OMNI
CUBA Newsletter #10
January 30, 2022
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
Omnicenter.org/donate/
CONTENTS CUBA NEWSLETTER #10, January 29,
2022
Probably very
little pertaining to Cuba is not affected by the long US intervention to
overthrow its government—from blowing up an airplane to unceasing blockade and hostile propaganda. So the following subject groupings of the
essays should be understood as my perception of the main topic(s) of each.
US Intervention
Whitney, Corporate
Media’s Negative News about Cuba
Satire of
US Reporting of Cuba
Guantanamo
MacLeod.
Cuba, Protests v. Government
Havana
Syndrome a Hoax.
US
Inciting Opposition to Cuba Globally
Cuban Resistance and Its Allies
Cooperation
with China
Support
in US via ANSWER Coalition
Cuba Today
Special
Number of Monthly Review: 8 Articles
Cuba
Today continued
New Code
of Families
Pres.
Diaz-Canel and Red Bandana Collective
Cuba in Latin America
Ajamu
Baraka. “Class Warfare and Socialist
Resistance.”
Contents #9: US v. Cuba
TEXTS
US Intervention
“U.S. government pays big money for bad news about
Cuba.” W. T.
Whitney, Jr.. mronline.org (1-29-22).
The cruder U.S. methods for destroying Cuba’s
revolutionary government—military attacks, bombings of hotels and a
fully-loaded airplane, violent attacks on officials, biological warfare—did not
work. Nor has economic blockade, which of course continues. A more subtle
approach also exists. Like the blockade, its purpose is to cause despair and
then dissent. 
“Super serious news reporting: notes from the Edge of
The
Narrative Matrix.” Caitlin A. Johnstone. Mronline.org (12-11-21)
Hi I’m a very serious news reporter. The
Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our
brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working
fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy. The government never lies.
Here’s Bob with the weather.
See Gitmo/Guantanamo
https://www.un.org/en/observances/torture-victims-day
“There is one place in Cuba where torture occurs.”
Editor.
Mronline.org (11-21-21)
Chilling testimony of the torture and abuses
committed against Majid Khan, at the illegal U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, was
recently presented by the prisoner.
“The United States is organizing a color revolution in
Cuba for November 15.” Alan MacLeod. Mronline.org (11-5-21)
It remains an open question as to how
successful the upcoming action against the Cuban government will be. But who is
behind the protests is hardly in doubt.
“Havana Syndrome, the U.S.’s Monumental Hoax”
Editor.
Mronline.org (1-30-22).
Last week, the United States decided to recognize for the
first time in five years that the phenomenon baptized as “Havana Syndrome” is
nothing more than a big farce. On Thursday, the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) admitted that its allegations against Cuba for the so-called
“health incidents” suffered by CIA officials in La Havana back in 2016 were not
caused by “a deliberate attack.”
“Friends of Cuba: oppose U.S. intervention.” [More US
intervention.] Editor. 11-16-21.
Seizing on small protests over shortages on
the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with
worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show
our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN.
CUBAN RESISTANCE AND
ITS ALLIES
“Cuba eyes cooperation with China on clean energy.
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Editor.Mronline.org
(12-31-21).
Facing the challenges of an aging energy infrastructure,
Cuba is looking to new energy sources with help from the Belt and Road
Initiative to strengthen its power production capacity and move away from
fossil fuels.
“Unlocking U.S.
sanctions: China signs construction & energy deals with Cuba.” Editor. Mronline.org (1-8-22).
Beijing is slowly unpicking
Washington’s foreign policy, sanction by sanction, country by country.
“TOMORROW
-- Find a Cuba solidarity action near you!”
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I omitted most of this report because
past, but I counted 16 supportive actions in US.
Cuba Today: US Domination, Cuban Resistance and More
Eight
Essays from the Cuban perspective published by the Monthly Review, January 2022 (Volume 73, Number 8). The Editors (January 6, 2022)
“Cuba’s world leadership in sustainable human development
is of world-historic importance.” | more…
“Preface.”
Manolo
De Los Santos (January
6, 2022)
This special issue of Monthly Review, The
Cuban Revolution Today: Experiments in the Grip of Challenges, carries
forward a tradition established six decades ago. The stance of the magazine
reflects the view of C. Wright Mills. In his Listen, Yankee, Mills
wrote that we don’t worry about the Cuban Revolution, we
worry with it. This volume is put together in that
spirit. | more…
“Introduction.”
Manolo
De Los Santos (January
6, 2022)
Not a day has gone by that the United States has not tried
to overturn the Cuban Revolution, through the assassination of its leaders,
invasions by proxy forces, preventing it from normal commercial and diplomatic
relations, and encouraging social distress in the island to become a counterrevolutionary
force. | more…
“The Blockade as a Double-Edged Sword.”
Roberto
Regalado (January
6, 2022)
Notwithstanding an ongoing commitment to redouble its
efforts, Cuban socialism has not taken full advantage of its own human and
material resources to develop its productive forces. It is necessary to
distinguish between our right and duty to struggle against the blockade and our
expectations regarding what one can and cannot hope for if it is
lifted. | more…
“We Must Return to the Future.”
La
Tizza Collective (January
6, 2022)
The Cuban Revolution cannot disintegrate because it was
never made of meringue. Not because it has not been sweet, but because the
revolution has also tasted bitter fruits that, to date, we have known how to
turn into strengths. | more…
“Socialism Cannot Postpone Its Promise of Democracy.”
Rita
Karo (January
6, 2022)
This
article will be released in full online January 17, 2022.
On Sunday, July 11, 2021, demonstrations occurred in
various parts of Cuba. Many of the demonstrators went onto the streets to
protest the frequent prolonged power outages in various locations, shortages of
food and medicine, and the general precariousness of daily life. A variety of
different perspectives are putting their own spin on these events. | more…
“The Communist Party of Cuba and Present Challenges.”
Germán
Sánchez Otero (January
6, 2022)
This
article will be released in full online January 24, 2022.
The Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba—held
from April 16 to 19, 2021—offers salient questions, issues, and other themes of
the current reality of Cuba from the view of revolutionary militants. Let us
take heed. | more…
“Socialism Against the Siege.”
Miguel
Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (January
6, 2022)
This
article will be released in full online January 31, 2022.
Despite Cuba’s advantages—its free, universal public health
system and its capacity for rapid scientific development, which put it at the
forefront in research and vaccine production globally—it was unable to escape
the pandemic’s blows. | more…
End MR
special no. on Cuba
CUBA TODAY continued
“Cuba seeks more equality and inclusion with the new
Code of Families.” Editor.
Mronline.org (12-30-21).
Roxanne Castellano, professor at the Psychology Faculty of
the University of Havana, explained that this is a Code based on paradigms of
non-discrimination that creates spaces for all, seeks solutions to conflicts,
and is consistent with the conception of our socialist state of law and social
justice.
“Díaz-Canel joins Red Bandana sit-in.”
Editor. Mronline.org
(11-17-21).
Yesterday,
November 14, around noon, President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived at Havana’s
Central Park to join the sit-in organized by the Red Bandana collective, an
initiative of social network activists, members of Cuban civil society
organizations, and promoters of community projects.
Ajamu Baraka.
Mronline.org (11-13-21)
Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose
such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their
resistance to U.S. class warfare.
CONTENTS #9,
US AGAINST CUBA
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-cuba-newsletter-9-october-24-2021.html
Vijay Prashad, Imperialism v. Humanity
Cuba in China’s “Belt and Road Energy” Alliance
Cuba v. Covid-19
UPJ, Stop US Regime Change Subversion of
Cuba
Anniversary of Murder of Ché Guevara,
New Book by Ratner and Smith
Florida’s Gov. Awards Medal of Freedom
to Ché’s Assassin
John Ross, World Mobilizes v. US
Mistreatment of Cuba
Aaron Maté, US v. Cuba’s
Anti-Imperialism
Cuban Scientists Write Biden on Covid-19
Supporting Cuban Sovereignty
Max Blumenthal, Cultural
Counter-Revolution in Cuba from US
Bill Hackworth, US State Dept. Criticism
of Cuba on Human Rights
Vijay Prashad, US Behind Regime Change
Drive
CIA Plans to Bomb Miami and Blame Cuba
Open Letter to Biden from Let Cuba Live
Global Protest: Hands Off Cuba, from
ANSWER Coalition
Amishe Parikh-Friese, End the Embargo
Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores, End
the Blockade
Alan MacLeod, Expose Western Media
Propaganda v. Cuba
Cyber Attack on Cuban Foreign Ministry
US Behind Cuba Protest
MEDICC Calls for Humanitarian Policy
Toward Cuba
Contents of #8
END CUBA NEWSLETTER #10
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