[Marxism] A letter to a Marxmail subscriber

[Walter Lippmann]

COMANDANTE PROYECT PROCLAIMS (though Miss Otis Regrets...)
"Walter, you really need some Paxil for that Cuba obsession of yours."
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It's a shame some only feel they are free and independent when they
attack the friends and allies of the Cuban Revolution. Defending the
Cuban Revolution is a good job, it's a clean job, and I'm very glad
to be able to do it. The pay sucks, but the benefits are many. 

There are a few crosses to bear, including the whiny slings and the
bitchy arrows of a few disgruntled, but self-described "indypendy
tinkers", but life is like that, sometimes. Such "independence"
as practiced by some individuals isn't worth the pixels it's
written on, but there is who's perfect? 

The Cuban Revolution is worth defending. It's the task to which
more than a few people commit themselves. I'm happy to be one of
those people. 

Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California
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FINAL CALL
The Good Samaritan; A study of Cuba
By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5219.shtml
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COUNTERPUNCH
Susan Hurlich: Storm Survivors, A Dispatch from Cuba
http://www.counterpunch.org/hurlich09192008.html
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13:24, September 19, 2008

World intellectuals demand end to U.S. ban on Cuba (XINHUA)

More than 1,000 intellectuals from Latin America, Europe, Africa and
the United States signed a support document to Cuba, demanding the
United States lift its ban imposed on Cuba nearly half a century ago,
local press said Thursday.

Intellectuals from 30 countries including Brazil, Argentina, Chile,
Venezuela, Italy, France, Greece, Australia, Britain and South
Africa, signed the document, whose text was published online by Cuban
intellectuals demanding the end to the U.S. embargoes against Cuba.

The document said Cuba has recently been whipped by two hurricanes
and suffered great losses because of that, and its people demand an
immediate end to the U.S. ban, which "has been a siege imposed by
successive U.S. administrations."

The document can be seen Thursday on website www.concubahoy.cult.cu.
, and is open to comments.

"We appeal to the sensitivity of the intellectuals and artists from
all the world to demand an immediately end to the criminal U.S. ban
(against Cuba) and to promote support and aid for Cuba," the document
said.

Alicia Alonso, director of National Ballet of Cuba, said what Cuba is
demanding "is a human right, not charity."

The United States imposed sanctions on Cuba in 1962, seeking to keep
the country from carrying out any foreign exchanges and has ten the
end to Communism. As a result, Cuba, whose then trade with the U.S.
accounted for two-thirds its total foreign trade, was plunged into
dire straits. The situation deteriorated further when the U.S. passed
a bill in 1996 to punish foreign companies dealing with Cuba.

The Cuban government has recently rejected the United States'
strings-attached offer to send hurricane aid accompanied by experts
to evaluate the damage.

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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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