"Everyone has nothing, and the people are afraid"
wizbangblog.com 1/4/2009 — So says Nilda Garcia, a Cuban refugee now living in south Florida. This week, Cuba celebrated 50 years of Communist Revolution -- 50 years of poverty, squalor, sickness, paranoia, abuse,...

Beating the Drum on Cuba Policy
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 association based in Washington, DC. This article was cross-posted on the Huffington Post. For a small country, U.S. ...

Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba
thewashingtonnote.com 2/22/2009 — Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar , a long time realist and serious strategic thinker about America's national security challenges, has just popped the bubble of those who have used Cuba for decades in their ...

Cuban Stalinism at 50--and the Media Lies Continue
americanthinker.com 1/1/2009 — "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.

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 ...

What Are The Real US Aims In “Bringing Freedom” To Cuba?
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 4/15/2009 — On Wednesday afternoon author Reese Erlich ( Dateline Havana ) will be live-blogging at Firedoglake about his new book and about the blowback from Cuba-American affairs on domestic U.S. politics. There's a real battle brewing right now between the ...

Cuba's Hidden Heroes
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 ...

CUBA: Big Changes in Castro's Guard
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. Others are saying that they saw Fidel out in public today on an odd shuffling, ...

Change on Cuba Policy
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. – Remove restrictions on ...

Business Community Calls for New Cuba Policy
usaengage.org 12/9/2008 — Washington, DC The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) and USA*Engage, along with ten other leading trade associations today sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama, urging the incoming administration to reexamine current U.S. Cuba policy and ...

iReport: The world is watching — CNN Political Ticker 1/20/2009
Viewers at the U.S. consulate in Mexico sent in this image to iReport. It's a given that most people in the United States are glued to their TV screens right now, as President Barack Obama just took the oath of office. But the rest of the world is ...

Obama cites beginning of Iraq withdrawal in inaugural speech — CNN Political Ticker 1/20/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Obama pledged during his inaugural address that the United States would begin a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, but not waver in the defense of the American "way of life." He also pledged to push for victory in the ...

Iraq on Obama's day-one agenda — msnbc.com: Politics 1/20/2009
Military officials say Obama's first day in office will rally his security and defense advisors to begin formulating strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama poised to put imprint on Iraq, Afghan wars (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/21/2009
AP - President Barack Obama will begin to put his imprint on the nation's war strategy in his first full day in office, gathering his top military and national security advisers at the White House for what is expected to be the start of the new ...

China says hopes ties with Obama's U.S. deepen — Reuters: Politics 1/21/2009
LISBON (Reuters) - China hopes to deepen ties with the United States under President Barack Obama, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Wednesday.