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Old 11-27-2016, 08:39 AM
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Fidel at 90: a Revolutionary Life

Though I'd inject a little reality to counter all the knee jerk demonization spawned by the lies of the US propaganda machine.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/...utionary-life/

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This August 13, Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution and international inspiration for people struggling for a better world, turned 90. His age alone is a remarkable achievement, considering more than 630 documented assassination attempts on his life by the CIA and other nefarious agencies.

Despite the enormous historical impact that Fidel Castro has had in Cuba and Latin America for more than 55 years, it is astounding that his voice has never been heard nor his words widely known by the people of the United States.

But Fidel’s legendary life of revolution is certainly noted elsewhere. All this year in Cuba, and around the world as his birthday approaches, there are countless activities to celebrate his life.

It is a shame that Fidel Castro’s life and his audacity in defeating a bloody dictatorship to then build so************************m, is hardly known by the American people. They would find a man of enormous courage and humanity who delivered his country from a neo-colonial status to a sovereign country with a major imprint on the world stage.
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Though I'd inject a little reality to counter all the knee jerk demonization spawned by the lies of the US propaganda machine.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/...utionary-life/

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Old 11-27-2016, 02:52 PM
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Fidel Castro in Context

Another excellent article on the real Fidel, not the Demonic caricature created by the US propaganda machine.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/20...castro-context
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Here's another article from a Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs journalist and author:

Fidel Castro, when he died Nov. 25, left behind him a nation that does not, in any public space, mourn or even acknowledge the 5,600 Cubans who died in front of Castro’s firing squads, or the 1,200 murdered in “extrajudicial assassinations,” or any of those who were jailed, tortured or died escaping his regime. No Cuban has been allowed to publish, in Cuba, a true history of his populist revolution, one that repressed and murdered the existing elite in order to put an even more vicious and more incompetent elite in its place. Because Cubans have limited Internet access, they can’t access the Cuba Archive, an online record of the Cubans murdered by the Castro regime, or any of the books and articles written about the country overseas. There is no hall of memory for the victims, as there is at Ground Zero, and their names are not carved into any stones.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...r-tragic-past/
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Here's another article from a Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs journalist and author:
A Pulitzer Prize?

Is that supposed to impress me?

Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize and he's currently bombing seven countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNIKQM6E4pk
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A Pulitzer Prize?

Is that supposed to impress me?
It's more impressive than the fly-by-night links you provided.
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It's more impressive than the fly-by-night links you provided.
What's impressive is the lengths that the US propaganda machine has gone to to Demonize Castro.
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