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Summary: Superb account of US ruling class's hatred of Cuba
Review: Morley and McGillion, two Australian academics, have produced a very useful account of the US ruling class's unremitting hostility to the Cuban revolution. They show that the US government is not seeking democracy or reforms in Cuba: its sole aim is to destroy Cuba's social, political and economic order. Clinton was even more anti-Cuba than Bush Senior. Clinton signed the notorious Helms-Burton Bill, which illegally imposed the US's embargo on the whole world. At the UN, only the USA and Israel oppose resolutions calling on the USA to end the embargo. Since 1994, the State Department's annual studies of 'Patterns of Global Terrorism' have found no evidence of Cuban 'sponsorship' of terrorist activities. Yet the US government lists Cuba as a 'terrorist state', but not Afghanistan when it was under the Taliban! Cuba denounced 9/11 as an 'atrocious and insane terrorist act', and offered to cooperate in the global war on terrorism. Bush rejected the offer. Cuba has every right to act decisively to deter terrorists who hijack planes, bomb hotels and fly over Havana. Those who criticise its actions on 'human rights' grounds assist the terrorists. The US government funds and supports these anti-Cuba terrorists. In 1999, the Clinton administration passed the Cuban Internal Opposition Assistance Act, providing extra money for 'dissidents'. The US state funds the Cuban American National Foundation, the European Coalition for Human Rights in Cuba, and the Cuban Dissidents Task Force. Of course, 'dissidents' is too polite a term for those who consciously act as paid agents of a hostile foreign power. In 1994, the State Department could find that there were only six alleged political prisoners in Cuba, somewhat fewer than in the USA. Senator Helms and his cronies allege that Cuba trafficks in drugs, yet the USA's own Drug Enforcement Agency, after repeated investigations, has reported that there is no evidence of Cuban involvement in drug smuggling, and that Cuba has been singularly cooperative in working with the US Coast Guard to prevent drug smuggling. The annual State Department reports on drugs control have never listed Cuba as a major drug transit country.
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