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Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
When Obama bombed Libya, the justification was "humanitarian intervention." "Protection of civilians." "Responsibility to protect." The language of international law and moral obligation.
Libya was subsequently destroyed. It has open slave markets today. The humanitarian outcome was catastrophic.
But the language was immaculate. The syntax was perfect. The suits were pressed and the speeches were moving and the Nobel Peace Prize sat on the shelf while the drones flew.
Trump bombs things and says it's about the oil.
In terms of honesty, pure, raw, unmediated honesty about what American power actually does, Trump is more accurate than any of his predecessors.
This is not a defense of Trump.
This is an indictment of everyone who made the polished version seem acceptable.
The lie was always more dangerous than the liar currently in office.
Because the lie had good manners.
ALT U.S. President Barack Obama delivering a speech at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
*No one* on earth thinks if we “did socialism” we would immediately solve anything. The argument, which you cannot dispute, is that solving things is impossible when powerful capital owners benefit directly from that problem not being solved.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
You wouldn't believe it, but humans have been producing food forever and we don't need towering, extractive oligarchy to do it.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
the Soviet Union had women cosmonauts and a legion of decorated antifascist war heroines the same year women in Canada were first "allowed" to open bank accounts without their husbands' written permission.
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"Never forget," they say.
But they choose what you remember.
Never forget Tiananmen.
Never forget 9/11.
Never forget the Holocaust.
But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.
You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.
You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.
You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.
This is not a culture of remembrance.
It is a culture of selective memory.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
It's to make the rich, richer with no work at all on their part.
Always has been.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
For decades, capitalist historians filled libraries with books about the Soviet Gulag. Yet today, the United States has the world’s largest prison population, where prisoners often work for pennies while corporations profit from their labor. And let’s not pretend the U.S. government has no history of political repression. From hunting communist sympathizers during the Red Scare to dismantling the Black Panther Party through infiltration, assassination, and incarceration.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
Did you know? Cuba🇨🇺 not only exported its army of doctors around the world, but also a revolutionary system to eradicate illiteracy; Yo, Si Puedo.
The system was designed to bring literacy to poorer and rural areas which had limited access to training and teachers.
Rather than relying on traditional textbooks and teaching, the program used a combination of numbers, letters, audiovisual lessons, and local facilitators to teach adults how to read and write.
The system was adapted for dozens of languages in international usage, as well as indigenous languages.
Venezuela🇻🇪 widely used the revolutionary program in its own literacy campaign, with the country being declared illiteracy free by 2005. Bolivia🇧🇴 under President Evo Morales also used the program to eradicate illiteracy in the country.
Nearly 10 million people learned to read and write through the Yo Sí Puedo method between 2002 and 2016, the program was implemented in over 30 countries.
Cuba’s🇨🇺 achievements in healthcare despite the illegal US embargo:
• Cuba has of the highest doctor-to-population ratios in the world, with roughly 8 doctors per 1,000 people, several times the global average.
• First country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis (WHO validated, 2015). Cuba reduced HIV transmission from mother to child below 2%, with only 2 babies born with HIV and 3 with congenital syphilis in 2013.
• Medical internationalism: More than 600,000 Cuban healthcare professionals have served in over 160 countries since the 1960s, responding to disasters, epidemics, and healthcare shortages.
• Developed the world’s first effective vaccine against meningococcal B meningitis. Cuba’s VA-MENGOC-BC vaccine was introduced in 1989, tackling a disease that had caused major outbreaks.
• Created Heberprot-P, a treatment for diabetic foot ulcers that has reportedly reduced the need for amputations in many patients and has been used in dozens of countries.
• Built a biotechnology sector from scratch despite decades of illegal unilateral sanctions. Cuba now produces the majority of its own vaccines and exports medical products internationally.
• Developed multiple COVID-19 vaccines, including Abdala and Soberana, becoming one of the few countries in the Global South to create and manufacture its own COVID vaccines.
• Infant mortality is comparable to many developed countries, despite Cuba’s much lower GDP per capita. Cuba’s infant mortality rate has often been lower than that of the USA.
• Near-universal vaccination coverage, with childhood vaccination rates consistently above 95% for many major diseases.
• Universal healthcare coverage, providing free access to primary care, specialist care, hospitalisation, and preventive medicine nationwide.
These are reasons Trump and Rubio want to destroy Cuba; because Cuba didn’t only dare to resist the suffocating US embargo, but also showed the world that it could triumph with an alternative model of development.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
When people claim history proves communism fails, they really mean their boomer history teacher in the fifth grade who drowned in red scare propaganda since birth told them communism always fails.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
Learning who is and isn't essential during the pandemic should have been a lot more awakening for the working class.
Sam Scarlet ☭ retweeted
China builds its urban spaces for the people.
Because it's the People's Republic of China.
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