breakthrough.‘Hugo Chávez and his co-religionaries have called for 21st-century socialism, not a return to Soviet-style economics.’ (Photograph: Handout/Reuters) Chávez’s Economics Lesson for Europe Hugo Chávez’s rejection of the neoliberal policies dragging Europe down sets a hopeful example to Greece and beyond by Richard Gott Some years ago, travelling on the presidential plane of Hugo Chávez [...]
(Image: City Lights Publishers) Capitalism Is Taboo in America Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:45By Richard D Wolff, City Lights Publishers | Book Excerpt (Image: City Lights Publishers)Receive a copy of economist Richard D. Wolff‘s new collection of interviews with David Barsamian: “Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism.” This framework for further anti-corporate organizing is yours with a minimum donation of [...]
Cuba, The Drug War, And The Isolation Of The U.S. By Noam Chomsky May 11, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable significance. There are three major reasons: Cuba, the drug [...]
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL The Nobel Peace Prize winner (Taken from CubaDebate) I shall barely talk about the Cuban people, who one day swept away United States domination of their homeland, when the imperialist system had reached the peak of its power. Men and women of all ages could be seen [...]
What Obama Knows By Fidel Castro May 01, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – The most demolishing article I have seen nowadays about Latin America was written by Renán Vega Cantor, full professor at the National Pedagogical University of Bogotá, which was published three days ago by the website ‘Rebelión’ under the title Rebelión’ under the title “Ecos de [...]
US Hegemony in Latin America by Renee Parsons While the ‘misconduct’ of Secret Service agents with prostitutes in Colombia is a significant, if titillating scandal, most media reports have missed the tectonic political shift that surfaced at the recent Summit of the Americas meeting. The Summit, an offshoot of the Organization of American [...]
A Conspiracy of Whores by: John Grant Whore: (verb) To debase oneself by doing something for unworthy motives, typically to make money. -The New Oxford American Dictionary It’s a challenge to make adult sense of the absurdities coming out of Colombia right now. I had first planned to write about the Drug War [...]
Fidel and Katiuska Blanco, during the book’s launch in Havana. Fidel Castro has some very useful stories to tell BUENOS AIRES,— The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro has stories to tell that could be very useful in the future, according to writer and [...]
Abroad, as at Home, Obama Coasts on a Wave of Disappointment Significant hope was invested in Obama to repair America’s global reputation and reorient its foreign policy – but there’s been precious little return By Gary Younge April 23, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — In January 1903 the US signed a treaty [...]
A detail from Por Quien Merece Amor (For Those Who Deserve Love) by Antonio Guerrero. (Click to see the full picture) Two of the artists featured in a new exhibition will definitely not be present on the opening night. Instead of mingling with fellow artists in London’s West End, they will each be spending the time [...]
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL Sugarcoated realities fading away (Taken from Cubadebate) I was surprised today as I listened to the speech delivered by Jose Miguel Insulza in Cartagena. I thought that the person who was speaking on behalf of the OAS would at least demand some respect for the sovereignty of the [...]
Hugo Chávez weeps as he prays for his recovery from cancer at a mass in Barinas, Venezuela. Photograph: Reuters A tearful Hugo Chávez has prayed for God to spare his life as he attended a pre-Easter mass on returning from cancer treatment in Cuba. The Venezuelan president wept in a televised speech from the Catholic service in [...]
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL Difficult times for humanity (TAKEN FROM CUBADEBATE) THE world is increasingly misinformed amidst the chaos of events unfolding at pace never before imagined. Those of us who have lived a few more years and are avidly interested in information can testify to the extent of ignorance with which [...]
SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS The exclusion of Cuba by the United States government is unacceptable and unjustified • Press conference held by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, March 8, 2012, “Year 54 of the Revolution” (Typographical version: Council of State) Gustavo Machín (Moderator) – Good morning to all those present. Minister of Foreign [...]
Chavez underwent four rounds of chemotherapy following initial surgeries last year [Reuters] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba. Chavez’s return on Friday should reassert his leadership, calm anxiety among supporters and quell whispers of a brewing succession struggle behind the scenes. Chavez smiled and waved as [...]
Cuba and China strengthen economic relations BEIJING.— Council of Ministers Vice President Marino Murillo Jorge, head of the implementation commission responsible for the guidelines approved at the 6th Communist Party Congress, met in Beijing with Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu to discuss the progress of bilateral economic relations and other [...]
The Five: Uniting intelligence for the good of humanity OLGA DÍAZ RUIZ GREETINGS from the Cuban Five, serving unjust prison terms in the United States, were communicated during the closing session of University 2012 in Havana’s International Convention Center. The Five called attention to the importance of this event “in uniting intelligence for [...]
Raúl receives U.S. Senators PRESIDENT Raúl Castro Ruz received yesterday evening, February 23, Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat, Vermont, president of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Richard Shelby , Republican, Alabama, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Leahy and Shelby are members of a delegation of U.S. [...]
In an all day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro. Those attending were invited participants for the Intellectual Encounters for Peace and the Preservation of the Environment event at the Havana Convention Center. Topics discussed in the nine-hour session were world [...]
CHE AND ME by Mark Rudd A revised version of a talk given April 10, 2008 to the Peace Studies Program at Oregon State University THE FOCO THEORY From the first moment I heard about Che, Ernesto Guevara, he was my man, or, rather, I was his. Brilliant, young, idealistic, a daring commander [...]
CARACAS.—President Hugo Chávez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, announced February 21 that he is about to undergo surgery in Havana, “without any rush and in due time,” as he stated in a telephone contact with the “Contragolpe” program broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión. Chávez underwent a medical check in the Cuban [...]
World Peace Hanging By A Thread By Fidel Castro Ruz January 21, 2012 “CubaDebate” — Jan 14th, 2012 – Yesterday I had the satisfaction of having a pleasant conversation with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I had not seen him since [...]
The March Toward The Abyss By Fidel Castro January 08, 2012 “Cuba Debate” – - It is not a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic, knowing or not knowing elementary things, of being responsible or not for events. [...]
Defense forces mobilized on Havana’s Malecón. Front page of Revolución, October 23, 1962. October 1962 Missile Crisis President John F. Kennedy did not react with common sense to the U.S. defeat at the Bay of Pigs. He sought revenge. The Taylor Commission, established by the President to analyze the fiasco, recommended [...]
The health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will remain a key issue in Latin America in 2012 [EPA] Perhaps it is becoming obvious that survival in what you could call the modern world involves at least a degree of independence from the global greed of the US growth for itself economy. We have witnessed [...]
This site is aimed at giving you the reader access to opinions and thoughts that you may not have read on your local media or heard coming from your local politicians. Often what is supplied are articles from places like antiwar.com, the Palestine Chronicle, Gilad Atzmon, Al Jazeera, Common Dreams, Noam Chomsky‘s [...]
Cuba‘s economic growth for 2011 is projected to be 2.7 per cent [GALLO/GETTY] HAVANA - Rules allowing Cubans to buy and sell cars and homes, and now, to take out loans, are two of the latest steps taken to “modernise” the economy. Some 500 bank offices throughout the country began receiving and processing applications on Tuesday [...]
Cuba to Pardon Nearly 3,000 Prisoners by Jean-Herve Deiller Cuban President Raul Castro has unveiled plans to pardon some 3,000 prisoners for “humanitarian reasons,” a group amnesty of unprecedented size, and “gradually” reform onerous laws restricting foreign travel. Members attend a parliamentary meeting in Havana, Cuba, Friday Dec. 23, 2011. Cuba’s parliament [...]
Link http://www.granma.cu/ingles/ouramerica-i/15dic-Letter%20from.html JACMEL, capital of Haiti’s Sud-Est department, is a coastal city 90 kilometers distant from the hustle and bustle of Port-au-Prince. Founded in 1689, it has conserved its history over the centuries. Houses with colonial architecture similar to that of Cuba’s still survive, despite all obstacles. Distinct styles, old, modern and rustic, complement its [...]
Socialism and human rights ENRIQUE UBIETA GÓMEZ SOME days ago, I wrote in my blog about a simple and moving personal experience. It was around 6.00 p.m. In my usual rush, I crossed the far corner of Havana’s Capitol building, facing the remains of the Campoamor Theater — or the Capitolio [...]
DECLARATION OF PORT OF SPAIN The voice of the Caribbean Peoples in the Summit YAIMA PUIG MENESES THE 1st Cuba-CARICOM Summit nine years ago was for many yet another utopia. How could the interests of so many people become shared amidst the many prevailing challenges, inequalities and instances of social exclusion? [...]
Flotilla to Cuba Gets US Protection, Flotilla to Gaza Gets US Prosecution Demand By davidswanson - Posted on 12 December 2011 U.S. Protects Free Speech for U.S. Citizens on Flotilla to challenge human rights violations in Cuba, but wants to prosecute those on Gaza Flotilla to challenge Israeli human rights violations By Ann Wright [...]
El Cuate and the yacht Granma JACINTO GRANDA * HE bid farewell to Fidel Castro beside the Tuxpan River, as the revolutionary leader boarded the Granma yacht, 55 years ago, but this Mexican remembers the moment clearly, as if it were yesterday. The farewell occurred at dawn on November 25, that cold [...]
This week has seen the largest number of posts on the page since this site was started a little over 2 years ago. You can get to the page before this and thers by clicking “Older entries” at the bottom of this page and the pages that you then come to. There all manner [...]
Lung cancer vaccine given to 2,000 Cubans IRIS DE ARMAS PADRINO THE Cuban CIMAVax-EGF vaccine, the only one of its kind in the world for the treatment of advanced lung cancer, has been administered to 2,000-plus Cubans, almost 5,000 of them within the Primary Health Care (APS) network. Developed by the [...]
Browse New Titles Forthcoming Titles Libros en Español Full Catalog Latest News Father Miguel D’Escoto launches his new book in Managua 2009-07-23 | In the midst of playing an active role in trying to resolve the political crisis in Honduras following the coup against President Zelaya, the current president of the UN [...]
Durban conference opens with a call to save the planet DURBAN, South Africa, Nov 28.—The 17th UN Conference on Climate Change opened here today with a call to confront global warming as a question of life or death, PL reports. In his address, South African President Jacob Zuma urged UN agencies, states and [...]
A man reads a Granma newspaper on a sidewalk in Havana, Nov. 13, 2009. Granma has become an unlikely forum for a debate over small-scale liberalization measures. (Enrique De La Osa/Reuters) Over many decades a constant stream of lies has reached the West about Cuba from the day when the last person on [...]
The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era Noam Chomsky Text of lecture given at Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City, Federal District, Mexico, September 21, 2009 In thinking about international affairs, it is useful to keep in mind several principles of considerable generality and import. The first is the [...]
Chávez condemns Wall Street protest ‘crackdown’ Venezuelan president attacks US ‘repression’ of activists and calls Republican hopeful Mitt Romney crazy Venezuela‘s President Hugo Chávez has attacked the ‘US crackdown’ on anti-Wall Street protests. Photograph: Ho/REUTERS Hugo Chávez has condemned the “horrible repression” of anti-Wall Street protesters and described a US Republican presidential candidate as “crazy” for [...]
At the beginning of this year, the Cuban government took a dramatic step away from its socialist policies of the past to break new ground: it began privatising its economy to create private sector jobs and issued thousands of licences for its citizens to start their own businesses. The ruling party dismissed 500,000 state employees [...]
The disgraceful US imperial presence in South America has been very accurately chronicled for decades. It involved the whole gamut of the imperial destruction of the South. Everything took pace from, torture, to phoney regime change, to the destruction of workers’ unions and the death of dissidents including priests and teachers. All these measures were needed to enforce absolute [...]
A woman carries a portrait of Fidel Castro during a ceremony for the Cuban hero’s 85th birthday [AFP] Cuba’s Fidel Castro has turned 85 years old amid celebrations for the revolutionary legend who led his country for nearly 50 years before ill health led him from power in 2006. Castro’s birthday officially fell on Saturday, but the communist nation [...]
In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change 4 August 2011 On my first day in Cuba, in 1967, I waited in a bus queue that was really a conga line. Ahead of me were two large, funny females resplendent in frills of blinding yellow; one of them had an especially long bongo under [...]
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez addresses the nation during a televised speech. Photograph: Reuters TV Venezuela‘s president, Hugo Chávez, has finally returned to the public eye, describing in a nationwide address that doctors had diagnosed him with cancer, following furious speculation about the true state of his health. In his first live appearance since undergoing emergency pelvic [...]
President Raúl Castro turns 80 but Cuba is not proud of it No plans to officially mark president’s 80th birthday amid growing concern over Cuba’s ageing leadership Share Rory Carroll, Latin American correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 June 2011 18.40 BST Article history President Raúl Castro, right, with brother Fidel in April. When Raúl turns 80 [...]
Cuban ballet brings ‘message of peace’ to US Email Print AFP/File – Dancers of the Cuba national ballet are seen during a rehearsal of “Swan Lake” in Madrid. The … Play VideoCuba Video:Raw video: Cuba Hemingway festival AP – Fri May 27, 11:18 pm ET HAVANA (AFP) – The National Ballet of Cuba plans to deliver a “message of peace” when it leaves [...]
For Navy Seals the story is a lot harder to balance In Latest Version, bin Laden Retreated Because He Was Being Shot At Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2011-05-13 00:28 Pakistan Here’s yet another version of the killing of bin Laden: The SEALs first saw bin Laden when he came out on the third floor [...]
The totally cold hearted and bloodthirsty imperial project can perhaps even if for some ulterior reason produce something like a good result. For those of you who think that worse is better try looking at those affected and think about grabbing even the most meagre of forced concessions with open arms. No doubt anyone allowed [...]
Solidarity and Struggle: 50 Years with Che Sun, 04/17/2011 – 20:20 — Anonymous by: Ron Ridenour (This article is the first of seven pieces dedicated to the Cuban revolution and its defeat of the US imperialist invasion 50 years ago, April 17-19, 1961, and embraces my half-century struggle.) I. Sharing Che’s Activism Che’s [...]
