Amusing that De Niro tried to take the moral high ground re. Trump while literally at a fund raising event for the IDF - the delusions of liberalism haaretz.com/amp/world-news…
People expressing disappointment in De Niro - it’s probably better to assume that any Hollywood actor you like supports Israel/the IDF and then be pleasantly surprised if they don’t, rather than constantly disappointed when you find out they’re almost all awful.
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It is now well documented that throughout the Cold War, the CIA & allied agencies in other countries thoroughly infiltrated & funded the Left on a huge scale in order to push it away from communism and anti-imperialism. Anyone who thinks that effort has ever stopped is deluded.
On the contrary, it is evident that it is ongoing and the internet/social media has merely provided it with another rich terrain to infiltrate and influence.
The Western media’s ability to invent reality & talk over millions of people in any country the West wants to destroy is scary. Huge demonstrations that don’t fit the narrative are ignored, while comparatively tiny ones are magnified & handpicked voices portrayed as illustrative.
Even if pro-government demos are reported on, which is rare, they are then delegitimised by framing the participants as “hardcore loyalists” or implying they have been coerced into attending - both techniques implying that such manifestations of support can & should be dismissed.
And of course, these techniques are always accompanied by a campaign that attacks and slanders anyone outside of the country targeted if they offer their support to it and reject the imperialist narrative.
Contrary to this cheap propaganda from Amnesty, the Cuban government is in virtually constant dialogue with its population regarding its policies and actually incorporates its feedback and criticism into policy making in a way literally unimaginable in Western “democracies”.
So the idea it “does not listen” is just a lie. This is one of the key functions of Amnesty and HRW, to demonise and isolate official enemy states of the US through the rubric of ‘human rights’ and to lend imperialist propaganda campaigns ‘progressive’ credibility.
It’s function is very clear. For instance re. Venezuela:
The only ‘freedom’ the US Government and it’s reactionary, gusano supporters want for the people of Cuba is the freedom to starve.
Anyone in the West who makes public criticisms of the Cuban Government or disingenuously calls for “nuance” at this very moment – when there is a clearly a dangerous intensification in US subversion against it – is doing the work of imperialists.