I have one word for this so called attack on American embassy workers:
Bogus!
With absolutely no proof, I base my accusation on the never ending
attempts of the US Empire to bring down the Cuban government. While
we will never have an accounting of the number of attempts on Fidel
Castro's life, or attempts to infiltrate the Cuban government and do
mischief, by representatives of the US Empire...the CIA and others, we
do know such attempts have been ongoing. Furthermore, Miami, the
absentee capital of Cuban Wealthy Batista Worshipers, still believe,
nearly 59 years after his defeat, that their beloved corrupt
government will return, and they can triumphantly saddle up and ride
their asses home.
These Cubans in Miami contribute nothing to the well being of America,
just as when they lived in Cuba, they did nothing for the well being
of the Cuban People.
Finally, this entire "attack" seems too much like a CIA trick. Why
would the Cuban government decide to sabotage what appears to be a
relaxing of relationships between the two countries?
And finally finally, the American Empire has demonstrated too often
that it has no regard for the lives of its citizens. If such an
attack took place, then we need to investigate our own secret
services.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/16/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2017/8139/813956.html
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Vol. 81/No. 39 October 23, 2017
US gov’t uses pretext of ‘mystery illness’ to attack Cuba
BY SETH GALINSKY
Using the pretext of mysterious illnesses Washington alleges were
inflicted on U.S. diplomats in Havana, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
announced Sept. 29 he was slashing the U.S. Embassy staff there by more
than half. Four days later he ordered the expulsion of 15 Cuban
officials from the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C.
While admitting Washington has no evidence that Cuba had anything to do
with any reported medical conditions, Tillerson claimed the decision was
made “due to Cuba’s failure to take appropriate steps to protect our
diplomats.”
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez responded to the U.S. action and
slanders the same day. “Cuba has never perpetrated nor will it
perpetrate attacks of any kind against diplomatic officials nor their
families, without exception,” he said. “Nor has it permitted nor will it
permit its territories to be used by third parties for this purpose.”
Regardless of the depth of the political differences between the workers
and farmers of revolutionary Cuba and the propertied capitalist rulers
in the U.S., and the brutal economic war Washington wages against the
Cuban people, the Cuban government has always fought for normal
diplomatic relations between the two countries. Washington broke off
such relations in 1961 and only began steps to re-establish them in 2015.
Tillerson has said the U.S. government will “continue to maintain
diplomatic relations with Cuba and will continue to cooperate with
Cuba.” But with the U.S. Embassy down to just “emergency personnel,” the
State Department announced it had ceased honoring a 1994 agreement with
Havana to grant visas to some 20,000 Cubans a year who want to emigrate
to the United States.
The U.S. government claims that the first “incident” took place last
November and the most recent one in August this year. In its first
reports on the alleged attacks, the State Department said that one of
the “victims” had a serious blood disorder. As late as Sept. 22 it said
some had “concussions.” But by Sept. 29 the only symptoms the department
listed were “ear complaints, hearing loss, dizziness, headache, fatigue,
cognitive issues, and difficulty sleeping,” reported by 21 embassy
personnel.
A covert weapon ‘that doesn’t exist’
The New York Times Aug. 11, in the first public report of the State
Department allegations, wrote — with not a shred of evidence — that the
illnesses “appeared to be caused by some kind of sonic wave machine.”
The Verge, a webzine dedicated to examining “how technology will change
life in the future,” decided to look into the charge. After State
Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said that no “piece of equipment”
that might be causing the symptoms had been discovered, the Verge
pointed out Sept. 16, “That could be because a weapon that covertly uses
sound energy to injure people, doesn’t actually exist.”
Noting that the Cuban government would have no reason to attack U.S.
diplomats, the Washington Post came up with its own theories of who
could be behind such attacks, from a “rogue faction” in Cuba to North
Korea. “Perhaps Moscow is trying to drive a wedge between communist Cuba
and the West?” it asked. “Or, most unsatisfying: Maybe it’s no one at all.”
Whatever the reason, the U.S. government and the media that promote its
foreign policy is using the allegations as an excuse to step up attacks
against the Cuban Revolution.
Twisting reality on its head
Lack of evidence didn’t stop the Post from running an editorial titled,
“Cuba Plays Dumb in Attacks on American Diplomats.” Twisting reality on
its head, the Post editors state that “it begs disbelief that Cuba does
not know what is going on. … If Cuba sincerely wants better relations
with the United States, it could start by revealing who did this.”
At a State Department “background briefing” Oct. 3, the Post’s Carol
Morello asked if they had ruled out the view of some physicians that the
symptoms could reflect “some degree of psychosomatic mass hysteria going
on.”
The answer? “The symptoms that we’ve previously described are occurring.”
“So if you don’t know what caused it, who did it, and the symptoms are
different among victims,” asked CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski, “why are
you calling it an attack?”
“There’s no other conclusion that we could draw,” answered the State
Department official.
Despite the bizarre nature of the charges, the Cuban government has
patiently and repeatedly offered to cooperate “seriously, expertly and
immediately.” For the first time in more than 50 years, it allowed the
FBI to come to Havana and conduct investigations. It has implemented
extra measures to protect U.S. Embassy personnel and their families.
U.S. officials have refused to cooperate. They wouldn’t allow Cuban
investigators to visit residences where most of the incidents allegedly
occurred.
And the State Department has not allowed Cuban doctors to examine any of
the alleged victims or even talk directly to the doctors who treated
them, Rodríguez said.
Unlike the alleged illnesses of U.S. diplomats in Havana, there is
nothing mysterious about the long history of U.S. attacks on Cuba’s
workers and farmers ever since they overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista
dictatorship in 1959. From the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion to
assassination attempts on Fidel Castro to the ongoing U.S. economic war
against Cuba and occupation of Guantánamo, Washington has never given up
hope that it can overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
Nonetheless, Cuban workers and farmers continue to favor “a respectful
road based on sovereign equality to deal with our differences and to
coexist in a civilized manner to the benefit of both peoples and
countries,” Rodríguez said.
Related articles:
Revolution in Cuba shows road forward for workers
‘Cuban Revolution will never yield sovereignty, principles’
Díaz-Canel: ‘Che says you can’t trust imperialism’
‘Cuba’s revolution acts with the will of the entire people’
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