The Real Reason U.S. Wants To Crush Cuba! w/ Christian Parenti
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore
4.4 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this interview segment, investigative journalist Christian Parenti tells Jimmy that modern U.S. policy toward Cuba is driven less by opposition to socialism and more by Cuba's continued sovereignty and symbolic resistance to American influence, despite decades of economic liberalization. He discusses how Cuba has increasingly embraced private enterprise while U.S. sanctions and embargoes continue to intensify, limiting investment and contributing to severe economic hardship.
The conversation also explores Cuba's historical conflicts with the CIA, including intelligence operations, the Bay of Pigs, and Cold War-era tensions, as factors shaping current U.S. policy. The interview concludes with a discussion of whether normalized relations are possible, the risks of escalating conflict, and broader questions about U.S. foreign policy and intelligence operations.
Plus segments on Tucker Carlson going HAM on the COVID vaccine and actress Mayim Bialik's crashout after seeing a pro-Palestinian t-shirt.
Also featuring Kurt Metzger and Stef Zamorano!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, come see me on tour. |
| 0:04.5 | We'll be in Burbank, California, August 30th of the live celebrity panel show. |
| 0:09.0 | And then September 18th through the 20th in Chicago, Illinois and Rosemont, Illinois. |
| 0:13.2 | Go to Jimmy Doer.com for a link for ticket. |
| 0:17.6 | Establishment media sucks. |
| 0:19.7 | August light and so good luck. Bullshit we can't afford why he's fomenting this |
| 0:24.3 | watch and see as a jack-off the medium speeds and jumps the medium and hits them head on. |
| 0:32.5 | It's the Chimmy Tor Show. |
| 0:36.1 | We got a special guest with us. Christian parentes here with us he's an investigative |
| 0:40.8 | journalist academic and the author of several books including lockdown america police and |
| 0:46.1 | prisons in the age of crisis and radical hamilton economic lessons from a misunderstood founder |
| 0:51.8 | he's reported from various locations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, and China. |
| 0:57.2 | His work has been featured in an HBO documentary titled Fixer, the taking of Ajal. |
| 1:02.2 | Oh, I can't pay that name. |
| 1:03.6 | Ajmal Nachbandi. |
| 1:05.1 | Nice. |
| 1:05.9 | Currently, he is a professor of economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. |
| 1:11.3 | Welcome back to the show, Christian Parenti. |
| 1:13.5 | Hello, Christian. |
| 1:14.0 | How are you? |
| 1:14.9 | Hello, Jimmy. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm well. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 10 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jimmy Dore, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jimmy Dore and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.