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Cuba policy: Fruitless, stupid, mean and cruel
By Saul Landau and Nelson P Valdés
In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials…
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Great patience required
By Peter Kornbluh
From The Nation Magazine
In early April of 1963, a New York lawyer named James Donovan traveled to Havana to negotiate the release of U.S. citizens being held in…
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Shame on the Senate
By Bill Press
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we…
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Indisputable torture
A New York Times editorial
A dozen years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an independent, nonpartisan panel's examination of the interrogation and detention programs…
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Immigration reform a bitter pill
By Max J. Castro
MIAMI - Has the time finally come for the U.S. Congress to deal seriously with the reality of eleven million undocumented immigrants in this country who live in…
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Why American business needs to follow Beyoncé to Cuba
By Chris Farrell
From Bloomberg Businessweek
Controversy and Cuba are synonymous in the U.S. The latest blow-up involves a U.S. Treasury-sanctioned educational excursion to Cuba…
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When will the media ask important questions?
By Saul Landau
I find it disturbing that the press corps doesn’t ask obvious questions of high U.S. officials; rather, journalists plead for small details after they accept…
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Sequester already causing real pain
By Bill Press
Regular readers of this column have heard me say it before, but I'll say it again: I'm often embarrassed by the questions my colleagues ask at White House briefings.…
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Sequestration nation II: The victims
By Max J. Castro
HAVANA - Austerity bites. And whether we are talking about the European road to ruin for tens of millions of people and entire countries such as Greece, Cyprus,…
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Danny Glover denied visit to Gerardo
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
OAKLAND, CA - Another incident of injustice against one of the Cuban 5 took place at the Victorville Penitentiary in the high…
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