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• Same Cuba, Same Policies: Why It Is Not Time To Lift The Travel Ban

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 765
  The U.S. Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing last week on lifting the ban on travel to Cuba, revealing the high discrepancy among congressional members over whether or not restricting Americans from traveling to Cuba will ultimately influence democratic change and enhance human rights under the Castro ...
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• Reel history | Thirteen Days: on the brink of nuclear war, Hollywood steps in

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  This partisan politico-drama focuses on the Cuban missile crisis, with only a cursory glance in the direction of Havana and Moscow. With Kevin Costner in the starring role, we wouldnt expect anything else Director: Roger Donaldson Entertainment grade: B+ History grade: A– The Cuban missile crisis of October ...
  1 day ago

• Fidel Castro Writes About Obama

  
  Willamette Reds — Authority: 132
  Obamas Trip: A Science Fiction Story Written by Fidel Castro Ruz Reflections by Comrade Fidel I very much regret to have to criticize Obama, knowing that there are in that country other could-be presidents worse than he. I am aware that that office in the United States is today a major headache. The best example of ...
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• Chávez pays a lightning visit to Raúl, Fidel

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Hugo Chávez made an unannounced trip to Havana on Tuesday to meet with Raúl and Fidel Castro, the Venezuelan president said Wednesday in Caracas during a ceremony for the visiting president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . “I made a lightning trip to Cuba and spent seven hours yesterday with Fidel going over ...
  2 days ago

• Response: Cuba does not deserve this criticism on human rights

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The real abuse taking place in Cuba is the crippling and inhumane American blockade Your article on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Cuba gives little context of the complexity of US-Cuba relations ( Hopes of new dawn dashed as Fidel Castros brother cracks down on dissent , 19 November). You report that ...
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• Welcome to the Inspection House

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 529
  Presidio prison on Isla de Juventud in Cuba has a Panopticon design, which allowed guards to observe without prisoners knowing it. Photo credit: Wikipedia Mind control prison. It was built from 1926 to 1931 and held 6,000 prisoners, Wikipedia says. Fidel Castro was jailed on the Isla de Juventud after ...
  2 days ago

• Cubas embargo must go | John Keenan

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Its time to end the counterproductive sanctions against Cuba, which have only served to strengthen its brutal regime This month Europe celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the iron curtain . Tribute was paid the role the US played in helping to speed the demise of totalitarian regimes. But just ...
  3 days ago

• Anti-Castro blogger hears from Obama before Fidel

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 486
  Havana pseudo-blogger Yoani Sánchez has the ear of President Obama, what a surprise. In the wake of not being able to travel to the US to receive an astroturf accolade from Columbia University, then a much ballyhooed – but uncorroborated – attempt by Cuban police to make her late for a rally, the “blogger” ...
  4 days ago

• The Domino Diaries

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 515
  "What is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?" asked a Cuban boxing champion when offered five million dollars to fight Muhammad Ali. Brin Friesen, at the Cuban National Boxing Championships, looks at why any Cuban who wishes to disagree can only do so in a whisper.
  4 days ago

• Sharp wits in Spanish Congress set for debate on mercenary blogger, Yoani Sánchez

  
  Machetera — Authority: 417
  Tejero Molina addresses the Spanish Congress, 1981 The U.S. Government and the World’s Great Media Empires Are Using “Mercenary Bloggers” in Their Offensive Against Cuba – Español By J.P. for La República Translation: Machetera The world’s great media empires have undertaken a merciless ...
  4 days ago

• Fidel Castro: The Bolivarian Revolution and Peace

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  By Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuba.cu , November 20, 2009 I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples leading to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and west end of our island. I ...
  4 days ago

• JFK and the Unspeakable

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 439
  The assassination of JFK. What really happened? Do the mainstream accounts reflect the whole story? In the mainstream, is there adequate analysis of the environment surrounding the death of JFK? The answer is no. Heres a compelling analysis by Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action co-founder James W. Douglass. ...
  4 days ago

• The eyes of the world must remain on Colombo

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 139
  Sydney University’s Jake Lynch, a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause , writes in his weekly column about Sri Lanka and the need to continue pressure over its appalling treatment of the Tamils: The news that the Government of Sri Lanka is to close the internment camps where thousands of Tamils were ...
  5 days ago

• Spanish daily urges EU to pressure Cuba

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  The influential Spanish newspaper El Pais – normally a left-of-center daily – has sided with hardliners who would like Spain and the European Union to pressure Raúl Castro into relaxing his control of society. Here are excerpts from an editorial it published Sunday, titled "Repression in Cuba ." "Fidel Castros ...
  5 days ago

• The Day That’s In It

  
  Politics — Authority: 513
  Listening to Sunday Miscellany this morning, I was reminded by contributor Kevin McAleer (the comedian, I take it) that this is the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on 22 November 1963.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_Zxup7esU&rel=0 (more…) Share This
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• Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. Chavez read aloud a letter to the 83-year-old former Cuban leader during a televised speech Saturday night, saying "Venezuela awaits you." Chavez proposed that Castro visit at ...
  6 days ago

• Peace & Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

  
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  I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples leading to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and west end of our island. I find no other way to explain the close relationship between ...
  6 days ago

• Couple Plead Guilty in 30-Year Espionage Conspiracy

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  A former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their roles in a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified U.S. national defense information to the Republic of Cuba. At a hearing before Judge Reggie B. Walton, defendant Walter Kendall Myers, 72, aka “Agent 202,” ...
  6 days ago

• NewsBusted: What Makes Sammy White?

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 800
  In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Republicans, Democrats, Jobless Americans, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Fidel Castro, President Obama Poster, Al Gore, Current TV, Sammy Sosa, Lamar Odom, and Khloe Kardashian.
  1 week ago

• Cuba: Raul’s a brutal despot too?! Duh…

  
  The iPINIONS Journal — Authority: 128
  This week, international news organizations reported the fact that Raul Castro is continuing the reign of terror his brother Fidel launched almost 50 years ago as if it were every bit as shocking as the fact that President Barack Obama is continuing many of the oppressive war-on-terror tactics his predecessor George ...
  1 week ago

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