americanthinker.com - 1/1/2009
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"Cuban mothers let me assure you that I will solve all Cuba's problems without spilling a drop of blood." Upon entering Havana on January 7, 1959, Cuba's new leader Fidel Castro broadcast that promise.
usatoday.com - 1/6/2009
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usatoday.com —
Moore had promised the network over the weekend
that "I'm about to become your worst nightmare," leading...
CNN to post on its website a remarkably lengthy response to his accusations. He noted in an interview Monday that CNN had admitted to two mistakes ...
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Moore calls truce with CNN over 'Sicko'
spectator.org - 12/31/2008
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spectator.org —
"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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Cuba's Hidden Heroes
reuters.com - 12/28/2008
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro called
on Saturday for austerity measures including fewer subsidies for...
workers and stricter management to pull the country out of an economic morass aggravated this year by three hurricanes and the ...
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Raul Castro calls for harder work, fewer ...
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Cuban Stalinism at 50-and the Media Lies Continue
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator —
... was merely in error it might be less obnoxious. Instead the media/academia clichés usually upend the truth. We get the precise opposite of the truth. Ignorance (usually willful) of conditions in pre-Castro Cuba, of Fidel Castro's background, of U.S.-Cuba relations pre-1960 all contribute to the cliché-ridden Castro legend. With the media wallowing in a Castro-cliché orgy on this hideous anniversary let's examine them one at a time, in no particular order of importance. Entire article here. Posted by Humberto at January 1, 2009 08:39 AM Comments Post a comment
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