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Hugo & A’jad: BFFs, part 2

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:06:51 +0000

Warm sentiments from a religious fanatic who wants to bring about the mahdaviat , to a power-hungry tinpot dictator: Ahmadinejad to Chavez: ‘We’re going to be together until the end’ “We feel at home here and among our brothers … we’re going to be ...

Fausta posted 10 hours ago from faustasblog.com

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It's really just another ruse to keep the population from focusing in on the failures of Communism

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind

jhudock posted 15 hours ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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Ahmadinejad to Chavez: 'We're going to be together until the end'

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:32:03 +0000

"We feel at home here and among our brothers ... we're going to be together until the end," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a visit to Latin America on Wednesday. Both leaders roundly denounced US "imperialism," and Chavez also called ...

The Jawa Report found this 2 days ago on jpost.com

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Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:27:33 +0000

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States. Despite a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations and assurances last week by President Barack Obama that the United States has no ...

United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty ... found this 41 hours ago on reuters.com

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ElBaradei's work is done. He's covered for Iran nuclear bomb program from the beginning

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:50:00 +0000

U.N. Nuclear Agency Calls Iran Inquiry ‘Dead End’ Iran rebuked over nuclear 'cover-up' by UN watchdog The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body has passed a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret. The IAEA resolution was passed with rare Russian and ...

jhudock posted 2 days ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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Who Cares about Cuba? -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:00:25 +0000

On the House floor last night, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R., Fla.) gave a speech. His subject was the persecution of Cuban democrats, and the general ignoring of this persecution by the American press. This has been a longstanding grievance of Cubans and Cuban Americans, and their supporters: ...

Articles on National Review Online found this 11 days ago on corner.nationalreview.com

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Retired US official and wife admit spying for Cuba

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:58:02 +0000

A retired US state department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for nearly three decades. The former official, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, had access to top-secret government information. Under a plea deal, Mr Myers will spend the rest of his life in jail while wife Gwendolyn, ...

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 8 days ago on news.bbc.co.uk

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U.S. prison officials to tour Thomson Monday

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:33:01 +0000

A delegation from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is scheduled to tour and inspect the Thomson Correctional Center Monday as part of a White House proposal to buy the facility and use it to house some terror suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , officials said Sunday morning. Speaking ...

The Note found this 13 days ago on chicagobreakingnews.com

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Supreme Court: Miami school can ban book on Cuba

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:34:22 +0000

The Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Miami school board decision that removed a book about Cuba from public schools. The book was seen as presenting too cheery a view of life in Cuba. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the November 16, ...

How Appealing found this 13 days ago on csmonitor.com

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Cuban Blogger Beaten by Regime Thugs — This Time, the World Notices

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

The international press finally reports on Castro's violence. Perhaps because the victim is a darling of the left as well as the right.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 11 days ago on pajamasmedia.com

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NYU Press

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:14:00 +0000

The Guantanamo Lawyers Inside a Prison Outside the Law Edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men ...

Balkinization found this 12 days ago on nyupress.org

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Lift the ban -- let Americans visit Cuba

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:14:02 +0000

U.S. law lets American citizens travel to any country on earth, friend or foe -- with one exception: Cuba. It's time for us to scrap this anachronistic ban, imposed during one of the chilliest periods of the Cold War.

The Washington Note found this 13 days ago on miamiherald.com

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New Castro, Same Cuba

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:15:41 +0000

This 123-page report shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code offense of "dangerousness," which allows authorities to imprison individuals before they have committed any crime, on the suspicion that they are likely to commit an offense in the future. ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 11 days ago on hrw.org

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Neocon-Realist Collaboration on Ending Cuba Embargo?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:34:12 +0000

Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw "Radek" Sikorski , husband of Washington Post editorial writer (and Polish cuisine expert) Anne Applebaum , is a compelling, brilliant, eclectic political intellectual who I admire a great deal. In part, I admire Sikorski because while tenacious and ...

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com found this 13 days ago on thewashingtonnote.com

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Skepticism greets bill to lift 50-year-old Cuba travel restrictions

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:31:02 +0000

It may not quite be time to start planning that trip to Havana.

The Note found this 9 days ago on thehill.com

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Leave justice for 9/11 suspects to the military

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:55:18 +0000

Military tribunals are the appropriate setting for the trials of suspected 9/11 terrorists and the tribunals have the added advantage of safeguarding the nation’s security and intelligence operations.

Sister Toldjah found this 11 days ago on sunherald.com

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Yoani Sanchez gets reply from Obama

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:47:21 +0000

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez submitted seven questions to pres. Obama and to Raul Castro. Only Obama replied. You can read her post here . The Miami Herald reports, Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez gets answers — from President Obama A spokesman for the U.S. State Department’s Western ...

Fausta posted 9 days ago from faustasblog.com

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9/11 plotters bound for trial in New York

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:45:00 +0000

by David G. Savage and Josh Meyer The plotters of the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington will be tried as terrorists and criminals in a federal court in New York, the Obama administration will announce today. Five men, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, have been held for ...

The Swamp found this 12 days ago on swamppolitics.com

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9/11 fiends to use trial as soapbox

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:37:00 +0000

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said today. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role ...

JammieWearingFool found this 7 days ago on nypost.com

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Cubans Still in Agony

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:18:38 +0000

T he title of the latest Human Rights Watch report on Cuba succinctly describes the dismal state of civil liberties on the island since Ra l Castro took over for his ailing brother in July of 2006: ``New Castro, Same Cuba.'' Anyone who thought that the world's longest-serving little brother ...

RealClearPolitics - Homepage found this 6 days ago on miamiherald.com

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