That Fidel Castro. He might be 130 years old and in terrible health. But his power to destroy America remain unlimited. Just ask New Jersey Congressman Albio Sires, who blames recent allegations against Senator Robert Menendez on the nefarious island nation of Cuba: "I won't...
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Paul Ryan once was good on an issue--stopping the idiocy of the Cuban embargo. But now, since his party needs to pander to a disappearing number of disproportionally powerful aging.
It'd be easier to sympathize with the Cuban government over the idiotic U.S. embargo if it wasn't for its equally stupid ban on Cuban baseball players actually making money for.
The stupidity of the U.S. embargo against Cuba, example 23,000,000.
The level of stupidity over these Ozzie Guillen pro-Castro remarks makes me want to jump off a bridge. I love that the Marlins hired a manager with a known history.
The US embargo on Cuba, a monument to futility: The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The United States’ economic.
Anya Landau French has a good comparison of the sanction policies against Burma and Cuba. Key point: Unlike the maze of Congressionally-mandated sanctions against Cuba enacted over the last several decades, the Burma sanctions were designed to expire unless proponents make a compelling case to...
Why try to pretend that this should be taken seriously? Second, it's not just about drugs. The Venezuelan alliance is almost a classic geopolitical attempt to deny the US access.
Cuba has become yoked to the Yankee imperial project is working with the United States in Haiti:The US government’s Voice of America acknowledged Friday the efforts of more than 400.
Ahem:In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow dissuaded him by patiently explaining how the radioactive cloud resulting from such a strike would also devastate Cuba....The Pentagon study attributes the...
In the past, I've advised my students that being busted for growing weed can hinder a State Department career. In the future, I'll suggest simply that they make a good.
The most exciting piracy event in recent memory happened to correspond with a period in which I had almost zero time to blog. A bit more on that later, of.