we're in the heart of cuba and it's very hard to sum up this island. cuba feels frozen in time. of course, the old 1950's cars, and there are no billboards on the highways, except the ones that are propaganda. there are no restaurant chains. horses are everywhere. people use them to get around. but yet, even if it feels like we're in the 1960's sometimes, people get by. they help each other a lot. they manage even when it seems impossible. the isolation on this island isn't a geographical isolation. it's a political one, a social and ideological one. i think they're rewriting history as we speak. and with the opening of cuban-american relations, it'll be interesting to see what the future holds for cuba. (ernesto pardo) cuba is in the caribbean. it's the largest island in the caribbean and its neighbours are mexico to the east and the united states to the north. haiti is the closest country, only 77 kilometers away and jamaica is just south. (sophie fouron) ernesto pardo. economics professor and guide. proud of his country and optimistic about its future. this is his island. (er

and cuba.f the ventilators we started manufacturing is an open source that was put on the internet by m.i.t.. this is very generous. this happened all over the world. people started sharing solutions for the pandemic. i think that pandemic really brought out generosity in people, solidarity. that is a very interesting aspect. we took the design from m.i.t., adapted to cuban conditions, started building the ventilators. this is a good side of the coin. on the others, we could not by any of the parts in the u.s. and had to change part of the design and we had to go to sources far away and sometimes at much higher prices. this is incredible that in a moment the whole world was mobilizing to face this tremendous menace that was killing people around the world, the u.s. administration did not lift any of the more than 400 sanctions that were slapped on cuba during the trump administration. plus, this decades long embargo. it did not budge an inch. i think we were successful -- if you look at the rat

we have to ask mao and the place to do is cuba. i am profoundly grateful for the common sense society commitment to liberty. with invigorated commitment to the fight for freedom. i dedicate this award to all the cuban political prisoners. and especially to my father and to my friend who gave their life so that cubans could one day be free. may their actions been inspiration for all of us area you so much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen's, please welcome professor niall ferguson.

[no audio] in the place to do it is cuba.e common sense society commitment to liberty. i accept this courage award and recognition of the cuban people and the commitment to fight for freedom. i dedicate this award to all the cuban political prisoners. and especially to my father and to my friends who gave their lives so that cubans could one day be free. may their courage and actions be an inspiration for all of us. thank you so much. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [piano music] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [moonlight sonota 1] >> we live at the common sense society conference and gala. author and historian niall ferguson is expected shortly and later remarks from jordan pearson, author of 12 rules for life in antidote to chaos, and beyond order, 12 more accruals to life, this is part of our day long coverage of the common sense society, you can go to c-span.org to watch a earlier portions. ♪ [moonlight sonata 1 by beethoven] ♪ ♪ >> it has been some week on wall street, lots of economic news to talk about. who better than from the radio full disc

although cuba is a political apartheid, there is definitely racial discrimination happening in cuba.a cold, afro cubans get the flu and they die. there's one who was killed by the police. the two witnesses who saw him be killed by the police are now being charged with 20 years in prison simply for witnessing and telling the state they were unjust in killing this black man in cuba. yes, there is definitely political apartheid happening in cuba. black cubans are facing harsher punishments, even death. >> i want to bring up someone else's name. she's just released after being detained. she wrote a letter, put her name on it, describing torture while being detained. writing, quote, they torture us physically and psychologically. with tweezers they pull our nails out. is this happening 90 miles away from the coast of the united states? >> that is something that has been happening from july 11th and before, because that's something cuban political prisoners face on a daily basis. it's a scandal that it's not such a scandal as it should be. all the detainees of july 11th saying that they we

he pushing this idea that the diplomats in cuba had brain damage. if you can show me that they had brain damage, i'll resign my position and the department of psychological benson often university . this absolutely unequivocally, not the case. what happened was in 2019, the journal of the american medical association published the study, which looked at this small cohort of patients in cuba. and they found brain anomalies. brain anomalies are not the same as brain damage. it's very common in small groups. when you look at brain scans to find vine or novelties, and these anomalies were very minor and they have conflated anomalies with brain damage. it is not been found whatsoever that there was brain damage in the diploma action. cuba, but it keeps getting reported over and over again. you so diplomatically avoided my direct question about the manipulation of the narrative. i'm the, that's your ride, but i want to say, i can rephrase my question a little bit because i think the level of psychological flores ation in the united states is very high. an

other is more mass suggestion, because what happened is after the initial report of what happened in cuba, the state department issued an alert to its diplomats and intelligence officers around the world to be on the lookout for anomalous health incidents. and then the department of defense recently contacted all of its $2900000.00 service personnel in contractors to also be on the alert for anomalous health incidence. and those incidents of havana syndrome, as you mentioned before, things like difficulty concentrating, insomnia memory problems. they're so big as to be experienced by just about everyone who has ever lived in any given week. right. and so now people all over the world who are military personnel or intelligence officers or gentler match, working for the american government, are now on the lookout for these anomalous health incidents. and literally people are getting up in the morning and sneezing and attributing it to a van a syndrome because it's so bag. now, even if it's, even if it's the case of mass hysteria, i think it definitely is there to be dealt with. and people m

it is not been found whatsoever that there was brain damage in the diploma action. cuba, but it keeps getting reported over and over again. you, so i give the medicare for that. my direct question about the manipulation of the narrative. and that's your right but, and what do you think can refrain my question a little bit? because i think the level of psychological, our nation in the united states is very fine. this is what allows for such psychogenic infections to originate. and brad very rapidly, would you foresee another cases like that, for example, the queue or non conspiracy. do you think it stand by the similar psychic energy? do you think they may be out of cases when people will be easily led to believe that somebody is out there trying to frame them or cause them damage? yeah, look, it's very concerning what's going on with the american government in with the american media and how they have handled this case. and the situation is right for an incubation of further cases like this. you know, at some point you have to listen to science and the scientists, and that's not the c

for example, in 1091 in cuba with cuba was left with absolutely no other trading partners. michael, your secretary of st. anthony blinkin, has said that the u. s. and its partners will deploy diplomatic and economic tools to support the restoration of democracy and respect for human rights in nicaragua. so i want to ask you, i mean, what else? as far as by the us can be done at this point and what kind of pressure can be applied by the u. s. and by other countries to try to make a difference. well 1st let me say that i, i think that is very, very difficult, frankly. so this is a regime as your set of p showed that's quite intrenched. i agree with the analysis that you know, rely on forces as a pillar of take a support. i think i don't think he's popular, the polls the relying, the polls that i've seen shows that he has about 2025 percent of the nicaraguans who support him and, and then as well. and my daughter has about 1213 percent. mm hm. and the ties with people's republic of china and broken with taiwan. he does rely on russia. but the fact of the matter is that, you kn

cuba was not left with trading partners in 1991. host: antony blinken said the u.s. partners will deploy diplomatic and economic tools to restore democracy and respect for human rights in nicaragua. what else by the u.s. can be done at this point? what kind of pressure can be applied by the u.s. and other countries to make a difference? >> i think that is very difficult, frankly. this is a regime that is quite entrenched. i agree with the analysis that the armed forces is a pillar of ortega's support. i don't think he is popular. the polls i have seen joan he is -- seen shown he is 25% of nicaraguans that support him. he has cemented tied -- ties with the people's republic of china. he does rely on russia. the fact of the matter is the situation is deteriorating. 170,000 nicaraguans left in the last year, about 80,000 of those to the united states. that is unprecedented. people are fleeing the regime. it is a widespread sense of fear and terror. in that context, the tools available are not great. sanctions, i don't disagree with what has been said. it's unclear how e

and again, however, scarcity of product has turned cuba into an ever more unequal society. with some having access to hard currency and others who can no longer afford staples. now sneakers have become a sought after investment repairs selling for tens or even hundreds of thousands of torres combine that trend with the global move towards sustainability and what you get and you get to train is made entirely from recycled materials. as an idea, made a reality by 123 route indian entrepreneur bobbers doing what he likes to do best designing sneakers. but these are no ordinary trainers. they're made mainly from recycled plastic bags. it's a project that came about as part of his undergraduate degree. working on a lot of different design ideas and he's taking plastic bags with one of them because i recently heard about the band on plastic bags in india. but i found out that it's not living in force. i don't. so i taught that, you know, something nice, so we've done, we've gone, always rely on the government for our solutions. so bob, a contact to the waste disposal company near

in cuba. and this has dissipated so that the real outcome is the thing that we also need to investigate who is really benefiting from this in addition to also exploring what is the technology ok. robust phony will come back to that point in a 2nd. natasha if he may rober bartholomew in oakland. clearly you are a skeptic. but arguably the father of havana syndrome was a thing called the moscow signal. you cannot explained from your stones why back to back consecutive us ambassadors in the sixty's into the seventy's and moscow died of cancer. the man who got the job in 1976 was diagnosed very quickly with a severe blood disorder. and then he later died of leukemia, but 3 us ambassadors who worked in the same building in the same city in the same country. all died of a form of cancer while people die of cancer. but here's the, here's my point that i want to make. and that is that you can just address my question, please. so back to back 3 us ambassador as to moscow die of a form of cancer. statis

in cuba. they started experiencing neurological symptoms mimicking what happens after a concussion, but they had suffered no head injuries since then. dozens, more cases have been reported by u. s. officials and their families based around the world, including in russia and in china, a number of canadian diplomatic stuff in cuba were also effected. a ca team searching for a cause is focused on about $200.00 cases, which do remain unexplained in september the us president joe biden signed into law a bill to compensate the victims. the. okay, there we are. here we go. let's bring in our guests in auckland, new zealand. we have robert bartholomew honory, senior lecturer in the department of psychological medicine at the university of oakland. he is also the co author of havana syndrome, mass fica, genic, illness, and the real story behind the embassy ministry. and hysteria and cultures in essex . in the u. k. we have natasha lind, stats, ortho, and specialists on us foreign policy. she's social s

diplomats in cuba.hey started experiencing neurological symptoms, mimicking what happens after a concussion. but they had suffered no head injuries. since then, dozens more cases have been reported by u.s. officials and families around the world, including in russia and in china. a number of canadian diplomatic staff in cuba were also affected. a cia team searching for a cause is focused on about 200 cases, which do remain unexplained. in september, the u.s. president joe biden signed into law a bill to compensate the victims. ♪ ok, there we are. here we go. whispering in our guest. in auckland, new zealand, we have robert bartholomew, senior lecturer in the debarment of psychological medicine. he's also the co-owner of havana syndrome, mass psychogenic illness and the real story behind the embassy mystery and hysteria. we have natasha lynne start, specialist on u.s. foreign policy. she is a social science's deputy dean at the university of essex and in boston, massachusetts, we have glenn call, a caree

s. naval base in cuba stands for human rights abuses and torture mohammed to old slaw. he was held to your for 14 years suspected of involvement in the $911.00 attacks, but never charged for a cry. he was brutally tortured and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder until today, 34 nights ago i woke up and i was shaking so skill because i saw my, my jacket when the door and i thought it was someone coming to get in. and it took me a very long time. some time i wake up, i cannot breathe. defense counsel anthony natalie represents an alleged. okay, the terrorist who arrived here in 2006 and since then has been waiting for his trial. every thing that made this country one that we could say was a free country that had equal justice for all has abandon all of that. and that sat, it said, and i, i don't know how we're going to be able to recover what animal was built after the $911.00 attacks, as government aimed for a forceful and rapid response. in the war on terror, america and its allies invaded afghanistan, the u. s. naval base at guantanamo bay, served as a prison f

the book also looks at the parallels between the 1934 i came to cuba and the deaf attempt to q and the -- attempted coup and the generous sixth insurrection. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president biden said he would consider personal sanctions against russian president vladimir putin tuesday amid mounting tensions over ukraine. russia has ordered a series of military drills as the u.s. and nato build up their military presence in the region, and the u.s. announced plans to ensure adequate fuel supplies to europe in the event of a russian embargo. meanwhile, ukrainian leadership is warning against spreading panic, saying no decisive moves towards an incursion have been made. some 100,000 russian troops have been massed near the ukrainian border for weeks. biden addressed the escalating situation at a press event tuesday. pres. biden: will be enormous consequences if he were to go in and invade as he could the entire country or a lot less than that as well, for russia -- not only in terms of economi

s. military detention in cuba. ah . hi of steve clements and i have a question 20 years after opening the off the grid military prison in guantanamo. why is it still open and cam united states ever really shut it down? let's get to the bottom line. ah, it's considered one of america's most historic and problematic national security decisions, running a military prison outside the american legal system. but in the wake of the attacks of 911 u. s. forces were scooping up hundreds of prisoners in afghanistan with no idea whether they posed a threat or not, or what to do with them. the u. s. military describe the prisoners then at guantanamo bay, cuba as the worst of the worst. but guess what? soon it became obvious that the vast majority had nothing to do with $911.00 or at least couldn't be convicted. and hundreds of them were sent home to day. 39 prisoners remain in military detention with many just waiting for any country to take them. and the bigger question remains out there at the united states would resort to such t

my point being we have already heard russia alluded to it, but socko looked up at venezuela and cubaoped and i'm going to use that as a pressure point just like we did in 1963. that is the big concern americans should be thinking about right now. spending present pollutant of russia's station missiles in cuba and venezuela that certainly bring home this foreign policy crisis to american spirit charlie, let me ask you. present biden was elected he's america is back he says. he's going to restore trust in america and american alliances. what did you make of that performance this week and they clean up exercise white house had to do after words? >> i guess in his defense everything he said was incomprehensible. it's hard to pinpoint exactly what his policy is on all this. as a groundswell of american people sort of interest to the united states. there are people in washington who believe that or want to believe that. the way joe biden is handling this is a catastrophe. the only person who appreciated the confusion and idiocy of what joe biden did this week was vladimir putin. he realize

military began imprisoning muslim and guantanamo bay in cuba.after the headlines, we will spend the rest of the hour with three men who spent time at guantanamo -- two muslim prisoners and a muslim chaplain who himself ended up being imprisoned. authorities in the dominican republic have detained a key suspect in the july assassination of haitian president jovenel moÏse. the associated press reports rodolphe jaar was arrested friday with the assistance of the u.s. government and is being handled as a u.s. prisoner. jaar, who was born in haiti, have been hiding in haiti and was taken into custody as he was attentive to cross into the dominican republic. he was previously convicted of drug trafficking and is a former informant for the drug enforcement administration. this comes as new evidence has linked haitian prime minister ariel henry with a prime suspect in the moÏse murder. henry and joseph felix badio reportedly spoke both before and after moÏse's killing. badio is a former haitian justice ministry official wanted on suspicion of organizing

when there was a build up soviet ballistic missiles in cuba, and now was that described in the near a cataclysmic event that could have ended the world. why is it that we in the west or especially in washington, don't see. russia has a legitimate national security interest and not have a weapon build up on its border with the border with ukraine, where most of the russian population lives in striking distance in moscow. how is it that we can sit here in the united states? american diplomats can look at russia situation and not even understand that they have a legitimate national security interests when we're militarized around its border, especially caucasus right. in eastern europe, going right to russia's doorstep. for me, i haven't trouble seeing this as diploma. so we have tried and said that he's going to focus on diplomacy, diplomacy. first, we're not going to fight wars and regime change in. we're going to focus on diplomacy. how's this diplomacy when you, when you came in display the most basic people skills that they didn't, scott, either. brad brought up the cuban missile cr

s. canadian border, or let's say the mexican government did the same, or let's say cuba as happened in 1962. when the soviet union placed missiles in cuba and the united states took the world to the verge of thermo nuclear war, this would be unacceptable to the united states. so, the united states says on one hand, only nato can determine who will members who will be and only ukraine will determine who its allies will be. but the, the fact of the matter is the united states would never tolerate a major thermo nuclear power staging weapons on the u. s. canadian or us mexican border. they deny, though, to russia the same thing that they arrogant to themselves. and that's really the crux of the man on top of the insult vill scott, the president subs lensky. say we don't have a titanic here tonight. he's saying there's no more escalation than before. and there's no blaming the media for pumping up the rhetoric, particularly saying that it's not hurting the financial markets there in ukraine. is he changing touch? well, they're all changing cag because the, the fact of the matter is they wo

the objective is that in cuba, in any part of the island, people won't go out to protest again. the government says those detained were violating you when laws a locker. so i took it to marianella another. the cases we seen on television where police cars will overturn that, there was violence, they attacked our police officers with molotov cocktails, machetes, and stones. know, these require different type of handling. our instructions are to treat these behaviors with more severity because we can't allow it. cov 19 has deteriorated. the economic situation on the communist island, people have been struggling to obtain food and medicines. but the trials show speaking up is risky because it means protestors and their relatives could end up in jail, berries. i will, i'll just cedar the treason trial of the cambodian opposition leader cam soccer is resumed after 2 year delay proceedings began in 2020, but were postponed due to the current of our pandemic. so car was accused of conspiring with the u. s. to over through the government of incent, he was arrested in 2017 us as the case