Here are but two examples:
Soft coup support: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/02/facebook-twitter-purge-sandinista-nicaragua/
Meet the Nicaraguans Facebook falsely branded bots and censored days before elections
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA – Just days before Nicaragua’s November 7 elections, top social media platforms censored top Nicaraguan news outlets and hundreds of journalists and activists who support their country’s leftist Sandinista government.
The politically motivated campaign of Silicon Valley censorship amounted to a massive purge of Sandinista supporters one week before the vote. It followed US government attacks on the integrity of Nicaragua’s elections, and Washington’s insistence that it will refuse to recognize the results.
The United States sponsored a sadistically violent coup attempt in Nicaragua in 2018, which resulted in hundreds of deaths in a desperate effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Daniel Ortega.
Since the putsch failed, both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations have imposed several rounds of devastating sanctions on Nicaragua. The US Congress plans to levy new heavy-handed sanctions against Nicaragua following the November 7 elections.
Hard core support: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/11/02/the-angry-arab-biden-leaving-mideast-in-worse-shape/
THE ANGRY ARAB: Biden Leaving Mideast in Worse Shape
While flaunting its promotion of democratization, the Biden administration has thus far endorsed (or tolerated) two coups: one political in Tunisia and a blatant military overthrow last week in Sudan.
In Tunisia, the president basically suspended the constitution and is ruling by fiat. He dissolved the parliament (which was dominated by Nahdah, a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated movement) and obtained Saudi and UAE support for common enemies. U.S. officials have been meeting regularly with President Kais Saied and American statements on the abrogation of democracy there have been rather mild if not indulgent.
In the Sudan, there was no democracy in place to begin with. There, the U.S.-sponsored military junta was ostensibly sharing power with a civilian government in the wake of street protests and demands for democracy in 2019. The junta and the U.S. feared that a civilian democratic government would abort the normalization initiative with Israel.
Of course, you likely won't be aware of either of these if your head is constantly filled with establishment media.
All the more reason to support independent journalism sites like The Grayzone, and Consortium News.
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