[Marxism] Last-minute stab by rightist Dobson against Obama

[Walter Lippmann]

The McCain-Palin-Bush forces aren't only using James Dobson as their
spearhead in attacking Obama. They widely use a multi-issue, not a
single-issue approach. And mostly they don't spend too much time
attacking one another as people on the political left do. 

In California, these forces are mobilizing through their friends in the
anti-gay world, among others. Elehwhere their hope is to use all-out
support for Israel, fear of undocumented immigrants, or whatever port
will do in a storm to stimulate the feelings of panic and fear in the
population during stressful economic times to mobilize the vote for
there side.

This is but ONE sample of the kind of material which is being
circulated widely on the internet. It's over 30 years old but being
presented as if it was just learned now. It's hard to guage, looking
at a computer screen, how much influence such material is having,
though not for lack of trying. It's linked on the MIAMI HERALD's
website, which is where I learned about it.


1-Bill Ayers worked with Cuba, says FBI report
http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/750971.html

2-McCain campaign robo calls criticize Obama
(an attack on the Los Angeles Times which McCain
 regarding Palestinian-American scholar Rashid Khalida,
 now teaching at Colombia University.)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/729397.html

3-McCain: Obama's economic policies are left-wing
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/749897.html

4-Some in the Cuban rightist world are even spreading a story
suggesting that Obama is really Cuban, not of Kenyan heritage:
http://saguaenmuerto.blogspot.com/2008/10/posible-presidente-sagero.html

5-The stakes are high regarding US policy toward Cuba: 
Election could shift policy on Cuba
Sat Nov 1, 2008 8:50am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4A00TL20081101

No mention is made in any of this about support to and for
McCain by the ultra-rightist Cuban exiles militants as
Ann Louise Bardach has well-documented on Slate.com:

The GOP's Bill Ayers?
The McCain campaign has its own questionable 
connections to bombers and assassins.
By A.L. Bardach

Slate.com
Oct. 15, 2008

http://www.slate.com/id/2202183/pagenum/all/#page_start
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Ayers played a primary role in the Venceremos Brigades
Bill Ayers worked with Cuba says FBI report
By Judi McLeod  Tuesday, October 28, 2008

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5860

Unrepentant terrorist former leading Weather Underground Organization (WUO) member
William Ayers was aided by Fidel Castro’s Cuba in the 1970s, according to a Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report. 

The 400-page report, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Times, revealed
that Cuban intelligence officers in the General Directorate of Intelligence (known
by its initials in Spanish as the DGI, Cuba’s equivalent of the CIA) set up the 
Venceremos Brigades in which WUO members participated.

“The ultimate objective of the DGI’s participation in the setting up of the Venceremos
Brigades was “the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who
someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government,
which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic and 
military intelligence.” (Italics CFP’s).

“Three years before militant members of the students for a Democratic Society split
off to form the Weather Underground Organization in 1970, North Vietnamese and Cuban
officials were influencing radical antiwar strategy through foreign meetings.  Many
of those meetings were held in Communist countries, including Hungary, Czechoslovakia
and North Vietnam,” said the report.

“After the Weathermen went “underground” in 1970 when many of them were being sought
by the FBI on criminal charges, Cuban intelligence officers were in touch with them
from both the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York and the Cuban Embassy
in Canada.”

In fact according to the report, Ayers played a primary role in the Venceremos Brigades,
a role revealed courtesy of Larry Grathwohl, a man publicly described as the “most
effective informer the FBI ever placed among the Weathermen.”

It was Ayers who told “fellow underground WUO member Grathwohl that if communication
could not be made through specially arranged Canadian numbers to flee American authorities,
an individual should get in touch with the Cuban Embassy in Canada in order to establish
contact with other members of the WUO.

“To do this an individual should use the code name “Delgado” when referring to himself
and the person with whom he desired to make contact,” the report said.

The report was prepared in August 1976 after the Department of Justice opened a 
criminal investigation into charges that bureau agents had committed burglaries 
and carried out illegal mail openings and wiretaps in their attempts to apprehend
Weathermen fugitives.

Closely held, only 10 copies of the report were sent to the bureau director, Clarence
M. Kelley.

The following were some of its key points:
# The conduit for contact in the United States was a group of intelligence agents
assigned to the staff of the Cuban mission to the United Nations in New York.  These
agents arranged for American youths to be inculcated with revolutionary fervor and,
occasionally, to be trained in practical weaponry by Cuban military officers through
the so-called Venceremos Brigades.
# Cuban officials helped several Weather Underground adherents who feared arrest
in the United States to travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and then to reenter the
United States surreptitiously.
# It also reported that contact with the Cubans in the United States was made at
the Cuban Mission to the United Nations on East 67th Street in Manhattan.  Several
top officials stationed at the Embassy in 1969 and 1970 were identified in the report
as Cuban espionage agents.
# In another incident, the report said, four Weathermen who had been in Cuba with
the Venceremos Brigades were sent back to the United Stares through Czechoslovakia
rather than through Canada with other brigade members to lessen their chances of
being arrested by the United States authorities.  The four wanted to get back to
the United States safely after the explosion of a house in Greenwich Village killed
two members of the Weather group, Dianna Oughton and Ted Gold, and the Cubans “obliged”
them by making the European travel arrangements.

Ayers and his wife, former WUO member Bernadine Dohrn were back in Cuba this September
as part of “Team Havana”, a conference on “Useful Art”, or art that includes aspects
of social activism. 

Sponsored by Cathedra de Arte Conducta, an arts program hosted by the Instituto 
Superior de Arte in Havana, the project was conceived by Cuban visual artist and
University of Chicago faculty member Tania Bruguera.

According to Janice Misurell-Mitchell, writing in CUBE Circuits, part of Team Havana’s
work was to “present lectures and informal sessions, films and videos and performances.”

Published twice a year, the Chicago-based CUBE is partially sponsored by grants 
from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, the NIB Foundation, the Argosy
Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and by a CityArts Program
1 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

Meanwhile, for some the 1970s Cuban strategy to “someday obtain a position, elective
or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. government, which would provide the Cuban Government
with access to political, economic and military intelligence” rings with a certain
irony.

Given Ayers ties to Presidential frontrunner Barack Hussein Obama we can only hope
that “someday” won’t be now.

Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print
media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard.
Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck.

Judi can be emailed at: judi at canadafreepress.com 


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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
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     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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