google.com - 2/11/2009
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1 day ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have introduced a bill to permit US citizens unrestricted travel to Cuba, according to the Library of Congress website. The "Freedom To Travel to Cuba Act," which would overturn the 46-year-old US policy strictly limiting ...
sun-sentinel.com - 2/10/2009
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sun-sentinel.com —
They didn't waste any time. While most of
the nation focused on the stimulus bill winding through...
Congress, nine representatives introduced a bill calling for an end to the 46-year-old ban on travel to Cuba. The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act ...
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Stealth bill would drop travel restrictions to Cuba. ...
mudvillegazette.com - 2/10/2009
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Via TIME : (BAGHDAD) — Four Iraqi prisoners
have been transferred from the U.S. military detention center...
in Guantanamo Bay to Iraqi custody, two senior Iraqi security officials said Monday. The officials said the men had been arrested in Afghanistan, then transferred to Guantanamo, ...
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4 Prisoners Transferred From Gitmo to Iraq
americanthinker.com - 2/5/2009
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Change! Obama to Lift Sanctions Against Syria & May Allow Travel to Cuba
Gateway Pundit —
... said Obama, in consultation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has asked Frederic Hof to become the first U.S. ambassador to Damascus since 2005. The sources said Hof, a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council, agreed to take the post. "There will be an announcement very soon," a diplomat said. For the first time in 46 years, democrats hope to pass legislation to permit unrestricted travel to Cuba. AFP reported: Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have ...
Babalu! Cuba’s Travel and Internet Access Could Increase
Firedoglake —
I so freaking want to go to Cuba. And now it looks like all of us who want to check out the santeria and seafood may have a chance: A group of Congress members led by William Delahunt of Massachusetts introduced a bipartisan bill calling for an end to the 46-year-old ban on travel to Cuba.
The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act introduced Feb. 4 and referred to the Foreign Relations Committee states that: ...
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Barack Obama on changes to U.S. policies toward Cuba -- full text
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/14/2009 —
While the kids rolled Easter eggs in the White House lawn, President Barack Obama unveiled today another dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy, which he called "Reaching out to the Cuban people." Last week, as The Ticket ...
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thewashingtonnote.com 3/3/2009 — Something big is up in Havana . So big that some are saying that Fidel Castro has finally moved on to the next world -- though I don't believe this to be the case.
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democracyarsenal.org 12/10/2008 — Jake Colvin is a fellow with the New Ideas Fund and a Vice
President with the National Foreign Trade Council, a non-profit trade
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/14/2009 —
Obama administration announced some steps today to begin moving our Cuba policy in a more sensible direction:
– Lift all restrictions on transactions related to the travel of family members to Cuba.
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spectator.org 12/31/2008 —
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power
concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never
will." -- Frederick Douglass
December marks the 60 th anniversary of the United
Nations Universal Declaration of Human ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 4/13/2009 — A BREAK WITH THE PAST ON CUBA.... President Obama was quite forthcoming during the campaign about how he would change a failed U.S. policy towards Cuba, breaking with decades of bipartisan support for an approach that obviously didn't work. Today,...
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