P. GREANVILLE—The repugnant evil of US policy toward Cuba is undeniable and in the open; it’s been so for decades—six and counting—and yet no one can do much about it because the rulers of the US, the billionaires that comprise its sociopathic oligarchy, will not lift their crippling economic embargo on the island, a polite term for economic warfare. And they can’t be forced to remove their sanctions—completely illegal from the standpoint of international law—because they hide behind America’s bloated military muscle and a thick wall of disinformation loyally operated by the system’s prostituted media. We know why this is being done. Cuba is hated and demonised by US ruling elites and their accomplices around the globe for the same reasons the Soviet Union and Communist China, and more recently Venezuela, Nicaragua and Iran have also been hated and feared: they provide a living demonstration that humanity has much better choices than the “American Way of Life,” that is, irrational and savagely predatory capitalism.
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CALEB MAUPIN—Caleb’s chat has important segments dedicated to the twisted peculiarities of Trotskyism, which he correctly denounces as essentially a form of petit-bourgeois anarchistic ultraleftism that objectively always finds itself on the wrong side of anti-imperialist struggles. Trotsky, who despised the Russian peasantry as a backward and semi-Asiatic mass, always insisted on the need for a “permanent revolution”, a concept related to classical Marxism assigning the central role of revolution to “white” Western Europe, a proposition refuted by Lenin in his analysis of imperialism.
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Chile: Why Did the Coup Succeed? (Special Dossier)
21 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—The materials featured below is the work of great political didacts, people of great talent as filmmakers, and political analysts. Patricio Guzman, the Chilean documentarian and author of The Battle of Chile (BOC), filmed literally in the teeth of Chile’s bloody counter-revolution, its precious stock smuggled out of the country with the aid of a brave antifascist, none other than Harald Edelstam, the Swedish ambassador (who had already gained distinction in WW2 by rescuing Jews and many antifascists from the Nazis), needs little introduction. The documentary, needless to say, made on the mythical shoestring, and eventually completed with the aid of Cuba, is a masterpiece of astute and accurate storytelling. Indeed, Guzman’s small team seems to be everywhere something critical is happening: in the copper mines where the workers are wrongheadedly siding against the government; inspecting the critical truck owners strike that selfishly and myopically paralyzed the country at a decisive moment (an ominous sign that, as Communist party leader Luis Corvalán feared, the middle and lower-middle-classes had not been fully won to the revolutionary project); or inside the Chilean Congress itself, where one naked betrayal after another seals the fate of Chile according to plans already drawn up in the late 1960s (we now know for a fact) in the US White House and America’s sordid intelligence and military precincts in conjunction with the traitorous Chilean oligarchy.
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Why is the “Deep State” arming the terrorists?
10 minutes readDonald Trump wanted to withdraw US troops at least from Northern Syria, leaving it in the care of Russians and Turks, but James Jeffrey, US Special Representative for Syria and Iraq, long in the service of the “Deep State,” lied to his president, downplaying the number of troops and giving a distorted picture of what was going on in the region. This eventually cost him his job, but Donald Trump did lose his battle with the system while still in office.
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Introducing Inna Afinogenova, RT.com’s progressive news show host, who does it all in impeccable Spanish
10 minutes readA manera de introduccion de Inna Afinogenova, nueva presentadora con RT.com, quien ,mezcla humor con analisis serio de noticias. Aunque Inna también realizó prácticas en la radio argentina, ha desarrollado el grueso de su carrera en RT, donde se ha desempeñado en multitud de puestos hasta llegar a la subdirección de la página web de RT en español. Desde allí, siempre con el apoyo del equipo de RT, desarrolló el proyecto ‘Ahí les va’, uno de los más exitosos del canal. Además de su interés por todos los países hispanohablantes, también es una gran amante de la cultura y la lengua portuguesas. Desde que nació, mirando al sur.