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looks like this one isn't true, can't find any other reports of this and newsweek has a "fact check" saying it's false

in bad authoritarian soviet gommulist china,,

The subject takes pride in not having any relationship with the entire historic concrete movement of the working class socialist and liberation revolutions. They take pride in not having any theoretical or political connection to the revolutions in China, Russia, Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Mozambique and Angola. They are, instead, proud of the supposed purity that their theory is not contaminated by the hardship of exercising power, by the contradictions of historical processes. Being pure is what provokes this narcissistic orgasm. This purity is what makes them feel superior.

from Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture by Jones Manoel

Whitey Bulger: protected by the FBI for decades while being the biggest heroin importer in the northeast

Freeway Ricky Ross: supplied by the CIA with coke from the Contras, in a relationship mediated by a DEA informant

Golden Triangle heroin trade: controlled by the CIA for decades after the Korean War, arming and protecting manufacturers and traffickers, with heroin flown on CIA planes

The French Connection: French gangsters were protected by the CIA and allowed to import heroin to their primary market, the US, in exchange for keeping the port of Marseille out of the control of French communists

La Corporacion: the biggest Bolivian cocaine cartel, the "GM of cocaine", started with the cooperation and protection of the CIA according to a DEA agent whose investigations into them were repeatedly thwarted by the State Dept and CIA

Ronald Stark: the world's biggest manufacturer and supplier of LSD for a period after its criminalization, sole supplier of late-period Brotherhood of Eternal Love, threw parties at the US embassy in Brussels, sent letters using their letterhead, and when he was finally arrested in Italy, the judge in his case accused the CIA of protecting him

the USA has been doing this shit for a long time

you don't need a hyphen there.

unprovoked

US-installed fash in Ukraine's government preparing a massive offensive against DPR & LPR after persecuting ethnic Russians and shelling Donbas for eight years killing ~16k and ignoring Minsk I & II and talking about acquiring nuclear weapons in violation of the Budapest memorandum

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/the-buildup-to-war-in-ukraine-february-13-2022.html

series continues through Feb 22nd

"Women hold up half of the Skymall catalog" —Mao Zedong, probably

remembering when cable television didn't have advertisements

lol I can't help but think of when Clinton advocated for seizing the means of production

https://nitter.snopyta.org/ChathamHouse/status/1390284424806289410

https://twitter.com/ChathamHouse/status/1390284424806289410

last I heard, he relapsed into Marianne Williamson electoralism. get well soon, Chairman Daou