[Zzlist-deux] Some End-of-the-Year Thoughts

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 ● Congratulations to the Cuban patriots (the Cuban Five), the remaining
three of whom were finally released from US jails for the “crime” of making
the world a safer place from US imperialism (How extensive and racially and
economically selective must a prison system be before we can refer to the
installations as *concentration* *camps*?) All fair-minded people should
rejoice at the moving reunion of these internationalists with their
families and their countrymen and women!
 Before we are overwhelmed by adulation for President Obama's role in the
release of the remaining Cuban Five, a fawning process that has begun in
earnest, we should remind the adulators that it is bad form to praise
someone for doing what he or she should have done long before. Nothing has
really happened to precipitate a change in US-Cuban relations at this
moment except the passing of Obama's final national election cycle-- a fact
that suggests that Obama's welcome moves are more political expediency than
any serious change of heart. Those who sense faux-liberal stroking in
anticipation of the forthcoming election season are probably on solid
ground. The U-turn regarding policy towards Cuba demonstrated recently on
the editorial pages of the *New York Times *also point to a strategic shift
in the thinking of key elements of the US ruling class.
● *John Pilger*
<http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28011-war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda>,
by way of Michael Munk's always interesting blog, l*astmarx*, asks what
became of Malaysian flight MH17, which crashed in the Eastern Ukraine...*
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