From Right-Wing & Left-Wing Media!!
{Wednesday, November 21st, 2018}
{Wednesday, November 21st, 2018}
This week -- Nov. 19th, 2018 -- one of the largest banks in France, Societe Generale, agreed to pay $1.3 billion for violating U. S. trade sanctions against Cuba. Since 1962 -- after such things as the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack and a record number of assassination and terrorist attempts failed to recapture Cuba -- the U. S. imposed its economic embargo-blockade on Cuba, easily the longest and cruelest such action ever taken by a powerful nation against a much smaller and weaker nation. Thus, for six decades, the ongoing sanctions against Cuba can demand huge payments from companies in friendly, democratic countries that remotely do business with Cuba, and those companies pay-up because of the USA's incomparable influence on international finances. The $1.3 billion Societe Generale payment is another reminder that the mere survival of Revolutionary Cuba for all these decades, as opposed to starvation or capitulation, is one of history's greatest phenomenons, just as the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution over the vile U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship still resonates as a unique phenomenon. When a handful of vicious Counter Revolutionaries, including powerful remnants of the Batista regime, can mandate such self-serving and personally lucrative Cuban policies decade-after-decade, its nefarious impact on America's democracy is almost unfathomable...especially during Republican administrations in Washington, which is currently the case. The Societe Generale penalty is merely an example that adds to the wonderment about how Cuba has survived for all these decades faced with an unchecked and endless effort by the world's Superpower to starve the nearby island into submission...AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE -- a return of the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the rich and greedy U. S. businessmen?? Sadly, that still appears to be the agenda!! And for political reasons since 1959, there have always been rich and politically powerful Cubans leading the charge from U. S. soil to recapture Cuba. During the height of the Bush dynasty's power, that Cuban was Jorge Mas Canosa, who became a billionaire Counter Revolutionary in Miami. Currently during the Trump era Miami's Marco Rubio holds that designation as politically influential Cubans can soak U. S. taxpayers for tons of dollars for anti-Cuban projects that, as it seems to always turn out, primarily just punishes innocent Cubans on the island while enriching Counter Revolutionaries in Miami. Also, as an additional bonus for the Counter Revolutionaries...oh, YES!!...legal U. S. laws can punish foreign companies and nations if they dare to do business with Cuba. With such laws and now with Trump as Commander-in-Chief, it might be reasonable to expect Rubio to recapture Cuba in...ohhhh...about two weeks.
The "TRUMP-I-FI-CA-TION" of Little Havana's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio probably says more than anything else about the current state of America's politics {totally sick} and America's media {even sicker}.
First off, as you study the above very accurate graphic that is courtesy of Miami's Progreso Weekly and Alvaro Fernandez, I would like to suggest that the most egregious thing President Trump has done in the past two years occurred when he anointed Marco Rubio America's new Cuban dictator. It was a backdoor Republican political buy-off by Trump who happens to hate Rubio and the feeling is mutual. But Trump, because of Florida's weird and over-sized political significance, needs every Little Havana Republican he can purchase...and Rubio has a well-earned reputation as the most "for sale" politician on the planet.
Still studying the above graphic?? Good. Of course, the Miami Herald's editorial leader, Cuba-born Fabiola Santiago, seems to agree with Miami's Alvaro Fernandez depiction of Rubio. As Trump's Cuban dictator, Rubio has helped maneuver two famed anti-Cuban zealots -- John Bolton and Mike Pompeo -- into America's two most important Foreign Policy positions. And Rubio has been directly responsible for literally saturating the State Department's Western Hemisphere Affairs department, as well as all other key government agencies that could possibly help eviscerate Cuba, with a litany of the most famed Counter Revolutionary zealots -- from Rubio's old Little Havana mentor Tomas Regalado to Mauricio Claver-Carone to...well, suffice to say that Rubio has either added or seems to be adding to the U. S. government's eternally bloated anti-Cuban payroll just about every well-known and still alive Cuban Counter Revolutionary since 1959.
Still studying the above graphic?? Great. The point it makes, I believe, is this: While major media outlets in Rubio's hometown of Miami have enough courage and integrity to hold him accountable for his self-serving and anti-democratic Cuban policies, the mainstream U. S. media promotes Rubio as a choirboy. Thus, the right-wing media, led by Fox News, would likely support Rubio if, backed by his Commander-in-Chief, he nuked all men, women and children on the island of Cuba, using typical propaganda such as...Rubio just saved America because we all knew that those Cubans, including the children, were about to attack the United States. Well, such right-wing propaganda is par for the course. But the graphic above reminds us of a Rubio irony. If Rubio evicerated 11.4 million Cubans on the island, the left-wing U. S. media wouldn't have either the guts or the integrity to question him. And amazingly, that includes the left-wing media furiously engaged in impeaching Trump, including CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Still studying the above graphic?? Wonderful. In other words, the Trump-Rubio alliance reveals two rather disturbing aspects concerning the severely challenged U. S. democracy: {1} America's two-party political system needs at least one non-corrupt and non-extremist political party; and {2} America needs a mainstream media that features real electronic and print journalists as opposed to the current overwhelming make-up of left-wing or right-wing propagandists and pundits. That situation may appeal to the trained seals as well as the left-wing/right-wing extremists, but it leaves out the 80%-or-so of Americans who could be described as moderate, free-thinking lovers of the democracy America once had.
Regalado, mentor; Rubio, student.
Rubio-Trump; an unholy alliance??
A U. S. political system and a mainstream U. S media that doesn't challenge a Marco Rubio as the Cuban dictator on U. S. soil is, I think, equivalent to a U. S. political system and a mainstream U. S. media that are the exact opposite of what the Founding Fathers envisioned for America in 1776.
Yes. The Trumpified Marco Rubio is using language of democracy to subvert democracy. And sadly, both the right-wing and left-wing U. S. media are his puppeteers and stooges.
This is not to suggest that Americans should care about Cuba. But I would like to suggest that Americans should care about America.
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