As the 20-year war in Afghanistan officially came to an end, President Joe Biden justified US military withdrawal in an address to the nation on Aug. 31: “This decision about Afghanistan is not just about Afghanistan. It’s about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries.” While these remarks suggest a potential reckoning with the longstanding US policy of imperialist intervention around the world, increased US sanctions on Cuba demonstrate that such intervention persists in the form of economic warfare. From the dire strain US sanctions have put on the Cuban economy to the corporate media frenzy that exploited protests in Cuba this summer as a justification for interventionist “regime change,” it is clear that efforts by the US to “remake other countries” are not ending any time soon.
TRNN contributor Radhika Desai is joined by Arnold August to discuss the protests in Cuba, the media narratives about the protests, and the prospect that the Biden administration will succeed in exploiting Cuba’s current troubles to achieve its interventionist ends. August is a Montreal-based author, journalist, lecturer, and the author of multiple books on Cuba, including Democracy in Cuba and the 1997–98 Elections, Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion, and Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond.
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Cuba is a shithole because of the communist revolution, not because of the US
Hands off Cuba, end the embargo and demonization.
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The U.S. government opposes any alternatives to capitalism which is why it favored the German Nazi over the Soviet communists. It is why the CIA put German war criminals in charge of the German security service after World War II. It is why Dulles gifted the brutal Cuban dictator with a gold telephone to show U.S. support for his regime. No country has done more to subvert and remove democratically elected governments and to support colonialists and fascists over the past 230 years than the United States. But not surprising for a country founded by people who committed genocide and stole lands and enslaved millions of people to build a capitalist society for a white Europeans.
All these well known facts aside – Europe too wages an economic war on Africa, everyday and in thousands of ways. Just that the folks in Brussels, at the head of the EU parliament, do it very quietly and politely. Jackass America and it's rat enemy Cuba.
16:15 I would say the US is hedging. Take away any wild cards, and Skynet wins.
And against Veezuela. And Syria. And Noth Korea. And Russia. and China.
Cuba needs to go to Bitcoin and tell the IMF to shove it up their lying, thieving, stinking ass!!!!
The US has been doing Cuba DIRTY since 59 and for what? Because Cuba wouldn't bow down and essentially become a colony? Castro didn't help the situation but damn!
If the world keep silent and permissive about what US did to Cuba, one day it will happen to your country.
Nazi american government always kills minorities across the globe..they don't kill Jews because it would be too obvious..but they kill all other minorities across the globe
Viva Cuba
Should we all back Klobuchar’s Cuba bill to lift the Embargo? If this has to be passed in congress (Biden could reverse the additional sanctions of the last 5 yrs but not the permanent one), maybe we should organise around that (despite there being no language in respecting Cuban sovereignty or de-occupying Guantanamo Bay).
The U.S. will pay is high price that it can never repay for what it has done to others around the world and to the Native Americans and African Americans. When it comes it is well deserved.
Thank you. More please. Im very interested to hear more discussions like this about Cuba.
Cuba is a communist nation.
How could these devils do people like this. End the embargo.
Because Cuba has a communist regime that needs to change. Simple.
Lucky for Cuba that the its use in US internal politics will keep it from getting it invaded unlike other targets that will likely be next like Iran 🙁