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Tag: Fidel Castro
In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change By John Pilger
4 August 2011 — John Pilger
On my first day in Cuba, in 1967, I waited in a bus queue that was really a conga line. Ahead of me were two large, funny females resplendent in frills of blinding yellow; one of them had an especially long bongo under her arm. When the bus arrived, painted in Cuba’s colours for its inaugural service, they announced that the gringo had not long arrived from London and was therefore personally responsible for this breach in the American blockade. It was an honour I could not refuse.
The Assassination of Osama Bin Laden By Fidel Castro
May07, 2011 ‘Cuba Debate’ – – Those persons who deal with these issues know that on September 11 of 2001 our people expressed its solidarity to the US people and offered the modest cooperation that in the area of health we could have offered to the victims of the brutal attack against the Twin Towers in New York.
Fidel Castro on Libya and Gadhafi: Nato, war, lies and business
1 April 2011 — Granma International – Mathaba.net
By Fidel Castro Ruz
President of Cuba
Free Territory in the Americas
'Qadhafi initiated his political life with unquestionably revolutionary acts.' Photo: Fidel Castro
Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi addresses the 64th session of the General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 23, 2009. Photo: AP World Wide Photos
‘The empire is now attempting to turn events around to what Gaddafi has done or not done, because it needs to militarily intervene in Libya and deliver a blow to the revolutionary wave unleashed in the Arab world.’
As some people know, in September of 1969, Muammar al-Gaddafi, a Bedouin Arab soldier of unusual character and inspired by the ideas of the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, promoted within the heart of the Armed Forces a movement which overthrew King Idris I of Libya, almost a desert country in its totality, with a sparse population, located to the north of Africa between Tunisia and Egypt.
NATO’s Fascist War By Fidel Castro Ruz
29 March 2011 — MRZine
The rebel leaders tipped their hand too early. Now the whole of Libya, including the rebels, understand what they are: traitors dependent on invaders. The rebels thus now lack motive force as well as military training: “Libyan Rebels Flee as Kadafi’s Forces Defend Surt” (Los Angeles Times, 29 March 2011). The only way they can defeat the Gaddafi forces is to get the NATO to massacre them and everyone else in their way. Even then, they would never be able to govern Libya by themselves. They may even lose, as Fidel says. After all, what self-respecting Libyan wants to side with the traitors and invaders? — Ed.
I didn’t have to be a fortune teller to divine what I foresaw with rigorous precision in three Reflections which I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “NATO’s Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “Cynicism’s Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.” . . .
I do not share political concepts or those of a religious nature with the leader of that country. I am a Marxist-Leninist and follower of the ideas of Martí, as I have already stated.
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and one sovereign state out of the close to 200 belonging to the United Nations Organization.
Never before was a large or small country, in this case of barely 5 million inhabitants, the victim of such a brutal attack by the air force of a military organization which has at its disposal thousands of fighter planes, more than 100 submarines, nuclear aircraft carriers, and sufficient arsenal to destroy the planet countless times over. Our species has never experienced such a situation and nothing like it existed 75 years ago when the Nazi bombers attacked targets in Spain.
Now, however, the discredited and criminal NATO is to write a “beautiful” story about its “humanitarian” bombing.
If Gaddafi honors the traditions of his people and decides to fight, as he has promised, until his last breath alongside Libyans who are confronting the worst bombardments that a country has ever suffered, he will sink NATO and its criminal plans into the mire of ignominy.
The peoples respect and believe in men and women who know how to fulfill their duty.
More than 50 years ago, when the United States murdered more than 100 Cubans with the sabotage of La Coubre merchant ship, our people proclaimed “Patria o Muerte.” They have fulfilled and have always been prepared to keep their word.
“Whoever attempts to seize Cuba — exclaimed the most glorious combatant in our history [General Antonio Maceo] — will only recover the dust of its land saturated in blood.”
I ask you to excuse the frankness with which I have approached the subject.
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 28, 2011
8:14 p.m.
The text above is an excerpt form an English translation provided by Granma International. En español.
Reflections of Fidel: NATO’s inevitable war (Part II)
9 March 2011 — Monthly Review
(Part II)
When Gaddafi, aged just 28 and a colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he implemented important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil. The growing income was dedicated to economic and social development, particularly educational and health services for the small Libyan population located in a vast desert territory with very little arable land.
NATO’s Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya By Fidel Castro Ruz
4 March, 2011 — Global Research
In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. The population wasn’t lacking food and essential social services. The country needed an abundant foreign labour force to carry out ambitious plans for production and social development.
NATO’s Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya By Fidel Castro
4 March 2011 — Global Research
In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. The population wasn’t lacking food and essential social services. The country needed an abundant foreign labour force to carry out ambitious plans for production and social development.
Libya Independent Media Newslinks for 25-26 February, 2011
26 February, 2011 Last updated: 20:28:14 — creative-i.info
26 February, 2011
- Libya: How Gaddafi became a Western-backed dictator
- Permanent revolution in the Arab world
- Payback: The price of colonialism by Gaither Stewart
- Machetera, “Al Giordano’s Unrequited Love for Eva Golinger”
- Pressure mounts on Libya’s Gaddafi
- Gaddafi and Europe
- Events in Libya through the eyes of witnesses: Summary from February 26
- Interactive Libya Map: Who’s Controlling Where
- Australian socialists: `Stop the massacre in Libya! Power to the people!’
- Battles rage in Libya; Gaddafi loyalists launch counter-attack
- Gaddafi’s son Sayf yesterday invited opponents to talk today (Saturday)
- Chavez denounces international community’s double standards and rejects intervention in Libya
- World’s Leading Independent Satellite Network Journalists Beaten, Unable to Report Much From Libya
- Libya descending into chaos
- Rodolfo Reyes, “We Condemn the Killing of Innocents, But We Cannot Accept Intervention in Libya” (Statement of Ambassador Rodolfo Reyes, Permanent Representative, before the Human Rights Council on the Situation in Libya, Geneva, 25 February 2011)
- Q+A-How U.S. financial sanctions on Libya might work
- Obama signs executive order to impose sanctions against Libyan govt.
- Libya: Is Washington Pushing for Civil War to Justify a US-NATO Military Intervention?
- UN: A Parody On Libya?
- Libya: Are the US and EU Pushing for Civil War to Justify NATO Intervention?
25 February, 2011
- Libya’s army has completely disintegrated in recent days. It was supposed to.
- CIA Assessed: “Chances of Toppling Qadhafi at Better than Even” …More than 25 Years Ago!
- Libya Revolution 2.0 Timeline
- How Gaddafi’s Words Get Lost In Translation
- Libya Coming Back Online After One Week Cut Off Internet
- Fidel Castro Ruz, “Cynicism’s Danse Macabre”
Reflections of Fidel: The Plan is to Occupy Libya
21 February, 2011 — Monthly Review
The nature of a capitalist system depends upon the institutional framework that supports and shapes it.
Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world. It was their main weapon when they decided to easily liquidate the Cuban Revolution as soon as the first just and sovereign laws were passed in our Homeland: depriving it of oil.
The Battle against Cholera by Fidel Castro Ruz
31 December, 2010 — MRZine
I am taking a second, between various important analyses that are currently taking up my time, to refer to two issues that should be known to our people.
The United Nations, at the instigation of the United States, the creator of poverty and chaos in the Haitian Republic, decided to send into Haiti its forces of occupation, the MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), which, by the way, introduced the cholera epidemic into that sister nation.
Fidel Castro on Wikileaks: The empire stands accused
14 December, 2010 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Julian Assange, a man known only to a very few in the world some months ago, is demonstrating that the most powerful empire to have existed in history can be challenged.
The daring challenge did not come from a rival superpower; from a state with more than 100 nuclear weapons; from a country with millions of inhabitants; from a group of nations with vast natural resources which the United States could not do without; or from a revolutionary doctrine capable of shaking to its foundations the empire based on plunder and exploitation of the world.
NATO, The World’s Gendarme, A Military Mafia By Fidel Castro Ruz
23 November, 2010 — Global Research – Granma International
Havana: Many people feel sickened on hearing the name of that organization.
On Friday, November 19, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 28 members of that bellicose institution engendered by the United States, decided to create what they cynically describe as “the new NATO.”
The institution emerged after World War II as an instrument of the Cold War unleashed by imperialism on the Soviet Union, the country which paid for the victory over Nazism with tens of millions of lives and colossal destruction.
Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War By Fidel Castro Ruz and Michel Chossudovsky
13 November, 2010 — Global Research
Introductory Note
From October 12 to 15, 2010, I had extensive and detailed discussions with Fidel Castro in Havana, pertaining to the dangers of nuclear war, the global economic crisis and the nature of the New World Order. These meetings resulted in a wide-ranging and fruitful interview.
The first part of this interview published by Global Research and Cuba Debate focuses on the dangers of nuclear war.
The World is at a dangerous crossroads. We have reached a critical turning point in our history.
This interview with Fidel Castro provides an understanding of the nature of modern warfare: Were a military operation to be launched against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the US and its allies would be unable to win a conventional war, with the possibility that this war could evolve towards a nuclear war.
Report on the political and economic situation in Cuba By Gloria La Riva
21 September, 2010 — PSLweb.org
PSL Central Committee memorandum on Cuba’s internal economic situation and the strategy of U.S. imperialism
Click to download a printable PDF of this report
The following is a report submitted by Gloria La Riva for discussion at the May 2010 meeting of the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. In light of recent economic developments in Cuba, and the heightening of U.S. aggression against the island nation, the PSL is publishing this report. Our hope is to provide context and background, and to aid revolutionaries living outside of Cuba in examining the challenges faced by the Communist Party of Cuba and the country’s people.
Information Clearing House 28 April, 2010: Wake The President
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The Truth About Copenhagen By Fidel Castro Ruz
19 December, 2009 — Climate and Capitalism – Cuba News
The truth can be stronger than the influenced and often misinformed minds of those holding in their hands the destiny of the world.
The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive.
These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the true facts. Hope is the last thing human beings can relinquish. With truthful arguments, men and women of all ages, especially young people, have waged an exemplary battle at the Summit and taught the world a great lesson.
It is important now that Cuba and the world come to know as much as possible of what happened in Copenhagen. The truth can be stronger than the influenced and often misinformed minds of those holding in their hands the destiny of the world.
If anything significant was achieved in the Danish capital, it was that the media coverage allowed the world public to watch the political chaos created there and the humiliating treatment accorded to Heads of States or Governments, ministers and thousands of representatives of social movements and institutions that in hope and expectation traveled to the Summit’s venue in Copenhagen. The brutal repression of peaceful protesters by the police was a reminder of the behavior of the Nazi assault troops that occupied neighboring Denmark on April 1940.
The Moment Of Truth By Fidel Castro
17 December, 2009 — countercurrents
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela addressed the Summit on the 16th, at 8:40 a.m. Cuban time. He made a brilliant speech that was much applauded. His phrases were remarkable.
He challenged a document proposed to the Summit by the Danish minister chairing the conference. He said:
‘…this text has come out of the blue; we shall not accept any text that has not been produced by the working groups, I mean, the legitimate texts that have been the subject of negotiations for the past two years.’
‘There is a group of nations that feel above us in the South, in the Third World…’
‘…it’s not a surprise, there is no democracy, we are facing a dictatorship.’
‘…I was reading some slogans painted in the streets by the youths… one read: ‘don’t change the climate, change the system,’ and another: ‘if the climate had been a bank it would have been bailed out.’’
‘Obama […] received the Nobel Peace Prize the same day he sent 30 thousand troops to kill innocent people in Afghanistan.’
‘I support the view of the representatives of Brazil, Bolivia and China, I only wanted to express my support […] but I was not given the floor…’
‘The rich are destroying the planet, could it be they are planning to move to another when this one is destroyed?’
Fidel: Humanity is an endangered species
13 October, 2009 — Climate and Capitalism
‘Our duty is to demand the truth. The populations of all countries have the right to know the factors that are giving rise to climate change and what current possibilities science possesses for reversing the trend’
by Fidel Castro
(September 21, 2009)
I would have liked to talk today about the exceptional Peace without Borders concert that took place in the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución 24 hours ago, but brutal reality obliges me to write about a danger that is threatening not only peace but also the survival of our species.
The United Nations Organization, whose task is to protect the peace, security and rights of close to 200 states representing more than 6.5 billion of the planet’s inhabitants, is to initiate its General Assembly debates with the participation of heads of state on Wednesday. This time, given the exceptional importance of the issue, it is to devote Tuesday, September 22 to a high-level session on climate change, in preparation for the Copenhagen Conference in Denmark, scheduled for December 7-18 this year.
The New Dark Age 