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• The United States vs the world
December 29.11
THERE was a time when the U.S. had lots of friends, or at least relatively obedient followers. These days, it appears that it has only adversaries, of all political stripes. Moreover, things don’t appear to be going very well with these adversaries.

• Putin: the world is tired of the U.S. dictatorship
December 22.11
PRIME Minister Vladimir Putin has affirmed that the world is tired of the dictatorship of the United States, a country only interested in having vassals instead of allies.

• Self-proclaimed pacifist and democrat who spent 40 years planting bombs
December 15.11
ONCE again Ramoncito and his Democracy Movement have appeared on the scene, orchestrating a new provocation against Cuba. This man has spent 40 years planting bombs and engaging in violent attacks with total impunity.

• More about terrorist Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo
December 15.11
WHEN I met Ramón Saúl Sánchez, in early 1995, he was gaining notoriety in Miami political circles through a somewhat peculiar variant of pacifism, born of particular, inexplicable circumstances.

• U.S. Congress considering new anti-Cuba bill
December 14.11
WASHINGTON, December 13.— The U.S. Congress is discussing a bill which, if approved, will once again further restrict travel to Cuba by U.S. and Cuban-born citizens, as well as the sending of remittances to the island.

• Syria: another misconception
December 14.11
SYRIA, the heart of the Middle East, in both a geostrategic and nationalist context. It shares borders with Iraq, Lebanon (where it has bases), Israel, Turkey and Iran, with which last country it has a strong alliance, recently confirmed by Iranian President Ahmadinejad in the context of the current heightened European and U.S. aggression against Syria, when he stated that Iran will not permit any foreign injustice there.

• Durban: final opportunity
December 1.11
THE 17th UN Climate Change Conference (Conference of the Parties / COP), which opened on November 28 and ends December 9 in Durban, South Africa, inevitably faces a number of questions and challenges.

• American style killing machines
December 1.11
WITH the drone bombing attacks the United States government is carrying out in tribal regions of Pakistan, it's hard to know what to believe. An article in the Wall Street Journal summarizes the situation this way, "Combatants of terrorist groups are fired upon, but their identity is not always known."

• Massive protests in Syria against Arab League sanctions
November 28.11
DAMASCUS, November 27.—Under heavy pressure from the United States and Europe, the Arab League finally announced economic sanctions against Syria, with reservations from a number of its members, a decision which generated demonstrations condemning the decision in the country.

• A time for boundless embraces
November 24.11
RENÉ González was released from prison on October 7, but must remain in the U.S. on probabtion. With contradictory emotions, his older daughter Irmita shares details of this new stage in her family’s life.

• ORGAN PURCHASES ABROAD ON THE RISE
Transplant tourism increasingly popular due to high number of patients in need of organs
November 24.11
CONFRONTED with a long waiting list of patients requiring organ transplants, more Americans are ready to travel abroad to purchase a liver, a kidney or even a heart.

• Washington attacks "Occupy" protesters because it fears them
November 24.11
OUR neighbor to the north has become an increasingly undemocratic and repressive country within its own borders, as evidenced by brutal police attacks on the tent cities which have emerged in important U.S. cities, sparked by the Occupy Wall Street protest.

• Cuba rejects IAEA resolution against Iran
November 21.11
VIENNA, November 18.—Cuba this Friday opposed the resolution approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and condemned it as an attempt to isolate Tehran with the objective of legitimizing an attack on the country.

• Palestine and the United Nations
November 8.11
PALESTINE is advancing in its aspirations for international recognition as a nation state, with its borders prior to the Israeli war of expansion in 1967 and East Jerusalem as its capital.

• U.S. sent EC-130J aircraft to broadcast anti-government propaganda
November 3.11
A U.S. Air Force EC-130J aircraft, identical to the one being used daily against Cuba in attempts to broadcast anti-government propaganda, was used in the very first hours of the aggression against Libya with the two objectives of "intoxicating" citizens with anti-government information and sabotaging the country’s telecommunications system.

• Who is protecting the human rights of protesters?
October 27.11
GREECE, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Chile, Israel, the United States... people have taken to the streets with their dissatisfaction, their frustration, their anger towards the reigning neoliberal economic (dis)order, in which governments are enacting...

• A Short Fable from the Eurozone
October 20.11
LET’S say you wanted to start a new country, but you knew nothing about civil institutions, bureaucracy or history. All you cared about was creating an environment that was good for business, where budget discipline and trade agreements were the law of the land.

• Why is the movement feared?
October 20.11
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 14.— Today the famous Wall Street bull, a bronze sculpture located where the street meets Broadway, at the southern tip of Manhattan, is protected once again by metal barricades and at least 20 police officers.

• Russian Foreign Minister highlights Fidel’s political dimension
October 18.11
MOSCOW.—Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov highlighted the political dimension of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, whom he described as "one of the most influential politicians of our times," ANSA reports.

• Chronicle of indignation on Wall Street
October 6.11
EVERYONE wants this to be the United States' Tahrir Square, a Puerta del Sol, an Athens, or a Santiago de Chile, and everyone – authorities, mass media, leftists – suppose that something could or should explode in this country given the crises, the greed of big business, extreme inequity and unemployment.

• Brazilian President receives Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez
October 6.11
BRASILIA.—The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, received Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who was on an official visit to this country. The meeting took place at the Planalto Palace on September 29.

• Selective accusations against Bolivia
October 6.11
THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recently condemned “the excessive and indiscriminate use of force by the Bolivian government against the march of 1,500 indigenous people,” protesting the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos highway.  

• One in six living in poverty in the U.S.
September 22.11
NEW YORK. – One in six people in the United States now lives in poverty, with 2.6 more joining the ranks of the poor in 2010, reaching the highest number in more than 50 years, according to official figures. At the same time, the middle class has been eroded to the extent that inequality in the country is comparable to that in Mexico.

• Alpha 66 chapter formed in Spain: Madrid moving constantly closer to Miami
September 22.11
MADRID has become an enclave of Cuban counterrevolutionaries, terrorists and mafiosi, as Miami has been since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, to the point of recently allowing the formation there of a chapter of the violent Alpha 66 organization.

• Ban Ki-Moon asks Palestinians to reinitiate peace talks
September 16.11
UNITED Nations, Sept. 15.—UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon today asked Palestine and Israel to reinitiate peace talks as soon as possible, the same option wielded by the United States to reject recognition of Palestinian statehood and justify the announced use of its veto in the Security Council.

• The CIA has become a paramilitary organization, Washington Post reports
September 15.11
IN an article published September 1, by Greg Miller and Julie Tate, The Washington Post reports that the CIA has been transformed into a paramilitary organization, with the primary objective of killing targeted individuals.

• Who governs in the European Union?
September 15.11
LISBON.— A close assessment of information on the Portuguese crisis in the media confirms that it is mentioned every day ad nauseam, but with no mention of the causes and far less identifying those responsible, despite the fact that they exist and are known.

• Spain’s Partido Popular continues to threaten Cuba
September 15.11
ONCE again the Spanish Partido Popular (PP) has unleashed its hatred upon Cuba. Gustavo de Arístegui, People's Power foreign affairs spokesperson, stated that "the democratic transition on the island will have to be initiated by force."

• For a new investigation
September 15.11
MORE than 12 months ago the documentary Confronting the Evidence came into my hands. Without any doubt, it is a fantastic documentary and one of the few with Spanish subtitles concerning the events in the United States on September 11, 2001.

• Recognition of Palestinian statehood is an obligation, affirms Turkey
September 14.11
CAIRO, September 13.—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, affirmed today in Cairo that recognition of Palestinian statehood "is not an option, but an obligation," during a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers.
- PALESTINE STATEHOOD: The blue seat No.194

• Cynicism
September 8.11
DURING an interview with journalist Andrea Mitchell, through the international channel MSNBC, Sen. Ed Markey said that "... Well, we are in Libya for oil ... And this dependence we have on oil, is a necessity that the United States has, to have a renewable energy program in the future."

• Nuclear Disarmament: one for all... all for one?
September 8.11
THE survival of the human race is facing two major challenges which threaten living conditions on the planet: climate change and nuclear weapons.

• CIA-created Alpha 66 celebrates its 50th anniversary in Miami
September 8.11
WITH a communiqué widely circulated in Miami among partisans of the use of terror against Cuba, Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez, chief of the Alpha 66 announced the upcoming 50th anniversary of the FBI-protected terrorist group "as an organization with a frontal combat strategy."

• Dramatic humanitarian situation in Ban Walid
September 8.11
 TRIPOLI, September 7.—Cut off from the outside world, with no electricity, water or gas, the inhabitants of Bani Walid have been enduring a dramatic situation for more than a week, after subversive forces took up position at entrances to the city and fruitlessly demanded that the forces loyal to Muammar al Gaddafi should hand over their weapons.

• Gaddafi calls on Libyans to fight colonialism
September 2.11
TRIPOLI, Sept 1.—In a new communiqué, Libyan leader Muammar al Gaddafi today exhorted his people to continue fighting and to keep up their resistance, "even though they cannot hear my voice," Telesur reports.

• Transition Council promised 35% of Libyan oil to France in return for support
September 2.11
MOSCOW, September 1.—In exchange for its support, France agreed a deal to control 35% of Libyan oil with the opposition National Transition Council (NTC), Libération informed today.

• Colonial war on Libya
September 1.11
THE perversion of U.S. and European agencies and their subordinates worldwide in calling what is happening in Libya "civil war," demonstrates how a colonial intervention in a country which the United States and its partners want to seize for diverse motives was converted into an internal "rebellion" which had to be aided for "humanitarian" reasons.

• Portugal: Youth fleeing
September 1.11
LISBON, Aug 22, 2011 (IPS).– Thousands of young people from Portugal are joining an emigration flow that never trickled to a stop but is turning into an exodus now due to the severe economic crisis plaguing this southern European country. And the main destinations of those looking for a better future abroad are former colonies, especially Brazil.

• The Villoldo case
U.S. sheltering and awarding compensation to terrorists
September 1.11
A Miami court has ordered Cuba to pay compensation to a self-confessed terrorist who organized and led an attack on Boca de Samá in eastern Cuba in 1971. Gustavo Villoldo is also a CIA mercenary who boasted of having captured Che Guevara.

• Latin Americans to collect signatures for the Five
September 1.11
MANAGUA.— Nicaraguan Commander of the Revolution Tomás Borge has called for a mass petition of Latin American signatures to impress on the U.S. President the universal clamor for the liberation of the Five.

• Israel and Iran deploy warships in Red Sea
August 31.11
JERUSALEM.—The Israeli Navy has deployed two missile launchers in the Red Sea after Iran announced that it was sending a submarine and a warship to the area, an Armed Forces spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday.

• Dramatic humanitarian situation in Tripoli
August 29.11
TRIPOLI, August 28.—Inhabitants of this capital have been confronting scarcity of food, medicaments and gasoline since armed groups of the self-called National Transition Council (NTC), supported by NATO bombardments, attacked Tripoli, Telesur reports.

• "I have no problem with what I did"
August 25.11
IN a news item datelined Miami, the Spanish EFE news agency gives the word to terrorist and ex-CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, granted leave of stay in the United States despite Venezuela’s application for his extradition for masterminding the sabotage of a Cubana de Aviación passenger plane in October 1976, which led to the death of 73 people.

• United States harboring dozens of terrorists and fugitives
August 25.11
PROMOTER of the so-called "list of states sponsoring terrorism" which has as its real purpose slandering nations which reject domination, the United States has itself provided protection to dozens of terrorists, fugitives from justice and conmen of all stripes who are sought by Latin American governments.

• A brutal symbol of hunger in Africa
August 25.11
THERE is an image which has captured the degradation and horror faced by millions of people in the Horn of Africa. It is not one depicting a child with a swollen belly and wide eyes pleading for food, although there are a million of those.

• Anger and insurrection in the UK
August 18.11
TWENTY six years ago, the London borough of Tottenham exploded in anger prompted by the death of Cynthia Jarrett during a police raid on her home after the arrest of her son Floyd on suspicion of driving with a forged tax sticker.

• U.S. fines French shipping company for services to Cuba
August 18.11
WASHINGTON.—The United States has fined the French shipping company CMA CGM $374,400 for providing services to Cuba, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

• U.S. protest over record figure of deportations
August 17.11
WASHINGTON, Augusts 16.—Activists organized anti-government protests today against the record figure of one million deportations under the Barack Obama administration, which they attribute to the expansion of the controversial Secure Communities Program.

• Beichuan: a new beginning
August 9.11
SICHUAN.— Beichuan honors its dead with yellow chrysanthemums. Anyone arriving in this district in the north of the Chinese province of Sichuan, is obliged to observe a minute’s silence before the shocking ruins of the May 12, 2008 earthquake, and then turn his or her head to appreciate the people’s amazing capacity for reconstruction and a new beginning.

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki: never again!
August 9.11
IN 1945 the United States launched all its power against Japanese civilians in the form of nuclear bombs. The first was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6 and the second on Nagasaki, three days later.

• Statement by Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Marcos Rodríguez Costa
August 5.11
WE express our profound concern over the treatment of the internal situation in Syria within the UN Security Council, on the basis of the heavy pressure being exercised by the Western powers on this body to adopt decisions against the legitimate government of that country.

• The CIA’s Operation Patty: 50 years after its defeat by Operation Candela
July 28.11
THE historical events which gave rise to Operation Patty, organized by the CIA in mid-1961, took place 50 years ago. That sinister assassination plot marked a historical phase in the dirty war declared by the U.S. government in an attempt to liquidate the leadership of the Cuban Revolution in one fell swoop.

• A visit with Gerardo
July 28.11
6:50 a.m. Plane leaves Oakland California airport.
8:05 a.m. Plane lands in Ontario, California, wait for the rent-a-car bus, pick up the rental and drive northeast toward Las Vegas (how else to explain heavy traffic on Saturday morning?).

• The empire’s gravediggers
July 28.11
IF the aim of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and her colleagues on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is to discredit U.S. foreign policy and resuscitate the most retrograde concepts of the Cold War, they are doing an excellent job.

• Debts and damnation
July 21.11
THE economy of capitalism is nose diving and denying the crisis doesn’t stop it continuing, alive and kicking When the European Central Bank (ECB), the IMF (read the United States) and the European Union itself, via Germany and France, or from Brussels, say that they are helping Greece with supranational and...

• U.S. prisoners continue hunger strike
July 21.11
HUNDREDS of prisoners incarcerated in California are on hunger strike to protest their isolation, torture and other abuse, but the news is barely being reported in a few local newspapers, alternative sources and personal web pages.

• The OAS, USAID and CIA ‘to the rescue’ of Latin American youth
July 15.11
"A fourth of young people in Latin America between the ages of 15 and 29 are at risk of being affected by crime," warned the Organization of American States (OAS), at the closing of its forum on youth and security in Washington, the capital of the country which harbors the largest drug market in the world.

• The immigration business
July 15.11
THERE are companies making plenty of money with the increasing detention of immigrants in the United States, a growth industry which will apparently continue to expand.

• Anti-Cuban committees donated more than $3 million to Democratic and Republican Party electoral campaigns
July 15.11
DURING the 2010 Congressional election campaign, so-called Political Action Committees (PAC) devoted to promoting an anti-Cuban policy in the United States, donated more than three million dollars to Democratic and Republican Party candidates, according to an investigation by the Center for Responsive Politics, described by La Jornada, in México.

• U.S. academic condemns degrading regulations for traveling to Cuba
July 14.11
U.S. academic Félix Masud Piloto decided not to take part in an international forum in Cuba due to the degrading regulations imposed on persons wishing to travel to the island.

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