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From the End of History to the End of Truth

"No one following these processes with any attention will have failed to notice the leading role played by non governmental organizations in the Western elites’ offensive against resistance to them by political leaders and movements around the world."

Nicaragua: Corporate Media Continues its Psychological Warfare Campaign Against the Sandinista Government

"Shocking murders like that of Berta Cáceres in Honduras get exploited to burnish progressive credentials while the broad, underlying reactionary psychological warfare offensive against the achievements of progressive governments continues unchanged."

Cuba’s Achievements Over the Decades

"Despite a fierce U.S. economic blockade, Revolutionary Cuba has made tremendous gains."

Venezuela Faces Down Rebuke at UN, Possible New Sanctions

"A call from Cuba for respect for state sovereignty drew the support of 88 countries."

Declaration of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba on Brazil Coup

"What happened in Brazil is another expression of the offensive of imperialism and the oligarchy against the revolutionary and progressive governments of Latin America and the Caribbean which threatens peace and stability of nations..."

FLASHBACK: The Responsibility of the Intellectuals: Cuba, the U.S. and Human Rights

"Their political conceptions, the yardsticks they pull out to condemn or approve of any political activity, exists nowhere except in their heads, in their congenial, progressive, university settings where they enjoy all the privileges of capitalist freedom and none of the risks which Third World revolutionaries have to defend themselves against."

(New Book) Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism

Anything in the world of cultural systems, social relationships, and material production can become force multipliers for imperialism: food security, oil, electricity, young leaders, aid, social media, NGOs, women’s rights, schoolgirls, democratization, elections, the G8, the European Union, NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, AFRICOM, development, policing, borders, and epidemics, among others. This takes us to related conceptualizations of “full-spectrum dominance,” “three-dimensional warfare,” and “interoperability,” in what has become an imperial syndrome.

Ex-CIA Agent Reveals how Venezuelan “Students” Get Putschist Training

"In a recent interview in Havana, a former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, revealed the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create the kind of destabilizing opposition student movement the country is currently facing. "

USAID & the Cuban Five: Criminalizing Counterterrorism, Legalizing Regime Change

"Havana sentenced Gross to 15 years in prison for smuggling and encouraging “acts against the integrity” of the state in December 2009. The Cuban authorities view the operations of USAID as attempts to foment regime change and consider such programs to be an affront to its sovereignty. Washington has refused even to provide operational details of its USAID projects in Cuba to various congressional committees charged with overseeing the program, which operates with a massive $20 million budget."

USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba

"One particular favorite has been the NGO Súmate and its leader Maria Corina Machado, who has made headlines over the past two months for her role in the protest movement."