U.S. Spies for Cuba? Please! Just Tell Us Anything!

The U.S. State Department has now announced that they have arrested Kendall and Gwen Myers, two high level state department employees, and charged them with providing classified information to the Cuban government for the last 30 years. This allegation has come with the usual full assortment of lies and propaganda about how the ugly enemies of America, who are jealous of the wonderful freedom that capitalism provides, are working overtime to sabatoge American democracy.

Of course, the U.S. version of this story will focus exclusively on the above premise that the U.S. is somehow wronged and betrayed in this story. Of course, the truth that the U.S. government has initiated, supported, financed, and perpetuated acts of illegal espionage, sabatoge, murder, and mischief against the Cuban Revolution since its inception in 1959. This sabatoge was amped up in 1962 (when the Cuban Revolution declared its intentions to build a socialist revolutionary system) with the imposition of the now 47 year old illegal political and economic stranglehold embargo against Cuba.

Beyond the embargo, what you won't hear in mainstream capitalist media is the truth about who is the spy and who is the victim as it rpertains to U.S. and Cuban relations. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC, can say whatever they want to propagate the capitalist perspective of the Myers story, but no matter what they can accuse the Myers couple of doing, or even what the Myers couple may have actually done, it pales in comparison to the vicious nature of sabatoge the U.S. has engaged in against Cuba for 50 years. Even the Iran/Contragate hearings over a decade ago revealed the criminal nature of the U.S. government when evidence was presented (to substantiate the U.S. illegal activity in Nicaragua as a result of illegal gunrunning with Iran) that the CIA worked with the American Mafia to organize over three dozen assassination attempts against the life of Fidel Castro. These attempts included sending people illegally into Cuba and having those people attempt to poison Castro's food, his cigars, locate and shoot him, and sabatoge government activities. There is now clear evidence that efforts were made to destory Cuban crops, illegally sabatoge medical research, sell drugs to Cuban citizens, and foment false opposition against the Cuban government. Even these heinous activities proved minimal compared to the support given to terrorists who conducted illegal and deadly operations against the Cuban people. These efforts included the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1977 that killed 73 people. This act was masterminded by Luis Carrilles Posada, a disgruntled terrorist in South Florida who currently lives in comfort on the dime of the U.S. taxpayers.

Then, there is the continued illegal radio and television propaganda that is beamed daily into Cuba in violation of international law. This, along with the continued illegal plane incursions into Cuba b y U.S. supported anti-revolution terrorists who bomb sovereign Cuba terroritory represents the systematic efforts to destabilize the Cuban Revolution. These types of examples could be given for pages and pages, but the point is that clearly, it is the U.S. government, and not Cuba, who is, and has always been, the instigator of espionage. As a result, anything anyone is doing on behalf of the Cuban government, whether it is the Myers, the Cuban 5, or even everyday people in the U.S. who simply desire justice, is just to try and give Cuba a chance against the big imperialist bully from the north.

But then, we know that the bully always perpetuates the myth that it is they who are under attack.