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Dark times: Savage capitalism unleashed
Stories in The New York Times and Miami Herald paints a portrait of a thoroughly corporate-controlled society characterized by breathtaking inequality in which cruelty is standard…
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Russia OKs funds for restoration of Cuban Capitol dome
Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized a call for tenders worth 20 million rubles (355,000 dollars) for the gilding of the dome of the Capitol Building in Havana. The funds…
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Hoarding and other scenes from reality
Noontime, any day last week. A neighbor tells me that a small market near my home is selling toilet paper. Without thinking twice, I stop what I'm doing and embark on its search,…
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Curb your enthusiasm: Macron is beginning of new fight for France and Europe
Let’s not get carried away. It’s great that Marine Le Pen, whose National Front party with deep racist roots that go back to French collaborators during the Nazi occupation, was…
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The moral travesty of Trumpcare
Trumpcare isn’t a replacement of the Affordable Care Act. It’s a transfer from the sick and poor to the rich and healthy. The losers are some 24 million Americans who under the…
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How Trump’s genocidal hero Andrew Jackson might have “avoided the Civil War”
Donald Trump’s latest insane excursion into U.S. history has been to claim that his great hero, Andrew Jackson, might have prevented the Civil War. Given his racist, genocidal nature,…
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Vive la France!
In the presidential election in France this Sunday, by almost 2 to 1, voters emphatically rejected the politics of ultra-right, xenophobic nationalism. Emmanuel Macron, virtually…
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On Russia and Ros-Lehtinen’s retirement
While the U.S. and Cuba have real differences, what prevented us from restoring diplomatic relations before, and hampers our ability to build confidence and enjoy the fruits of a more…
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We need to move ahead
When we look at today's Cuba, so different from what we once wanted, we often experience an unwanted perception that the determinative reasons to slow down or stop the pace of the…
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With Ros-Lehtinen retiring, the anti-embargo side has reason to celebrate
The surprise announcement that Republican representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen would not run for re-election is welcome news for those who are looking for something positive in the…
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