MEDIA SCOUNDRELS

The disturbances in Cuba were marked by unprecedented violence and vandalism, jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of Cubans, including peaceful demonstrators and revolutionaries who took to the streets in response. However, the mainstream media have tried to deem the protests as peaceful to legitimize the narrative that the Cuban government, which does allow the right to demonstrate peacefully, was repressing those who do not support the revolution.

ALAN MACLEOD—After a wave of left-wing, anti-imperialist governments came to power across Latin America in the 2000s, the Obama administration was forced to move towards normalizing diplomatic relations with the island. However, once in office, President Donald Trump reversed these actions, intensifying the blockade and halting vital remittances from Cuban-Americans to the island. Trump advisor John Bolton labeled Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua a “troika of tyranny” — a clear reference to George Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech, implying that these three nations could expect military action against them soon. In its last days, the Trump administration also declared Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism.

While Biden had intimated that he might turn the U.S. Cuba policy back to the Obama days, he has, so far, done little to move away from the Trump line, his unequivocal endorsement of this week’s actions the latest example of this.

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MESHED GEARS—What Americans call “the right” and “the left” do not exist. In reality, there are a few oligarchs (rulers in an oligarchy, rule by the wealthy and powerful) on top. The rest of us are bottoms who influence nothing and control less. Tops, working through the political,  security and media establishment (today including social media),  promote divisions within the bottoms to distract the bottoms and keep them from joining together to throw out the tops. 

Most Americans have difficulty understanding that US OMM (Oligarch Managed Media) has a single primary purpose, to convey propaganda from the oligarchs (the wealthy and powerful running the USA) to the population. For propaganda to work, two prerequisites must be met. Firstly, the propaganda must appear to originate from multiple independent confirmatory sources.

Max Blumenthal and Jimmy Dore—along with Caleb Maupin, Lee Camp, and Kim Iversen— demolish the pile of fetid lies being disseminated by the imperial media and its multitude of minions and useful idiots to justify their attacks on Cuba. A great quick lesson in the sheer cynicism and sociopathic criminality of a supposedly law-abiding “democratic” government.