Cuba

Raul Castro and the New Cuban Economy

Submitted by Basil Wilson on Mon, 06/01/2015 - 09:14

Fidel Castro has returned metaphorically to his barracks. Raul Castro has had the courage to forge a new course.

U.S. State Department removes Cuba from state-sponsored terrorism list

Submitted by Staff on Fri, 05/29/2015 - 13:07

US President Barak Obama's visit to Jamaica

Submitted by Staff on Fri, 04/10/2015 - 02:04

Cuban Medics Fighting Ebola Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 02/11/2015 - 12:57

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Visits Cuba

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 02/11/2015 - 12:26

U.S. eases restrictions for travel to Cuba

Submitted by Staff on Sat, 01/17/2015 - 13:39

In abandoning its anachronistic policies, the US must recognize Cuba's importance to the African Diaspora

Submitted by Basil Wilson on Fri, 01/02/2015 - 13:45

Cuba is a sovereign nation. It is not a colony of America. Cubans have the right to determine their own destiny without external interference.

Raul Castro's speech on normalizing diplomatic relations with the US

Submitted by Staff on Fri, 12/19/2014 - 09:46

US and Cuba normalizing relations

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 12:04

New York Times condemns US policy encouraging Cuban doctors to defect

Submitted by Staff on Mon, 11/17/2014 - 12:17

Erdogan wants to build mosque in Cuba to mark Muslim discovery of Americas

Submitted by Staff on Sat, 11/15/2014 - 16:04

Cuba’s Unwavering Defence of Africa

Submitted by Staff on Mon, 11/10/2014 - 08:08

The main lesson I learnt from visiting Cuba

Submitted by Dennis Chung on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 18:21

It was the fact that there exists a well-ordered and disciplined society, and that the people seemed to take a lot of pride in what they do and strive for perfection.

Cuba to build its first church in 55 years

Submitted by Staff on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 09:52

WHO director Margaret Chan thanks Cuba and ALBA for anti Ebola efforts

Submitted by Staff on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:54

Jamaica will seek help from Cuba to fight Ebola threat

Submitted by Staff on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:36

New York Times editorial applauds Cuba's impressive role on Ebola

Submitted by Staff on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 00:16

Washington Post lauds Cuba's leadership role in fighting Ebola

Submitted by Staff on Fri, 10/17/2014 - 10:31

Cubans arrive in Liberia to fight Ebola

Cuba Has the Best Education System in Latin America and the Caribbean

Submitted by Staff on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 01:45

Cuba sends 63 doctors and 102 nurses to West Africa to fight Ebola

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 08:25

"Solidarity is not to give what is left over but to provide what others need."

Henry A. Kissinger planned to attack Cuba

Submitted by Staff on Tue, 09/30/2014 - 00:22

Back to the future: Cuba to Develop Golf Courses to encourage Tourism

Submitted by Staff on Thu, 09/11/2014 - 08:13

Google's Eric Schmidt allegedly visits Cuba to advocate for open internet

Submitted by Staff on Sun, 06/29/2014 - 23:27

Haiti opens third community hospital, with Cuba and Brazil support

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 06/18/2014 - 19:31

Cuba may have found a cure for cancer

Submitted by Staff on Mon, 03/24/2014 - 10:34

Cuba — A growing threat to the Caribbean?

Submitted by Staff on Thu, 03/13/2014 - 13:53

By Anton E. Edmunds

Interactive map of Caribbean showing population and languages

Submitted by Staff on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 01:53

Detente between Cuba and the US?

Submitted by Staff on Sat, 01/11/2014 - 00:04

Rita Marley honored by Ghana

Submitted by Staff on Sat, 08/03/2013 - 11:12

Virgin Islander and 5-time boxing champ Emile Griffith dies

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 07/24/2013 - 12:31

Emile Griffith and Benny Peret

Mos Def video about force feeding at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba goes viral

Submitted by Staff on Thu, 07/11/2013 - 14:21

Mos Def

Actor and Rapper Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

Cuba removes former foreign minister Ricardo Alarcon and several senior communist party leaders

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 14:59

President Hugo Chavez Dies: Caribbean Nations Have Lost A Great Friend

Submitted by Staff on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 20:48

Cuba Strengthens Regional Ties Through CELAC

Submitted by Staff on Sat, 02/09/2013 - 09:24

Guyana Rejects US Calls To Lobby Cuba On Human Rights and Democracy

Submitted by Staff on Sun, 02/03/2013 - 19:36

Cuban Dissident, Eloy Gutiérrez-Menoyo, Dies at 77

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 02:35

Eloy Gutiérrez-Menoyo, who went from fighting beside Fidel Castro as a rebel commander to spending 22 years in prison for trying to topple him, died on Friday in Havana, where he had lived his last years as a tolerated dissident. He was 77.

Cuba ends travel exit permit policy

Submitted by Staff on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 10:10

Cuba and Haiti eye continued cooperation

Submitted by Staff on Sat, 10/13/2012 - 23:46

According to official statistics, since Cuba started medical cooperation with Haiti in 1998 and up to late July 2012, nearly 19.2 million patients were assisted, including six million persons who were treated in their own homes.

Chavez win a sigh of relief for Cuba

Submitted by Staff on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 14:45

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s reelection was welcome news on the streets and in the halls of power of Cuba, which relies on the South American nation for a big chunk of its economy through trade and preferential oil shipments.

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The Saker Interviews Paul Craig Roberts about Russia, the Deep State and the Global Economy

In a wide ranging interview Paul Craig Roberts, American economist and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, says: "The US is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that History has chosen the US as the “exceptional and indispensable” country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world."

Noam Chomsky on the Roots of American Racism

We also cannot allow ourselves to forget that the hideous slave labor camps of the new “empire of liberty” were a primary source for the wealth and privilege of American society, as well as England and the continent. The industrial revolution was based on cotton, produced primarily in the slave labor camps of the United States.

Slavery’s Enduring Resonance By Edward Ball

In place of the rural incarceration of four million black people, we have the mass incarceration of one million black men. In place of laws that prohibited black literacy throughout the South, we have campaigns by Tea Party and anti-tax fanatics to defund public schools within certain ZIP codes. And we have stop-and-search policing, and frequently much worse, in place of the slave patrols.

Iran squashes IS, US scrambles for cover by M K Bhadrakumar

Tehran alleges, on the other hand, that the US is actually dissimulating when it claims it is fighting the IS, and that in reality Washington has a nuanced approach that anticipates a future role for the IS as an instrument in its regional strategies. The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian literally ridiculed the US claims of fighting the IS, when he alleged in a speech in Tehran on Monday, “The US has created the anti-ISIL coalition with the participation of 60 countries, but the coalition’s main practical measure is confined to controlling and administering the ISIL.”

Malcolm X Was Right About America by Chris Hedges

“We’re anti-evil, anti-oppression, anti-lynching,” Malcolm said. “You can’t be anti- those things unless you’re also anti- the oppressor and the lyncher. You can’t be anti-slavery and pro-slavemaster; you can’t be anti-crime and pro-criminal. In fact, Mr. Muhammad teaches that if the present generation of whites would study their own race in the light of true history, they would be anti-white themselves.”

“If you are an American citizen,” Baldwin remembered Malcolm asking the young man, “why have you got to fight for your rights as a citizen? To be a citizen means that you have the rights of a citizen. If you haven’t got the rights of a citizen, then you’re not a citizen.”

“The price of freedom,” Malcolm said shortly before he was killed, “is death.”

Haiti: Time for Bill Clinton and Co to Pack and Go by Dady Chery

Clinton saw in the earthquake of 2010 his opportunity to become the new US High Commissioner of Haiti....Within four months of the earthquake, he formed the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (CIRH): a strictly pay-to-play group of officials/rich businessmen from the MINUSTAH countries and others who agreed to contribute armed personnel from their countries or money (at least $100 million in a two-year period, or erasure of over $200 million in debt) in return for a piece of the action in Haiti.

Bilderberg vs. Putin by Joyce Nelson

Contrary to... recent assertion that the escalating crisis between the U.S. and Russia “all began…in Yalta in September 2013,”... we actually need to go back a bit further to the May 2012 Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia.

Libya: Be careful what you wish for by Brian Cloughley

"...in February, immediately after Gaddafi's hint of nationalization of Libya's oil resources, there was an uprising by rebels who wanted to overthrow him and on March 17 the UN Security Council established a "no-fly zone" in Libya "to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country."

Malcolm X Make It Plain (Full PBS Documentary)

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