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Cuba in the Crossfire
16Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Cuba in the Crossfire

By Jack Heart  By Joe Wentrup Street protests erupted across Cuba on July 11, 2021, once again placing Cuba in the worlds spotlight. I’m watching The Cuba Libre Story on Netflix at night and it’s a fascinating view. Many people don’t realize just how intimately entwined Cuba and America are, and just how deep their masonic ties go. Our man in Havana Joe Wentrup breaks it down for you here in a brief from ground zero. – Jack Caribbean sovereignty comes at a price. Since Haiti gained its independence in 1791 through a slave revolt and became the first nation of its kind in the Western world, it has had to pay France for its freedom. Although its Cimarons taught Napoleon a lesson with their fighting prowess, Haiti was forced to pay billions of francs to the European “motherland”...
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The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemicLiberation Staff
15Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemicLiberation Staff

https://s7.addthis.com/dc/amp-addthis.html?_amp_=2107030008001 Reposted from People’s Dispatch. This article was produced by Globetrotter. Cuba, like every other country on the planet, is struggling with the impact of COVID-19. This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade to heal people around the world. Meanwhile, the United States hardens a cruel and illegal blockade of the island, a medieval siege that has been in place for six decades. In April 2020, seven United Nations special rapporteurs wrote an open letter to the United States government about the blockade. “In the pandemic emergency,” they wrote, “the lack of will of the US ...
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The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests
14Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests

The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years. MEDEA BENJAMIN,  LEONARDO FLORES Protests erupted in various Cuban cities the weekend of July 11 over dire economic conditions and a surge in Covid-19 cases. They are the biggest protests to hit Cuba in three decades, and they may well continue in the coming weeks. They come on the heels of artists' protests in Havana at the end of 2020, and have extended to many parts of the island. But their scale has been exaggerated by the Western press and by Cuban Americans who have been predicting, for 60 years, the imminent fall of the Cuban government. Media outlets like The New York Times wrote about "hundreds of Cubans...
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Cuba’s Sustainable Agriculture at Risk in US Thaw
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Cuba’s Sustainable Agriculture at Risk in US Thaw

BY: Miguel Altieri, The Conversation President Obama’s trip to Cuba last week accelerated the warming of U.S.-Cuban relations. Many people in both countries believe that normalizing relations will spur investment that can help Cuba develop its economy and improve life for its citizens. But in agriculture, U.S. investment could cause harm instead. For the past 35 years I have studied agroecology in most countries in Central and South America. Agroecology is an approach to farming that developed in the late 1970s in Latin America as a reaction against the top-down, technology-intensive and environmentally destructive strategy that characterizes modern industrial agriculture. It encourages local production by small-scale farmers, using sustainable strategies and combin...
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Trump Takes Aim at Obama’s Détente With Cuba
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Trump Takes Aim at Obama’s Détente With Cuba

BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs HAVANA — Making good on his deal with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Florida), President Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to roll back some of the steps Barack Obama took to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. In 2015, Obama weakened restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and eliminated some of the economic prohibitions between the two countries. He removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and loosened the export of US internet hardware and telecommunications. He also set up increased cooperation in intelligence-gathering, drug interdiction, scientific research and environmental protection. Obama made it easier for ...
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Bernie Sanders Was Right About the Cuban Literacy Campaign
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Bernie Sanders Was Right About the Cuban Literacy Campaign

Participants in the Cuban Literacy Campaign march in December 1961. BY: Catherine Murphy, Truthout The corporate media have long been looking for ways to discredit Bernie Sanders, and they settled on a surprising statement he made in the 1980s during his tenure as mayor of Burlington when he said, “We have a lot to learn from Cuba.” Now, they have latched onto a statement he made about Cuba during an interview on “60 Minutes” after winning the Nevada caucuses: “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” Sanders said. “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?” Ironically, several years earlier, in 2016, President Obama said something q...
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The Internet Is Widely Accessible in Cuba. Why Is the US Insisting It Isn’t?
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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The Internet Is Widely Accessible in Cuba. Why Is the US Insisting It Isn’t?

People use their phones and laptops to connect to the internet at a park in Havana, Cuba, on December 5, 2018. BY: Reese Erlich, Truthout Trinidad, Cuba — Sitting at an outdoor café, Alian Rojas deftly thumbs the small keyboard on his iPhone as he calls up The New York Times website. Then he shows a reporter how easily he can use WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube. “I can access any website I want,” says the 30-something tour guide. Cubans can even download the Miami Herald’s Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, infamous as a font of anti-Cuban government reporting. They can use Signal, an encrypted messaging app developed by Edward Snowden and others, which prevents even the U.S. government from eavesdropping. Over the past 10 years Cuba has made great ...
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Only US and ‘Israel’ Vote Against Resolution Demanding End to Blockade of Cuba
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Only US and ‘Israel’ Vote Against Resolution Demanding End to Blockade of Cuba

A man holds a Cuban flag during a protest calling for the end of the U.S. blockade against Cuba in Cienfuegos province, Cuba, on May 30, 2021. BY: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Peace and human rights advocates joined the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday in their annual condemnation of the United States’ disastrous economic embargo against Cuba. For the 29th straight year, the members of the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 60-year U.S. economic blockade on Cuba. This year, 184 nations voted in favor of the resolution, while the U.S. and Israel voted against it. Three nations — Brazil, Colombia, and Ukraine — abstained. Critics this year noted the detrimental effects of the embargo on Cuba’s ability to comb...
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Biden Urged to Lift US Embargo on Cuba as Thousands Protest Critical Shortages
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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Biden Urged to Lift US Embargo on Cuba as Thousands Protest Critical Shortages

People participate in a rally against the U.S. embargo of Cuba on April 25, 2021, in Santa Clara, Cuba. BY: Julia Conley, Common Dreams Progressives in the U.S. and around the world on Monday demanded the Biden administration lift the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba and hundreds of sanctions on the country after thousands of Cubans protested the country’s economic crisis, which has been worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic. The protests in Havana and several smaller cities and towns made headlines Sunday, with major international outlets reporting on Cubans taking to the streets to express outrage over food and medicine shortages. Demonstrators chanted, “Enough!” and “Freedom!” while one person told the Associated Press, “We are fed up with the queues, the shortage...
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PSL statement: U.S. imperialism seeks counter-revolution in Cuba
13Jul By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
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PSL statement: U.S. imperialism seeks counter-revolution in Cuba

Listen to an audio version of the statement here Photo: President Miguel Díaz-Canel at the site of a protest in San Antonio de los Baños. Credit — Cubadebate.cu The Party for Socialism and Liberation stands in full solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, its government and people in the struggle against the latest sinister counterrevolutionary efforts of U.S. imperialism. The sixty year old blockade and hundreds of sanctions imposed under the Trump administration have caused grave shortages of food, medicines, electricity and other necessities of life. The shortages have greatly exacerbated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the island. The pandemic has virtually eliminated the economically vital tourism industry, greatly reduced remittances and contributed to major pr...
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