The Biden administration, CIA, and associated cut-outs and think tanks were promoting what were supposed to be massive protests in Cuba this week, but turned out to be nearly non-existent. Deputy Director of US Affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry Johana Tablada de la Torre explains what happened to the CIA-fomented plans for protest and why the Cuban people are continuing to reject U.S. imperialism, meddling, and aggression.
In Washington’s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that will help convince liberals and leftists in the United States to support American intervention.
by Alan Macleod
HAVANA — “A Black uprising is shaking Cuba’s Communist regime,” read The Washington Post’s headline on the recent unrest on the Caribbean island. “Afro-Cubans Come Out In Droves To Protest Government,” wrote NPR. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal went with “Cuba’s Black Communities Bear the Brunt of Regime’s Crackdown” as a title.
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US imposes more sanctions on crippled Cuba, this time on interior ministry officials and military unit
https://www.rt.com/news/531985-usa-new-sanctions-cuba/
Cuba, China, Latin America and the World
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-china-latin-america-world/5752875
Yotuel Romero of Cuban hip-hop group Orishas performing in Warszawa, Poland, Sept. 15, 2009. (Henryk Kotowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
29 July 2021 — The Grayzone
The Movement Standing Up To Biden’s Maximum Pressure Campaign
https://popularresistance.org/the-movement-standing-up-to-bidens-maximum-pressure-campaign/
The Great Contest of Our Time Is between Humanity and Imperialism
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/the-great-contest-of-our-time-is-between-humanity-and-imperialism/
26 July 2021 — The New Dark Age
Standing with the Cuban People
Mexico Readies Navy Ships To Bring Food, Supplies To Cuba
https://popularresistance.org/mexico-readies-navy-ships-to-bring-food-supplies-to-cuba/
23 July 2021 — The New Dark Age
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Operation Condor II: “The Right-Wing Coalitions in the Region Have Washington’s Backing”
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/operation-condor-ii-the-right-wing-coalitions-in-the-region-have-washingtons-backing/
Washington Beats the Drum of Regime Change, but Cuba Responds to Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2021)
https://williambowles.info/2021/07/22/washington-beats-the-drum-of-regime-change-but-cuba-responds-to-its-own-revolutionary-rhythm-the-twenty-ninth-newsletter-2021/
20 July 2021 — MintPress News
While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press.
by Alan Macleod and Mnar Muhawesh Adley
19 July 2021 • 14:45 — The New Dark Age
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What do you really know about U.S.-Cuba relations?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/what-do-you-really-know-about-u-s-cuba-relations/
What They Don’t Say About Cuba
https://popularresistance.org/what-they-dont-say-about-cuba/
17 July 2021 — The New Dark Age
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Gaza: A Vision Of What Capital & Empire Intend For The Rest Of The Globe
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/07/gaza-vision-of-what-capital-empire.html
Cuba Proves US Involvement In Destabilization Actions
https://popularresistance.org/cuba-proves-u-s-involvement-in-destabilization-actions-against-the-cuban-people/
13 July 2021 —
…there is no precedent in world history of a nation that has been assaulted by another without pause for sixty years…
Washington believes that the time has come to intensify its attacks on any government in the region that does not obey its orders. In the last few days we have seen the suspicious assassination of the president of Haiti, with a modus operandi that bears the imprint of the CIA. Also the brutal attack by Colombian paramilitaries and drug traffickers, equipped with weapons of war, in the Cota 905 in the outskirts of Caracas and shooting at the top of their lungs at residents surprised by the unusual and unexpected aggression. The offensive against Nicaragua gained strength as opinion polls anticipated a resounding victory for Sandinismo in the next presidential elections.
13 July 2021 — MROnline
President Miguel Díaz-Canel in San Antonio de los Baños. Credit — Cubadebate.cu
Originally published: Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation by Liberation Staff (July 11, 2021 )
13 July 2021 — Moon of Alabama
Yesterday saw minor protests in Cuba driven by U.S. regime change dollars and by economic problem caused by U.S. sanctions. They were accompanied by a number of newly created accounts on various social media which posted the same slogans over and over again under the #SOSCuba hashtag.
13 July 2021 • 13:00 — The New Dark Age
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Interests Behind the Request for “Humanitarian Intervention” in Cuba
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/07/12/interests-behind-the-request-for-humanitarian-intervention-in-cuba/
Cuban FM claims US-backed ‘mercenaries’ stoked unrest ahead of protests disguised as cry for help
https://www.rt.com/news/529032-cuba-biden-mercenaries-protest/
Cubans Take To The Streets In Anti-Government Protests Not Seen In Decades
https://southfront.org/cubans-takes-to-the-streets-in-anti-government-protests-not-seen-in-decades/
23 June 2021 — Peoples Dispatch
Cuba won another diplomatic victory in the General Assembly of the United Nations this Wednesday against the government of the United States. The majority of countries (184) voted in favor of the resolution which calls for the lifting of the blockade against Cuba. The resolution has been brought to the UN every year since 1992, except in 2020 when the government of Havana was unable to present it due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This victory is a reminder of the Cuban people’s long wait for an act of justice that can rectify the worrying situation, which is a mix of the abuse of authority, the disproportionate use of violence, and the very specific intention to “destroy, totally or in part, a national, ethnic or racial group, in its totality,” the UN’s definition of genocide in its 1948 Convention.
30 April 2021 —
Semassa Boko and Jeanette Charles
It is vitally necessary to bridge the gap in knowledge and dismantle US misinformation campaigns against Cuba’s realities for international English-speaking audiences.
“We wanted to reach a young audience in the United States that is not typically exposed to engaging and in-depth stories about Latin America and US policy in the region.”
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” — Frantz Fanon[i]
Radicals, revolutionaries, and freedom fighters committed to imagining and building new societies must demonstrate a willingness to experiment with our strategies. Media, education, healthcare, and governance policies are important arenas where movements and masses materialize political visions. The Black Radical tradition on the continent and in the Diaspora provides strong references in this regard. Cuba is a critical example.
22 April 2021 — Tricontinental
Mohsen Taasha Wahidi (Afghanistan), Rebirth of the Red, 2017.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
After twenty years, the United States government – and the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) – will depart from Afghanistan. They said that they came to do two things: to destroy al-Qaeda, which had launched an attack on the United States on 11 September 2001, and to destroy the Taliban, which had given al-Qaeda a base. After great loss of life and the further destruction of Afghan society, the US departs – as it did from Vietnam in 1975 – in defeat: al-Qaeda has regrouped in different parts of the world, and the Taliban is set to return to the capital, Kabul.
16 April 2021 — National Security Archive
Washington D.C., April 16, 2021 – In the earliest known CIA assassination plot against leaders of the Cuban revolution, high agency officials in 1960 offered the pilot of a plane carrying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana “payment after successful completion of ten thousand dollars” to “incur risks in arranging accident” during the flight, according to formally top secret documents posted today by the National Security Archive. The pilot, who the CIA had earlier recruited as an intelligence asset in Cuba, “asked for assurance that in event of his [own] death the U.S. would see that his two sons were given a college education.” “This assurance was given,” his CIA handler in Havana, William J. Murray, reported in a later memorandum titled “Questionable Activities.”
1 September 2020 — Green Social Thought
by Don Fitz
As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All asa final goal. However, it is not the final goal. It should be the first step in a complete transformation of medicine which includes combining community medicine with natural medicine and health-care-for-the-world.
The New Dark Age 