Note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 23, at 11 a.m. Eastern time, I will be on Ernie Hancock’s podcast “Declare Your Independence” to discuss the wrongful conviction of libertarian bitcoin advocate Ian Freeman. Click here to listen in LIVE. We will post a link to the podcast later.
Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues on Monday, October 28, with Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and professor of economics at Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business. 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register here.
Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference, which are being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. Both of them are fantastic JFK-assassination-related conferences. I highly recommend registering for both and then picking and choosing which sessions you would like to attend at both conferences. I will have some of my JFK books there to autograph and sell at a discounted price. I hope to see you there!
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U.S. interventionists are undoubtedly uncorking their champagne bottles and celebrating the nationwide power outage that has hit the Cuban people during the past week. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal,
Millions of Cubans have been without electricity for days… The collapse of Cuba’s aging power grid has paralyzed an already-crippled economy, with rolling outages affecting everything from running water to the operation of banks, ATMs or debit-card terminals, sparking severe shortages of cash and halting distribution of basic goods and services such as drinking water, residents say. Millions of Cuban households are seeing their food spoil because of a lack of refrigeration, and people can’t use air conditioning, fans or electric stoves on the tropical island. Cooking gas is also scarce.
Of course, the responses of the Cuban government and U.S. interventionists are the standard ones to which we have become accustomed. Cuba’s communist regime is blaming the outage on the decades-old brutal U.S. economic embargo, while U.S. interventionists are saying that the embargo has nothing to do with it and it’s all because of Cuba’s socialist economic system.
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But the fact is that both the embargo and socialism are to blame for Cuba’s economic woes. They both work together as an ever-tightening vise that squeezes the lifeblood out of the Cuban people, who have long suffered by being barely able to survive.
After all, if the embargo has nothing to do with the economic woes of the Cuban people, why have U.S. officials been so insistent on keeping it in existence? Just for show? That’s ludicrous. The fact is that the very purpose of the embargo is to inflict maximum economic harm on the Cuban people in the hope that they will revolt and replace the Cuban communist regime with a pro-U.S. regime, one that will, once again, do the bidding of the U.S. Empire.
Thus, with the power outage making life even worse for the Cuban people, the embargo is doing precisely what it is intended to do. The embargo, just like U.S. sanctions imposed on foreigners around the world, targets the people in foreign lands with economic suffering and even death as a way to bring about regime change.
One of the dark ironies of the embargo and economic sanctions is that by targeting foreign citizens with impoverishment and death, the U.S. government encourages those people to flee their homeland in a desperate attempt to survive. According to an article by the Associated Press, Cuba’s “deep economic crisis … has prompted the exodus of more than half a million Cubans to the U.S., with thousands more heading to Europe.”
Why is that ironic? Because U.S. interventionists are also big proponents of America’s socialist system of immigration controls and the immigration police state that comes with it. Thus, U.S. interventionists do their best to target Cubans and others, such as Venezuelans, with their embargoes and economic sanctions and then have a conniption fit when those who they are targeting escape their plight by coming to the United States and entering our country without official permission. The interventionists scream, “Deport these invaders back to their country of origin so that they can die from our embargo and sanctions! It’s their own fault for not ousting their ruler and replacing him with pro-U.S. puppet.”
It would be difficult to find a more morally repugnant and anti-Christian foreign policy and immigration policy than that of the U.S. government, policies whose “success” is measured by the deaths, misery, and suffering they bring to people, including those who are forcibly returned to their homelands after escaping their plight and reaching the United States.
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Note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 23, at 11 a.m. Eastern time, I will be on Ernie Hancock’s podcast “Declare Your Independence” to discuss the wrongful conviction of libertarian bitcoin advocate Ian Freeman. Click here to listen in LIVE. We will post a link to the podcast later.
Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues on Monday, October 28, with Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and professor of economics at Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business. 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register here.
Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference, which are being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. Both of them are fantastic JFK-assassination-related conferences. I highly recommend registering for both and then picking and choosing which sessions you would like to attend at both conferences. I will have some of my JFK books there to autograph and sell at a discounted price. I hope to see you there!