Let's do this

Actually, for US elites, that's not a positive thing.  They prefer ignorant citizens.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

A bit of history

And the best explanation of who killed JFK.

(This program from Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! was conducted four years ago.)

No! Not the CIA!

The National Archives ended up making public only a fraction of the JFK documents last night.

Still, the 2,800 papers included in the new document dump confirm some salacious details of America's decades-long quest to kill or depose Fidel Castro — including a fairly shocking plan by the CIA to sow terror in Miami.

After Castro's revolution succeeded and thousands of Cubans fled to South Florida, the agency actually considered murdering a boatload of refugees, assassinating exile leaders, and planting bombs in Miami — all so Castro could be blamed for the chaos.

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The campaign was included in a report on "pretexts" the U.S. could conjure up to justify a military intervention in Cuba. The paper was sent by Gen. Edward Landsdale, a top Cold War officer who worked with the CIA to plot out Operation Mongoose; he sent the report, which included nine other "pretexts," on April 12, 1962, to Gen. Maxwell Taylor, who would soon become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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The Mongoose doc includes other frightening plots hatched by the spooks in Washington, including an idea to use biological weapons to ruin Cuba's crops, possibly leading to famine and an uprising against Castro.

  Miami New Times

Yeah, that sounds like the CIA I know.

As some astute readers have noted, much of the newly posted Mongoose details at the National Archive were already released as part of a plot called Operation Northwoods, which President Kennedy reviewed but rejected.

Oh. So they're releasing classified documents that provide informaiton already known about. That also sounds like the CIA I know.

The newly released papers include reports [describing] the CIA's willingness to collaborate with the Mob to oust the Communist leader.

So they didn't release the ones describing the CIA's willingness to collaborate with the Mob to kill Kennedy.

Don't blame me. If you don't like conspiracy theories, get the rest of the documents.

None of those details are particularly new — the wetsuit and seashell ideas were outlined in 1979 in a book about the CIA by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Powers.

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Americans will have to wait at least another six months to find out whether the hundreds of documents the CIA refused to include in yesterday's dump include any clues as to JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's deeper ties to intelligence agencies or the Soviet Union.

In the meantime, let's just be grateful the CIA decided not to blow up Miami in the name of going after Castro.

No, sorry. I'm not going to "be grateful" to the CIA for anything. It's a criminal, corrupt and ruthless organization that doesn't seem to be accountable to anyone. Do you think they didn't do other things just as horrible?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Bingo

that's coincidence. irony is when the US criticizes Cuba's human rights record while operating an illegal torture facility on its land. https://t.co/Hl2s1iNyKP

— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) November 27, 2016

The Last Legend

Fidel Castro has passed.

 


Yeah, right. I'm sure that's exactly what they're thinking: What would we do without the U.S.?

Trump Is a Communist???

"Communist Cuba" in case the slower of you didn't see the problem immediately.

"Bombshell".  You wish.  Trump unabashedly stated in the debate that his avoidance of taxes was smart business.  How is his avoidance of Cuban sanctions any different?  His supporters will just see another wily businessman move.

And there's that, too.

All the Putin scare hasn't been working.  Apparently enough people realize that Russia is no longer a communist country.  It's been off the boogie man radar since Condi Rice left Washington and Dubya looked into Putin's soul and saw a beautiful thing.  They're trying desperately to bring it back to the top, since we can't keep all the players straight in the Middle East long enough to rally the pitchfork brigade.  Besides, nobody can pronounce those Arab names.

I have to wonder if the MSM really believe their own bullshit, or if they're now painting Trump with the commie brush because that's the only trigger his supporters might fear.  They sure as hell don't care that he's actually a narcissistic, bigoted, money-grubbing, vengeful, racist, sociopathic, misogynistic, tax-evading capitalist asshole.  That seems to be what they like about him.

Since it's so close to election time, the MSM - who, ironically gave him the good free press he craved from the beginning - now need a bigger threat than Putin inspires.  Maybe they can find a Trump connection to dead Hugo Chávez (or Shavezz, as the brigade knows him) before November.

They really need to connect him to Colin Kaepernick.  That would do the trick.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro

Cuba is the only country in the world that sent its soldiers to confront the army of apartheid and defeated the army of apartheid, the South African army, twice—in 1975, 1976, and in 1988. And in Havana, when he visited Havana in July 1991—I won’t to be able to repeat exactly the words of Nelson Mandela, but Nelson Mandela said, "The Cuban victory," referring to the Cuban victory over the South Africans in Angola in 1988, "destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor and inspired the fighting masses of South Africa.

  Democracy Now: Johns-Hopkins Historian Piero Gleijeses

Another reason for the US political leaders to hate Cuba.

[In 1975] the movement supported by the Cubans, the MPLA, which is in power in Angola today having won free election, was on the verge of winning the civil war. And it was on the verge of winning the civil war—a paraphrase from what the CIA station chief in Angola at the time told me—because it was the most committed movement with the best leaders, the best program. And in order to prevent their victory, the victory of the MPLA, in October 1975, urged by Washington, South Africa invaded. And the South African troops advanced on Luanda, and they would have taken Luanda and crushed the MPLA if Fidel Castro had not decided to intervene. And between November 1975 and April 1976, 36,000 Cuban soldiers poured into Angola and pushed the South Africans back into Namibia, which South Africa ruled at the time.

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And Mandela wrote that he was in jail in 1975 when he learned about the arrival of the Cuban troops in Angola, and it was the first time then a country had come from another continent not to take something away, but to help Africans to achieve their freedom.

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And after that, the Cubans remained in Angola to protect Angola from the South African army. Even the CIA acknowledged that the Cubans were the guarantee for the independence of Angola. And in Angola, they trained the ANC, the African National Congress, of Mandela.

[...]

Obama, President Obama, was received with applause in South Africa when he spoke, etc., because he is the first black president of the United States. But the role of the United States as a country, as a government, past governments, in the struggle for liberation of South Africa is a shameful role. In general, we were on the side of the apartheid government. And the role of Cuba is a splendid role in favor of the liberation. This handshake [with Raul Castro that causes an uproar among Obama’s detractors] —going beyond this particular issue, the handshake was long overdue. The [Cuban] embargo is absurd, is immoral. [...] The problem with Obama is that his speeches are good, his gestures are good, but there is no follow-up. So, unfortunately, it is just a gesture, a long-overdue gesture that does not change a shameful U.S. policy.