Cuba An African Odyssey [Parts I and II]

Historical footage which speaks for itself. We study history for a reason.



As for Cuba's story, please reference THIS.

Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages.(...) In 1972, while he was in Beirut, Kanafani and his 17-year-old niece Lamees were killed by a bomb planted in his car by the Mossad,

Lebanese Professor As'ad Abu Khalil* speaks of him here...



* I owe a good deal to the intellect of Prof. abu Khalil, whose uncompromising thoughts I have followed for decades on his blog. Although I've never met him in person, I sought and benefitted from his advice. I hope to thank him in person sometime before I pass from this life.

Iran president's extraordinary attack at UN on Trump’s nuclear double standards

Who knows how long we will manage to keep the censorship dogs at bay. If the above YouTube is taken down, you can access the information HERE

ZEITGEIST

...In case you didn't see it ...

Anti-Colonialism's Unfinished Business

Americans are starting to wake up to reality, as a foreign observer put it:

Western liberal democracies are like a narcissistic wife beater who postures as a sensitive he/him feminist on social media. Like a pop star who makes a show of fighting the power and defending the marginalized while supporting Israel. Our society isn’t what it pretends to be. Our entire civilization sustains itself through an endless river of blood, sweat and tears from the global south while making movies about fighting for justice and saving the world. Our pundits wag their fingers at the “tyrannical regimes” in empire-targeted nations while our own rulers murder, starve and terrorize disobedient populations in order to dominate the planet. In school they teach us that we are lucky to live in a free society where the people command the government with their votes and we have the right to express ourselves in whatever way we choose, when in reality wealthy oligarchs control the entire electoral process and our expression is aggressively manipulated through a complex system of censorship and propaganda. We have no integrity.

How long has this been going on? For that, we might take an historical perspective beginning with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, which oversaw the infamous Scramble for Africa:

Yet in a very real sense Africa is a prime cause of this terrible overturning of civilization which we have lived to see; and these words seek to show how in the Dark Continent are hidden the roots, not simply of war today but of the menace of wars tomorrow.

Still can't join the dots? Then listen to Prof. Richard Wolff lay it all out in a succinct summary:



Now we get to the purpose of this post, Anti-colonialism's Unfinished Business. It seems as if the Unfinished Business has finally made it onto the agenda:



And for an oncore, don't miss THIS.

What if everything America did ...

Came Home to America?



UPDATE: As you can see from the above, censorship is alive and well in the USA. Here in its place is a worthy contender:

THE EMPIRE IS RUNNING OUT OF MISSILES.

The Funeral: A Nation’s Verdict

This author summarizes it succinctly:

After the death of {eighth president of Iran, Ebrahim} Raisi, the majority of the people voted for Pezeshkian. They gave the reformist a chance, and he repaid them with appeasement while the enemy repaid them with bombs. The coalition of the United States, Israel, and their Gulf vassals, a cabal of pederasts and client kings, launched two waves of attacks on Iran. They killed thousands of civilians. They struck homes, hospitals, sports complexes, and infrastructure. On the first day, they targeted the Minab school. These were not strategic objectives; there is no military logic to bombing a school. These were satanic sacrifices, rituals of demoralization intended to crush the will of a people, to prove that no place was safe, that even children at their desks were legitimate prey. They armed ethnic minorities to attack infrastructure from within, trying to fracture the nation along fault lines they had spent decades mapping. They violated every conceivable international law with the impunity of those who know the institutions are their own.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated “the era of one-sided deals is OVER,” posting the {Memorandum of Understanding} MOU’s text with Iran’s privileges highlighted: “The Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts” for free passage of commercial vessels through Hormuz, “for 60 days only.”

What happens next?

And what happens now to the (mostly) indifferent public of the West? Here is a possibility (probability?):