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Engage Cuba: It would be a shame if President Trump rolls back Cuba policy
James Williams released a statement on behalf of Engage Cuba, an organization he presides that continues to work on behalf of a better U.S.-Cuba relationship, stating that a rollback of…
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Brazil’s enormously high interest rates cause serious, unnecessary damage to the economy
The Right in Brazil likes to complain about taxes, but they don’t seem to have any problem with the biggest and most economically destructive tax of all: the exorbitant interest rates…
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Comey’s comments and America’s lack of self-awareness
Former FBI head James Comey’s testimony before a Senate Intelligence Committee provides a fascinating, yet completely predictable, insight into America’s continued ability to sustain an…
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Debates lead to consensus
Radical processes of change in structure, such as revolutions, happen very rapidly and abruptly. It is why in the processes of radical change (revolutions) and reform, the basic element…
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Economic inequality & environmental destruction: Capitalism reverts to its normal state
Watching Trump as he rolls out policy after policy, one might conclude he has studied Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' closely and then done exactly the opposite…
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Wealth, property and other evils
For various reasons, Cuba has uncritically accepted the supposition that social justice and equality of opportunities require that state property be in the majority, leaving aside an…
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On the issue of the interests of the Cuban people
It is possible that the administrations in the U.S. and Cuba made a strategic mistake during the two-year window after the announcement of December 2014. Both parties assumed, with…
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Why would Donald Trump adopt Marco Rubio’s failed Cuba policy?
In an article written in January of this year before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, Professor LeoGrande argued logically for maintaining the U.S.'s current political course…
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Venezuela needs honest mediation, not OAS intervention
The OAS has no positive role to play in resolving the political crisis in Venezuela. By now it should be clear that the organization is currently an instrument of those who simply want…
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Out of control: Trump’s travels and troubles
On his first foreign trip, President Trump was a caricature of himself and his country: the Ugly American on steroids. He is not a deviation in the Republican long march to the right;…
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