Beware of the way Cuba protests are being “explained” in the US & western media, warns Caleb Maupin. This is just a long-planned color revolution against Cuba, a “Cubamaidan” for suckers. When was the last time the US press celebrated a revolution? Never. They only celebrate chaos that benefit US imperialism, that is, counter-revolution. So, reform, yes, perhaps, says Caleb. No government is perfect, certainly not a government functioning under enormous and longstanding foreign-imposed stresses. But CIA -sponsored “revolution? No! Besides, keep in mind many of the protests are about things the US empire itself has caused through its decades long blockade, that even includes vital articles used in the medical field.
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The Empire Depends On Psychological Compartmentalization
19 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—If the western media were what it purports to be, every member of the public will be acutely aware of the fact that a journalist is being imprisoned by the most powerful government on earth for exposing inconvenient facts about its war machine. Because the western media are propaganda institutions designed to protect the powerful, this fact is far from the forefront of public attention. Most people are more aware of the smears about Assange being a Russian agent or a rapist than they are of his victimization by a tyrannical assault on world press freedoms.
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Medhurst: Debunking Myths About Iran’s Elections
4 minutes readRICHARD MEDHURST—Richard debunks the thick fog of lies clouding, as usual, the truth about Iran, and her “democracy with Iranian characteristics.” Iran is actually a socialist and firmly anti-imperialist country.
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CALEB MAUPIN—As if Carter hadn’t taken the Democrats further enough away from working people, Bill Clinton’s Democratic Leadership Council embraced full-on economic neoliberalism. Clinton ended “welfare as we know it” putting millions of working mothers into desperate circumstances and betrayed the labor unions who voted for him signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Clinton made a point of embracing the rapidly expanding prison industrial complex during his campaign, condemning Black rap artist Sista Solja in a campaign speech, and being photographed with a prison chain gang. Clinton even suspended his campaign in order to return to Arkansas to oversee the execution of Black man. The notion that some African-American youth were “super-predators” was used to terrify white voters into supporting such policies. Biden joined the rallying cry to “get tough on crime” with more prisons and longer sentences.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—We also caught a strong whiff of this new trend in the near-total blackout on the Hunter Biden October surprise last year, which only went mainstream because it stood to benefit one of America’s two mainstream political factions. After the New York Post first broke the story we saw mainstream media figures publicly explaining to each other why it was fine not to cover it with reasoning that was all over the map, from it’s a waste of time to it’s just too darn complicated to it’s not our job to research these things to the Washington Post’s notorious “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t.”