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• MiamiHerald.com
Ohio congressman pleads guilty to corruption charges
September 19, 2006
Rep. Bob Ney, a Republican lawmaker from Ohio, agreed to plead guilty today to public corruption charges that he accepted golf trips, meals and campaign contributions from lobbyists and their clients.

• Cuban Popularity in Indonesia
August 22, 2006
Many of the international aid teams that descended on Indonesia after the 27 May earthquake in Java have packed up and gone home. But a medical team from Cuba has proved so popular that locals have asked it to stay on for another six months.

• TERRORISM AND MEDIA MANIPULATION
The other weapon of the USA and its allies
August 17, 2006
THE new threat of a "terrorist attack" is intimidating the world. But: whose interests does "international terrorism" really serve?

• Changing Course On Cuba
August 14, 2006
Days before Cuban President Fidel Castro announced that he was emporarily ceding power, U.S. policymakers presented a report to Congress that recommended providing assistance to Cuba only when requested by a democratic transition government.

• Kirchner gives tough speech to military
"As president, I am not afraid; I am not afraid of you"
June 1, 2006
THE Argentine president repudiated military sectors that continue to vindicate procedures of the last dictatorship, telling them he was "not afraid," and calling on the Army to remain "at a definitive remove from state terrorism."

• Propaganda: Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive
December 13, 2005
The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company. In state of the art studios, producers prepare the daily mix of music and news for the group's radio stations or spots for friendly television outlets.

• Bail Denied to Cuban-Born Terrorists Jailed in US
December 12, 2005
WASHINGTON, December 10 (RHC--PL).-- Miami Judge James Cohn has denied bail to Cuban terrorists Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, accused of possessing an arsenal of military weapons and firearms. The judge said the weapons were highly dangerous and had no use other than"hurting people."

• U.S.: Sheltering terrorists
October 28, 2005
The United States is supposed to be in an all-out struggle against terrorism. As part of that, President Bush has said over and over again that anyone who shelters terrorists or gives aid to terrorists is a terrorist.

• The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
October 10, 2005
HUMAN rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance.

• Shared Dreams 2005 Reveals Common Dreams of Peace and Security by Artists in Cuba and The U.S.
October 6, 2005
(PRWEB) October 1, 2005.— Artists Leading the Way Across the Political Divide. Americans would be surprised to find out that there's one area NOT covered by the U.S. embargo on Cuban products: Information such as books, magazines, and digital art.

• Cuban literacy program extended throughout Latin America
It can be done!
October 3, 2005
A literacy program created in Cuba and with broad possibilities of being implemented internationally is expected to enable illiteracy not just being an issue on UN meeting agendas. The program is already being applied in Venezuela, Argentina and other Latin American countries.

• The Two Americas
September 5, 2005
Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died.

• From Margins of Society to Center of the Tragedy
September 5, 2005
The scenes of floating corpses, scavengers fighting for food and desperate throngs seeking any way out of New Orleans have been tragic enough. But for many African-American leaders, there is a growing outrage that many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy were people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society.

• Cuba's success in minimising loss of life during Hurricane Michelle
September 2, 2005
Hurricane Michelle was a category 3 storm. It hit land at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba's southern coast, where the ill-fated CIA-backed invasion failed decades ago, with winds of 216km/hr. The storm travelled north across the island, damaging 22,400 homes and destroying 2,800.

• Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? 'Times Picayune' Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues
September 2, 2005
(Editor and Publisher )
(Published: August 31, 2005 )
PHILADELPHIA Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two- lock-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal.

• New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good
September 2, 2005
(Counterpunch, September 1, 2005)
"The river rose all day, The river rose all night. Some people got lost in the flood,  Some people got away all right. The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemine: Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline.
- New Orleans asks: Where is the great U.S. Army?
- A message of solidarity to the people of the United States

• In My Opinion: A U.S. creation or not, don't call Posada a soldier
July 29, 2005
Sometimes you hear something and you say to yourself, ``He didn't just say that, did he?'' Thursday, I had one of those moments sitting alongside Eduardo Soto, the attorney for Luis Posada Carriles, taping a segment for Sunday's This Week in South Florida.

• Posada Carriles case reveals Mexico’s submission to the United States
July 11, 2005
THE Posada Carriles case shows that the Vicente Fox government opted for the patronage of the Cuban contras and that the troubled passage of triangular relations between Mexico, the United States and Cuba is not an isolated fact; rather, it is a PAN strategy to subordinate Mexican foreign policy to the George W. Bush administration.

•  Democracy Triple Play: Ecuador to Mexico to the OAS
May 25, 2005
MEXICO; MAY 1, 2005: For U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, her photo-op tour of Latin American nations last week was supposed to mark a comeback for flailing U.S. policy in the region.

• Fernando Botero did Geneva’s work
April 25, 2005
CAN it be a coincidence? It doesn’t really matter. But, at the same time as the United States was again putting on its show in Geneva, establishing the "good, bad and ugly countries," the famous Colombian painter Fernando Botero shook the world from its lethargy by showing it in 50 paintings the barbaric acts against the Iraqi people, thus exposing which country is really violating human rights.

• 5 nominated for Peace Prize
February 11, 2005
The five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the United States have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. They were nominated by Professor James Petras, Binghamton University.

• Health care? Ask Cuba
January 19, 2005
HERE’s a wrenching fact: if the US had an infant mortality rate as good as Cuba’s, we would save an additional 2,212 babies a year.

•  Journalists in Iraq: the greatly feared inferno
January 14, 2005
"THEY kidnapped Fran in Nayaf." No, I wasn’t hearing it right. "Yes, they’ve kidnapped Fran Sevilla," the voice of a producer friend of mine told me from the other end of the telephone on May 21.

• Evidence of fraud in Ohio
December 29, 2004
NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON. - A broad coalition of civil rights leaders, voting organizations and legislators are charging that all the votes in the presidential election have been counted and that not all the votes count, noting that a fundamental principle of democracy – the expression of people’s electoral will – is in question.

• 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...
November 11, 2004
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, always look on the bright side of life! There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.

• Cuba's New Environmentalism Faces Challenges
July 23, 2004
Friday 11 June 2004
PUPILS at the elementary school in Los Tumbos, a village nestled deep within the rich agricultural province of Pinar Del Río, constantly hover around the computer awarded to the school a year ago.

• Chorus Of Praises, Counterpoint Of Whispers
July 14, 2004
HAVANA -- For a while, the blind girl's song is lovely. Her fingers move easily across the keys, and her command of the piano and musical phrasings give her tune a sweet, elusive familiarity.

• Cuban sanctions prove both inhumane, ineffective
June 10, 2004
It's another election year and once again, the current U.S. president has proposed a plan for Cuba. President Bush's claim is that if we can hurt the Cuban people just a little bit more, it will somehow helep topple Fidel Castro's government.
Iowa State Daily Columnist

• Toll grows in Haitian, Dominican floods
June 10, 2004
The number of dead or missing in the floods in Haiti and the Dominican Republic has reached 3,300, with tens of thousands more remaining homeless.
-The Militant-

• The emperor’s smile
May 24, 2004
POPULAR wisdom affirms that there is no beast more dangerous than a wounded one. Imperialism is wounded.

• Coup d’état in Washington?
May 19, 2004
WHEN I finally read The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind, I understood why it had caused such a sensation among political analysts in the United States.

• U.S. prison construction booms, abuse rampant
May 17, 2004
A new report shows that prison construction across the United States has undergone an unprecedented boom in the last quarter-century, as the federal and state governments have jailed increasing numbers of people for longer and longer periods.

• Abu Ghraib: just like U.S. prisons
May 17, 2004
The most striking thing about the systematic humiliation and physical abuse U.S. military personnel have meted out to Iraqi prisoners over the last year is how much it mirrors daily practices rampant in U.S. prisons.

• The Silent President
April 14, 2004
President Bush was asked, during a very brief session with reporters yesterday, about the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo he received on domestic terrorism.

• All the president’s books
May 13, 2004
GEORGE W. Bush is surrounded. Surrounded by books in which, regrettably, he is the main character and which discuss the calendar of the war on Iraq, the months prior to 9/11, Oval Office dirty washing or his extremely close relations with Saudi princes.

• The Miami Herald
Miami International Airport deals tarnish image of Mr. Clean
March 9, 2004
The feud between U.S. Attorney Marcos Jiménez and Miami-Dade Police Director Carlos Alvarez couldn't have blown up at a worse time for Mayor Alex Penelas.

• The Fourth Reich
January 7, 2004
ALL modern warfare has two fronts: that of the military and that of the media. The latter, in our hyper-informed societies, is almost more important than the first.

• Law of the father is visited upon the son
December 17, 2003
THE current brouhaha over the outing of an undercover CIA officer brings to mind vivid memories and comic ironies.

• Freedom of expression or of the press? Where? In Spain?
October 17, 2003
MADRID.— Celebrated author and Nobel Literature Prize winner José Saramago recently announced that he has "not broken his ties with Cuba", but in Spain very few people are aware of this fact because, quite simply, the authorities have preferred to silence the news in this European country.

• IRAQ
A serving US soldier calls for the end of an occupation based on lies
October 22, 2003
FOR the past six months, I have been participating in what I believe to be the great modern lie: Operation Iraqi Freedom.

• PLANS FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION ON THE ISLAND
Cuba in the sights of the United States
September 22, 2003
AT this moment, nobody doubts that the Bush administration’s new foreign policy is basically one of military intervention, without respecting international institutions or world public opinion.

• CUBA: Independent librarians' not so independent
August 29, 2003
Among the 75 opponents of the Cuban Revolution arrested and jailed in Cuba in early April, 10 have been described in the Western media as "independent librarians". 

• U.S. youth discuss defense of revolution with Cubans
August 29, 2003
HAVANA—"I’ve heard a lot about Cuba. I wanted to see it for myself," said Agustín Cheno Eichwald, 23, a student at East Los Angeles College. Many of the nearly 300 youth from the United States who took part in the Third Cuba-U.S. Youth Exchange gave the same reason for why they took part in the one-week visit to the island.

• U.S. government molds ‘mobile, agile’ military
July 2, 2003
 U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has announced that a former head of Special   Operations forces will serve as the new chief of the U.S. army.

• Why some lies are fit to print
June 23, 2003
The sudden announcement that two top editors of the New York Times resigned June 5 was greeted with both cheers and jeers.

• Prison visit with Cuban hero
Lompoc is long way from Havana
June 22, 2003
Lompoc, Calif. Like many prisons in California, the Federal Penitentiary in Lompoc is in an isolated area far from urban centers.

• Leave Iraq before U.S. becomes too invested
May 22, 2003
When the United States invaded Cuba in 1898 to liberate it from Spain's oppressive colonial rule, Congress' declaration of war renounced any desire "to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control" over that Caribbean island.
(Taken From USA Today)

• Róger Calero wins victory in fight to end deportation
May 15, 2003
On May 1 the campaign to stop the deportation of Róger Calero won a signal victory in the effort to secure his right to live and work in the United States.

• Washington adds restrictions on travel to Cuba
April 22, 2003
The U.S. Treasury Department announced March 24 that it will now enforce new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens and residents.

• The United States of America has gone mad
February 10, 2003
AMERICA has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

• THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Don't Drink the Water, Cuban embargo hits new low
January 10, 2003
Havana.- According to the U.S. embargo, what can't Americans do in Cuba? Pick one: (a) sell booze; (b) compete in a dance contest; (c) provide clean water.

• Cuba leads Latin America in primary education, study finds
December 18, 2001
WASHINGTON.- Cuba, a Marxist nation with profound economic difficulties, leads Latin America in primary education, a regional task force has found.

• Miami, the poorest city in the country
November 18, 2001
IN the last decade, Miami has become the poorest city in the nation, according to the most recent figures from the 2000 Census. Previously, the city occupied fourth place on the sad list.
• Taken from El Nuevo Herald

• Miami, the poorest city in the country
November 18, 2001
IN the last decade, Miami has become the poorest city in the nation, according to the most recent figures from the 2000 Census. Previously, the city occupied fourth place on the sad list.
- Taken from El Nuevo Herald

• Cuban hospitality
August 7, 2001
HAVANA.- Fidel Castro last year made an incredible pitch to low-income Americans: Come to Cuba, study medicine for free, become a doctor.

• Fortune fever: Family's descendants seek elusive Cuban inheritance
July 13, 2001
REMEDIOS, Cuba – Heirs of a fabulously wealthy Spanish family say they are close to finding a long-lost inheritance worth billions of dollars.

• The Cuban Ali
August 7, 2001
THE man who could have fought Muhammad Ali — no, more than that: who could have been Muhammad Ali, famous throughout the world and rich beyond imagining — was fully awake after a drowsy morning.
- Too many people, too little water
- Vets Return to Bay of Pigs To Remember, Reconcile

• Argentine Workers’ Union to denounce government before Human Rights Commission
March 9, 2001
The Legal Action Committee of the Argentine Workers’ Union (CTA) and the Legal and Social Studies Center (CELS) are to take the Argentine government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR) for violations of the right to life, personal integrity, freedom of expression, the right to assembly, the right to petition and the right to non-discrimination.
• (Taken From USA Today)

• Both Bush, Gore disappoint
December 13, 2000
WHILE the U.S. Supreme Court listened to arguments Friday in George W. Bush’s legal challenge to the vote recounts in Florida, African-Americans massed outside to complain that thousands of the ballots cast by black voters in that state never were counted.