The Republic of Cuba and US Actions against it

https://soundcloud.com/empire-files/soscuba?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

More Russiaphobia

Recently, the sleeping Russiagate psyop created by the US Deep State (especially CIA) bounced back to life with a new claim from one of its central conspiracy theorists, Luke Harding, who published another unsubstantiated account (totally unbelieveable IMO) in the Guardian which was lovingly echoed by several of my friends.

Since then, I've seen a number of debunkings and near-debunkings.  Sadly I've been too preoccupied with personal matters (and a new backyard cat I need to get spayed, somehow, and don't let pets take over your life) to keep up with this and I've now misplaced the mother lode of debunkings on this particular new claim I stumbled across one night.

Here's Doctorow's take, which I completely agree with.  It's not really a debunking though.

Aaron Mate tweeted that MSNBC wouldn't touch the story, and got some more info in the comments.  I don't think I found that "treasure trove of debunking" here however, though there are some others.

Matt Taibbi has weighed in.

The US is the Absolute Worst

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-is-the-absolute-worst-notes/comments

I agree with the thesis and about 95% of the content here.

All except the nearl-anti-Vax and anti-AOC parts (though I will concede, AOC is not strongly anti-Imperialist, but pining for a 3rd party sweep does little good).

I've had the "US is the worst empire" in mind for at least 10 years now.  It's not one I can get many friends to agree with however.

Nowadays many are primed to fight back against the valid "10's of millions" charge with the made up claim that "Communism (or particular Communist countries) killed 100 million."  Which is utterly wrong on many levels.  Or if it's not wrong, then it can be equivalently shown that Capitalism has killed billions.

Caitlin defuses this counterattack with the focus on "no other country is doing this now," a pretty good approach.