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Cuban Missile Crisis

No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, President Obama Afghanistan, Cuban Missile Crisis, War in Afghanistan, John F. Kennedy, President Obama, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam, Military-Escalation-Afghanistan, Generals, Jfk, World News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.

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Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, John Bolton, Pakistan, Afghan War, United Nations, Unilateralism, General David Petraeus, Operation Eagle Claw, Lebanon, China, G-20, President Lyndon Johnson, Fred Kagan, Michael O'Hanlon, Peace, Vietnam, Climate Change, Beirut Marine Bombing, Iranian Revolution, Multilateralism, President John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Isi, Terrorism, President Harry Truman, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama Doctrine, Cuban Missile Crisis, Afghanistan War, President Ronald Reagan, The Institute for the Study of War, Israel and Palestine, Kimberly Kagan, Afghanistan, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.

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Fidel Castro Suggested Nuclear Strike On U.S.: Documents

nytimes.com | WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Castro Nuclear Strike, Nuclear Weapons, Cuban Missile Crisis, Ussr, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Soviet Union, World News

In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow...

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Leo

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, Manhattan, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Memorials, Leo Orris, Cuban Missile Crisis, New York City, Obituaries, Havana, Cuba, New York News
Margarita Alarcon

For years Dr. Leo Orris and his family would be our sanctuary, our conversations, our endless nights of discussions where themes would range from the history of SDS and SNICC to how to end the Vietnam War.

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Uncovering Cuba

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Travel Expert, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban Embargo, Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, World News
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson

You can't put a price on freedom, and if you could, it would be worth more that $20 a month.

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Relics and Souvenirs, and The Berlin Wall In Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Mariel Boat Lift, Military Units to Aid Production, Cuba, Havana Malecon, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban Constitution, Varela Project, Maleconazo, World News
Yoani Sanchez

A reader sent me a piece of the Berlin Wall. The stone painted with remnants of graffiti suggests to me an impossible collection of what has contributed to the separation of Cubans.

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Che Gueverette: Rodizio Slayer

Warren Holstein | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Steven Soderbergh, Vegetarian, Peta, Lydia Guevara PETA Campaign, Fubar, Che Guevara, Vegetarianism, Batista, The Green Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Missile Crisis, Revolution, Health, Lydia-Guevara, Cuba, Guerilla Warfare, Politics, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Yesiree, the ole family legacy lives on as the Butcher of La Cabana's bodacious petite-fille is out to butcher the butchers by showcasing her prime cuts.

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Obama's Crisis Management: North Korea, Again

William Bradley | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, North Korea Nuclear Program, George W. Bush, United Nations, North Korea, Russia, UN Security Council, Newt Gingrich, China, Cuban Missile Crisis, North Korean Missiles, Singapore, South Korea, Bob Gates, North Korean Launch, World News
William Bradley

President Obama changed the old kabuki in dealing with his second North Korean crisis. He has gone in another, tougher, direction that may lead to a naval confrontation.

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Castro: Never Mr. Nice Guy

David L. Wolper | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Raul Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis, US-Cuba Policy, Cuba, World News
David L. Wolper

Castro is no hero. The real Fidel Castro lied when he promised democracy, confiscated businesses large and small, and executed or jailed many of his fellow revolutionaries.

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Havana From the Ground

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: U.S.-Cuba-Relations, Hotel Nacional, Us-Cuba-Relations, Fidel-Castro, Havana, Obama, Cuban Blockade, Cuban Embargo, Cuban Missile Crisis, Obama-Cuba-Embargo, Obama Cuba Travel Restrictions, Fidel Castro, Obama Cuba, Hillary Clinton, Cuban-American Exiles, Cuba, Boston Brahmins, U.S. Cuba Policy, Miamia, Venezuela, World News
Michael Rowe

Many ordinary Cubans see Barack Obama as the first light at the end of the nearly fifty year-old tunnel.

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America, Abandoned On Its Own Petard?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Obama Transition, Obama, International Relations, Mindset, John F Kennedy, Pearl Harbor, War on Terror, Cuban Missile Crisis, Terrorism, 9/11, US Intervention Abroad, Us Foreign Relations, World War II, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

What if, just like us, other countries are content to let America be in the crosshairs of terrorist regimes and turn a jaundiced eye rather than roll their sleeves up and help?

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What Obama Will Do for Africa: A Conversation with Salim Amin

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Muslim World, Video Journalism, Salim Amin, Last King of Scotland, Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, News Xchange, Media, Arab World, Reuters, Ethiopia, Gordon Brown, Saudi Arabia, Zanzibar, Mohamed Amin, Ethiopian Famine, Tanzania, Bob Geldof, Danny Glover, Africa, Somali Pirates, Palestine, Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, New Media, Israel, Sudan, India, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Idi Amin, Rwanda, a24, World News
Mayhill Fowler

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.

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Yesterday's Events and Conversation Pieces

Carol Hoenig | Posted 12.13.2008 | Living

Read More: England, President-Elect Barack Obama, We Interrupt the Broadcast, Princess Diana, Mexico, Walter Cronkite, New York Times, Thanksgiving, Berlin Wall, Brazil, Cuban Missile Crisis, Barack Obama, Sourcebooks, Hindenburg, Living News
Carol Hoenig

Apparently, there are certain magazines and newspapers with Barack Obama's image after having won the election that are collector's items. I'm pleased...

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Colin Powell's Adlai Stevenson Moment

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Adlai Stevenson, UN Security Council, Colin Powell, Cuban Missile Crisis, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama is all well and good, but he still has a way to go before the ignominious stain on his carefully culti...

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Just Where/When Has McCain Led in Any Crisis? His Only 2 Speeds are Lame and Impetuous

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: President Kennedy, Leadership, John McCain, Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Kennedy, Crisis, 2008 Election, Politics News
Paul Abrams

I may have missed it, but I never read of John McCain's leading anything in that crisis. And, thankfully. With his impulsive leadership style, we might not be here writing about it.

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McCain & the Missiles of October

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, John McCain, Mccain Gambling Anger, Mccain Judgment, Thad Cochran, Maxwell Taylor, Cuban Missile Crisis, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, American Graffiti, Curtis LeMay, David Shoup, George Will, David Brooks, John McCain-John F. Kennedy, McCain Temper, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Many voters are attracted to McCain's quick, "don't look back" decision-making and fancy that he will keep them secure. But would he? The experience of October 1962 strongly suggests otherwise.

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