John Chuckman
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“Hong Kong students arm themselves for showdown amid talk of curfew
“Students build barricades, stockpile arrows, petrol bombs and other weapons”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hong-kong-1.5358937
These are now just armed street thugs, hoping to overthrow a government.
The only difference is in their parroting of phrases likely taught them by an employee of the United States State Department.
The United States just never leaves anyone anywhere in peace anymore.
They just pulled a coup in Bolivia against its elected government and placed an unelected opposition person in as new temporary president.
They're still trying to topple the legitimate government of Venezuela.
They've created a new set of problems for both Nicaragua and Cuba.
They never stop threatening what has been a law-abiding and peaceful Iran. The warlike sanctions today resemble an effort to starve out 80 million people.
They have the whole world in turmoil over their brutal trade war with China. Markets and economic performance have been affected badly everywhere.
They sit, heavily armed, where they have no business even being, having literally stolen Syrian oil fields.
And of course, their CIA operators sit at banks of computer screens daily trying to kill someone somewhere, someone with no legal charges against him - extrajudicial killing just like the old Argentine junta used to do when it “disappeared” people, only now it’s done with drones and Hellfire missiles which incinerate the victim.
Julian Assange is dying in jail, ailing and aging visibly, merely for having told the truth.
Chelsea Manning, too, is treated like a vicious criminal instead of a decently-motivated, conscientious truth teller.
And they continue to try intimidating Russia and keep sanctions in place costing Europeans billions of dollars a year in trade.
They keep telling everyone what they may buy and what they may not – people from little Serbia to Turkey and to India. Again, the threat is always war-like sanctions.
What a blight they've become to international affairs.
