# ![@BenjaminNorton Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::852269288.png) @BenjaminNorton Ben Norton

The US, under Trump, is waging a neocolonial war of aggression against Venezuela, with lethal operations carried out by the CIA and US military killing innocent people, including fishermen from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago. The US is also imposing regime change in other countries, including Argentina, where a libertarian US-puppet regime is imposing anti-worker reforms and plunging millions into poverty. The US is challenging China's growing influence, with a new Cold War underway.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Economist Michael Hudson argues Donald Trump has no plans to deal with the problems of neoliberal financialization that caused US deindustrialization. Trump's tariffs are just a neoliberal scheme under another guise to benefit the rich donor class. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/ https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1912292560896422359)  2025-04-15T23:50Z 333.9K followers, 17.4K engagements


"Economic war: Wall Street hedge fund billionaire turned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boasted that due to illegal US sanctions on Iran "their economy collapsed. We saw a major bank go under. The central bank has started to print money. There is a dollar shortage. They are not able to get imports and this is why the people took to the streets. 🎥 WATCH: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent brags at Davos about the role U.S. sanctions have played in collapsing Irans economy fueling public anger and driving the recent nationwide protests. Speaking to Fox News Bessent said: Its worked because"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2013966890532794603)  2026-01-21T13:28Z 333.6K followers, 18K engagements


"US wars killed at least [---] MILLION people in the [--] years after Sep. [--] [----] in a conservative estimate by Brown University scholars. The US empire wages war nonstop around the world and billionaires like @PalmerLuckey profit from it. China has not fought a war since [----]. .@PalmerLuckey says Russia and China dont value life as much as the US: We assume people value the same things we do. China does not value life as highly. We see it in Russia throwing away lives. If the US were losing [----] men/week it would be the political end of any https://t.co/2QjeViGomn .@PalmerLuckey says Russia and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2015076365423546491)  2026-01-24T14:56Z 333.9K followers, 128.7K engagements


"Self-declared peacemaker Donald Trump has bombed [--] countries more than any other US leader. Now he plans to raise the US military budget to $1.5 trillion nearly the rest of the worlds defense spending combined. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/01/25/trump-bombed-10-countries-trillion-military-budget/ https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/01/25/trump-bombed-10-countries-trillion-military-budget/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2016859361772261583)  2026-01-29T13:01Z 333.6K followers, 27.3K engagements


"The US regime is waging an extreme campaign of economic terrorism to try to destroy Cuba. Trump further tightened the illegal US blockade of Cuba and is threatening tariffs on any country that supply it with oil. The US seeks to collapse Cuban society by starving it of energy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2017181009230578096)  2026-01-30T10:20Z 333.7K followers, 20.8K engagements


"The sadism of US imperialists is insane: This far-right congresswoman from Miami Florida a close Trump ally defends the use of economic terrorism against Cuba. She admits the illegal US blockade aims to starve women and children to collapse Cuban society. It's sociopathic. La hora de la libertad de Cuba ha llegado. Hoy contamos con un Presidente y un Secretario de Estado decididos a limpiar nuestro hemisferio de strapas narcotraficantes y dictadores. Pero el exilio tambin tiene una responsabilidad histrica: dejar de darle oxgeno a la La hora de la libertad de Cuba ha llegado. Hoy contamos con"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2017408516806615151)  2026-01-31T01:24Z 333.6K followers, 39.4K engagements


"The Trump admin seeks to topple Cuba's revolutionary government by destroying the entire country starving women and children. The US empire wants to repeat what it did in Gaza now in Cuba (and soon other parts of the Globa South). This savagery is the true face of imperialism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2017413564626243774)  2026-01-31T01:44Z 333.7K followers, 29.3K engagements


"This is crazy. US intelligence asset and human-trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a [----] email: The Indian Prime Minister Modi took advice and danced and sang in Israel for the benefit of the US President Trump. They had met a few weeks ago. IT WORKED Extremely shameful Narendra Modis name has surfaced in the Epstein files. Americas serial rapist child sex offender and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein wrote in an email on July [--] 2017: 👇 The Indian Prime Minister Modi took advice and danced and sang in Israel for https://t.co/TTkO2Z7Sfi Extremely shameful Narendra Modis name has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2017763979410739583)  2026-02-01T00:56Z 333.7K followers, 83.8K engagements


"This FT report is a bit misleading. If you translate the original Qiushi article you will see that President Xi is calling for deepening the internationalization of the RMB and making it into *a* global reserve currency (alongside the dollar euro yen etc.) in a multipolar world. China does not want to replace the dollar as *the* dominant global reserve currency. It simply aims for the renminbi to play a more important international role (and it wants the ability to pay for crucial imports with its own currency to limit dependence on the dollar)."  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018132977595899988)  2026-02-02T01:22Z 333.9K followers, 16.3K engagements


"It is important to emphasize that China has much much lower levels of inequality in capital income compared to other major economies. China's inequality in labor income is pretty standard comparable to Western European countries (although this data is from [----] and China's Gini coefficient has improved since then as the government has made reducing domestic inequality and uneven development one of its top priorities). This demonstrates the qualitative difference of China's market socialist system. In addition to the fact that 55% of the capital of all firms in China is owned by the state the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018533787311931849)  2026-02-03T03:55Z 333.9K followers, 38.1K engagements


"Western anti-China pundits are so desperate they have to imagine a fictitious fantasy world where China has its own Epstein files. China executes pedophiles while the US capitalist regime puts pedos in the White House and top positions in Washington Wall Street and Harvard. China's anti-corruption campaign is very serious. State officials who have affairs with adult women who are their subordinates have recently been fired and kicked out of the Communist Party. But in order to qualify as a Western "China expert" you just have to speculate without any evidence about China hypothetically doing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018854357375344692)  2026-02-04T01:09Z 333.9K followers, 94.7K engagements


"@TravelGov https://x.com/i/status/2018940789477581198 Imperial sadism: The US regime is gloating about collapsing Cuban society. The reason there are fuel shortages and blackouts is Trump imposed a total blockade of oil. This is a barbaric medieval siege. The US empire wants to drag Cuba and the world back into a colonial dark age https://t.co/bBoqaY4w9W https://x.com/i/status/2018940789477581198 Imperial sadism: The US regime is gloating about collapsing Cuban society. The reason there are fuel shortages and blackouts is Trump imposed a total blockade of oil. This is a barbaric medieval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018941090389450966)  2026-02-04T06:54Z 333.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Western leaders "have no understanding of how the world has changed fundamentally and how the 12% of the world's population who live in the West can no longer impose their will on the rest". - Kishore Mahbubani ex UN Security Council president and Singapore UN representative The quality of mind of European leaders has gone down very badly and the West can no longer impose their will on the rest former UN security council president Kishore Mahbubani says. https://t.co/35joF88uzg The quality of mind of European leaders has gone down very badly and the West can no longer impose their will on the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019951543911596130)  2026-02-07T01:49Z 333.9K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Javier Milei's libertarian "anarcho-capitalist" project keeps failing in Argentina. The economy is shrinking just a few months after a massive bailout with tens of billions of dollars from the US government and IMF. Argentina is de-industrializing rapidly. Local manufacturing is being devastated by Milei's "free market" shock therapy. (This was entirely predictable because this is exactly what happened with the US-mandated imposition of neoliberal reforms across South America in the "lost decade" of the 1980s which caused extreme de-industrialization.) The only sectors that are growing in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2015599666050810361)  2026-01-26T01:36Z 334K followers, 297.4K engagements


"Imperial sadism: The US regime is gloating about collapsing Cuban society. The reason there are fuel shortages and blackouts is Trump imposed a total blockade of oil. This is a barbaric medieval siege. The US empire wants to drag Cuba and the world back into a colonial dark age Cuba:Cubas national electrical grid is increasingly unstable and prolonged scheduled and unscheduled power outages are a daily occurrence across the country to include Havana. Outages affect water supply lighting refrigeration and communications. There is also a shortage of https://t.co/omisdd3ZBF Cuba:Cubas national"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018940789477581198)  2026-02-04T06:52Z 334K followers, 43.8K engagements


"I can't stress this point enough: The so-called "international" financial system is a global financial dictatorship controlled by the US. The US empire uses the system to crush not just individuals but entire countries (Cuba Iran etc.) that dare to oppose its genocidal crimes. US sanctions have turned United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese into a global financial outcast leaving her unable to open any bank accounts or use credit cards in any country after being added to the US Treasury Departments list of specially designated nationals. https://t.co/rEaUvQpUdz US sanctions have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2020538138435678677)  2026-02-08T16:40Z 334K followers, 269.6K engagements


"This ridiculous corporate media propaganda doesnt mention WHY Cuba is suffering from blackouts and shortages: It's because the US regime has imposed an illegal barbaric medieval blockade on Cuba to starve it of fuel food and medicine. The US is also threatening tariffs and sanctions on any countries that trade with Cuba. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are intentionally trying to cause a massive humanitarian catastrophe to collapse the economy and the health sector to kill as Cuban civilians as possible and make their lives hell in order to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary anti-imperialist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2021228956419318263)  2026-02-10T14:25Z 334K followers, 18.6K engagements


"The US empire is a crazy global dictatorship that thinks it can commit any crime anywhere on Earth. US military forces seized an oil tanker that left Venezuela and traveled to the INDIAN OCEAN on the other side of the planet. The US still has an illegal blockade on Venezuela"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2021387429639561383)  2026-02-11T00:54Z 334K followers, 25.6K engagements


"The Wall Street Journal admits that in the US economy "rewards are going disproportionately toward capital instead of labor". Corporate profits skyrocket as labor compensation falls as a share of income. AI will make this class war much much worse. https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/capital-labor-wealth-economy-2fcf6c2f https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/capital-labor-wealth-economy-2fcf6c2f"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2021770049338638723)  2026-02-12T02:15Z 334K followers, [----] engagements


"UN human rights experts stated very clearly that the US "fuel blockade on Cuba is a serious violation of international law". They warned that the US blockade "could lead to a severe humanitarian crisis" and amounts to "collective punishment of civilians". They added that it "directly violates the principles of sovereign equality non-intervention and self-determination" which are enshrined in the UN Charter. But there will be no consequences for the murderous US rogue regime because Washington has veto power in the UN Security Council and does not care one bit about international law yet alone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2022267467351879886)  2026-02-13T11:11Z 334K followers, 13.5K engagements


"Argentina's libertarian US puppet President Javier Milei is pushing through extreme anti-worker "labor reform" that will allow companies to force employees to work 12-hour days. The "reform" also restricts the rights of workers to go on strike and lets companies fire workers without severance pay. Milei is a loyal servant of Wall Street and Argentina's billionaire capitalist oligarchs. This is the future they want for all workers everywhere -- 12-hour days (and even longer) -- if people don't fight back. Argentine labor unions are planning large protests. Source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2021764231197340087)  2026-02-12T01:52Z 334K followers, 158.6K engagements


"Argentina's libertarian US puppet President Javier Milei just pushed through some of the most extreme anti-worker legislation on Earth. In addition to allowing 12-hour work days it lets companies pay workers with food and lodging instead of money. Argentina is a laboratory for the far-right anti-labor policies that capitalist oligarchs hope to impose everywhere. This is why Wall Street Trump and many US billionaire oligarchs support Milei so strongly; and it's why the US government has given Argentina tens of billions of dollars to prop up his failing self-described "anarcho-capitalist""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2022479475334934852)  2026-02-14T01:14Z 334K followers, 184.5K engagements


"In the most successful economy in modern history in China state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are the motor. China's most important industries are run by SOEs: finance energy infrastructure mining telecommunications transportation even some strategic manufacturing. The total capital of companies with some level of state ownership in China is 68% of total capital of all firms (40 million). The vast majority of Chinese companies in the Fortune Global [---] list are SOEs. SOEs generate at least 25% of China's GDP in the most conservative estimates and other studies have found them to contribute to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1862658763959800207)  2024-11-30T00:43Z 334K followers, 142.9K engagements


"When China refers to its system as a socialist market economy it's not just rhetoric; it's the real deal. The Chinese state owns a slight majority (55%) of the total capital of all companies. Obviously China no longer has a totally planned economy like it was in the Mao era. Markets play an important role. But the system is still socialist. China continues to issue five-year plans that are taken very seriously and planning is prioritized in specific strategic sectors (like say electric vehicles and green energy). This data is from Thomas Piketty's [----] book A Brief History of Equality."  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1970138803689168998)  2025-09-22T14:51Z 334K followers, 142.7K engagements


"Billionaire "libertarian" US tech oligarchs are reverse engineering colonialism & fascism and calling it "innovation". They are buying land in poor countries in Africa & Latin America displacing local residents and creating unaccountable capitalist dictatorships governed by corporations. This is just the 21st-century version of the British empire's colonialist East India Company and the Dutch empire's Dutch East India Company. Source: https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7 https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1998204032184439117)  2025-12-09T01:32Z 334K followers, 61.8K engagements


"In the US empire's Second Cold War it's increasingly obvious that Washington wants to try to create a new Iron Curtain and force the world to economically decouple from China (which is likely to fail). The US slogan continues to be: "You're either with us or you're against us""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2015256883205153160)  2026-01-25T02:54Z 333.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm now on UpScrolled with the same username: This is an excellent new independent platform that unlike most social media companies is not owned by billionaire oligarchs who work with the US government to censor anti-imperialists. https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/9cb9228e-8947-4e62-a618-1728fc88751a/ https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/9cb9228e-8947-4e62-a618-1728fc88751a/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2017276698107253198)  2026-01-30T16:40Z 334K followers, 12.3K engagements


"The Nobel "Peace" Prize is a tool of imperialism and war. Far-right coup leader Mara Corina Machado gifted her "Peace" Prize to Trump to thank him for bombing Venezuela. Now she is meeting with Israel's foreign minister and heaping praise on the genocidal apartheid regime. Dear Minister Saar I am truly grateful for the opportunity to engage in an extensive conversation about the challenges and opportunities we face in a process that is already moving Venezuela toward democracy. Our country will be a reliable and stable partner for the worlds Dear Minister Saar I am truly grateful for the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019226993066405895)  2026-02-05T01:50Z 334K followers, 17.5K engagements


"China has banned investment in Israel. Meanwhile the US and other Western countries are helping Israel commit genocide against the Palestinian people and colonize their land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019267097327726643)  2026-02-05T04:29Z 334K followers, 104.3K engagements


"This is a great headline illustrating which country is actually free in practice and which country is actually an authoritarian police state. It's the exact opposite of what Western government propaganda claims. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342299/chinese-semiconductor-engineer-xu-zhenpeng-says-he-left-us-find-freedom https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3342299/chinese-semiconductor-engineer-xu-zhenpeng-says-he-left-us-find-freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019440474331783250)  2026-02-05T15:58Z 334K followers, 21.4K engagements


"Actually existing right-wing "populism" is just neoconservatism on steroids. Trump Marco Rubio and MAGA fake "populists" are taking the neocon foreign policy of George W. Bush & PNAC to a whole new genocidal level trying to starve millions and collapse Cuba Venezuela & Iran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2020102102098514033)  2026-02-07T11:47Z 334K followers, [----] engagements


"Western anti-China propagandists used to celebrate Ai Weiwei as a brave dissident. But after Ai lived in the West for several years and saw its crimes around the world he understood its extreme hypocrisy. The US-sponsored genocide in Palestine was a huge wake-up call for him.  https://t.co/eFNBa8Iy99  https://t.co/eFNBa8Iy99"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2017273458598830170)  2026-01-30T16:27Z 334K followers, 54.4K engagements


"Mara Corina Machado the far-right US-backed Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize promised a massive privatization if Trump can put her in power. She vowed to sell off $1.7 TRILLION of Venezuela's oil gas gold infrastructure etc. to US corporations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1988937942933598578)  2025-11-13T11:52Z 334K followers, 3.4M engagements


"After bombing Venezuela and abducting President Nicols Maduro Donald Trump said the US government is "going to run the country" until there is a "transition" to pro-US leadership. He boasted that "very large" US corporations will exploit its oil. This is blatant colonialism. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007505294293905595 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007505294293905595"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2007505294293905595)  2026-01-03T17:32Z 334K followers, 1.4M engagements


"At the peak of the Gilded Age in [----] the richest 0.00001% of the US population owned wealth equal to 4% of national income. Now the richest 0.00001% owns 12%. US billionaire oligarchs today are even wealthier than the original robber barons. Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/p/standing-up-to-trumps-imperial-blackmail https://open.substack.com/pub/gzucman/p/standing-up-to-trumps-imperial-blackmail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2013029417174360349)  2026-01-18T23:23Z 334K followers, 1.5M engagements


"This is a big deal: For the first time Brazil is issuing debt not only in US dollars and euro but also in Chinese yuan. This will contribute to global de-dollarization. How Well where is Brazil going to get the yuan needed to service that debt From trading with China in yuan not dollars. Brazil has a massive trade surplus with China and it exports a lot of commodities including oil food and iron ore. So this is de-dollarization of key commodity markets. Oil food and minerals are now being de facto priced and sold in RMB not just USD. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018518164775268449"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018518164775268449)  2026-02-03T02:53Z 334K followers, 124.9K engagements


"Vietnam is making plans for another potential US war on the country according to an internal document. The Vietnamese government fears intervention and/or a US-backed "color revolution" (ie regime-change operation) to try to overthrow the communist party. Vietnam's Ministry of Defense noted that the US is pressuring countries in Asia to form a front against China which Hanoi refuses to do. The ministry wrote that in its objective of strengthening deterrence against China the U.S. and its allies are ready to apply unconventional forms of warfare and military intervention and even conduct"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2018718796199203220)  2026-02-03T16:10Z 334K followers, 244.2K engagements


"NY Times pro-war propagandist Ross Douthat refuses to publish an interview he did with anti-war journalist @SethHarpEsq. But he recently did a softball interview with war criminal and convicted Iran-Contra felon Elliott Abrams who supported fascist death squads in Central America that tortured and massacred civilians for the Ronald Reagan administration. Look up the horrific El Mozote massacre when US-backed forces in El Salvador massacred more than [---] civilians. Abrams was absolutely complicit in that crime against humanity. Abrams also helped oversee the failed coup attempt in Venezuela as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019945361847251441)  2026-02-07T01:24Z 334K followers, 36.6K engagements


"This is a good introduction to the crimes against humanity facilitated by Elliott Abrams a top US official in the Ronald Reagan George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations who is constantly brought back because he's an expert in imperial slaughter: https://www.codepink.org/12_reasons_to_try_elliott_abrams_in_the_international_criminal_court https://www.codepink.org/12_reasons_to_try_elliott_abrams_in_the_international_criminal_court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019947385036894557)  2026-02-07T01:32Z 334K followers, [----] engagements


"The Department of War is quietly building a network of concentration camps for the US regime. A massive Navy contract once valued at $10 billion has ballooned to a staggering $55 billion to build out this concentration camp network for Trump. https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2019951860837421398)  2026-02-07T01:50Z 334K followers, 117.5K engagements


"The US is a barbaric genocidal regime that is trying to starve millions of civilians. The Trump admin is threatening to impose massive tariffs on any countries that trade with Iran and sell oil to Cuba. The US empire's goal is to strangle any nation that resists its hegemony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2020100798210777305)  2026-02-07T11:42Z 334K followers, 29.3K engagements


"The United Nations warns it is at risk of "imminent financial collapse" due to unpaid fees. Can you guess who is responsible The USA (like always). More than 95% of unpaid fees owed to the UN are owed by the US. The US is the worst rogue state on Earth. Nothing comes close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2020374975975481471)  2026-02-08T05:51Z 334K followers, 21.4K engagements


"Reminder that Japan is a one-party state. The right-wing pro-imperialist pro-US anti-China party LDP has governed Japan since [----] (with just two very short interruptions). But Japan isn't called authoritarian because it's a loyal Western ally militarily occupied by the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2020685524395245866)  2026-02-09T02:25Z 334K followers, 528.8K engagements


"This ridiculous corporate media propaganda below doesnt mention WHY Cuba is suffering from blackouts and shortages: It's because the US regime has imposed an illegal barbaric medieval blockade on Cuba to starve it of fuel food and medicine. The US is also threatening tariffs and sanctions on any countries that trade with Cuba. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are intentionally trying to cause a massive humanitarian catastrophe to collapse the economy and the health sector to kill as Cuban civilians as possible and make their lives hell in order to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary anti-imperialist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2021228527329345662)  2026-02-10T14:23Z 334K followers, 23.6K engagements


"The barbaric criminal US blockade of Cuba has forced the country to shut down its free public universities because Cuba needs to conserve its limited oil to power hospitals and water treatment facilities. The US is trying to do to Cuba what it did to Gaza. EDUCACIN PARALIZADA 😔 en Cuba la educacin es pblica gratuita y universal hasta nivel universitario desde [----] pero ahora Trump con su bloqueo total ha paralizado las universidades y otros centros de estudios en el pas. LITERALMENTE le estn quitando el derecho a https://t.co/riZts7mPmV EDUCACIN PARALIZADA 😔 en Cuba la educacin es pblica"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2021388755081494769)  2026-02-11T01:00Z 334K followers, 95.4K engagements


"WhatsApp is owned by Meta which has big contracts with the US government and has been recruiting Pentagon officials to make military equipment for the US Department of War. US government-backed Big Tech monopolies fear competition which is why they hate Russia (and China). Today the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app. Trying to isolate over [---] million users from private and secure communication is a backwards step and can only lead to less safety for people in Russia. Today the Russian government attempted to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2022475300161097749)  2026-02-14T00:57Z 334K followers, 12.5K engagements


"What the US regime is doing to Cuba is TERRORISM: intentionally harming and killing as many civilians as possible in order to accomplish a political goal (change of government). The US regime has imposed a barbaric medieval siege to deny electricity to [--] million Cuban civilians A Bloomberg analysis of satellite data shows that much of Cuba has gone dark this year due to the Trump's oil blockade https://t.co/L0xMTBvTK1 https://t.co/HN3bXWjQTv A Bloomberg analysis of satellite data shows that much of Cuba has gone dark this year due to the Trump's oil blockade https://t.co/L0xMTBvTK1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2022481617265279006)  2026-02-14T01:22Z 334K followers, 29.1K engagements


"The right-wing dictator who ruled Cuba before the [----] revolution Fulgencio Batista was an obedient US puppet who allowed US oligarchs and the Mafia to run the country as a US imperial casino and brothel. Batista collaborated closely with Meyer Lansky and other Mafia dons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2022641583963934966)  2026-02-14T11:58Z 334K followers, [----] engagements


".@JDForward: Elizabeth Warren is the biggest Israel hawk on Hillary Clintons vice presidential shortlist http://jd.fo/pvUu http://jd.fo/pvUu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/747938388569956352)  2016-06-28T23:43Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Rights groups: Suspend Saudi Arabia from U.N. Human Rights Council over war crimes via @Salon http://www.salon.com/2016/06/29/rights_groups_suspend_saudi_arabia_from_u_n_human_rights_council_over_war_crimes/ http://www.salon.com/2016/06/29/rights_groups_suspend_saudi_arabia_from_u_n_human_rights_council_over_war_crimes/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/748203726217875458)  2016-06-29T17:17Z 301.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Cornel West: Obama's response to police shootings of Black Americans was "weak" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/08/cornel-west-obamas-response-to-shootings-was-weak/postshare=151468163194784&tid=ss_fb https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/08/cornel-west-obamas-response-to-shootings-was-weak/postshare=151468163194784&tid=ss_fb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/752235186637733889)  2016-07-10T20:16Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Cornel West on Obama: "That's not how I roll""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/752238028144377856)  2016-07-10T20:28Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"U.S.-backed Syrian rebels committing war crimes torture abductions; imposing harsh Sharia law: Report via @Salon http://www.salon.com/2016/07/11/u_s_backed_syrian_rebels_committing_war_crimes_torture_abductions_imposing_harsh_sharia_law_report/ http://www.salon.com/2016/07/11/u_s_backed_syrian_rebels_committing_war_crimes_torture_abductions_imposing_harsh_sharia_law_report/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/752579586198740992)  2016-07-11T19:05Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"No justice for war crimes victims [--] years after Gaza war Amnesty International says via @Salon http://www.salon.com/2016/07/12/no_justice_for_war_crimes_victims_2_years_after_gaza_war_amnesty_international_says/ http://www.salon.com/2016/07/12/no_justice_for_war_crimes_victims_2_years_after_gaza_war_amnesty_international_says/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/752887419083583488)  2016-07-12T15:28Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"July [--] was 2nd anniversary of launch of Israels [----] war in Gaza. No one has been held accountable for war crimes http://www.salon.com/2016/07/12/no_justice_for_war_crimes_victims_2_years_after_gaza_war_amnesty_international_says/ http://www.salon.com/2016/07/12/no_justice_for_war_crimes_victims_2_years_after_gaza_war_amnesty_international_says/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/752899288947126272)  2016-07-12T16:15Z 302K followers, [--] engagements


"Hillary Clinton will be a true feminist hero when she bombs poor women in Syria Iraq Afghanistan Palestine Yemen Pakistan and Somalia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/753709100198928384)  2016-07-14T21:53Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Far-right conspiracist website InfoWars is advertising on a truck driving around downtown Cleveland for the RNC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/755213494417436673)  2016-07-19T01:31Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Re: Trump on NATO liberals are again forcing people to choose between a far-right chauvinist or imperial military alliance. No alternative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/756023487144132608)  2016-07-21T07:10Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Options in US election: Billionaire far-right demagogue who criticizes NATO or Wall Street-backed war hawk with NATO leader as potential VP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/756025775841619968)  2016-07-21T07:19Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"These liberal pundits smear leftist critiques of empire as conspiracy theories yet are now pushing their own actual crazy conspiracy theory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/757574199414099968)  2016-07-25T13:52Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"You can claim Russia controls the US election and edit a prominent liberal news site. But criticize US imperialism & good luck getting a job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/757575393662660608)  2016-07-25T13:57Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


""When I grew up those things weren't called racist" Clint Eastwood who was born in [----] & grew up during Jim Crow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/761608599827255297)  2016-08-05T17:03Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Like Trump's economic advisor Stephen Moore Peter Thiel has insisted "a single person" may need to save capitalism https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/736396189676011520 Rarely are plutocrats as blunt as Peter Thiel about the fact that capitalist fundamentalism leads right to fascism https://t.co/xdKdG5nGIe https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/736396189676011520 Rarely are plutocrats as blunt as Peter Thiel about the fact that capitalist fundamentalism leads right to fascism https://t.co/xdKdG5nGIe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/763254805619957760)  2016-08-10T06:05Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Stephen Moore"Capitalism is a lot more important than democracy" Peter Thiel"I no longer believe that freedom & democracy are compatible""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/763255448019623936)  2016-08-10T06:07Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Stephen Moore: "Im not even a big believer in democracy." Peter Thiel: "The notion of 'capitalist democracy' is an oxymoron.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/763256168076763136)  2016-08-10T06:10Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Fascinating how the only time Democratic Party operatives ever warned about fascism is when Trump started running"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/763909288322621440)  2016-08-12T01:25Z 302K followers, [---] engagements


"Hillary Clinton her foreign policy spox Jesse Lehrich & her FP advisor Laura Rosenberger have not mentioned Yemen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/767224840994578432)  2016-08-21T05:00Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"A lie with a billion dollars behind it is stronger than the truth. Peter Thiel has shut down http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_twitter http://Gawker.com http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_twitter http://Gawker.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/767948904721776640)  2016-08-23T04:57Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Head of right-wing Israeli think tank: Dont destroy ISIS; it "can be a useful tool" against Iran Hezbollah Syria http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/israeli-think-tank-dont-destroy-isis-its-a-useful-tool-against-iran-hezbollah-syria/ http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/israeli-think-tank-dont-destroy-isis-its-a-useful-tool-against-iran-hezbollah-syria/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/768122901128159232)  2016-08-23T16:29Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


""Instability & crises sometimes contain portents of positive change" -Head of think tank supported by US/NATO/Israel http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/israeli-think-tank-dont-destroy-isis-its-a-useful-tool-against-iran-hezbollah-syria/ http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/israeli-think-tank-dont-destroy-isis-its-a-useful-tool-against-iran-hezbollah-syria/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/768123811233431552)  2016-08-23T16:32Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Emails Show Clinton Foundation Donor Reached Out To Hillary Clinton Before Arms Export Boost http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/emails-show-clinton-foundation-donor-reached-out-hillary-clinton-arms-export-boost http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/emails-show-clinton-foundation-donor-reached-out-hillary-clinton-arms-export-boost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/768850688147349504)  2016-08-25T16:41Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Puff piece on Tim Kaine's "spiritual awakening" in Honduras while his gov slaughtered leftists & propped up dictator http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/tim-kaine-honduras-jesuit.html_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/tim-kaine-honduras-jesuit.html_r=0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/772101606154313728)  2016-09-03T15:59Z 319.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Native American Activist Winona LaDuke at Standing Rock: It's Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels via @democracynow http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/12/native_american_activist_winona_laduke_at http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/12/native_american_activist_winona_laduke_at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/775428370578440193)  2016-09-12T20:18Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@EliLake I'm not "sticking up" for Assad just as opponents of US regime change in Iraq weren't for Saddam. Disingenuous smear tactic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/780942632226816000)  2016-09-28T01:30Z 318.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Israeli forces show "appalling disregard for human life by using reckless and unlawful lethal force against Palestinians" with impunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/781930497933017089)  2016-09-30T18:55Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Obama under pressure to stop crackdown on Haitian migrants as Hurricane Matthew wreaks havoc on island @DanielDenvir http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/deportation-to-a-disaster-zone-obama-under-pressure-to-stop-crackdown-on-haitian-migrants-as-hurricane-matthew-wreaks-havoc-on-island/ http://www.salon.com/2016/10/07/deportation-to-a-disaster-zone-obama-under-pressure-to-stop-crackdown-on-haitian-migrants-as-hurricane-matthew-wreaks-havoc-on-island/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/784404668738899968)  2016-10-07T14:47Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


""It was Iran's fault. except maybe it wasn't but we want to blame Iran anyway""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/786950198266331136)  2016-10-14T15:22Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"US can't say who launched missiles at its ships after launching its own missiles at radars of Houthis (who deny it) http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/10/13/us-cant-say-who-launched-missiles-from-yemen-at-navy-ships.html#.WAFD_4cnDJi.twitter http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/10/13/us-cant-say-who-launched-missiles-from-yemen-at-navy-ships.html#.WAFD_4cnDJi.twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/787032477454000129)  2016-10-14T20:48Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Liberal hero John Oliver uses his platform to bravely punch down & attack Jill Stein ignoring most of her policies https://www.youtube.com/watchv=k3O01EfM5fU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=k3O01EfM5fU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/788157222685638656)  2016-10-17T23:18Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Eugene Debs on "the Republican-Democratic party" writing in [----] https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/sp_wkingclss.htm https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/sp_wkingclss.htm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/796160224424038400)  2016-11-09T01:19Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Reminder: Trump got BILLIONS of dollars worth of free media coverage #ElectionNight http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/796209763734421504)  2016-11-09T04:36Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Don't forget how much money corporate media networks made on Trump. They helped create him #ElectionNight http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/796210434244280321)  2016-11-09T04:38Z 301.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Democratic Party apparatchiks really never will get it. The US just elected a right-wing extremist and they are still trying to blame Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/798016970859810816)  2016-11-14T04:17Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


""Legendary and controversial statesman" is a very interesting way of saying "war criminal who oversaw policies that killed millions""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/799310481739526144)  2016-11-17T17:57Z 301.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Mexico's corrupt right-wing neoliberal ex-president Vicente Fox absurdly compares far-right demagogue Trump to Fidel http://thehill.com/policy/international/307855-ex-mexican-president-trumps-like-fidel-castro#.WD3DLbyaBrk.twitter http://thehill.com/policy/international/307855-ex-mexican-president-trumps-like-fidel-castro#.WD3DLbyaBrk.twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/803661387364962304)  2016-11-29T18:06Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Rwanda has launched an inquiry into the possible role of [--] French military and other officials in the [----] genocide http://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-france-idUSKBN13P13E http://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-france-idUSKBN13P13E"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/804020145647652864)  2016-11-30T17:51Z 300.4K followers, [--] engagements


"The US actively prevented UN action on the genocide in Rwanda not encouraged it. Syria comparisons are hypocritical http://www.salon.com/2016/05/16/forgotten_scandal_how_the_u_s_prevented_u_n_action_on_rwandan_genocide_under_bill_clinton_and_madeleine_albright/ http://www.salon.com/2016/05/16/forgotten_scandal_how_the_u_s_prevented_u_n_action_on_rwandan_genocide_under_bill_clinton_and_madeleine_albright/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/812380156543242240)  2016-12-23T19:31Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Executive board member of the CA Democratic Party cheering the horrible death of [--] members of a choir in an plane crash wishing more died"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/813108917635059712)  2016-12-25T19:47Z 304.9K followers, [----] engagements


"NYT absurdly laughably calls evidence-less intel report on Russia that cites RT "damning and surprisingly detailed" http://nyti.ms/2i1pX2C http://nyti.ms/2i1pX2C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/817540212146442240)  2017-01-07T01:15Z 301.7K followers, [---] engagements


"NY Times says the US intelligence report on Russia is "damning and surprisingly detailed" then adds that it contains no actual evidence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/817541156930224128)  2017-01-07T01:19Z 301.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Ford Foundation-funded "anti-debt" NGO Jubilee USA boasts of working with Obama White House on TPP IMF neocolonial Puerto Rico "bailout""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/820319710457819138)  2017-01-14T17:20Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Cold War Jitters Resurface as U.S. Marines Arrive in Norway https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/europe/norway-us-russia-marines.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/europe/norway-us-russia-marines.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/821156460428218372)  2017-01-17T00:45Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Trump fires acting AG because she told Justice Dept lawyers not to defend his discriminatory anti-Muslim exec. order http://nbcnews.to/2jMYm60 http://nbcnews.to/2jMYm60"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/826263010507423744)  2017-01-31T02:57Z 301.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Democratic "resistance" leader Nancy Pelosi: "We're capitalist; that's just the way it is" via @adamjohnsonNYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/826673102931247104)  2017-02-01T06:06Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Here is Canadian Foreign Minister @CaFreeland honoring the memory of her grandfather a Nazi collaborator http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/839918350335619076)  2017-03-09T19:18Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"It's extra insult to injury that the US is helping brutally bomb Yemen while banning Yemenis from entering the US http://www.alternet.org/trump-barring-refugees-muslim-countries-us-bombs-intervention http://www.alternet.org/trump-barring-refugees-muslim-countries-us-bombs-intervention"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/840363551265050624)  2017-03-11T00:47Z 301.1K followers, [---] engagements


""If you don't want refugees stop creating them" -Yemeni-American activist @Rabyaahahmed in TIME. Trump's ban separated her from her husband"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/840616681038843905)  2017-03-11T17:33Z 301.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Syrian man driving in illegally Israel-occupied Golan Heights reportedly killed by Israeli drone http://jd.fo/QafZ http://jd.fo/QafZ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/843561926617677824)  2017-03-19T20:36Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Black-run workers org in colony French Guiana leading mass protests against French gov demanding higher wages http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Guiana-Workers-Revolt-in-Frances-South-American-Colony-20170325-0015.html http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Guiana-Workers-Revolt-in-Frances-South-American-Colony-20170325-0015.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/846251191021572096)  2017-03-27T06:43Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"*extremely Louise Mensch voice* What if Louise Mensch is a secret agent plotting to discredit anyone who challenges the capitalist class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/849322258099302400)  2017-04-04T18:06Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Palestinian American Prof. Rashid Khalidi called it in October: both Clinton and Trump would escalate war in Syria https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/785526849468260352 Prof. Rashid Khalidi: I'm afraid either Clinton or Trump would start a war in Syria battling Russia https://t.co/7aFuo096sf 30:58 in video https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/785526849468260352 Prof. Rashid Khalidi: I'm afraid either Clinton or Trump would start a war in Syria battling Russia https://t.co/7aFuo096sf 30:58 in video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/850192325661904896)  2017-04-07T03:43Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Palestinian American Prof. Rashid Khalidi in October: Both Clinton & Trump will lead to a direct US war in Syria. Both parties thrive on war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/850203575401697281)  2017-04-07T04:28Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Louise Mensch now preposterously claims Putin hacked US states' voting systems which is not even possible given the decentralized system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/852907180638580737)  2017-04-14T15:31Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Moving film interviewing refugees at Christmas Island site of a privatized detention center off Australia's coast: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NbHPi8Ow0ok https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NbHPi8Ow0ok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/855463337274036224)  2017-04-21T16:48Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


".@AntLoewenstein reported on Christmas Island in Disaster Capitalism how corporations profit from refugee detention http://www.alternet.org/world/disaster-capitalism-antony-loewenstein-ben-norton-review-discussion http://www.alternet.org/world/disaster-capitalism-antony-loewenstein-ben-norton-review-discussion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/855463713834487808)  2017-04-21T16:50Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Shot: Jezebel runs article fearmongering about North Korea Chaser: Fusion turns it into fake news falsely claiming DPRK launched a nuke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/866549635917246464)  2017-05-22T07:01Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"NY Times continues echoing US-Saudi propaganda implying Yemen's Houthis are "Iran proxies" (they aren't) because they are "seen" that way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/870384152830509056)  2017-06-01T20:58Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


""Progressive" Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin openly and proudly tells @MaxBlumenthal he supports regime change in Syria and Venezuela"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/871762554565033985)  2017-06-05T16:16Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Israel kills Gaza fisherman at sea after massacring [--] children from the man's family in a missile attack on a beach https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/18/israeli-forces-kill-gaza-fisherman-sea https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/18/israeli-forces-kill-gaza-fisherman-sea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/878110091911639041)  2017-06-23T04:38Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Racist "New Atheist" leader Richard Dawkins had African servants while growing up in British colonies http://bennorton.com/richard-dawkins-had-african-servants-while-growing-up-in-british-colonies/ http://bennorton.com/richard-dawkins-had-african-servants-while-growing-up-in-british-colonies/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/878674770589626369)  2017-06-24T18:02Z 319.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Venezuela's Supreme Court attacked by the opposition again: this time extremists dropped grenades from a helicopter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-supreme-court-helicopter.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-supreme-court-helicopter.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/879904034299293697)  2017-06-28T03:27Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Israeli forces this morning demolished a two-story building in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170815-israel-demolishes-palestinian-homes-in-jerusalem/#.WZMnV9xGaJ0.twitter https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170815-israel-demolishes-palestinian-homes-in-jerusalem/#.WZMnV9xGaJ0.twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/897502140121309184)  2017-08-15T16:55Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Best Buy apologizes after Texas store charges $42 for cases of water amid horrific flooding http://mashable.com/2017/08/29/best-buy-apologizes-water-price-gouging/#sQ6jYRbnmkO3 http://mashable.com/2017/08/29/best-buy-apologizes-water-price-gouging/#sQ6jYRbnmkO3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/902667391280308224)  2017-08-29T23:00Z 301.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Capitalism: Amid flooding Texas AG reports over [---] complaints of price gouging up to $99 for a case of water https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/price-gouging-during-hurricane-harvey-up-to-99-for-a-case-of-water-texas-ag-says.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/price-gouging-during-hurricane-harvey-up-to-99-for-a-case-of-water-texas-ag-says.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/902668088918679552)  2017-08-29T23:03Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"NY Times gives a platform to a weapons manufacturer-funded think tank to absurdly insist the gargantuan US military has been "underfunded""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/909959813978886144)  2017-09-19T01:58Z 319.4K followers, [---] engagements


"New $700B Senate Pentagon bill includes: -$705M for Israeli missile programs -$500M for Ukraine -$100M for anti-Russian ops in the Balkans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/909966139643584512)  2017-09-19T02:23Z 319.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Just before Iraqi gov. retook Kirkuk Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani paid respects at Jalal Talabani's tomb http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/141020175 http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/141020175"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/920051490500341765)  2017-10-16T22:19Z 301.8K followers, [--] engagements


"More confirmation that the Iraqi operation to retake Kirkuk was planned with the PUK. It's not an "Iranian plot" https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/10/16/a-series-of-unfortunate-consequences-for-kurdistan-in-kirkuk/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/10/16/a-series-of-unfortunate-consequences-for-kurdistan-in-kirkuk/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/920160582661230592)  2017-10-17T05:32Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@imillhiser Aside from how incredibly weird this tweet is Bill Clinton was on Jeffrey Epstein's vile vomit-inducing "Lolita Express" flights (Trump was too) and has obviously been widely accused of sexual harassment. http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971 http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/929183505225060352)  2017-11-11T03:06Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"The Israeli army fired a so-called "warning" shell atSyrian forces across the border for doing constructionin the illegally Israel-occupied Golan Heights which is Syrian territory. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.823518 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.823518"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/932087976070434817)  2017-11-19T03:27Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"UN panel of experts still has not found evidence to support Saudi Arabia's claims that short-range ballistic missiles have been transferred to Yemeni rebels (supposedly by Iran) https://interc.pt/2zIP2ZC https://interc.pt/2zIP2ZC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/932287670872666113)  2017-11-19T16:41Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"White House senior adviser Jared Kushner failed to disclose he led a foundation funding illegal Israeli settlements before attempting to sway a UN Security Council vote against an anti-settlement resolution. http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-disclosure-form-west-bank-settlements-israel-white-house-729290utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-disclosure-form-west-bank-settlements-israel-white-house-729290utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/937390544539541509)  2017-12-03T18:38Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Projecting the flag of the supposedly secular US government onto the walls of Jerusalem's Old City alongside the flag of the theocratic Israeli apartheid state is some next-level Rhodesia-style white settler colonial symbolism. http://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/photos/jerusalems-old-city-lit-up-with-american-and-israeli-flags/2017/12/06/ http://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/photos/jerusalems-old-city-lit-up-with-american-and-israeli-flags/2017/12/06/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/938490727121719297)  2017-12-06T19:30Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"A leaked State Department memo officially confirms the open secret we all knew: when the US government expresses concerns about so-called "human rights" it doesn't actually care about human rights; it's just a cheap political tactic to demonize US enemies https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/946844710924181511)  2017-12-29T20:45Z 301.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@nikkihaley When will you call for "freedom and human rights" for the people in Saudi Arabia the United Arab Emirates Bahrain apartheid Israel Egypt Jordan Honduras and so many other countries whose repressive authoritarian regimes you prop up https://x.com/nikkihaley/status/947492661950337024 RT:Our hopes & prayers are with the millions of people suffering from repressive govts in NKoreaVenezuelaCuba & esp in Iran where the Iranian people are finding their voice.The Iranian govt is being tested by its own people.We pray freedom & human rights will carry the day. https://t.co/2KncUVfiiq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/948303637612253190)  2018-01-02T21:23Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Disgust follows pictures of Seinfeld at a a hyper-militaristic "anti-terror fantasy camp" in the illegally occupied West Bank https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/08/disgust-follows-pictures-seinfeld-anti-terror-fantasy-camp-occupied-west-bank https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/08/disgust-follows-pictures-seinfeld-anti-terror-fantasy-camp-occupied-west-bank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/950539725991038977)  2018-01-09T01:28Z 301.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Manal Tamimi of the Tamimi family in the occupied West Bank speaks about the Israeli gov's repression of peaceful Palestinian activism and its arrest of 16-year-old Ahed shooting of 15-year-old Mohammed and killing of 17-year-old Musab with @AaronJMate http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20869:How-Palestine%27s-Tamimi-Family-Resists-Israel%27s-Occupation http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20869:How-Palestine%27s-Tamimi-Family-Resists-Israel%27s-Occupation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/951133459245871109)  2018-01-10T16:47Z 301.5K followers, [--] engagements


"As NATO member Turkey launches an illegal attack on Kurdish-majority forces in Afrin in northern Syria the Pentagon has said it will only support YPG fighters who are fighting ISIS; the US will end support for those who fight Turkey. https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2018/01/23/us-says-will-cease-support-to-ypg-units-in-northeast-syria-joining-afrin-fight https://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2018/01/23/us-says-will-cease-support-to-ypg-units-in-northeast-syria-joining-afrin-fight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/955875511187668992)  2018-01-23T18:50Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"A bill recently introduced in the Maryland state legislature would ban judges from issuing arrest warrants for tenants being sued for less than $5000 in unpaid rent a proposal that its author is calling the Jared Kushner Act. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/maryland-considers-kushner-act-barring-arrest-of-debtor-tenants-1.5784279 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/maryland-considers-kushner-act-barring-arrest-of-debtor-tenants-1.5784279"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/958812595212963840)  2018-01-31T21:21Z 301.7K followers, [--] engagements


"US officials say the Kurdish YPG is no longer the backbone of the US-backed SDF and look at this colonial language: A US official said "We have a much more populous and much more capable Arab force that we can use." "We can *use*." Imperial arrogance https://www.voanews.com/a/us-getting-conflicting-signals-on-turkey-syria-ops/4221476.html https://www.voanews.com/a/us-getting-conflicting-signals-on-turkey-syria-ops/4221476.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/960583177839562757)  2018-02-05T18:37Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Once again the New York Times conveniently failed to mention that the Golan Heights is illegally occupied Syrian territory under international law. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/world/middleeast/israel-iran-syria.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/world/middleeast/israel-iran-syria.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/962395619112472581)  2018-02-10T18:39Z 301.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Israeli occupation forces in the illegally occupied West Bank crushed a Palestinian man to death with a military jeep. He was trapped and bled to death while they denied him medical aid. ThenIsrael sent the victim's family a $28000 bill for the jeep. http://aje.io/waplf http://aje.io/waplf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/962983038215999488)  2018-02-12T09:33Z 301.4K followers, [---] engagements


".@Voxdotcom's US government-linked experts present the options for North Korea: devastating sanctions or apocalyptic war in @FAIRmediawatch https://fair.org/home/vox-experts-north-korea-us-government/ https://fair.org/home/vox-experts-north-korea-us-government/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/963141777443127299)  2018-02-12T20:04Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Vox produced a hawkish video fearmongering about war with North Korea and all the experts in it just so happen to work for the US government. [--] of [--] directly worked for the US. The 5th works at a think tank that is funded by the US and does contract work https://fair.org/home/vox-experts-north-korea-us-government/ https://fair.org/home/vox-experts-north-korea-us-government/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/963144447851683840)  2018-02-12T20:15Z 301.6K followers, [--] engagements


"The RAND Corporation is really a parastatal organization and makes it clear on its website that the majority of its funding comes from the US government. RAND lists dozens of US government agencies as clients and grantors along with the governments of South Korea and Japan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/963145056352980992)  2018-02-12T20:17Z 302K followers, [--] engagements


"A clear admission of the Democrats' non-strategy to defeat Trumpism: "unite the country against Russia" Instead of moving left in any way instead of adopting popular left-wing policies neoliberal Democrats are doubling down and just shouting "RUSSIA" https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/01/31/democrats-need-to-unite-the-country-against-russia/ https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/01/31/democrats-need-to-unite-the-country-against-russia/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/964202876737347584)  2018-02-15T18:20Z 318.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Remember when the US-led coalition rejected the UN call for a humanitarian pause in Raqqa Syria That was last August. But now the US is so concerned about Eastern Ghouta. Remember the US can do whatever it wants but everyone else is a "rogue state." http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-led-coalition-rejects-un-call-raqqa-fighting-pause-says-battle-must-continue-1030692015 http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-led-coalition-rejects-un-call-raqqa-fighting-pause-says-battle-must-continue-1030692015"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/968581812376219648)  2018-02-27T20:21Z 301.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Nearly [--] years of U.S.-Saudi war has turned Yemen into the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth. Senators Bernie Sanders and Mike Lee introduced a bipartisan bill to end the U.S. role in the war http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21233:Sanders-Introduces-Bill-to-End-Catastrophic-US-War-in-Yemen http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21233:Sanders-Introduces-Bill-to-End-Catastrophic-US-War-in-Yemen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/969280640666492929)  2018-03-01T18:38Z 301.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Evangelical extremist Vice President Mike Pence said that legal abortion would end in the U.S. "in our time." These theocrats are the American Taliban http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/375852-pence-says-abortion-will-end-in-us-in-our-time http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/375852-pence-says-abortion-will-end-in-us-in-our-time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/970031238575788038)  2018-03-03T20:20Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Saudi Arabia has allowed Air India to operate flights between India and Israel over Saudi airspace https://www.reuters.com/article/us-air-india-israel-saudi/saudi-allows-air-india-to-operate-flights-between-india-and-israel-over-saudi-airspace-idUSKCN1GJ24X https://www.reuters.com/article/us-air-india-israel-saudi/saudi-allows-air-india-to-operate-flights-between-india-and-israel-over-saudi-airspace-idUSKCN1GJ24X"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/971418886213177345)  2018-03-07T16:14Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Dublin City Council passed amotion last night endorsing BDS in solidarity with Palestinians. Today Israel said it barred Dublins mayor from entering territory it controls. But the mayor appeared to be tweeting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/dublin-city-council-votes-israel-boycott https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/dublin-city-council-votes-israel-boycott"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/983814378876297216)  2018-04-10T21:10Z 301.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Hezbollah and its allies won a majority of seats in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in [--] years (Reuters absurdly frames this as part of an Iranian plot not as an example of Lebanese democracy in action and a reflection of popular support for Hezb) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-election/hezbollah-allies-gain-in-lebanon-vote-in-apparent-boost-for-iran-idUSKBN1I804D https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-election/hezbollah-allies-gain-in-lebanon-vote-in-apparent-boost-for-iran-idUSKBN1I804D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/993495068643340288)  2018-05-07T14:17Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Netanyahu in 2002: "There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking and is working and is advancing towards the development of nuclear weapons. If you take out Saddams regime I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations" https://therealnews.com/stories/netanyahus-long-history-of-crying-wolf-over-fake-wmds-in-iran-and-iraq https://therealnews.com/stories/netanyahus-long-history-of-crying-wolf-over-fake-wmds-in-iran-and-iraq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/993954176983068673)  2018-05-08T20:41Z 301.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Former IAEA nuclear weapons inspector Robert Kelley said Israeli PM Netanyahu's speech about Iran which Trump cited today was dishonest "completely childish and trying to make something very important out of something thats not important at all." https://therealnews.com/stories/fmr-iaea-inspector-netanyahus-cartoons-about-irans-nuclear-program-are-baseless-and-childish https://therealnews.com/stories/fmr-iaea-inspector-netanyahus-cartoons-about-irans-nuclear-program-are-baseless-and-childish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/993954960315428864)  2018-05-08T20:45Z 302K followers, [---] engagements


"@NYGovCuomo Recent events like the Israeli military slaughtering unarmed Palestinian protesters shooting thousands with live ammunition for demonstrating against Israel's illegal and crippling blockade which even Conservative UK PM Cameron called a "prison camp" https://x.com/NYGovCuomo/status/994620061225832458s=19 Im traveling to Israel to show our solidarity in light of recent events. I will lead a delegation to show Israel that New York will always be a true friend. https://x.com/NYGovCuomo/status/994620061225832458s=19 Im traveling to Israel to show our solidarity in light of recent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/994804409799467008)  2018-05-11T05:00Z 301.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@NYGovCuomo You didn't answer @NYGovCuomo. By "recent events" do you mean the Israeli military wounding [----] unarmed Palestinian protesters shooting [----] Gazans with live ammunition killing children and journalists You "show your solidarity" with this massacre https://www.ochaopt.org/content/numerous-casualties-during-demonstrations-near-perimeter-fence-gaza https://www.ochaopt.org/content/numerous-casualties-during-demonstrations-near-perimeter-fence-gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/994979887172739072)  2018-05-11T16:37Z 301.9K followers, [--] engagements


"*Thread on how media outlets are whitewashing Israel's merciless slaughter of unarmed Palestinians in the Gaza prison camp* This is some grotesque propaganda from CNN: "Dozens die in Gaza" note there's no mention of Israel killing these Palestinians; they just happened to die"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/996110153509457926)  2018-05-14T19:29Z 301.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Fascist propagandist Laura Loomer tweeted "58-0" yesterday gloating about the Israeli military's massacre of unarmed Palestinians protesting in the illegally Israeli-besieged Gaza prison camp. She later deleted this heinous tweet but it's archived here: http://archive.li/yUTIQ http://archive.li/yUTIQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/996434487142731778)  2018-05-15T16:57Z 301.9K followers, [----] engagements

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