turn requires political stability and the ability of the state to implement long-term planning without significant disruption. Neoliberalism was never as simple as "the government must spend less". It was about the state giving power to markets and the investor class to decide what the priorities of political-economy policymaking would be. This investor class (consisting of both foreign investors and the domestic compradores) prioritizes maximizing return on investment, not developing the productive capacity of the local economy. That's why it primarily invests in the extractive commodity export sector. This also explains why Brazil (and most of Latin America) significantly deindustrialized during the neoliberal period, and has become even more dependent on the low value-added export of commodities.”
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“Actually existing libertarianism is a nightmare for the majority of the population: Nearly 60% of people in the Argentina of "anarcho-capitalist" President Javier Milei have had to take on debt to pay for basic living expenses. 62% of this debt goes to paying for food and services in the typical household basket. Another 14% goes to rolling over old debt. Source: https:// lanacion.com.ar/economia/casi- seis-de-cada-10-argentinos-tomaron-deudas-en-los-ultimos-meses-para-consumos-esenciales-segun-nid07102026/ …”
Posted it themselves
“Actually existing libertarianism has been a total disaster in Argentina: 32,300 companies have shut down since Javier Milei came to power. 437,000 formal jobs have been lost. According to official government data, unemployment is rising in every industry, in almost all regions”
Posted it themselves
“This is a very interesting policy idea: As he campaigns for re-election, Brazil's President Lula da Silva has offered a debt relief program for low-income families. The idea is that the government will buy defaulted debts of up to 10,000 reais (c. $1900 USD) of working-class families. Banks know they probably won't get back most of this debt, because it's in default, so the government will buy it for big discounts of 90+%. Some cynical critics are portraying this as a supposed bailout of banks, but that's not true at all. The government will not pay the face value of the debt, which is of course what the bank would want. (This is what the US government often does in its bailouts, which benefit creditors, not debtors.) Instead, in this proposal, the Brazilian government will hold auctions where creditors sell the defaulted debt with a huge haircut of 90+%. Then, after buying the debt, the Brazilian government will forgive it. At the same time, Lula has also proposed a ban on online gambling websites, which aims to further reduce the growing levels of debt among working-class families.”
Posted it themselves
“The US government is extremely concerned that the enormous bubble in the stock market could pop soon, so the White House is pressuring parents to open investment accounts for their *children*. This is a desperate, eleventh-hour attempt to keep inflating the bubble.”
Posted it themselves
“Dedollarization: China has been steadily reducing its holdings of US Treasury securities (US government debt). They are now at the lowest level since 2008. And they continue to decline on a steady basis. The US has weaponized its currency. The world is creating alternatives. Source: https:// ft.com/content/69f02a bc-e0dc-46e5-aa6c-61d209e095d9?syn-25a6b1a6=1 …”
Posted it themselves
“The manager of Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund has proposed significantly cutting its exposure to US Treasury securities (US government debt). This comes at a very bad moment for the US, given that the yields on Treasuries have been rising significantly, and US debt issuance is growing rapidly at a time when foreign demand is shrinking. Over the past decade, China has significantly reduced its holdings of US Treasuries (out of fear of US sanctions and asset seizures). And Japan, the largest foreign holder, has been selling Treasuries to try to stabilize its currency, which has fallen markedly against the US dollar. Norway reducing its Treasury holdings will only further increase the upward pressure on US yields. https:// reuters.com/business/norwa ys-2-trillion-sovereign-fund-proposes-deep-cuts-us-treasury-holdings-2026-09-04/ …”
Posted it themselves
“Of course crypto influencers based in the UAE are going to come to the conclusion that "working harder is a scam"... But this chart is very important, because it shows that the real lesson is that neoliberal capitalism is a scam. The US economy financialized in the 1990s, and ever since it has been based on inflating huge bubbles in the stock market. 50% of stocks in the US are owned by the richest 1% of the population, and nearly 90% are owned by the richest 10%. They have gotten exponentially richer in the past three decades, not by working hard, but simply through asset-price inflation. They earn capital gains in their sleep, not by working. But they then tell workers to work harder, and scapegoat immigrants for all the problems. They then try to convince people that the only way out is by investing in crypto scams and gambling in "prediction markets".”
on stock ownership concentration among the wealthy driving gains blamed on financialized capitalism
Posted it themselves
“It is ridiculous seeing neoliberal pundits like @Noahpinion still using nominal GDP at market exchange rates. No wonder they're so confused; they really do not understand how exchange rates affect the measurement. When you use purchasing power parity (PPP), suddenly the anomaly disappears. What happened in 2015? The answer is simple: the global price of oil crashed in 2014-2015. Canada's economy was much more dependent on oil exports, which caused the Canadian dollar to depreciate 30-40% against the US dollar, and the Canadian dollar has not appreciated since. There's a big debate in the responses to @Noahpinion 's ignorant post, with many culture warriors blaming the supposed Canadian divergence on immigration. None of them understands exchange rates. It's embarrassing. (I would respond directly to Noah, but he blocked me, as he has blocked half of the people on this website.)”
Posted it themselves
“The dollar system is in crisis: In this article, I explain how the US intervention to prop up the yen was not just about Japan, but a crisis in the US-dominated financial system. Washington fears higher borrowing costs, as global dedollarization grows.”
Posted it themselves
“Instead of a wealth tax, Silicon Valley venture capitalist oligarchs propose that the US system should be like... *checks notes* Saudi Arabia and the UAE, literal feudal absolute monarchies. Saying the quiet part loud. Btw, Jason Calacanis called Jeffrey Epstein his "pal".”
Posted it themselves
“Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it's simply not true. US average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. US median wealth is quite low. I analyzed the data to show how awful US living standards are:”
Posted it themselves
“In China, I pay 18.8 yuan ($2.78 US dollars) per MONTH to use a rental bike as many times as I want, for up to 120 minutes each session, with no limit on sessions. There are bikes everywhere, on every corner. Keep this in mind when you see absurdly inflated US GDP statistics.”
Posted it themselves
“The US housing bubble popped in 2008-09... but then the US just reinflated the bubble. In fact, the US housing bubble is even bigger today -- and houses are even less affordable for average working people.”
Posted it themselves
“The world is going to suffer for many more months through a massive energy crisis. The oil price is back up to $110 USD, which is basically the same as it was at the peak of the US war against Iran in April and May. This is going to have very negative consequences for the global economy. Inflation has already been rising in most countries, and will likely further increase. The US war against Iran unleashed what the International Energy Agency called the biggest oil supply disruption crisis in history. Now, Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries and depots are only making this worse. Moreover, the US-backed Saudi war against Yemen has led Ansarallah to retaliate by hitting Saudi oil infrastructure, further exacerbating the energy crisis. There are no signs of this getting better any time soon. Buckle up.”
Posted it themselves
“There are so many charts like this, where, if you remove China from the global data, the change is no longer significant. China is responsible for: - half of the world's solar/wind energy capacity, - all of the decline in global pollution, - 3/4ths of extreme poverty reduction”
Posted it themselves
“Unlike the US, China takes its international climate commitments very seriously, and its CO2 emissions have peaked for two years now (way ahead of its goal of 2030). What is incredible is that China has cut its CO2 emissions even as it is using more coal, because it so dramatically reduced its dependence on imports of oil -- in response to the US war of aggression on Iran (and after the US used its neocolonial control over Venezuela to cut off its oil exports to China). Moreover, China has invested so rapidly in the build-out of clean energy that electric vehicles (EVs) in China have replaced oil use equivalent to the demand of the entire UK. https:// carbonbrief.org/analysis-china s-co2-emissions-fall-in-q2-2026-due-to-plummeting-oil-use …”
Posted it themselves
“The AI bubble is becoming impossible to deny: Major Wall Street financial firm Jefferies admitted most US AI companies will not be profitable, because Chinese open-source models are winning. Jefferies warned of "malinvestment" by US Big Tech and "massive capital destruction".”
Posted it themselves
“The AI bubble is so ridiculous. Anthropic is a cash incinerator: it lost $42 billion in 2025, with just $4.6 billion in revenue. But Anthropic is going full steam ahead with its IPO, and wants a ridiculous $2 TRILLION valuation. Insiders hope to cash out before the bubble pops. Meanwhile, analysts say Anthropic should really only be worth $150 billion, calling this the "most ridiculous IPO of 2026" and an "unprecedented test of investor gullibility". The AI bubble is so bonkers that the IPOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are estimated to be worth $5.2 trillion, which is more than 45 years of past tech IPOs COMBINED, including the IPOs of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc.”
Posted it themselves
“I'm deeply skeptical of Anthropic's rhetoric about its AI posing "existential risks to humanity". It seems to be part of its marketing scheme, as it prepares for its IPO. It wants people to think they are investing in a revolutionary technology, and not holding the bag. Because in reality, Anthropic is a certifiable cash incinerator. It had a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, with just $4.6 billion of revenue. And a quarter of its revenue came from just two customers, which were not locked into long-term contracts. So how do you convince gullible people to serve as your exit liquidity and invest in your company when it's losing insane amounts of money? Scare them. Make them think your product is so amazing it could literally end human civilization.”
Posted it themselves
“Peter Thiel, the far-right billionaire venture capitalist oligarch from Silicon Valley, is a real-life cartoon villain. He literally argues that being evil is good, and when asked in another interview if humanity deserved to survive, he hesitated for a long time and wasn't sure.”
Posted it themselves
“Firstly, there is no evidence that this is a Chinese op -- but this narrative helps Silicon Valley oligarchs demonize US protesters and scapegoat China. Secondly, it's an objective fact that US "AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid".”
Posted it themselves
“This is a huge scandal: The campaign of Brazil's far-right, US-backed presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro paid a US company that sells an AI system for manipulating elections. Bolsonaro's right-wing party also paid the US company, which maps voters and makes fake social media accounts to spread disinformation online targeting crucial voters. This revelation comes after Meta admitted that it censored the accounts of left-wing candidate Lula da Silva and promoted Bolsonaro on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. This is the source (only in Portuguese): https:// intercept.com.br/2026/10/16/fla vio-pagou-empresa-eua-sistema-manipular-eleicoes/ …”
Posted it themselves
“Meta employees admitted the US corporation censored the Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp accounts of Brazil's left-wing President Lula da Silva in the lead-up to this month's election. Meta also promoted the accounts of far-right pro-US candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta claimed this was supposedly because of "technical issues". But what this really shows is how real democracy is impossible when US Big Tech corporations are used to manipulate elections around the world, to put in power right-wing US puppets who will sell out their country to US corporations and the US government (see: the recent US electoral interference in Colombia, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, etc.) The CIA previously focused on organizing military coups to overthrow independent left-wing leaders and install right-wing pro-imperialist ones. Now it's much easier: Silicon Valley helps the US empire carry out soft coups by manipulating public opinion and interfering in elections.”
on Meta's handling of Lula da Silva's accounts before Brazil's election
Posted it themselves
“This story is extremely important: A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning. Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election. This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.) Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"... The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns. Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Link here: https:// panamericandispatch.org/p/nadia-beller -exposes-bolsonarocerimedometa …”
Posted it themselves
“Huge scandal: Far-right election meddling specialist Fernando Cerimedo was arrested for trying to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Using bots, disinfo, and fraud, he oversaw campaigns of Latin America’s pro-US presidents, with deep links to Trump admin.”
on the arrest of a right-wing election consultant tied to Trump-aligned leaders
Posted it themselves
“This is ridiculous disinformation. Nicaragua is not "ending" elections. Nicaragua will still have elections, but it passed constitutional reforms so coup-plotting extremists who are funded by the US government are not allowed to participate in elections, because they would undermine Nicaragua's sovereign electoral process and take over the country on behalf of a foreign power (which is exactly what happened in 1990, when the US government funded and created an electoral campaign to put in power a right-wing puppet from the most powerful oligarch family in the country). The OAS, with its headquarters in Washington, is an instrument of US imperialism that constantly supports coups against left-wing governments, including a violent, failed coup attempt in Nicaragua in 2018 and a successful coup in Bolivia in 2019. That's the real reason why the OAS is angry: Nicaragua's Sandinista government is defending its sovereignty and preventing the US/OAS from putting a puppet in power to rule the country on behalf of US corporations.”
on Nicaragua's election law changes and criticism of the OAS
Posted it themselves
“Because the US regime is not actually a democracy. It's an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy that maintains a bloody, anti-democratic global empire. The fact that so many people still believe the US is a democracy is a testament to the success of the extreme brainwashing.”
Posted it themselves
“Nicaragua's Co-President Rosario Murillo gave a speech in which she emphasized that, YES, Nicaragua will still hold elections. The reports in the corporate media claiming otherwise, echoing US government propaganda, are fake news. This is what Co-President Murillo said: "The”
on Nicaragua's commitment to elections despite corporate media propaganda claims
Posted it themselves
“The US regime has precisely the dystopian, Kafkaesque, authoritarian system that it accuses its adversaries of supposedly having.”
Posted it themselves
“This is absolutely insane! The US government is desperately trying to protect a drug-trafficking network of corrupt right-wing political operatives, election meddlers, and assassins in Latin America. Bolivia's attorney general was investigating the US asset Fernando Cerimedo, a criminal who hired hitmen to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Cerimedo oversaw a large scheme of US-sponsored election meddling in Latin America, putting in power right-wing, pro-US politicians by rigging elections, operating countless bots, and spreading mountains of disinformation online. Cerimedo worked for pretty much all of the right-wing, pro-US leaders in Latin America, and he collaborated very closely with the Trump administration. He was given an award in Mar-a-Lago a few weeks before he was arrested, and was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. This scandal was all exposed when Cerimedo failed to assassinate his pregnant ex-girlfriend, and was subsequently arrested. She has since revealed a lot of his dirty laundry, with thorough evidence. Bolivia's attorney general has also been investigating Cerimedo for drug trafficking and money laundering. So the Trump administration got desperate to silence the Bolivian attorney general. First the US government hit him with sanctions, and now it ordered the corrupt right-wing Bolivian government to arrest him, to stop the investigation into the criminal Cerimedo. Now, in Kafkaesque fashion, the US government claims he was arrested because of supposed drug trafficking and corruption. But he was the one investigating the drug trafficking and corruption of a powerful US asset! The US government is the main protector of drug cartels in Latin America.”
Posted it themselves
“Huge scandal exposes how USA uses criminals to manipulate elections in Latin America This article explains how the US asset Fernando Cerimedo oversaw a network of corrupt right-wing political operatives, election meddlers, drug traffickers, and killers:”
Posted it themselves
“US politicians are promoting crypto rug pull scams, exploiting their own supporters. Trump and his wife Melania launched meme coins that enriched insiders. Now Hunter Biden did, too. His Laptop token immediately crashed 99%. I explain the schemes here:”
Posted it themselves
“Of course I think Hunter Biden should be heavily criticized for launching a useless meme coin that immediately crashed by 99%. But seeing the Trump family criticize this is peak hypocrisy. They also launched shit coin scams that collapsed. Melania coin is down 99%. Trump coin is down 95%. The Trump family made $2.3 billion in crypto income from November 2024 to April 2026, while their "investors" lost $2.25 billion. It was an upward transfer of wealth. Former New York City mayor Eric Adams did the same thing with his NYC Token scheme. The US ruling class is insanely corrupt. US politicians are fleecing their own supporters, while pointing the finger at the other side. It's all a farce.”
on the Trump and Biden families profiting from failed crypto ventures
Posted it themselves
“Many people have praised Hunter Biden, because he has rightfully criticized Trump's extreme corruption (although he refuses to criticize his war criminal father for supporting a genocide). But now he is launching his own shady meme coin, like Trump. No principles, just greed.”
Posted it themselves
“Ecuador's right-wing dictator Daniel Noboa banned his political opposition. He's a US citizen and close Trump ally. Noboa is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch. His family company traffics drugs. Noboa now has blocked access to all information on his assets.”
Posted it themselves
“US kangaroo courts are trying children who don't have lawyers. The US government is the dystopian regime you were warned about in science fiction movies.”
Posted it themselves
“The US is a barbaric capitalist dystopia. A court just ruled that people do NOT have a right to clean water, or to truthful information from the government. This came after the city of Jackson, Mississippi misled residents into drinking what it knew was lead-contaminated water.”
Posted it themselves
“The utterly demented imperialist in the White House just claimed the moon as the territory of the US empire. Now he also wants to change the name of New Mexico to "New America". (New Mexico and neighboring states were stolen from Mexico in a US war of aggression in 1846-48.)”
Posted it themselves
“Huge scandal unfolding in Latin America: Far-right operative Fernando Cerimedo tried to assassinate his ex-girlfriend. He oversaw election meddling and disinfo campaigns for many right-wing presidents. He's closely linked to Trump admin. I explained it:”
on a right-wing operative tied to Trump allies accused of attempted murder
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