[lbo-talk] As Cuba loans doctors abroad, some patients object at home

[Michael Pugliese]

On 8/26/05, Cseniornyc at aol.com <Cseniornyc at aol.com> wrote:
>  
> Your Neo-lib article on Cuba says at some point : "Most people
> interviewed would speak only on condition that they not be identified
> or asked that just their first names be used, for fear of reprisals." 
> So Sujeet, there you are,  how can you trust an article written under these
> silly disingenuous caveats. If you believe in these provocateur , CIA
> promoted journalism you might as well believe in the tooth fairy. 
> Any mildly informed person on Cuba knows that they've been doing doctors
> exchanges since Angola's war against the CIA backed rebels in the 1980's. 
> The things these neo-cons would post to make fun of any thing socialist in
> this list!  I apologize , I think I have the wrong list. I though this was a
> letf-liberal list, but obviously it isn't. I don't mind dialoguing with the
> right wingers, but boy, they seem to be the overwhelming majority here. 
> Cristobal Senior 

   I'm sorry, can't stop laughing.

   Have you ever perused a real right-wing list or board? I've been
thrown off as a, "leftist disruptor, " three times on freerepublic and
used to have alot of fun debating militia movement loons on their
lists (I miss one, who died two yrs. ago who was a leftish
libertarian, Fitzhugh McRae, active in a New Hampshire militia, who
posted on a United for Peace and Justice list when they were getting
started, who had a great sig. line, "Statists - The Other White Meat")
A red-diaper baby friend of mine, when he isn't debating another
ex-Trotskyist mutual friend gone to the Right (but critical of the
neo-con, "Democratists."), spends a few hours a week debating
Rightists online.

   On Cuba, looking through a real red-meat Cuban exile Rightist
anti-Castro book at the DPL yesterday, "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite
Tyrant, " by Humberto Fontova, blurbed by my supposed friend Horowitz,
I saw allegation that Cuban Army used sarin nerve gas in Angola. 90%
of what I saw in that book looks like rubbish. However, books and
authors on the socialist left, about the Cuban Revolution, by Rene
Dumont, "Is Cuba Socialist?, " K.S. Karol, "Guerillas In Power, "
Susan Sontag, "Jeanette Habel, " The Revolution In Peril, " are banned
in Cuba.
Details on this can be found in, "Secret Report on the Cuban
Revolution, " by Carlos Montaner and, the collected essays on G.C.
Infante, whose parents were founders of the PSP (the CP) and an editor
in the 60's on one of the official Cuban arts reviews.

-- 
Michael Pugliese