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By Saul Landau Last month’s Obama-McChrystal debacle dramatized how military thinking dominates U.S. policy. Obama axed one surging general and replaced him with General David “Surge”…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News Traveling to Cuba may soon become a reality for Americans. Yes, we have heard this before, but this time it seems it could actually happen.…
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A New York Times editorial President Obama’s first major speech on immigration had the eloquence and clarity we have come to expect when he engages a wrenching national debate. In…
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As reported by the Cuba Central team out of Washington, DC: The House Agriculture Committee voted 25-20 to report the "Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act" (H.R. 4645)…
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By Bill Press For commanders in the field, hidden away somewhere in the Pentagon's handbook of military strategy must be the warning: "In the middle of a war, don't waste your time…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com The U.S. Senate last week rejected a bill, the “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010,” that would have extended unemployment…
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By Saul Landau The U.S. government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Four years ago, when the government of Evo Morales re-nationalized its hydrocarbon industry, the Brazilian media was spoiling for a fight. After…
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By Bill Press For the last two months, commenting on the BP oil spill, pundits have been on steroids. The environmental and economic catastrophe in the Gulf has been variously…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com When voters go to the polls this November for Congressional elections, one thing will be foremost in their minds: the state of the economy. The…
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