Jimmy Dore (3:48)
Cuba, many on the island. I'm not going to show you any of the many. I'm not going to quote any of the many, and I'm not even going to tell you why this is happening in Cuba. This is kind of unbelievable. And that's the. The ridiculous corporate media propaganda doesn't mention why Cuba is suffering from the blackouts and shortages. It's because the US Regime has imposed an illegal, barbaric, medieval blockade on Cuba to starve it of fuel, food and medicine. That's called a siege warfare, and that's supposed to be illegal. That's a war crime. So that's what we're doing to a country that's not doing anything to us. The US Also threatening tariffs and sanctions on any countries that trade with Cuba. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are intentionally trying to cause a massive humanitarian catastrophe in Cuba to collapse the economy and the health sector, to kill as many Cuban civilians as possible and make their lives hell in order to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary anti imperialist government. This is a monstrous crime against humanity. The same thing we did in Iran, which they now brag about. Remember when they had the protests in Iran? Well, those protests were caused because we crashed their economy, we crashed their banks, they made them fail, we crashed their currency. We did that. The United States has that kind of power because we're the reserve currency of the world and we can sanction anybody who does business with Iran, just like we're doing to Cuba so we can create a living hell in their country where you can't get medicine, you can't get power, you can't get food, you can't get fuel, you can't get anything. That's what we're doing to Cuba. Trump moves to cut off all oil to Cuba as the US Takes aim at its government. Trump. President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on any country that delivers oil to Cuba appeared to be directed largely at Mexico, the only nation that has sent any meaningful fuel shipments to the island. Oh, no kidding. So sounds to me like he's inviting Russia to intervene. That's basically, I mean, or forcing them to drop site says so breaking. Cuba informs airlines that in 24 hours it will run out of fuel for airplanes. Cuba has warned international airlines that it will run out of fuel in 24 hours, citing intensified US energy pressures. According to an official aviation notice, the shortage affects all of Cuba's international airports from February 10 to March 11. With Jet A1 fuel unavailable nationwide, airlines may be forced to alter routes, add refueling stops abroad, or cut flights. The crisis threatens Cuba's already struggling tourism sector and follows new US Measures targeting countries that supply oil to the island after Washington cut off Venezuelan fuel export. So again, this is just us imposing misery on people instead of allowing people to decide how they want to live their life and have what kind of government they want. Cuba is struggle again. The terrorists are us. This is called terrorism. This is terrorizing people for a political end. So you're trying to inflict harm. You're doing violence. This is violence. This is economic violence. And you're doing that to inflict pain on regular people. That's the. So you can have a political end that you want an outcome. That's the definition of terrorism. Using violence for political ends. That's what the United States is the best, that we're the world's biggest terrorists. Cuba is struggling to keep lights on amid Trump's oil blockade just weeks into the US Pressure campaign to halt all oil shipments to the Caribbean island. A Bloomberg News analysis of satellite image finds the level of light at night has dropped by as much as 50%. This is the little island of Cuba that we're trying to wreck. Do not travel. This is Representative Maria Elvira Salazar. Do not travel to Cuba. There is no electricity, no food, no medicine, only blackouts, hunger, and repression. How about you tell your government to stop doing that? Many airlines are canceling flights to and from the island. If you go, you may not be able to return for weeks or longer. Don't risk your safety. A regime in its final hours is unpredictable and dangerous. No, what's dangerous is the United States economic hitmen that are doing this. Our friend Arnaud says Gaza will be remembered as the moment the world looked away. Cuba is the test of whether it learned anything from this. Both situations are terrifyingly similar. And there's little doubt that the United States actions on Cuba were enabled by the world's lack of concrete response on Gaza. Look, in both cases it's collective punishment, a siege that cuts off essential supplies for an entire people. They did that, you know, they starved the people in Gaza and then when they went to get food, they'd shoot them. In both cases, the perpetrator is actually aware of the consequences of their, of their actions. So Israel, his name is Yav Gallant, who is a reminder, is wanted in the Hague, said no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Here you have a sitting US Congresswoman saying no electricity, no food, no medicine, only blackout. The exact same language almost word for word. In both cases, the suffering of the people is cynically blamed on the victims, as if starving an entire people were justified. If you disapprove of their leaders here, Salazar, that representative blames the Cuban regime and in Gaza it was Hamas. In both cases, its decades old project. The Cuban embargo started in 1962 and the blockade and occupation of Palestine dates back to 1967. In both cases, it's done against the will of virtually the entire world. Israel is consistently the only country that votes with the United States at the UN to maintain the Cuba embargo. The United States was the only country that always vetoed ceasefire resolutions at the UN Security Council to shield Israel its mutual protection pact for the collective punishment of small besieged people. So it's always the civilians that suffer. And both cases, in both cases, we're witnessing a terrifying escalation in brutality compared with an already brutal past. Starvation and the engineering of humanitarian catastrophe on an empire as a method of warfare. The playbook is the same, the language is the same, the intent is the same. The only thing that can be different this time is the world's response. Otherwise, we're effectively confirming that the United States is has a license to genocide any nation that doesn't bend the knee. Here's a friend of the show, Ashvin Ratanzi. He says during the so called Cold War, the CIA planned to induce the failure of crops in Cuba. Did you know that in order to sabotage the economy for a regime change effort against Fidel Castro, the US has done everything possible to sabotage and destroy the Cuban economy. And then it blames Cuba's government for its economic problems since Cuba dared to resist and survive. Now the US basically starves Cuba of fuel, leaving Cubans to suffer in economic misery as basic public services such as schools and hospitals struggle to operate. The CIA sabotage of Cuba is the same approach taken to other Latin American countries such as Chile and Venezuela. Infiltrate the country, make the economy scream, create the ripe conditions for a CIA backed coup and, and execute the plan. This is the CIA's playbook for every nation that does not accept being a vassal state and tries to resist the exploitation of their economy through US Corporations. Oh, so this is about when they were trying to do that to Cuba. That's the official document that shows you they were doing that. And here's the Cuban President and here's what he's going to tell you. We're not the terrorists here. The United States are. Let's listen. So here, I'll read it to you. He says Cuba is not a terrorist state. Cuba is not a terrorist state. Cuba is not a threat to the security of the United States. Cuba has never done, nor has it ever done anything like this proposed, nor has it carried out any aggressive action that the, that endangers the territorial integrity, security or stability of the United States government. We do not protect terrorists. There are no military forces in Cuba from other nations or other groups. There are no military bases of other countries. In Cuba we have military cooperation and military cooperation agreements with friendly countries, with allies. But that in no way means that there are military bases in Cuba. In Cuba, as Logano said, there is a military base, an illegal military base. And whose is it? It's the illegal Americans base on the soil of the Cuban province of Guantanamo against the will of the Cuban people. Very well said. Here is the CIA agent going to tell you how they lied about Cuba and got the papers to print it? Let's watch.