Sunday, January 05, 2020

Some Tweets from Ajamu Baraka


  • No democrats, we will not let you try to pass yourself off as the Anti-war party - wars in Libya, Yemen, Syria, coups in Honduras, Egypt, Ukraine, Haiti, Brazil, attempted coup in Venezuela - all belong to democrats in just last few years.
  • Democrats are so pathetically transparent with their opportunism. If they were so concerned about war with Iran why did they agree to strip the amendment from NDAA that would have stopped funding of war with Iran along with amendment calling for repeal of AUMF?
  • Bourgeois nationalism has always been the fall back for attempting to solve capitalist crisis. This has always led to war. For the working class, the landless, the poor, we must be especially vigilant in these complex times. Work for peace, demand justice & don't be manipulated.
  • This is why Black Alliance for Peace says "not one drop of blood from working class and poor to defend capitalist oligarchy." People died & these criminals make money.
  • When non-European life is cheap, racists like Trump will play with them to deflect attention from his political problems. If the U.S. murdered an Iranian general, which is an act of war, the question is - who authorized it? Let's see what democrats are saying in the morning.
  • The democrats collaborated with Trump to remove the restriction on waging war on Iran that was part of the NDAA recently passed by Congress that gave Trump everything he wanted, including another record increase in military spending. The possible war with Iran is the result.
  • The political & ideological corruption of the West has led to the collaboration of Western white leftists with Western imperialism from Bolivia to Venezuela & demonstrates why peoples' movements in the global South can no longer rely on these elements .
  • The European Parliament in the midst of a right-wing counterrevolutionary thrust in Latin American demonstrated again its alignment with imperialist white supremacy by passing a resolution condemning human rights violations by authorities not in Chile or Bolivia but Nicaragua!
  • This is direction Bernie has to go.
  • U.S. strategic planners are discussing how planetary crisis brought on by climate change can be an advantage for continued U.S. global hegemony. This is the level of madness that exist in the U.S.
  • Conflating criticism and opposition to the racist, apartheid state of Israel with anti-Semitism is like if those colonialist hustlers would have tried to conflate criticism and opposition to racist, apartheid state of South Africa with being anti-white.
  • The Afghanistan Papers published by WashPost revealed that Bush, Obama & all of Congress lied to public on Afghanistan, the longest war in U.S. history that cost thousands of lives of U.S. working class that fights these wars & lives of over 150k Afghans. But back to impeachment!
  • The FBI investigates itself and says there was no political bias involved in the FISA applications to start investigation of Trump campaign and media runs with it. But it doesn't seem that cut and dry.
  • The BBC, Guardian, CNN, MSNBC, NYTs & WashPost, the neoliberal right in Labour and democrat parties, are all part of a transnational effort to defeat a "left" alternative, even in its social democratic expressions. They have scored a victory in the U.S., their next target is …?