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By John McAuliff The Havana Note The House Committee on International Affairs has announced a hearing on travel to Cuba will be held on November 18th. I took a look at the record of…
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After brokering Manuel Zelaya's return to power in Honduras, the U.S. must force the coup government to honor the agreement By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Last Friday an agreement…
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A date and a reflection By Luis Sexto With its early sunsets, November reminds us of the Russian Revolution, also known as the October Revolution because of the Julian calendar, which…
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By Bill Press Is it too much to ask for a little sanity in politics today? Apparently so. The Right has been particularly insane in the attacks they've leveled against President Obama.…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com It is a measure of the difficulty of the task that over the last few weeks, President Barack Obama has spent countless hours with his war council…
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Two versions of the freedom to dream By Enrique Ubieta Gómez From Cubarte I don't know how to begin these reflections. I have just seen the premiere of “Nevertheless, it moves…
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Ecuador and Bolivia are achieving remarkable growth because they reject conventional economic wisdom By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Among the conventional wisdom that we hear…
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By Manuel E. Yepe A CubaNews translation Journalist Mark Danner offers President Barack Obama very good advice in his new book, Stripping Bare the Body, and in an interview with…
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By Christina Lopez Some prominent immigrant rights organizations sincerely hoped that electing Obama would turn things around for immigrants. But those hopes were misplaced. Obama's…
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By Saul Landau “All we have to do is send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth saying ‘al-Qa'ida’ in order to make generals race there, and we cause…
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