Terror: The Last Recourse of the Dictatorship

Yoani Sanchez, 11.13.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

This guest column was written by Miriam Celaya, whose blog, Without Evasion, recently won the prize for Best Journalism Blog in the Virtual Island con...

Green News Report -- November 12, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 11.13.2009

Co-Hosts, Green News Report

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KJFK 1230am in Reno, NV! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Lights out for Brazil; the Brown Pelican is...

Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson, 11.12.2009

Chief blogger at Fair Food Fight

You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.

The Faces of Those Who Repress Us [PHOTOS]

Yoani Sanchez, 11.12.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

After what happened last Friday--my kidnapping and beating by plainclothes State Security agents--I decided to bring to light a series of pictures of people who watch and harass me.

Cuba's Soft Power: Exporting Doctors Rather Than Revolution

Steve Clemons, 11.12.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

I would have encouraged Cuba's foreign minister to say that the embargo was an anachronism of the Cold War, has not achieved the goals the US had for it, and harmed both Cuban and US interests.

"Tell Yoani to Shut Up"

Yoani Sanchez, 11.11.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

This prose-poem guest column was written by Orlando Luis Pardo, who was kidnapped and beaten together with me on the evening of November 6.

Brazil's Big Blackout of 2009

Chris McGowan, 11.12.2009

Author and journalist

Our home was plunged into darkness, as was our block, the city, the state, much of eighteen states in Brazil, and Paraguay. An estimated 60 million people were without power for three hours or more.

The Next Cuban Revolution

Tom Hayes, 11.11.2009

I was in Havana this past Friday when Yoani Sanchez was snatched by Cuban police and brutally beaten. The officers didn't draw blood this time--after...

El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce, 11.12.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

Blaming the Victim

Yoani Sanchez, 11.08.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

After an attack there are certain myopics who blame the victim herself for what happened. If it is a woman who has been raped, someone explains that ...

Last Night A Regime In Its Last Throes Kidnapped and Beat Me [VIDEO]

Yoani Sanchez, 11.07.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers. "Y...

Sweden's Queen on "Fire Souls" -- Leaders in Child Protection

Jim Luce, 11.09.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

Ten years ago, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden reached the point where she could no longer witness the appalling conditions of children around the ...

Arturo Valenzuela Confirmed as Asst. Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere

Steve Clemons, 11.06.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

After a long, messy battle between Senator Jim DeMint and the Obama administration, Senator DeMint removed his holds on two key administration appointees.

U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce, 11.06.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

Senator LeMieux On Wrong Track with anti-Cuba Political Action Committee and State Department Hold

Steve Clemons, 11.06.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

Kind of sad when you see a Freshman US Senator get appointed and immediately hijacked by lobbying groups who have deeply parochial interests that run against the nation's.

Terrorist Or Activist? A Young Colombian, Gabriel Gonzalez, Fights For His Country, His Reputation (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker, 11.09.2009

Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC

Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.

American Exporters Bleeding to Death as Trade Deals Languish

Gary Shapiro, 11.05.2009

President & CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

As the U.S. unemployment rate climbs toward 10 percent and the economy faces a lengthy and uncertain recovery process, Congress and the last two admin...

President Obama's Credibility on the Line in Honduras

Mark Weisbrot, 11.05.2009

Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.

The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?

"I Stopped For You Because You're White"

Yoani Sanchez, 11.04.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

"I stopped for you because you're white," the taxi driver tells me after the tires screech in Reina Street around midnight. From his wide mulatto lip...

A Cuban Parable: Samuel Becket's "Endgame"

Yoani Sanchez, 11.03.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

We are in the middle of a theater festival and this helps us escape the boring programming on television and the limited recreational choices, almost...

Paco Pena Astonishes With Aplomb While The Afro Cuban All Stars Sizzle

Marissa Bronfman, 10.31.2009

Writer

I cannot recall the last time I experienced such an incredibly ebullient performance of such vitality and vigor, such precision and beauty, as Paco Pena's A Compas (Primal Pulse).