The 1959 Cuban revolution was in direct response to the coup in 1952 launched by Fulgencio Batista which overthrew an emerging Cuban democracy and replacing it with his dictatorship. Young Fidel Castro first tried to oppose military coup by legal means Among those who opposed the coup was a young lawyer called Fidel Castro whoContinue reading “Why does the United States have it in for Cuba so badly and for so long?”
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Iran, US imperialism and New Zealand lapdog
When Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, was assassinated in the opening stages of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I did not mourn. Khamenei was not someone who deserved to be mourned notwithstanding my contempt for the increasing use of assassination by aggressor nations; in this case the United States and Israel. Ayatollah KhameneiContinue reading “Iran, US imperialism and New Zealand lapdog”
Imperialism, the Chagos Islands and the fight to return
I have just finished reading Tariq Ali’s excellent book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (Verso, London, 2021). Although with a chronological structure, it is thematic. It places the crimes of Churchill (these were many and horrific) in the context of the times in which they were situated. Tariq Ali’s book on Winston Churchill aContinue reading “Imperialism, the Chagos Islands and the fight to return”
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