Every year, for the past 30 years, the United Nations General Assembly of nearly 200 nations has voted overwhelmingly to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba, with usually two nations -- the United States and Israel -- voting to keep the economic punishment in place. (Only actions of the Security Council carry weight, and the U.S. holds a veto there.)
Click here to tell Congress to join the world on this. The biggest hurdle in recent years to ending U.S. cruelty toward Cuba has been the Havana Syndrome -- an illness that seems to exist only in the stories of the U.S. government. But that government announced, earlier this month, that its so-called "intelligence" agencies were no longer blaming any foreign governments for attacks with mysterious weapons. Instead, the U.S. government was finally admitting that numerous health conditions and anxieties had been lumped into an unhelpful new category. If there is an illness fit to be called the Havana Syndrome, perhaps it is whatever possesses Congress Members to go on punishing the Cuban people decade after decade for having overthrown a rightwing dictatorship friendly to U.S. corporate interests. Click here to help cure your Representative and Senators.
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