[Sven Longshanks](https://gab.com/SvenLongshanks) starts a series of Narrations from Alabama Chief of Police Lackey’s memoirs. Lackey was the Chief of Police at Montgomery, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement riots and famously fingerprinted Rosa Parks. What he saw happening then, has now become ten times worse with the Black Lives Matter movement. Any archaic language used is faithful to the text and should not be seen as a pejorative. https://www.radioalbion.com/

[Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson](https://rusjournal.org/) separates the facts from the fiction about Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Castro was a monster created by corporate capital, the State Department and the New York Times. His movement was consistently subsidized by the US and even the Bay of Pigs was a deliberate attempt to buttress Castro and dispense with his opposition. Despite persistent myths about Castro's alleged Nationalism, he was a lifelong Marxist, raised, typically enough, as an entitled son of a wealthy landowner. His nemesis, Fulgencio Batista, was from the lower classes and was a military man. This is the typical pattern of Latin American politics. Under Batista, Cuba was well on its way to first world status. Labor kept almost 70 percent of the Gross Income, the same as the US and higher than Switzerland. Cuba was one of the most unionized countries in the world and Batista took a strongly pro-labor point of view. The economy grew tremendously under his rule. Cuba had the 14th lowest rate of infant mortality, but under Castro, that went to 40th, though this was based largely on forced abortions at the slightest sign of trouble. Had Batista hung on to power, Cuba would be the American South Korea today. https://www.radioalbion.com/