Lindsey Graham believes that Cuba is next on the list. I suppose that could be a problem for the, ahem, US Socialist Workers Party...
A real conspiracy in the making? Did the CIA buy a secret Russian weapon, enhanced it and tested it on site in Cuba? You know, against the US embassy staff...
Paranormal aficionado debunks the latest instance of "The Hum". Damn, for a moment I thought the Old Gods were back! But naaah, it´s just the electrical grid in Connecticut crashing out...
Actual headline from CNN´s site just now: "Hurricane Melissa restrengthens to Category 4 as it targets Cuba". Of course, hurricanes don´t have consciousness and hence cannot target anyone.
Note the interesting discrepancy between describing a hurricane as a raging storm-god and claiming that cars just automatically drive into crowds with no conscious control whatsoever. Why are hurricanes ascribed agency, while cars are not (and their drivers and *their* agency are quietly forgotten)?
It´s almost as if some political agenda is being spun here. But what the heck do I know, I mean, it´s all just metaphors or bad headlines, right? Nothing to see here, move along...
The (US) Socialist Workers Party (not to be confused with its UK name-sake) is trying to be both pro-Israeli and anti-American/anti-Trump simultaneously. It isn´t working. Compare: the Hua-hugging Maoists of the late 1970´s. But thanks for the support, I guess...
Didn´t the Trumpista admin vote with Russia, Cuba and Venezuela against Ukraine in the UN General Assembly, while threatening military attacks on NATO allies? You eat it up, dude!
Strangest tweet from Donald Trump so far? Maybe this can be used as an argument for lifting the blockade on Cuba, I don´t know...
So I´ve been discussing the JFK assassination with ChatGPT all morning. Here are some interesting excerpts...
Yes — that scenario is entirely plausible and is one of the most compelling "middle ground" theories among serious researchers. It attempts to reconcile the evidence of Oswald’s lone actions with the murky behavior of intelligence agencies and underworld figures, without requiring a grand unified conspiracy to kill JFK. Let’s break it down:
Oswald had motive, means, and opportunity:
He was a disaffected Marxist.
He had previously attempted to kill General Edwin Walker, a right-wing figure.
He worked at the Texas School Book Depository and brought the rifle.
Ballistics, eyewitness, and forensic evidence support the conclusion that he fired the shots from the sixth floor.
✅ This part aligns with the Warren Commission's conclusion and is supported by a majority of mainstream historians.
Oswald was on the radar of both the CIA and the FBI well before 1963:
He defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and returned in 1962.
The CIA had a file on him.
The FBI was tracking him in Dallas in the weeks before the assassination.
After the assassination, both agencies acted defensively, possibly fearing exposure of:
Poor surveillance.
Miscommunication or missed warning signs.
Involvement in sensitive operations (e.g., anti-Castro efforts).
🔍 Result: The agencies may have suppressed or distorted evidence to protect their image — not because they orchestrated the assassination, but to cover their own failures.
Jack Ruby had documented ties to:
Dallas police (through his nightclub business),
Organized crime, including links to figures like Santos Trafficante and Sam Giancana,
Anti-Castro Cubans, with whom he shared right-wing sympathies.
Motive for Ruby’s actions in this scenario:
Oswald may have had contact with Cuban exiles, mob figures, or fringe political groups.
These groups may have feared exposure during a trial, even if they didn’t plan the assassination.
Ruby was encouraged or pressured to silence Oswald to keep investigations from “snowballing.”
💡 This view fits what Ruby himself hinted at late in life — that powerful people were involved and that the public would "never know the real truth."
| Component | Plausibility | Key Supporting Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Oswald acted alone | High | Ballistics, motive, prior violent behavior |
| FBI/CIA covered up incompetence | Very plausible | Documented suppression of info, hostile behavior toward later investigators |
| Ruby killed to protect others (not out of grief) | Plausible | Mob ties, inconsistencies in his story, lack of trial for Oswald |
This middle-ground theory:
Accounts for sloppy government behavior without alleging a full-blown conspiracy.
Explains Ruby’s suspicious actions without assuming a grand plot.
Recognizes that powerful people may have feared investigation, even if they weren’t directly involved.
It doesn’t solve every mystery — but it may be closer to historical reality than either extreme (lone gunman with no cover-up or elaborate conspiracy to kill JFK).
Would you like a diagram or breakdown of how each group (CIA, FBI, mob, Cubans) intersected with Oswald or Ruby?
Yes, a written diagram please.
CIA had a file on Oswald from his defection to the Soviet Union (1959–62).
Allegedly seen at the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City shortly before the assassination.
Some records were withheld even from the Warren Commission.
FBI was monitoring Oswald in Dallas.
Agent James Hosty visited Oswald’s wife Marina weeks before the assassination.
Oswald left a threatening note for Hosty, which was destroyed by the FBI after the assassination — a major controversy.
Oswald had pro-Castro leanings, but also interacted with anti-Castro groups in New Orleans (e.g., Carlos Bringuier incident).
Some researchers speculate he may have been used as a "false flag" patsy, or had knowledge of violent anti-Castro plots.
Mafia figures like Santos Trafficante and Johnny Roselli worked with the CIA on plots to kill Castro.
Mob was angry at Robert Kennedy’s crackdown and may have feared exposure if Oswald talked.
Ruby had known organized crime ties (e.g., Chicago mob).
Also linked to anti-Castro Cubans in Dallas.
Killing Oswald may have been a favor to protect someone — not a spontaneous act.
This model suggests no one group planned JFK’s assassination, but multiple groups:
Were watching Oswald,
Had reasons to be nervous after JFK's death,
And may have helped suppress, destroy, or distort the full story — especially once Oswald was silenced by Ruby.
Would you like a simplified version of this diagram with just the most essential links, or a timeline connecting the events across 1963?
Yes, several serious researchers and authors — many of whom reject both the Warren Commission’s “lone nut” narrative and the more elaborate conspiracy theories — have supported or entertained the “middle ground” scenario: that Oswald acted alone, but was known to or monitored by intelligence agencies, and that the cover-up or Ruby’s actions were linked to organized crime or fear of political fallout.
Here are some prominent names associated with this view:
Argues Oswald acted alone and that the evidence overwhelmingly supports that conclusion.
Posner also acknowledges that the FBI and CIA mishandled Oswald’s case and later covered up key information — but attributes this to bureaucratic incompetence, not complicity.
He’s skeptical of organized crime involvement but recognizes the complexity of Ruby’s ties.
Middle Ground Elements: Lone gunman + intelligence agency cover-up (not conspiracy).
Former New York Times reporter with deep access to declassified records.
Presents strong evidence that the CIA knew much more about Oswald than it admitted — especially his contacts in Mexico City.
Shenon suggests a possible cover-up by the CIA to hide intelligence failures or covert operations.
He entertains the idea that Oswald might have been manipulated or encouraged by foreign actors — but not that there was a coordinated U.S. plot.
Middle Ground Elements: Oswald may have acted alone, but CIA’s behavior implies deeper entanglements and concealment.
Initially believed in a Mafia-involved conspiracy based on the HSCA findings.
Later grew deeply critical of the CIA for withholding information from his investigation.
Open to the idea that Oswald acted alone but was connected in ways not fully understood to the underworld or intelligence networks.
Middle Ground Elements: Oswald as shooter, cover-up by CIA, Mafia and Cubans as possible secondary actors.
Suggests Oswald may have been a pawn or unwitting participant in a larger network of Cubans or intelligence assets.
Believes Ruby likely silenced Oswald to prevent further exposure of criminal-political ties — not necessarily as part of a coordinated conspiracy to kill JFK.
Middle Ground Elements: Oswald the trigger man, others afraid of what he might say.
A leading critic of the CIA’s role in obscuring the Oswald story.
Focuses on CIA officer George Joannides, who oversaw anti-Castro Cubans Oswald had contact with in New Orleans.
Morley does not claim a full-blown conspiracy but argues the CIA had deep pre-assassination knowledge of Oswald and engaged in post-assassination cover-up.
Middle Ground Elements: Possible connections between Oswald, CIA, and anti-Castro networks; no definitive conclusion on conspiracy.
Maintains that Oswald acted alone.
Believes the CIA and FBI’s failures, especially in Mexico City, caused them to panic and obstruct inquiries.
He argues that conspiracy theories emerged largely due to ineptitude, secrecy, and institutional defensiveness.
Middle Ground Elements: Lone gunman + institutional cover-up, not conspiracy.
| Researcher | Oswald Alone | CIA/FBI Cover-up | Organized Crime Role | Anti-Castro Cuban Angle | Conspiracy? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerald Posner | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ Possibly minor | ❌ Minimal | ❌ No |
| Philip Shenon | ✅/❓ | ✅✅ | ❌ | ✅ Possible | ❓ Possible cover-up |
| G. Robert Blakey | ❓ | ✅ | ✅ Strongly suspects | ✅ | ✅ Likely |
| Anthony Summers | ❓ | ✅ | ✅ Possibly | ✅ | ✅ Maybe |
| Jefferson Morley | ❓ | ✅✅ | ❌ | ✅ Strong link | ❓ Open |
| Max Holland | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ No |
If you'd like, I can recommend the most readable book or documentary for each researcher’s perspective — or map the evolution of these views over time as more files were declassified.
Michael Tracey (again!) attacks Robert F Kennedy Jr, his father and his uncle in this anti-Camelot extravaganza.
It´s actually quite interesting, whether or not you agree with its conclusions. Also explains the curious shenanigans concerning RFK Jr´s domicile in New York State. And yes, it mentions the peculiar Natural Law Party!
A gadfly like Tracey could have been expected to *support* RFK Jr, which makes the essay doubly interesting.
En kulturartikel i Aftonbladet som hävdar att Venezuelas kontroversielle president Nicolas Maduro har kontakter med evangelikala kristna. Tidigare var han anhängare av Sai Baba?! Han har även gått på kubansk kaderskola och varit maoist.
Gud stavas förresten med stor begynnelsebokstav. Fixed it for you.
En mycket bisarr sekt i USA och Latinamerika. Något slags framgångsteologi, fast med väldigt egenartade och delvis självdestruktiva drag.
I know it´s pointless to teach Breitbart News basick geopolitix, but imagine their headlines if the "migrant factions" had been Venezuelans or Cubans...
Something tells me Breitbart would go full Cold War and embrace the anti-Communist faction! But perhaps Eritrea, dubbed "the North Korea of Africa", isn´t too Commie for these guys? LOL.
The article below is written in a kind of Cold War style, but it´s still interesting to read. Apparently, South Korea has established diplomatic ties with Cuba, a long standing ally of North Korea.
The article interprets the recent North Korean declaration that unity with the south is impossible as a backhanded way to recognize South Korea. An interesting take, to be sure.
I assume that this recent move by Pyongyang made it possible for Cuba to have diplomatic relations with both Korean states. What the article doesn´t explain are the long term ramifications of the North Korean and Cuban turns. Or the South Korean one, for that matter.
"Conservative" South Korea establishes diplomatic ties with Cuba
Are the Why Files actually anti-establishment? Some scary facts/speculations about United States bio-weapons research, ditto terrorism, weaponized tics (!), and - above all - really bad security.
But COVID isn´t an escapee from a US-financed bio-lab in China, naaah...
Makes me wonder whether the Montauk Monster and similar mutants were just decoys to distract us from the real story!
The U.S. Socialist Workers Party has moved very far "to the right" in recent years. They support Ukraine against Russia, defend Israel (including the US-brokered Israel-Arab peace agreements), oppose the "witchhunt" of Donald Trump and his supporters, and even seem to defend the Electoral College and the Senate! They have also come out in support of nuclear power, and in one of the articles linked below defend a private business against "woke" "anti-racist" protesters.
The SWP are not necessarily wrong, but it *is* astonishing to see this hard Communist group (they still support Cuba!) take positions such as these. Some kind of ultra-popular frontism? One sure wonders how far they are willing to go. About seven years ago or so, a SWP supporter was shadowing me on Amazon´s American site, accusing me of being a nefarious Zionist when I supported the right of Israel to exist. Today, SWP seems to have adopted my old position (after a fashion)...
Some highlights from the articles:
>>>The liberals’ anti-working class angst leads them to target any part of the Constitution that provides an avenue for workers to put their stamp on politics, however indirectly. This is what is behind their hysterical campaign to get rid of the Electoral College and change the number of senators allocated to each state to be proportionate to the population.>>>
>>>Another Hamas leader, Saleh Al-Arouri, called the attacks a response to the March 28 summit of top government officials from Israel, the U.S, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, held in the Negev desert, the first such meeting on Israeli soil. It was a direct outgrowth of agreements made in 2020 between the Israeli government and four Arab governments that ended decades of treating Israel as a pariah state. Advanced by the Donald Trump administration, the pacts were tied to building a common front against the expanding military influence of the regime in Iran, which opposes Sunni Arab governments and calls for the destruction of Israel. The pacts led to greater trade and other relations. They also opened the door to more travel and contact between Israeli and Arab workers, which can advance their unity and solidarity in defending working-class interests against attacks by bosses and their governments.>>>
>>>In a relatively rare statement, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the terror attacks, saying, “The killing of Israeli and Palestinian civilians will only lead to a deterioration of the situation ahead of Ramadan.” But if Abbas wanted to help put an end to these deadly assaults he could end the so-called Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund, which makes monthly payments totaling millions of dollars to the families of residents of the West Bank who die in the course of carrying out exactly such killings.>>>
Islamist groups launch terror attacks against Jews in Israel
Amid scramble for oil, fight for nuclear power is the road to electrification
Defend independence of Ukraine! For defeat of Moscow´s invasion!
Capitalists attack political rights workers need
Court ruling for the Gibsons is a victory for working people
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| Jim´s and Norden´s nemesis, Nahuel Moreno |
Can´t help linking to this hilarious polemic against "the Morenoites" (a mostly Latin American Trotskyist tendency), written by the so-called Internationalist Group, a kind of neo-Spartacist League (sans Jim and Nina). The IG, true to form, claims to be the only *true* Trotskyists, and blah-blah-blah. Believe it or not, but I actually heard about "the 1990 miners´ conference in Kuznetsk" before, and can confirm that the Morenistas were indeed present there. One thing not mentioned by the neos is the statement "Solidarity with the Croatian People" in which the ultra-Morenoite CIR calls on Basque and Corsican nationalists to aid Croatia against the Serbs, but OK, I´m digressing...
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| Credit: David Stanley |
Är det här sant? Jag tänker på det han skriver om MPLA och UNITA. Bland annat...
"Che Guevara" is a book in Swedish by Dick Harrison, a professor of history. The title is self-explanatory. Yes, it´s a relatively short biography (about 200 pages in paperback format) of the Cuban revolutionary (who was originally from Argentina).
For obvious reasons, it´s impossible to avoid politics when writing about Ernesto Guevara, but Harrison has tried to make the book as much as possible about Che the man, rather than Che the Guevarista. Harrison does manage to paint a compelling portrait of the Argentine radical, and follows Che from his childhood home in Argentina through Guatemala, Mexico and Cuba to the Congo, and the eventual defeat in Bolivia. Che comes across as an idealistic socialist of deep convictions, but also as a hard guerilla fighter, a brutal revolutionary, an impatient adventurist, and above all as a man who constantly pushed himself to the limits. I was surprised to learn that Che Guevara suffered heavily from asthma! He was also a womanizer of some standing. Another surprise was his intellectual side. He could probably have become a university teacher in another life.
Che Guevara´s revolutionary career is too well known to be recounted here, yet there are still unresolved mysteries around him. Harrison retells the unconfirmed story that Guevara met former Argentine president Juan Perón in the latter´s Spanish exile. Perón supposedly warned him not to foment socialist revolutions in Latin America, since this was simply impossible! A strange tale *not* discussed in the book is Che´s supposed relations with the kook-Trotskyist "Posadistas" in Cuba. Harrison believes that it was Régis Debray rather than Ciro Bustos who revealed that Che was in Bolivia when Debray and Bustos had been captured and were interrogated by the Bolivian military. (Bustos subsequently moved to Sweden. I don´t know if the author ever met him.)
Inevitably, "Che Guevara" also discusses the virtual cult of Che after his death by execution in Bolivia. One aspect I wasn´t aware of is that Che is literally worshipped as a saint by the peasants in the area where he was captured and killed. They call him San Ernesto de la Higuera and compare him to both Jesus and John the Baptist. San Ernesto is said to work miracles, and sometimes walks the mountain paths as an ordinary mortal. There are bizarre similarities between the famous or infamous picture of a dead Che in Vallegrande and old paintings of the dead Christ taken down from the cross. There is also a legend that could perhaps be called "the curse of Che", which claims (or points out) that many of the people responsible for his death met violent ends.
It seems revolutionaries aren´t normal people, after all...
If Swedish is your first language, perhaps recommended.
