Category: United States

VIPS MEMO: Avoiding Catastrophic Failure in Cuba

WARNING TO THE PRESIDENT: U.S.-driven “regime collapse” and imposition of a government of our choosing will fail badly. The same people who keep ’57 Chevrolets on the road with a coat hanger will wreak havoc against a foreign-imposed regime.

WATCH: Target Cuba

Ray McGovern discusses the immediate threat to Cuba in the context of the history of U.S. hostility to the Caribbean island stretching back to his earliest days at the C.I.A. in 1963, just months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Russian-Chinese Communiqué

After their summit in Beijing on Wednesday, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new era of international relations.