1 October 2012 — National Security Archive
Telling the Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis From the Perspective of Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro
Innovative Transmedia Project Takes Visitors Behind the Scenes As Never Before
Tag: Cuba
Strategic Culture Foundation 22-27 July 2012:
28 July 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Fight in Mountainous Badakhshan
27.07.2012 | 09:52 | Aleksandr SHUSTOV
CIA ALLOWED TO SUSTAIN COVER-UP OF BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
11 May 2012 — National Security Archive
Judge Denies Declassification of Final Volume of CIA Official Report on Invasion of Cuba
CIA Officials Defy Obama Directive on FOIA which states that “the Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”
Video: Chucho Valdes – Calle 54
Chucho Valdes, son of the great Cuban pianist, Bebo Valdes, recorded as part of the documentary film ‘Calle 54’ produced by Fernando Trueba.
US WAR ON IRAN: "THE WORST MISTAKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY": The Road to Disaster By Fidel Castro Ruz
23 March 2012 — Global Research – Cuba Debate – 2012-03-21
Fidel Castro ‘s latest reflections hints to the danger of a looming US Iran war. Fidel Castro warns that a war with Iran war would be the worst mistake in US history.
New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-24 March 2012: Internet / Egypt / Azerbaijan / Latin America-Cuba / Afghanistan / Libya / UK
24 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Cyber security: new threats, new opportunities
24.03.2012 | 00:00 | Andrey NOVATSKY
Speaking about the stronger cyber threats the US government mentions a new symbolic “Axis of Evil”: China – Russia – North Korea. The US claims that most of the cyber attacks on informational infrastructure of the US and other Western countries are carried out from those three countries. China is the most dangerous of the three and in official reports of the US agencies it looks more like the SPECTRE organization from James Bond movies than a real state. The US sees “attempts of Chinese hackers to weaken defense capabilities of the US” almost behind any failure in its information networks. However, partly, these concerns are grounded…
SWIFT: Iranian Sanctions Endanger Global Financial System By Charles Gray
15 February 2012 — Stop NATO – Global Times
Nations that do not agree with the US position or sanctions will find this move making it difficult or impossible for their own businesses to effectively deal with Iran.
In effect, if this becomes reality, the economic and foreign policy of nearly every nation on the planet may find itself hijacked by US demands. For many nations, this will appear to be an intolerable infringement upon their sovereignty. Continue reading
The fruit which did not fall By Fidel Castro Ruiz
24 January 2012 – Reflections of Fidel
CUBA was forced to fight for its existence facing an expansionist power, located a few miles from its coast, and which was proclaiming the annexation of our island, which was destined to fall into its lap like a ripe fruit. We were condemned not to exist as a nation.
Video: Contracorriente: Discussion with Michael Lebowitz
Cuba — February 2010.
View on YouTube website
Interview by Aurelio Alonso.
Michael Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Some of his recent books include Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class, Palgrave Macmillan (2003), Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st Century, Monthly Review Press (2006) and Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, Monthly Review Press (2010).
Stop NATO news: December 1, 2011
1 December 2011 — Stop NATO
- Pakistan: Nationwide Protests Against NATO Attack Continue
- Vietnam-Style Exit: Russia Could Deliver Death Blow To NATO
- 224 Iranian MPs Condemn NATO Attack On Pakistan
- NATO Reports Fresh Clash With Pakistani Military
- Pakistan: Tribal Elders, Civil Society Back Government Against NATO
- West’s Military Obsession Leads To Economic Decline Continue reading
Cuba: ‘Information on results of the Debate on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines for the Party and the Revolution’
12 November2011 — Links International
[Once more a ‘progressive’ a site is making people who want to download a public document in PDF format, sign up with Scribd in order to get at it. The OWS ‘newspaper’ did the same thing. I don’t get it? Why not just make it available as a straight-up pdf download? WB]
Introduction by Marce Cameron, translator
November 12, 2011 — Cuba’s Socialist Renewal, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission — Here is the complete English translation of the booklet Information on the results of the Debate on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines for the Party and the Revolution, an explanatory document published together with the final version of the guidelines adopted by the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) Congress in April. As far as I’m aware there is no official translation of this document. Please note that this is an unofficial translation.
You can view or download it as a PDF file here, or read it on screen below.
Cuba: 'Information on results of the Debate on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines for the Party and the Revolution'
12 November2011 — Links International
[Once more a ‘progressive’ a site is making people who want to download a public document in PDF format, sign up with Scribd in order to get at it. The OWS ‘newspaper’ did the same thing. I don’t get it? Why not just make it available as a straight-up pdf download? WB]
Introduction by Marce Cameron, translator
November 12, 2011 — Cuba’s Socialist Renewal, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission — Here is the complete English translation of the booklet Information on the results of the Debate on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines for the Party and the Revolution, an explanatory document published together with the final version of the guidelines adopted by the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) Congress in April. As far as I’m aware there is no official translation of this document. Please note that this is an unofficial translation.
You can view or download it as a PDF file here, or read it on screen below.
The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: US Might is Right
1 November 1st, 2011 — www.killinghope.org
It doesn’t matter to them if it’s untrue. It’s a higher truth.
“We came, we saw, he died.”
— US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi
Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We came, we saw, 3,000 died … ha- ha.”
Fidel Castro: NATO’s Genocidal Role (Part II)
25 October 2011 — Prensa Latina
Reflections by Fidel Castro: NATO’s Genocidal Role (Part II)
Havana, Oct 25 (Prensa Latina) ‘NATO’s Genocidal Role’ (Part II) is the title of the latest reflection by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. Prensa Latina is posting below the full text of Fidel Castro’s reflection.
Fidel Castro: NATO ‘has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.’
24 October 2011 — Reuters
HAVANA | Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:53am EDT
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced NATO on Monday for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the ‘brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.’
Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 4, 2011
4 October 2011 — Stop NATO
- Videos And Text: NATO Bombs Libyan Cities Indiscriminately
- Sirte: Thousands Flee In Panic After NATO Drops Flyers
- NATO’s Guernica: Proxies Take Suffer Casualties Near Sirte
- Video And Text: Fighting Still Rages In Afghanistan 10 Years After US-Led Invasion
- Longer Than World War I And World War II Combined: Europeans Ignore Faraway, Never-Ending Afghan War
- Turkey: Thousands Protest Against Missile Radar, NATO
- U.S. Generals Rotate Command Of NATO Mission In Iraq
- North Pole To Africa: New U.S. Sixth Fleet, NATO Striking and Support Forces Commander
- Cuba Accuses U.S. Of Plotting SMS Cyberwarfare
Book Review: Cooperatives and Socialism in Cuba
26 September 2011 SolidarityEconomy.net via Cuba’s Socialist Renewal
Cooperatives and Socialism: A Cuban Perspective is a new Cuban book published in Spanish earlier this year. A compilation of essays, it is divided into four parts. Part One introduces cooperatives; Part Two examines the views of Marxist theoreticians including Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin and Che Guevara on the role of cooperatives in a socialist-oriented society; Part Three looks at the experiences of cooperatives in other countries from Spain to Venezuela; while Part Four analyses the Cuban experience of cooperatives as part of its socialist project.
ALBA and Others Condemn Armed Assault on Venezuela’s Diplomatic Residence in Libya By Juan Reardon
25 August 2011 — Venezuela Analysis
Venezuela’s Ambassador in Libya, Afif Tajeldine, speaking in front of rubble from a NATO bombing in Libya (Agencies).
San Francisco, August 25th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Wednesday Venezuela’s ambassador in Libya denounced the looting of his official residence by armed men, calling the assault ‘a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty’ by ‘NATO itself.’ The governments of Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, among other ALBA nations, denounced the violent attack as a ‘breach of international law,’ as did Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV).
Speaking to TeleSUR on Wednesday, Venezuelan Ambassador to Libya Afif Tajeldine explained that ‘a group of armed men’ had shot their way in to the official residence, ‘began searching the house and asking for me,’ before ‘looting all things, including the vehicles, the entire house, leaving nothing in the residence and shooting in the air as they left.’
NATO’s Rebel Forces By Luis Rumbaut
24 August 2011 — MRZine
At its peak, the 26 of July Movement had some 300 fighters, ill fed and poorly armed, bitten by mosquitoes and accompanied by the rain. Against them, Gen. Fulgencio Batista mobilized an army, a navy, an air force, a coast guard, and the Rural Guard, aside from a network of spies and irregular bands of enforcers at his command.
National Security Archive Update, August 15, 2011: TOP SECRET CIA ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ OF THE BAY OF PIGS: REVELATIONS
15 August 2011 — National Security Archive Update, August 15, 2011
‘Friendly Fire’ Reported as CIA Personnel Shot at Own Aircraft
New Revelations on Assassination Plots, Use of Americans in Combat
The New Dark Age 