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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 2, 2009

  Ban congratulates US leader for lifting entry restriction based on HIV status

31 October 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated United States President Barack Obama for announcing that travel restrictions for people living with HIV from entering the country will be removed. “I urge all other countries with such restrictions to take...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 17, 2009

  PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Eliminating the Palestine homeland

By Angie Todd: IN his carefully prepared speech to a Muslim audience at the University of Cairo, Egypt on June 4, Barack Obama, the current U.S. president, correctly recognized that central to peace in the Middle East is the solution to what he described as the situation between Israelis,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 12, 2009

  Obama's Quagmire Looks a Lot like Vietnam

By Robert Scheer , Truthdig : True, he doesn't seem a bit like Lyndon Johnson, but the way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency. LBJ also had a progressive agenda in mind,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 16, 2009

  Raul Castro attacks Obama Administration for keeping embargo

By Alaa Shahine and Henry Meyer: CAIRO, Egypt (Bloomberg) -- Cuban leader Raul Castro condemned President Barack Obama’s administration for maintaining a five- decade-old US trade embargo against his Communist island nation. The embargo runs counter to “almost unanimous” demands from...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 25, 2009

  The solid arguments have been trampled on once again

• Statement by the OSPAAAL Executive Secretariat The Organization for Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) condemns the refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case of the five Cuban heroes unjustly incarcerated in U.S. territory for almost 11...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 24, 2009

  Obama can order the release of the Five, Alarcón reaffirms

MATANZAS (AIN).— U.S. President Barack Obama can order the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the United States, Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament, reaffirmed. The likewise member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba gave a master...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 23, 2009

  'WE APOLOGISE FOR SLAVERY'

HEART TO HEART With Betty Ann Blaine Dear Reader, It took 144 years since the abolition of slavery in 1865 for the United States to issue a formal apology. I'm not sure if the saying "Better late than never" is apropos, considering the length of time it took for that government to say...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 17, 2009

  Voices against infamy

Deisy Francis Mexidor "WE never placed our hopes on the U.S. judicial system," but this day will be "marked forever as one of the most shameful in U.S. jurisprudence,"...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 23, 2009

  The Cuban Five: A starkly controversial case

By Deanna Cox: COHA Research Associate - During Barack Obama’s first three months in office, his administration took several tentative steps toward rehabilitating the US relationship with Cuba. Up to now such ties have been dominated by unremitting hostility towards the Castro Regime of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 12, 2009

  Cuba rejects need for steps to improve US ties

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- A top Cuban official has rejected the need for Cuba to make any preliminary steps to allow for the lifting of a US trade embargo. "Cuba has to do absolutely nothing because it did not do anything to the United States," Ricardo Alarcon, speaker of the Cuban national...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 28, 2009

  Gestures that are impressive

Reflections of Fidel I confess that I have meditated many times on the dramatic history of John F. Kennedy. It so happened that I experienced the period during which he was the greatest and most dangerous adversary of the Revolution. That was something which was not within his...... [view]

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