Walter Lippmann

Short Comments and polemics on various topics
DENVER POST: Guest Commentary: Time for U.S. to end the Cuban embar
WSJ: Cuban Dissenters Find a Niche in Church April 6, 2012
NYT: In Spain, Women Enslaved by a Boom in Brothel Tourism - April 7, 2012
HUFF POST/Yoani Sanchez: Gaddafi's Lessons for Castro (10-25-2011)
MH: Cuban dissidents voice concern about hospitals as Pollán's daughter (10-25-2011

Wishful thinking about the collapse of the Cuban economy:
Wishful thinking. We've all experienced it and sometimes practiced it, haven't we? We love to see things as we wish they were, especially if our wishes are out of sync with the reality we confront every day. Those Cubans who left the island in 1959 and 1960, figuring that Washington would go down there and clean up the mess Castro was making, came to be bitterly disappointed. Few tears were shed in some circles when JFK was assassinated, right?

Predicting the failure of the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban government, and the Castro team has been an abiding pastime now for over half a century. It has still never proven to be true, though - of course - a stopped clock IS right twice a day. Some day it is possible - I wouldn't rule it out - that Fidel and Raul might possibly die. You never know about these things.

But working for a bureaucracy, one learns to give the boss what she or he wants to hear, and US diplomats who would tell their supervisors in Washington that things aren't monstrously bad in Castrolandia is a sure-fire way to avoid such unpleasant possibilities as being promoted.

The Cubans have many problems which are very profound. They can't blame all of their problems on US policy, either. Still, these reports give no indication of the role of US policy in limiting Cuba's economic and social development. But that role is a significant one, and cannot be discounted as some would like to do.

These elements are factors which should be kept in mind when reading the Wikileaks revelations. They are a true reflection of the mindset of their authors. Whether or not they truly reflect the reality which is being reported on is quite another matter.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/119449

HAVANA TIMES editor trashes Cuba
http://www.walterlippmann.com/wl-10-26-2009-havana-times-editor-trashes-cuba.html

FREEDOM SOCIALIST: Cuba's fate: balanced on a razor's edge
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/108113

Cuba's transportation problems and related issues
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/107696

Mumbai bombings of November 2008
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-November/040414.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-November/040434.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-November/040460.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-November/040464.html
Tariq Ali on Mumbai:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-November/040463.html

Why Cuba wants and needs normalization
Revolutionary Opposition To The Emphasis on Normalization (ROTTEN)
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-October/037663.html

Joaquin: "socialism means Big Brother state control of your life"
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-October/036716.html

Socialism requires an organized effort to bring it about:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swp_usa/message/7088

Perfectionism and the only permissible ways for socialism to be won.
Chavez and nationalization
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-October/037222.html

GOP campaign theme: "No-Bama, No Pasaran!"
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-October/date.html

South Africa after Mbeki's resignation, October 4, 2008
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-October/036943.html

What Cuba can show us about France:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035495.html

Bolivia today - A few thoughts - 09-22-2008
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/036053.html

Cuba policy as a domestic political issue in the United States:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035935.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035963.html

How to approach the Bolivian government of Evo Morales and MAS
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035922.html

Proyect, Cuba, Marxmail:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035694.html

Mike Davis
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035687.html

Left-wing gate-keepers - Intro note to Ken Livingstone interview
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-September/035201.html

NYT profile of Cuban punk rocker Gorki:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/91072
A gusano as drinking companion
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swp_usa/message/6769

Coulda-woulda-shouda
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/034433.html

Opposition to Cuba's accepting foreign investment
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/034419.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/034426.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/034357.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/034345.html

Should Colombia's revolutionary armed forces surrender their arms?
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/033908.html

Political parameters of the Marxmail list- is anti-Semitism OK?
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/033508.html

Chavez meets international Jewish leaders:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/033475.html

Should Cuban athletes be free to go anywhere?
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-August/033022.html

Obsessive opposition to Obama
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026097.html

Exile militant Congress members versus housing help for constituents
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026056.html

Speaking for Mumia at PDC rally in New York, March 26, 2008
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/026057.html

Tariq Ali leaving Cuba out of the Sixties
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/025676.html
Uri Avenary's TWO AMERICAS
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-March/025671.html

Obama's call for negotiations with Cuba - why complain?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/80664

Obama and McKinney, 2-21-2008
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-February/024176.html

Broadening discussion in and about Cuba:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/79611

Breaking the Zionist concensus:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/50910

Intro to Mumia on Obama:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/79130

Fidel Castro invites Pope Benedict XVI to visit Cuba
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2006w08/msg00084.htm

Housing problems in Cuba
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-January/023066.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-January/023062.html

Passing through Mexico City, January 2008
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-January/022744.html

Atheism and religion: Yoruba gods protect Fidel Castro: priest
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-January/022815.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-January/022823.html
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2008-January/022828.html

Hugo Chavez, THE MILITANT, and SOCIALIST ACTION:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swp_usa/message/4648

Petty bourgeois, as used in the SWP
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2007-September/017368.html

The problemmatic of party discipline
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2007-September/016953.html

Paper Chase: South Africa's Sun Targets New Class (WSJ)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laborpartypraxis/message/18412

South African CP Congress and what it signifies
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2007-August/016330.html

NORM DIXON wrote recently that:
"the ANC government, a harsh neo-liberal capitalist regime that is now
Washington's appointed major partner on the African continent."
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2007-August/016175.html

We the Arabs, the Holocaust, and Palestine
by Fawwaz Traboulsi December 18, 2006
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=67&ItemID=11665

Sylvia Weinstein - FIGHTBACK!
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2006-December/007359.html

Communists Link Up With Islamic Radicals (WSJ)
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2006-December/007428.html
More on the above:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2006-December/007435.html