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The homeless and public order
In today's Miami, the chairman of the City Commission, Marc Sarnoff, proposes jailing homeless people so they won't disturb "the public order." Local officials want to eliminate any…
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U.S. and Cuba, valuable meteorological partners
When a storm is approaching, “we call the National Prognostic Center or they call us, whoever gets to the phone first,” said Lixion Avila, of the U.S. government’s National Hurricane…
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Chomsky: U.S. conducts ‘the most awesome international terrorist campaign ever’
"U.S. policy is designed in a way to increase terror," said U.S. academician, philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky last weekend at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva.
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Weiner’s wiener
Anthony Weiner, who now is running for mayor of New York, continues to throw egg on his own face. Well, it’s not really his face that seems to get him in trouble.
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Defense industry $$$ assure that NSA phone spying will continue
House members who voted to continue the phone-call-metadata spy program raked in 122 percent more money from defense contractors than those who voted to dismantle it.
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U.S. takes reprisals against Venezuela; warns against asylum for Snowden
Progreso Weekly published a La Alborada editorial titled "What exactly did John Kerry say?" earlier this week. Here's the article cited and written for the Spanish daily ABC.
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A caricature of the Industriales dilemma
Cuba's Industriales, baseball players from here, there and everywhere playing ball in Miami. Even former major leaguers like 'El Duque' Hernandez and Rey Ordoñez were on board. But…
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Trayvon Martin and the right to lose faith
A thoughtful and balanced piece on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. The article was initially written for the Miami blog Let's Talk About It. And as Kateel emphasizes, "losing faith in a…
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Cuba and the sources of energy
Official projects now in the works seek to install, before 2020, eight new wind power farms that would generate 280 megawatts. That's an ambitious undertaking, inasmuch as at present…
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For Cuba, a harsh self-assessment
There was little to argue with this month when President Raúl Castro unleashed his fiercest and lengthiest public lecture to date on the demise of Cuban culture.
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