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The Socialist Program
@TheSocProgram
News & views about the world for those who want to change it, with Brian Becker
Washington, DC
Joined August 2017
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    US regime change operations in Iran are nothing new. In 1953 the CIA orchestrated a coup against the democratically elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh. @BrianBeckerDC and @layansima take a deep dive into 'Operation Ajax.' 🎧LISTEN: linktr.ee/TheSocialistPr…
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    Massive protests are ongoing in South Korea, demanding the end of right-wing President Yoon Suk-yeol's tenure and the U.S.-South Korea-Japan war exercises.
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    No one will win a nuclear war. The idea that the U.S. can win, that it has nuclear supremacy, is incredibly dangerous, and wrong.
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    The real reason for U.S. blockade of Cuba, admitted by a declassified U.S. memo: “There is no effective political opposition [in Cuba]”
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    "Stand firm with the Palestinians. What could be more justified?" - Israeli general's son Miko Peled @mikopeled
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    8 facts about Taiwan and U.S. intervention 🧵
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    Capitalism is said to be rooted in “human nature”, but for the majority of our existence as a species, humans have coexisted in egalitarian societies. They were, in other words, communists.
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    8 facts about Taiwan and U.S. intervention 🧵
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    They lied about Vietnam, they're lying about China.
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    8 years of China's poverty alleviation campaign (2012-2020): 3+ million Communist Party cadres lived and worked in impoverished communities to help carry out the campaign. 1,800+ cadres sacrificed their lives while doing so. 100 million people were lifted out of poverty.
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    Dr. Gerald Horne on the real history of Texas:
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    .@wikileaks founder @JulianAssange has been granted Ecuadorean citizenship. Will he leave the embassy in London? @BrianBeckerDC and @JohnKiriakou discuss whether the US and UK will continue their war on Assange and freedom of the press / @Credico2016 bit.ly/2mucjH5
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    Sanctions are war. When you deprive people of food and medicine, you are killing them. You're using another means, a silent means, to kill them. They are not the solution.
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    Why is the U.S. really opposed to escalation with Iran? It could topple the U.S. oil Empire in the Middle East. “They know Israel will be on the losing end,” says Professor Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
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