The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal reacts to the Department of Justice’s indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro for shooting down a pair of planes from a CIA-backed network of Miami Cubans, Brothers to the Rescue, who deliberately and repeatedly violated Cuban airspace in 1996.
The children in the white shrouds are not abstractions. They are the cost of your comfort, and they have names you never learned because learning them would make the barbecue taste different.
This is not a chapter for people who want to feel good about Memorial Day Othough those people obviously need it the most). This is a chapter for people willing to feel what Memorial Day actually means — if it is to mean anything at all.
This is the betrayal at scale, and it is bipartisan to the bone. Read the succession of slaughter as the book lays it out: the manufactured Maine explosion that gave McKinley his war with Spain; the Gulf of Tonkin incident Johnson conjured to widen Vietnam; the Domino Theory the Dulles brothers sold to a credulous Congress to license interventions that had nothing to do with any communist threat and everything to do with corporate money; Eisenhower persuaded that a “bloodless” coup beat an honest war; Allende; the death squads of Guatemala and El Salvador the United States trained and armed; the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero; the Contras funded, when funds ran short, by the drug trade Rubicon personally watched move on military transport. Every administration is implicated. The Congress abdicates, decade after decade, and the abdication is the point: the architecture works only because the people’s representatives agreed to stop exercising the people’s power, and the people agreed not to notice.
The children in the white shrouds are not abstractions. They are the cost of your comfort, and they have names you never learned because learning them would make the barbecue taste different.
This is not a chapter for people who want to feel good about Memorial Day Othough those people obviously need it the most). This is a chapter for people willing to feel what Memorial Day actually means — if it is to mean anything at all.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/memorial-day-in-memoriam-remembering
This is the betrayal at scale, and it is bipartisan to the bone. Read the succession of slaughter as the book lays it out: the manufactured Maine explosion that gave McKinley his war with Spain; the Gulf of Tonkin incident Johnson conjured to widen Vietnam; the Domino Theory the Dulles brothers sold to a credulous Congress to license interventions that had nothing to do with any communist threat and everything to do with corporate money; Eisenhower persuaded that a “bloodless” coup beat an honest war; Allende; the death squads of Guatemala and El Salvador the United States trained and armed; the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero; the Contras funded, when funds ran short, by the drug trade Rubicon personally watched move on military transport. Every administration is implicated. The Congress abdicates, decade after decade, and the abdication is the point: the architecture works only because the people’s representatives agreed to stop exercising the people’s power, and the people agreed not to notice.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/the-legal-erasure-of-a-man