17. Dezember 2014 - DemocracyNow!
Exclusive Interview with Freed Cuban 5 Member
René González in Havana
As the United States opens talks with Cuba aimed at restoring full diplomatic relations and has released the remaining members of the Cuban Five, we feature a Democracy Now! exclusive interview with the first freed member of the group. In this October 2013 interview René González, speaks out after a 13-year imprisonment in the United States. Scroll down to read the complete transcript of the interview.
Today Cuba released Alan Gross, a subcontractor for U.S. Agency for International Development, after five years in prison, while the United States freed the three remaining members of the Cuban Five — Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labañino. See all of our coverage of the Cuban Five.
The five Cuban intelligence agents were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They say they were not spying on the United States, but rather trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba. In Cuba, the five are seen as national heroes. González was released in October 2011 and returned to Cuba in April. Joining us from Havana, González discusses why he came to the United States to spy on Cuban exiles, his arrest, and the four other members of the Cuban Five who remain in jail.
[ Video-Aufzeichnung (ca. 30 Min.) ]
[ U.S.-Aided Anti-Castro Militants, the Cuban 5 and the “Real Terrorists” ]
7. September 2014 - Sic Semper Tyrannis, Confused Ponderer:
Deliberate destabilisation, and
'do as I say, not as I do'
Russia has been accused to have intentionally destabilised the East of Ukraine by supporting and training separatist forces and allowing in Russian volunteers. I think that this is by and large accurate, but far from the repeatedly alleged but strangely elusive invasions.
The Russian idea must be to inflict as much pain on Ukraine as possible without a greater escalation to force it to the negotiation table and to force it to pursue a policy that meets Russia's security interests.
- Legality of outside military support for a faction in a civil war
- The case of Syria
- On Nicaragua and Ukraine
- Equivalence
- Being on the side of the angels, or
never having to say sorry
2. Dezember 2012 - OCCUPY.COM, Carl Gibson and Steve Horn:
Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist
Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
Serbia’s Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Milošević in 2000.
Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private intelligence firm Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S. government. Popovic’s wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.
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