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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Apr 23, 2009
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Reflections of Fidel
SOME of the things that Daniel told me would be hard to believe if it was not him who told me them and it was not at a Summit of the Americas where they occurred.
The unusual thing is that there was no such consensus on the final document. The ALBA group did not...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 15, 2009
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Reflections of Fidel:
TODAY I read the cables from March 11th. Information is continuing to rain down on the international economic crisis.
This time, it was Joseph Stiglitz, the well known economist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences speaking; the press and academia...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Mar 12, 2009
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By CANDIA DAMES,
Guardian News Editor -
candia@nasguard.com:
The CLICO debacle has ensnared a wide range of countries across the region and has raised questions about whether regulators' early warning systems failed to detect the disastrous decision making that triggered a multi-nation...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Jan 17, 2009
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By Jean H Charles:
Last year on January 1st 2007, I wrote an essay entitled: ‘Haiti must engage in a mode of urgency to catch up with the rest of the Caribbean.” One year later, it is now time for a report card on, how Haiti has faired in its praxis of good governance. A caveat is in...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Nov 9, 2008
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By HALUK ÖZDALGA*
The Bush administration is approaching its final days in dire disappointment in all areas. In international relations, it is a huge failure felt most severely in the greater Middle East, an area of direct concern for Turkey. The single most important reason for this...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 20, 2008
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Reflections of Fidel:
READING the cables will suffice.
In the reflection I wrote the day before yesterday I stated that Cuba would not accept any donation from the government that is blockading us and that, in the Verbal Note handed over to the U.S. Interests Section, we had requested...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Sep 17, 2008
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Reflections of Fidel:
WHEN the U.S. government hypocritically offered $100,000 as aid in the face of the disaster brought about by Hurricane Gustav, subject to an on-site inspection to confirm the damage, the response was that Cuba is unable to accept any donations from the country that is...... [view]
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Posted By: zephyr
Posted On: Aug 20, 2008
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique.
In the end it turned...... [view]
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Posted By: vanessamason
Posted On: Dec 2, 2007
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While the United States has worried about outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli over the past year, there has been an outbreak of cholera here in Mozambique. And not just in a rural, remote part of Mozambique. Here. In Maputo, both in the city and the province. I learned about the outbreak from...... [view]
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