Its Propaganda Includes Cuba Too!!
The biggest threat to the United States and its Democracy, I think, is not China, Pandemics, Russia, Iran, Global Warming, etc., or even a combination of those things. Instead it is the ultra-rich and thus ultra-powerful extreme left-wing media. Yes, as it strives to make the U. S. a one-Party system, it is more dangerous than the extreme right-wingers {as well as the threats mentioned above} because it has so much more MONEY behind it. In recent years, as individual multi-billionaires and corporate multi-billionaires are permitted to purchase the USA's most powerful media companies, such giants as the New York Times and the Washington Post have evolved from being much-needed dispensers of valuable news into flagrant dispensers of self-serving propaganda that reflects the extreme left-wing views of their owners. For example, the top owner of the NY Times is Carlos Slim, the richest man in the history of Mexico; and the Washington Post is totally owned by Jose Bezos, the richest man in the history of the United States and the world. Beyond that...ultra-rich and ultra-powerful media sources dispensing forth only extreme left-wing propaganda, as opposed to news, include...NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Vanity Fair, the Wall Street Journal, etc., etc., etc. Those once dispensers of real news and accurate information are now dispensers of only extreme left-wing propaganda that represent the extreme left-wing beliefs of their corporate owners such as...Comcast, Disney, Time-Warner, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., etc., etc. For example, take the Headline and the Sub-headline shown below that led-off the type propaganda that Americans are now being saturated with!!!
The once respected and powerful Wall Street Journal now is nothing more and nothing less than a powerful propaganda machine that dispenses the extreme views of propagandists such as Mary Anastasia O'Grady. It is true that Mary O'Grady for many years has been obsessed with dispensing propaganda extolling the extreme "decency" of the 1950's U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba while also loudly being obsessed with propagandizing the "indecency" of Revolutionary Cuba that overthrew the Batista-Mafia dictatorship way back on January 1, 1959. And now, as a prime example of once-great news sources that have been bought-up and made into extreme propaganda dispensers, Mary O'Grady can weekly use the Editorial/Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal to dispense her extreme love of Batista's Cuba in the 1950s while also dispensing her extreme hatred of Revolutionary Cuba as it has been ruled since 1959. Mary O'Grady, of course, seems obsessed with claiming that Revolutionary Cuba REPLACED the GREATEST DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT in the history of the world, and that is the basis for her obsession of vilifying masses of innocent Cubans on the island whom Mary O'Grady believes should have NO OPINIONS about either Batista's Cuba or Revolutionary Cuba.
Thus, the Wall Street Journal has the wherewithal to promote Mary O'Grady as a high-profile and unbiased expert on Latin America. And of course, she makes full use of that exposure to promote her massive love of the long-ago Batista government in Cuba while also promoting her massive hatred of Cuba's revolutionary rule since 1959. As in this week's Opinion/Editorial article, Mary O'Grady makes Super Heroes out of anyone who wants to destroy Revolutionary Cuba while also implying that anyone who has ever supported or said anything nice about Revolutionary Cuba is a Super Villain. And the point I make is this: Mary O'Grady's personal obsessions and opinions about Batista's Cuba and Revolutionary Cuba are now typical of the extreme propaganda in the mainstream U. S. media that now has replaced News and Information regarding what is being dispensed to Americans who are overwhelmed by propaganda shoved down their throats by ultra-rich media sources.
For example, as you can see starting in the very first sentence of this week's "Opinion" article in the Wall Street Journal, Mary O'Grady makes "Luis Manuel Otera Alcantara" out to be a Super Hero in Cuba so she can quote him about saying terrible things about her Super Villain, who happens to be the late Fidel Castro as well Cuba's current president Miguel Diaz-Canel {who was born after the triumph of Castro's revolution}. So Mary O'Grady pretends that "Alcantara" has the absolute typical opinion of Fidel Castro and Diaz-Canel although there is actual evidence in Cuba that most Cubans consider "Alcantara" -- who is one of the leaders of the current well-funded anti-Cuban San Isidro "Movement" in Cuba -- to be an anti-Cuba villain.
I don't claim to know whether Luis Manuel Otera Alcantara is a valiant Hero or a bad Villain in Cuba, or something in between. But I do know he is an avowed dissident against the Cuban government and that he is one of the avowed leaders of the anti-Cuban San Isidro Movement in Cuba that Mary O'Grady apparently believes will finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. But to most everyday Cubans, as judged by their now ubiquitous Social Media accounts, Alcantara and his cohorts are considered more Villains than Heroes...and if Mary O'Grady refuses to mention that part of the two-part story, she is espousing only vicious one-sided propaganda...again. And as she writes about the San Isidro Movement as a new excuse to disparage Cuba, Mary O'Grady continues her unending role of trying to dismiss and starve everyday Cubans on the island.
In public and on television Cuba's President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, regularly speaks to the Cuban people and often mingles with them at meetings and on the streets, as he did when he was their Minister of Education. While neither the USA's current President Trump nor its next President Biden have trouble mustering 50% support from the American population, President Diaz-Canel is strongly supported by most Cubans on the island. Americans don't believe that, of course, because such facts don't compute with the U. S. media's abiding love of the wicked regime that preceded the Cuban Revolution.
For sure, mainstream media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, owned by multi-billionaire individuals and/or corporations, still have the resources to be valuable journalistic enterprises for the United States and the world. But they also have the monopolistic-like power to make high-profile propagandists such as Mary Anastasia O'Grady seem to be "experts" on topics such as Latin America and Cuba.
So this week -- on Dec. 20-2020 -- the Wall Street Journal started off with a prime propaganda piece about the SAN ISIDRO MOVEMENT written by anti-Cuban propagandist Mary O'Grady. It purported to proclaim that...FINALLY...this revolt will overthrow Revolutionary Cuba because the majority of Cuban people on the island support it. But the proof is it won't overthrow the Cuban Revolution because the majority of Cuban people on the island believe that the SAN ISIDRO MOVEMENT is funded and influenced by money and Counter Revolutionaries from the United States, and therefore...except for propagandists in the U. S...the San Isidro Movement, like many others that have failed, will not overthrow Cuba's revolutionary rule. Lies touted by high-profile propagandists like Mary O'Grady has caused Americans to wonder how in the heck Cuba has survived all these decades since 1959 as a revolutionary and sovereign nation. The answer has to do with the fact, I believe, that there have obviously always been enough Cubans on the island who prefer revolutionary rule to the U.S./Mafia-ruled government that controlled the island prior to the Revolution. Perhaps if Mary O'Grady took time to ascertain the opinions of everyday Cubans on the island she would comprehend that fact instead of pretending that the only ones who have opinions about such things are Counter Revolutionary Cubans supported by the U. S. media and by Yankee dollars.
The CUBA MONEY PROJECT blog, which is actually written by a brilliant and respected journalist named Tracey Eaton, who is now also a beloved Journalism Professor in Florida, regularly reveals in excruciating detail the truly staggering amounts of tax dollars regularly dished out to anti-Cuban dissidents and anti-Cuban Movements. Instead of being bombarded by propaganda from the likes of Mary O'Grady, perhaps Americans need to regularly dial-up the precise and updated statistics revealed by the CUBA MONEY PROJECT, which indeed are shocking...not just in how massive are the dollars but also to who they are routinely being given to!!!!
Of course, Americans are now programmed to believe well-funded propagandists posing as journalists such as Mary O'Grady instead of depending on real journalist such as Tracey Eaton. Thus the latest propagandist piece by Mary O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal unfortunately usually trumps great journalism by Tracey Eaton. But for what it's worth...I return you to this week's best example of mainstream propaganda:
{But...uh...just more propaganda}
{Or will Cuba finally be recaptured}
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