"Radical Left Thug"
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🎩💰 Billionaires should not exist. We don't need them. They need us. #TaxTheRich #UBI
🎩💰 Billionaires should not exist. We don't need them. They need us. #TaxTheRich #UBI
Trump is a serial predator and lifelong crook. Even Jeffrey Epstein eventually came to the conclusion that Trump was "a crook," according to his brother Mark Epstein.
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Trump is a serial predator and lifelong crook. Even Jeffrey Epstein eventually came to the conclusion that Trump was "a crook," according to his brother Mark Epstein.
Essential public services like water & electricity should be totally off limits to power-hungry water-guzzling data centres. The grasping tech bro billionaire ghouls who are pushing AI down our throats should have to pay to build their own power stations. And leave our water the fuck alone.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Essential public services like water & electricity should be totally off limits to power-hungry water-guzzling data centres. The grasping tech bro billionaire ghouls who are pushing AI down our throats should have to pay to build their own power stations. And leave our water the fuck alone.
Support your local coffee houses instead, and don't give your money to Starbucks for their crap coffee-flavoured slop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Support your local coffee houses instead, and don't give your money to Starbucks for their crap coffee-flavoured slop.
Wildlife is being displaced at alarming rates due to habitat loss, b/c of all those new roads & highways and subdivisions. That's why hungry, emaciated deer and other wild animals are showing up in people's backyards, foraging for food. It's a tragedy. We need to protect wildlife, not wipe them out.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Wildlife is being displaced at alarming rates due to habitat loss, b/c of all those new roads & highways and subdivisions. That's why hungry, emaciated deer and other wild animals are showing up in people's backyards, foraging for food. It's a tragedy. We need to protect wildlife, not wipe them out.
the automobile industry along with big oil have a stifling stranglehold on the whole world. they want cars to remain the dominant mode of transportation, no matter the cost to the planet and people.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
the automobile industry along with big oil have a stifling stranglehold on the whole world. they want cars to remain the dominant mode of transportation, no matter the cost to the planet and people.
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burn down the oligarchy
July 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
burn down the oligarchy
To learn more about U.S.-backed atrocities throughout Latin America, visit The Zinn Education Project www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
June 27, 1954: Elected Guatemalan Leader Overthrown in CIA-Backed Coup
Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
To learn more about U.S.-backed atrocities throughout Latin America, visit The Zinn Education Project www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
Mutilated bodies were dropped from helicopters on crowded stadiums to keep the population terrified. And those who dare ask about ‘disappeared’ loved ones had their tongues cut out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Mutilated bodies were dropped from helicopters on crowded stadiums to keep the population terrified. And those who dare ask about ‘disappeared’ loved ones had their tongues cut out.
For the next four decades, its people suffered from government terror without equal in the modern history of Latin America. In Guatemala City, unlicensed vans full of heavily armed men pull to a stop and in broad daylight kidnap another death squad victim.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For the next four decades, its people suffered from government terror without equal in the modern history of Latin America. In Guatemala City, unlicensed vans full of heavily armed men pull to a stop and in broad daylight kidnap another death squad victim.
He quickly outlawed more than five hundred trade unions and returned more than 1.5 million acres to United Fruit and the country’s other big landowners. Guatemala’s brief experiment with democracy was over.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
He quickly outlawed more than five hundred trade unions and returned more than 1.5 million acres to United Fruit and the country’s other big landowners. Guatemala’s brief experiment with democracy was over.
Despite the violent and illegal manner by which Castillo’s government came to power, Washington promptly recognized it and showered it with foreign aid. Castillo lost no time in repaying his sponsors.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Despite the violent and illegal manner by which Castillo’s government came to power, Washington promptly recognized it and showered it with foreign aid. Castillo lost no time in repaying his sponsors.
The agency selected Guatemalan colonel Carlos Castillo Armas to lead the coup, it financed and trained Castillo’s rebels in Somoza’s Nicaragua, and it backed up the invasion with CIA-piloted planes. During and after the coup, more than nine thousand Guatemalan supporters of Arbenz were arrested.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The agency selected Guatemalan colonel Carlos Castillo Armas to lead the coup, it financed and trained Castillo’s rebels in Somoza’s Nicaragua, and it backed up the invasion with CIA-piloted planes. During and after the coup, more than nine thousand Guatemalan supporters of Arbenz were arrested.
The Dulles brothers, of course, were hardly neutral parties. Both were former partners of United Fruit’s main law firm in Washington. On their advice, Eisenhower authorized the CIA to organize “Operation Success,” a plan for the armed overthrow of Arbenz, which took place in June 1954.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Dulles brothers, of course, were hardly neutral parties. Both were former partners of United Fruit’s main law firm in Washington. On their advice, Eisenhower authorized the CIA to organize “Operation Success,” a plan for the armed overthrow of Arbenz, which took place in June 1954.
United Fruit and the U.S. State Department countered with a demand for $16 million. When Arbenz refused, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles convinced President Eisenhower that Arbenz had to go.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
United Fruit and the U.S. State Department countered with a demand for $16 million. When Arbenz refused, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles convinced President Eisenhower that Arbenz had to go.
Arbenz shocked United Fruit Company officials even more when he actually confiscated a huge chunk of the company’s land and offered $1.2 million as compensation, a figure that was based on the tax value of the company’s own accountants had declared before Decree 900 was passed.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Arbenz shocked United Fruit Company officials even more when he actually confiscated a huge chunk of the company’s land and offered $1.2 million as compensation, a figure that was based on the tax value of the company’s own accountants had declared before Decree 900 was passed.
But those holdings represented half the private land in the country. More importantly, it covered the vast holdings of the United Fruit Company, which owned some 600,000 acres-most of it unused.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
But those holdings represented half the private land in the country. More importantly, it covered the vast holdings of the United Fruit Company, which owned some 600,000 acres-most of it unused.
As land reform programs go, it was by no means a radical one, since it only affected large estates. Of 341,000 landowners, only 1,700 holdings came under the provisions.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As land reform programs go, it was by no means a radical one, since it only affected large estates. Of 341,000 landowners, only 1,700 holdings came under the provisions.
The owners were to receive compensation based on the land’s assessed tax value and they were to be paid with twenty-five-year government bonds, while the peasants would get low-interest loans from the government to buy their plots.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The owners were to receive compensation based on the land’s assessed tax value and they were to be paid with twenty-five-year government bonds, while the peasants would get low-interest loans from the government to buy their plots.
The following year, Arbenz got the Guatemalan Congress to pass Decree 900. The new law ordered the expropriation of all property that was larger than six hundred acres and not in cultivation. The confiscated lands were to be divided up among the landless.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The following year, Arbenz got the Guatemalan Congress to pass Decree 900. The new law ordered the expropriation of all property that was larger than six hundred acres and not in cultivation. The confiscated lands were to be divided up among the landless.
The county’s soil was immensely fertile, but only 2 percent of the landholders owned 72 percent of the arable land, and only a tiny part of their holdings was under cultivation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The county’s soil was immensely fertile, but only 2 percent of the landholders owned 72 percent of the arable land, and only a tiny part of their holdings was under cultivation.
Arévalo knew that in a country with no industry to speak of, with more than 70 percent of the population illiterate, and with 80 percent barely eking out survival in the countryside, ownership and control of land was Guatemala’s fundamental economic issue.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Arévalo knew that in a country with no industry to speak of, with more than 70 percent of the population illiterate, and with 80 percent barely eking out survival in the countryside, ownership and control of land was Guatemala’s fundamental economic issue.
Arbenz swept to victory in the 1951 elections and vowed to take Arévalo’s peaceful revolution a step farther by redistributing all idle lands to the peasants.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Arbenz swept to victory in the 1951 elections and vowed to take Arévalo’s peaceful revolution a step farther by redistributing all idle lands to the peasants.