Reviving the Old Cold War Racket Against Cuba

by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 23, 2026

President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are making me feel like I’m smack dab back in the middle of the old Cold War racket — the racket that succeeded in making the US national-security state and its ever-growing army of “defense” contractors a permanent feature of American life.

The State Department just issued a report that is straight out of the old Cold War playbook. It states that Cuba’s communist regime is behind the democratic socialist movements and radical leftist groups here in America . Reinforcing the report, Rubio delivered a talk last week at a big event hosted by the State Department in which he stated that Cuba’s “sprawling intelligence and ideological network helped to build the far left in our country and in our hemisphere.”

In other words, the Reds are coming to get us … again! Everyone needs to start looking under his bed for a Red … again! And Cuba, which is located only 90 miles away from American shores, is clearly the spearhead of the international communist conspiracy that is determined to take over America … again! Too bad Senator Joseph McCarthy is no longer here when we need him.

First question for Rubio: Is the international communist conspiracy still centered in Moscow or has it moved to Beijing?

Second question for Rubio: Is socialist-communist Cuba also responsible for Rubio’s fervent belief in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public (i.e., government) schooling, and other socialist programs here in the United States?

The Cold War racket was the best thing that ever happened to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, the three principal components of the US national-security state. By striking deep fear of the Reds within the American people after World War II, warfare statists succeeded in converting the federal government from our founding system of a limited-government republic to a national-security state, which is a totalitarian-like governmental structure — and they did it without even the semblance of a constitutional amendment.

That’s how Americans ended up living under omnipotent government — that is, government that wields the power to assassinate, torture, and incarcerate them for life without due process of law and trial by jury.

It’s also how Americans have come to live under forever war and never-ending crises.

It’s also how Americans live like little serfs under a massive, all-powerful, and very expensive military-intelligence establishment and its ever-growing army of voracious “defense” contractors.

The report also mentions Lee Harvey Oswald, the supposed assassin of President Kennedy who denied his guilt and contended that he had been set up as a “patsy” to take the fall for the assassination. Not surprisingly, however, the report fails to mention that several months before his assassination, Kennedy achieved a “breakthrough” that enabled him to see that the Cold War was nothing but a deadly and destructive racket that was bringing America perilously close to all-out nuclear war. That’s why JFK was determined to end the Cold War racket and, in the process, to use his words, “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

Needless to say, the report also fails to point out that that Kennedy’s resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which left Cuba permanently under communist control, his Peace Speech at American University, where he effectively announced an end of the Cold War racket, and his peace overtures to Cuba, which were occurring at the moment he was assassinated, were the principal reasons that the national-security establishment determined that JFK had become a grave threat to “national security” and, therefore, had to be eliminated.

What Rubio’s report also fails to mention is that it has always been the US government, specifically the national-security branch of the government, that has been the aggressor against Cuba, not the other way around.

Don’t forget the US government’s invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (as well as the lies that the CIA intentionally used against President Kennedy to garner his support for the invasion).

Don’t forget Operation Mongoose, which entailed violent acts of sabotage against Cuban economic enterprises.

Don’t forget the CIA’s assassination partnership with the Mafia, the world’s premier criminal organization, to murder Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a partnership that was later turned inward against Kennedy.

Don’t forget CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles’s bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed the members of Cuba’s fencing team. And don’t forget his bombing campaign against Cuban hotels that killed more innocent people. The CIA, of course, has long claimed that Posada no longer was working for the CIA when he committed those horrific acts of murder. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in the Arizona desert I’d like to sell to you. After all, why then did US officials protect Posada from being extradited to Venezuela to be tried and punished for his act of terrorism against the innocent Cubans in that airliner?

Moreover, let’s not forget the decades-old Cold War economic embargo, which targeted — and continues to target — the Cuban people with death by starvation and illness. Is there any difference between dying from a plane crash or a terrorist attack on a hotel and dying from starvation or illness from an economic embargo? In either case, isn’t the person still dead?

I’ll never forget what Cuban leader Che Guevara said when he was asked, soon after the Cuban revolution, what Cuba wanted from the United States. He replied: “Just leave us alone.”

But the US government has never been able to leave Cuba alone. The Pentagon-CIA-NSA quest for regime change in Cuba has been a decades-long obsession, one that clearly did not end with the end of the Cold War. US officials are still determined to oust Cuba’s communist regime and replace it with another brutal right-wing dictatorship, like that of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, or like that of Fulgencio Batista, the US-supported crooked and corrupt Cuban dictator who Castro ousted from power. It might be worth mentioning that Batista had a policy of kidnapping underaged Cuban girls and delivering them to his Mafia goons to serve as sexual perks for the well-heeled gamblers in the Mafia’s casinos in Havana. It might also be worth pointing out that Rubio’s parents did not leave Cuba after the communists took over, as he used to maintain, but instead left when the US puppet Batista was still in power.

The fact is that in the long, sordid relationship between Cuba and the United States, the US government has always been the aggressor and the terrorist. Unfortunately, that continues to be the case today, as demonstrated not only by the decades-long US economic embargo against the Cuban people but also now by a brutal and ruthless oil blockade designed to kill even more Cubans.

In fact, it’s rather obvious that Trump and Rubio are reviving the old Cold War racket about the Reds coming to get us in order to prepare the American people for another invasion of Cuba, assuming, of course, they can first extricate themselves from their illegal and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran.

https://www.fff.org/2026/07/21/reviving-the-old-cold-war-racket-against-cuba/

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