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CUBA NEWSLETTER #3, November 29, 2014.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE and
Justice.
(#1 Feb. 4, 2011; #2
Oct. 21, 2012).
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Contents of #3
US Terrorism Against
Cuba (see newsletters 1 and 2)
US Terrorist Saboteurs Arrested in Cuba , Sign Petition
William Blum, US Attempts to Destroy Cuban Government
Lamrani, US Economic War/Blockade Against Cuba
LeoGrande, Covert Intervention, Regime Change
US Corporate Media
vs. Cuba
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Lamrani, Cuba, the
Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality
Blum, US Empire and Its Media
Ending US Persecution
of Cuba
LeoGrande and Kornbluh, Efforts Toward Reconciliation
Free the Cuban 5
The Nation’s Exchange
Programs with Cuba
Tom Hayden on Cuba, Forthcoming Book
Full Truth About Cuba: Cuba Leads World in International
Medicine
Medicine
WHAT HAS THE US
NOT TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE CUBAN
SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT?
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this message!
On May 7, Cuban authorities announced
that on April 26, four Cuban right-wing exiles from
According
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The
four men who are now detained in
The
four men who are now detained in
Who
is
Although
he has long been identified in the
He
is most noted for financing Posada's bombing and assassination campaigns and
helping him escape justice. Posada Carriles is responsible for engineering
the bombing of a Cuban airliner, killing 73 people, in 1976. He lives as a
fugitive from justice in
Here
are just a few facts about the terrorist Álvarez:
· Oct. 12, 1971, Alvarez and CIA agent
Antonio Iglesias Pons machine-gunned the
· In 2000, he was involved in the plot
to try to assassinate Fidel Castro in
· In 2001, he bought 8 assault rifles in
· Together with Osvaldo Mitat, he
illegally sneaked Posada Carriles into
· Álvarez and Mitat were caught with
weapons caches in
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people of the
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William Blum
The Anti-Empire
Report #127
By William Blum – Published April
7th, 2014
Cuba … Again … Still … Forever
Is there
actually a limit? Will the United
States ever stop trying to overthrow the
Cuban government? Entire books have been written documenting the unrelenting
ways Washington has tried to get rid of tiny Cuba ’s
horrid socialism – from military invasion to repeated assassination attempts to
an embargo that President Clinton’s National Security Advisor called “the most
pervasive sanctions ever imposed on a nation in the history of mankind”. But nothing has ever come even close
to succeeding. The horrid socialism keeps on inspiring people all over the
world. It’s the darnedest thing. Can providing people free or remarkably
affordable health care, education, housing, food and culture be all that
important?
And now it’s
“Cuban Twitter” – an elaborately complex system set up by the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) to disguise its American origins and
financing, aiming to bring about a “Cuban Spring” uprising. USAID sought to
first “build a Cuban audience, mostly young people; then the plan was to push
them toward dissent”, hoping the messaging network “would reach critical mass
so that dissidents could organize ‘smart mobs’ – mass gatherings called at a
moment’s notice – that might trigger political demonstrations or ‘renegotiate
the balance of power between the state and society’.” It’s too bad it’s now been exposed,
because we all know how wonderful the Egyptian, Syrian, Libyan, and other “Arab
Springs” have turned out.
Here’s USAID
speaking after their scheme was revealed on April 3: “Cubans were able to talk
among themselves, and we are proud of that.” We are thus asked to believe that
normally the poor downtrodden Cubans have no good or safe way to communicate
with each other. Is the US National Security Agency working for the Cuban
government now?
The Associated Press, which broke the story, asks
us further to believe that the “truth” about most things important in the world
is being kept from the Cuban people by the Castro regime, and that the “Cuban
Twitter” would have opened people’s eyes. But what information might a Cuban
citizen discover online that the government would not want him to know about? I
can’t imagine. Cubans are in constant touch with relatives in the US , by
mail and in person. They get US television programs from Miami
and other southern cities; both CNN and Telesur (Venezuela ,
covering Latin America) are seen regularly on Cuban television”; international
conferences on all manner of political, economic and social issues are held
regularly in Cuba .
I’ve spoken at more than one myself. What – it must be asked – does USAID, as
well as the American media, think are the great dark secrets being kept from
the Cuban people by the nasty commie government?
Those who push this line sometimes point to the serious
difficulty of using the Internet in Cuba . The problem is that it’s
extremely slow, making certain desired usages often impractical. From an
American friend living in Havana :
“It’s not a question of getting or not getting internet. I get internet here.
The problem is downloading something or connecting to a link takes too long on
the very slow connection that exists here, so usually I/we get ‘timed out’.”
But the USAID’s “Cuban Twitter”, after all, could not have functioned at all
without the Internet.
Places like universities, upscale hotels, and Internet cafés get
better connections, at least some of the time; however, it’s rather expensive
to use at the hotels and cafés.
In any event,
this isn’t a government plot to hide dangerous information. It’s a matter of
technical availability and prohibitive cost, both things at least partly in the
hands of the United States
and American corporations. Microsoft, for example, at one point, if not at
present, barred Cuba
from using its Messenger instant messaging service.
The grandly
named Agency for International Development does not have an honorable history;
this can perhaps be captured by a couple of examples: In 1981, the agency’s
director, John Gilligan, stated: “At one time, many AID field offices were
infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people. The idea was to plant
operatives in every kind of activity we had overseas, government, volunteer,
religious, every kind.”
On June 21, 2012, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America (ALBA) issued a resolution calling for the immediate expulsion of USAID
from their nine member countries, “due to the fact that we consider their
presence and actions to constitute an interference which threatens the
sovereignty and stability of our nations.”
USAID, the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy (and the
latter’s subsidiaries), together or singly, continue to be present at regime
changes, or attempts at same, favorable to Washington, from “color revolutions”
to “spring” uprisings, producing a large measure of chaos and suffering for our
tired old world.
Notes
1.
William Blum, America’s Deadliest Export – Democracy: The Truth About US
Foreign Policy and Everything Else, p.22-5
2.
Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), p.158
3.
Washington Post, March 31, 2014
4.
“NATO takes measures to
reinforce collective defence, agrees on support for Ukraine”, NATO
website, April 1, 2014
5.
Sandy Berger, White House press briefing, November 14, 1997, US
Newswire transcript
6.
Associated Press, April 3 & 4, 2014
7.
Washington Post, April 4, 2014
8.
Associated Press, June 2, 2009
9.
George Cotter, “Spies, strings and missionaries”, The Christian
Century (Chicago), March 25, 1981, p.321
Any part of this report may be disseminated without permission,
provided attribution to William Blum as author and a link to this website are
given.
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administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of
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in which they have been imposed for more than a half century and the harm they
cause the Cuban people.
“Washington ’s Secret ‘Cuba Twitter’
Program Is the Same Old Policy of Regime Change”
Such covert
operations are not sanitized by running them through USAID and wrapping
them in the rhetoric of “democracy promotion.”
April
23, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 12, 2014 edition of The
Nation. [The title in my no. of May 12 is “’Cuba Twitter’
Scandal.’” --Dick]
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In
defiant defense of ZunZuneo, the Agency for International Development’s secret
text messaging program in Cuba ,
USAID spokesman Matt Herrick declared the agency “proud” of its Twitter clone,
which, at its height, reached more than 60,000 Cuban cellphone users. The aim
of the program, according to Herrick, “was to create a platform for Cubans to
speak freely among themselves, period.” US officials at first denied that it
had any political intent or sent out any political messages. But AP, which
broke the story, decisively refuted those claims by publishing the political
tweets and interviewing a subcontractor who wrote them.
Administration
officials nevertheless remained unapologetic. In a Senate hearing, USAID
administrator Rajiv Shah insisted the program was not covert, merely
“discreet,” and that it was just trying to “enable open communications” among
Cubans. Shah’s defense was echoed by the usual suspects on Capitol Hill, with
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen arguing that USAID was simply promoting
“God-given values like freedom, justice or liberty.” The Washington Posteditorial
page jumped on the bandwagon, declaring that there was nothing wrong with
“undermining a tyranny.”
But
fomenting unrest in a country by trying
to secretly manipulate its domestic politics violates US treaty obligations
under international law. The charter of the Organization of American States
declares, “No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or
indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any
other State,” a prohibition that is not limited to the use of force. The UN
Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and Interference in the
Internal Affairs of States repeats the OAS language and recognizes “the
sovereign and inalienable right of a State freely to determine its own
political, economic, cultural and social systems.” And it imposes on all states
the duty “to refrain from any action or attempt in whatever form or under
whatever pretext to destabilize or to undermine the stability of another
State.”
International
law has never prevented Washington from covert
intervention, especially in Latin America . But
because destabilizing other governments violates US treaty obligations, these
operations were conducted secretly by the CIA during most of the Cold War.
ZunZuneo and USAID’s other “democracy promotion” schemes in Cuba remind Latin Americans that Washington still does
not fully respect their sovereignty.
When
Barack Obama took office, hopes ran
high in the region that he would break the deadlock in US-Cuban relations. At
the Fifth Summit of the Americas
in April 2009, he pledged a “new beginning” with Cuba . But when the Sixth Summit
convened in April 2012, US
policy was essentially unchanged, and Obama faced a solid phalanx of Latin
American leaders tired of Washington ’s
intransigence. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos—a close US ally—and
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff declared that they would skip the next
summit if Cuba
was not invited.
To
his credit, Obama has restored
people-to-people connections between the United
States and Cuba . Educational, cultural and
family travel is flourishing. But he has made little headway on state-to-state
relations, nor has he reined in the foreign policy bureaucracy, which tries to
exploit any relaxation of state control in Cuba to undermine its government.
ZunZuneo is a perfect, albeit inept, example. When Raúl Castro legalized the
sale of cellphones, USAID used that opening to build a social media platform it
hoped would mobilize “smart mobs” reminiscent of Egypt’s Tahrir Square uprising
and Iran’s “Green Revolution.”
Covert operations designed to bring about regime change in
Cuba are the direct descendants of the
CIA’s political operations of yesteryear. They are not sanitized by running
them through USAID, calling them “discreet” and wrapping them in the rhetoric
of democracy. Three sitting presidents in Latin America—Rousseff in Brazil,
Michelle Bachelet in Chile and José Mujica in Uruguay—suffered personally at
the hands of military dictatorships that US covert operations helped install a
generation ago. Policy-makers in Washington
would rather not dwell on the deadly consequences those operations had for
thousands of Latin Americans, but Latin America
has not forgotten.
[What Pres. Obama should do. –D]
Last
November, talking to supporters in Miami about Cuba , Obama said, “We have to be creative.
And we have to be thoughtful. And we have to continue to update our policies.”
He could start by replacing USAID programs targeting Cuba with aboveboard
initiatives to support authentic
educational and cultural exchanges—exchanges without the hidden hand of
government manipulation or a hidden agenda of regime change.
Read
Next: Tom Hayden on
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The following essay is
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represented in U.S. media.
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Associated
Press
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a program paid for and run by the U.S. Agency for ...
The
Guardian
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secret US government programme to set up a cellphone-based social
network in Cuba are being trumpeted in the island's ...
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The New York Times
Apr 8, 2014 - WASHINGTON — A Twitter-like
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States Agency for International Development for use in ...
www.nytimes.com/.../us-says-it-tried-to-build-a-soc...The New
York Times
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cigars for Fidel Castro, or landings by ...
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The Anti-Empire Report
#125
[BIASED
COVERAGE OF FOREIGN POLICY]
By
William Blum – Published February 4th, 2014
“Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently
mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are
themselves dismissed as ideological.” – Michael Parenti
An exchange in January
with Paul Farhi, Washington Post columnist, about coverage of US foreign policy:
Dear Mr. Farhi,
Now that you’ve done a
study of al-Jazeera’s political bias in supporting Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, is
it perhaps now time for a study of the US
mass media’s bias on US foreign policy? And if you doubt the extent and
depth of this bias, consider this:
There are more than 1,400 daily newspapers in the United States.
Can you name a single paper, or a single TV network, that was unequivocally
opposed to the American wars carried out against Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, and Vietnam? Or even opposed to any two of these
wars? How about one? In 1968, six years into the Vietnam war, the Boston Globe surveyed the
editorial positions of 39 leading US papers concerning the war and found that
“none advocated a pull-out”.
Now, can you name an
American daily newspaper or TV network that more or less gives any support to
any US government ODE (Officially Designated Enemy)? Like Hugo Chávez of
Venezuela or his successor, Nicolás Maduro; Fidel or Raúl Castro of Cuba; Bashar al-Assad of Syria; Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad of Iran; Rafael Correa of Ecuador; or Evo Morales of Bolivia? I
mean that presents the ODE’s point of view in a reasonably fair manner most of
the time? Or any ODE of the recent past like Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia,
Moammar Gaddafi of Libya, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, or Jean-Bertrand Aristide
of Haiti?
Who in the mainstream
media supports Hamas of Gaza? Or Hezbollah of Lebanon? Who in the mainstream
media is outspokenly critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians? And
keeps his or her job?
Who in the mainstream
media treats Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning as the heroes they are?
And this same mainstream
media tell us that Cuba, Venezuela,
Ecuador, et al. do not have a real opposition media.
The ideology of the
American mainstream media is the belief that they don’t have any ideology; that
they are instead what they call “objective”. I submit that there is something
more important in journalism than objectivity. It is capturing the essence, or
the truth, if you will, with the proper context and history. This can, as well,
serve as “enlightenment”.
It’s been said that the
political spectrum concerning US foreign policy in the America mainstream media
“runs the gamut from A to B”.
Sincerely, William Blum, Washington, DC
(followed by some of my
writing credentials)
–
Reply from Paul Farhi:
I think you’re conflating news coverage with editorial policy.
They are not the same. What a newspaper advocates on its editorial page (the
Vietnam example you cite) isn’t the same as what or how the story is covered in
the news columns. News MAY have some advocacy in it, but it’s not supposed to,
and not nearly as overt or blatant as an editorial or opinion column. Go back
over all of your ODE examples and ask yourself if the news coverage was the
same as the opinions about those ODEs. In most cases. I doubt it was.
Dear Mr. Farhi,
Thank you for your
remarkably prompt answer.
Your point about the
difference between news coverage and editorial policy is important, but the
fact is, as a daily, and careful, reader of thePost for the past 20
years I can attest to the extensive bias in its foreign policy coverage in the
areas I listed. Juan Ferrero in Latin America and Kathy Lally in the Mideast
are but two prime examples. The bias, most commonly, is one of omission more
than commission; which is to say it’s what they leave out that distorts the
news more than any factual errors or out-and-out lies. My Anti-Empire Report contains many
examples of these omissions, as well as some errors of commission.
Incidentally, since 1995
I have written dozens of letters to the Post pointing out errors in
foreign-policy coverage. Not one has been printed.
Happy New Year
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LEOGRANDE AND KORNBLUH
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana . U of N. Carolina P, 2014.
Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the
United States and Cuba--beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination
plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic
embargo--this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of
bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict
and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, William
M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant
account. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro
after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for
normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a "new approach," LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year
record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path
toward better relations in the future.
LeoGrande and Kornbluh have uncovered hundreds of formerly
secret U.S.
documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries,
and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. The authors
describe how, despite the political clamor surrounding any hint of better
relations with Havana ,
serious negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration
since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. Concluding with ten
lessons for U.S.
negotiators, the book offers an important perspective on current political
debates, at a time when leaders of both nations have publicly declared the
urgency of moving beyond the legacy of hostility.
Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at
the National Security Archive in Washington ,
D.C. , is the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified
Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, among other books.
Tue Aug 6, 2013
6:30 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Director of the Peace
and Justice Resource Center
For 2014, I am
committed to writing the unknown history
of the Cuban Revolution and the New Left, and speaking everywhere I can on
behalf of normalization of relations before President Obama leaves office. My
intuition and experience tell me that it's doable at last. My new book on Cuba
will be out next year, published by Seven Stories Press.
Thank you,
Tom Hayden
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Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside
and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and
workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela
today as advisors and organizers. This internationalist model has been a great
success—Cuba is a world leader in
medicine and medical training—and Brouwer shows how the Venezuelans are now,
with the aid of their Cuban counterparts, following suit.
But this program is not without its challenges. It has faced
much hostility from traditional Venezuelan doctors as well as all the forces
antagonistic to the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. Despite the obstacles it
describes, Revolutionary Doctors demonstrates how a society committed to the
well-being of its poorest people can actually put that commitment into
practice, by delivering essential health care through the direct empowerment of
the people it aims to serve.
Read an excerpt in Links International Journal of Socialist
Renewal
Read a review in People’s World
What a terrific book! I have been researching Cuban medical
internationalism for several years, and found Steve Brouwer’s book an
excellent, insightful first-person account of how Cuban medical cooperation
(and not aid!) is changing the face of the developing world.
—John Kirk, Professor of Latin American Studies, Dalhousie
University, Canada; author, Cuban Medical
Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals
The Cuban medical education model, so eloquently described in
this book, has not merely transformed health care in much of Central and South
America. It has shown doctors and medical students who work in the unjust and
dysfunctional U.S. health care system that another world is possible.
—Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH; professor of public health, CUNY;
visiting professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
Venezuela and Cuba clearly show that the basic human right of
access to medical and health care in time of need is not dependent on the level
of economic development. Venezuela and Cuba are not rich countries yet, and in
spite of this, health care reaches the majority of their populations. They should
be considered points of reference for poor countries that want to break with
the underdevelopment of health. This book is a rigorous and balanced account of
how they did it.
—Vicente Navarro, MD, PhD; professor of health policy, The
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; editor-in-chief,
International Journal of Health Services
Revolutionary Doctors tells the story of Cuba’s extraordinary medical personnel who
leave their homes and families to support radical struggles for health care
abroad. And it shows how this struggle is taken up in places like Venezuela,
where poor communities are organizing to provide health care from the ground
up. This is a story that deserves to be known.
—Sujatha Fernandes, assistant professor of sociology, Queens
College and CUNY Graduate Center; author, Who
Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
Steve Brouwer is one of the nation’s best front-line reporters
from the ongoing class war.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickel
and Dime
Recent OMNI Newsletters
2014
Prisoners for Peace Day #3, 12-1
Cuba Newsletter #3 11-29
Day of Mourning and Apology (Thanksgiving Day) #5, 11-27
(see US Imperialism, Continental Newsletters)
(see US Imperialism, Continental Newsletters)
Police Violence #3, 11-25
Contents of Cuba
Newsletter #1
Introduction by Dick
Spadoni’s Failed
Sanctions
William Blum’s Empire
Report on Cuba
Two Books on Pentagon Plans to Attack Again
Jon Elliston and
James Bamford
Contents of Cuba
Newsletter #2 END THE BULLYING
US Against Cuba
and the World: UN General Assembly 1959-
Bolender, Cuban Victims of US Terror 1960s to Present
Cuban Five 1998 to Present
Cuban Five Month, Stone’s South of the Border
Cindy Sheehan for Cuban 5
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