Cuba

In Cuba This Summer, The Carrot and The Stick

David Paul Appell | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Castro, Raul Castro, Cuba Land Reform, Embargo, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Policy, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, Dissidents, Politics News
David Paul Appell

Since Fidel Castro stepped aside last February, there has in fact been real change afoot down in Cuba. The nation's development is more than cosmetic: it's a matter of survival for the ruling class.

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Are Cuba's Schools Better than Ours?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Test Scores, Schools, Cuba, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

Maybe we could learn something from the Cubans about the rights we deny many of our children -- a safe environment, decent health care, and schools that guarantee them high levels of learning

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Barack Obama, Comunista y Terrorista? / Communist and Terrorist?

David Paul Appell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

The U.S. doesn't have to embrace Cuba at this time, but we do need to engage, because if we don't evolve too, history won't absolve us. Obama understands this.

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EU Lifts Cuba Sanctions

AP | JAN SLIVA | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: European Union, Eu, Cuba, Cuba Sanctions, Eu Cuba Sanctions, Eu Ifts Cuba Sanctions, Politics News

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the com...

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Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Youth Communist Union

CNN | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elian Gonzalez, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Castro's Young Communists, Politics News

The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. President Fidel Castro, left,...

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Obama's Crucial AIPAC Speech

Trey Ellis | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, John McCain, Cuba, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Obama Cuba, Obama AIPAC, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News
Trey Ellis

With John McCain now in his sights, tomorrow's AIPAC speech is the perfect opportunity for Obama to lay out a compelling, transformative roadmap for the future of American foreign policy.

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McCain and the Cuba Libre

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Cuba, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, McCain Cuban Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, McCain Cuba, Cuban Embargo, Raul Castro, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

John McCain seems intent on embracing every failed policy of the Bush administration. Iraq, check; top end tax cuts, check. Privatization of Social Security, check. Unraveling employer based health care, check. And this weekend, McCain boldly informed the remnants of the Miami Cuban expatriots that he will sustain the most egregiously failed US policy of them all -- the Cuban embargo.

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Obama Will Give Reform in Cuba a Nudge if Not a Shove

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Foreign Policy, Cuba Embargo, John McCain, Latin America, Joe Garcia, Annette Taddeo, U.S. Cuba Policy, Mario Diaz-Balart, Cuban Voters, Cuban Americans, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, John McCain Raul Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Cuba, John McCain Foreign Policy, Raul Martinez, Raul Castro Cuban President, Castro, Politics News
David Paul Appell

In declaring his administration would meet with the Raúl Castro regime without preconditions, Obama was not being naïve but impeccably realistic.

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Obama in Florida: Hooray for Substance!

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Clinton Assassination, Hillary Clinton, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

In a campaign that's dully repetitive, Obama did something worth noting. He took his politics of engagement to Florida and presented it to the bulwarks of the Cuban embargo.

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Obama says his Cuba policy is based on 'Libertad'

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Cuba, Cuba Policy, Obama Cuba Policy, Politics News

MIAMI — Sen. Barack Obama, who once said he would meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, added Friday that he would do so "only wh...

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Jason Linkins

Cuba Now Officially A Part Of McCain's Year 2013 Fantasy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, 2013, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News

As we've already seen, the John McCain candidacy is more or less based upon the premise and the promise that if America can hang on until the year 201...

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A Personal Ethical Challenge and Grover Norquist's "Black Bag"

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ann Coulter, Jon Stewart, On Day One, Better World Campaign, Stephen Colbert, Grover Norquist, Cuba, Abramoff, Politics News
Steve Clemons

I don't keep a secret of the fact that Grover Norquist and his wife Samah are friends of mine -- and I just had him in to speak at the New America F...

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Next Mothers Day Let's Invite the Whole Family

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Codepink, Soldiers, Iraq, Cuba, Mother's Day, Terrorism, Mother Earth, Politics News
Medea Benjamin

Next Mothers Day, I don't want to be organizing yet another rally of Mothers Against War in Washington DC and lamenting the state of our dysfunctional...

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Burma's Cyclone, China's Earthquake, America's Katrina

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Foreign Aid, Burma, Cyclone, Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, Cuba, Aid Shipments, China, Myanmar, Chinese Earthquake, Home News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The Bush Administration should go after the Myanmar junta for not letting well-meaning foreign governments deliver relief-- except that the Bush Administration did the same thing when we needed relief.

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Cuba puts first computers on sale to the public

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cuba, Cubans Computers, Raul Castro, Politics News

HAVANA — Cubans are getting wired. The island's communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time Friday, endi...

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Joe Garcia's Slick Slam of the Diaz-Balart Brothers

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Garcia, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Cuban American National Foundation, Cuba, Castro, Cold War, Maria Diaz-Balart, US-Cuba Policy, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Joe Garcia, a former and now reformed chief spear-carrier of the Cuban American National Foundation, is challenging Mario Diaz-Balart for Florida's 25th district -- and he's making huge inroads.

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In Raúl Castro's Cuba, Glimmerings of Real Change At Last?

David Paul Appell | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tourism Apartheid, US-Cuba Relations, Cuban Embargo, Cuba Resorts, Raul Castro, Apartheid, Cuba, Castro, Politics News
David Paul Appell

In what looks like the baby steps of a slow process of easing into changes that Raúl and his people realize are unavoidable, tourism apartheid in Cuba may become a thing of the past.

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Where Do Obama And Clinton Stand On China?

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

In the near future, China will eclipse the Middle East and terrorism to be our number one foreign policy challenge. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for any real change in our China policy.

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Venting About Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is helping to defend the political turf of not the best in the Republican Party -- but the worst.

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Freedom to Travel? More on the Audacity and Hypocrisy of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Travel Restrictions, Israel, American General Life Insurance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mario Diaz-Balart, Cuba, Jeff Flake, US-Cuba Policy, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Schultz has no moral authority complaining that her travel latitude has been restricted when she is directly responsible for inhibiting the freedoms of so many other Americans.

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Condi Rice Puts End to Presidential Candidate "Breach Envy"

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Passport Breach, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Andy Borowitz, Cuba, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Now we know that McCain's and Clinton's passport information have also been breached. Rumor is that they'll all get a courtesy call from Condoleezza Rice -- so no chance of "breach envy."

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ON DAY ONE: "Multi-Nationalize the Fuel Cycle" and "Open Travel to Cuba"

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Energy, Steve Clemons, Video, Jeffrey Lewis, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Palestine, Better World Campaign, Jeff Flake, China, US-Cuba Policy, ArmsControlWonk.Com, Communism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Oil, Israel, Cuba, Nuclear Power, Politics News
Steve Clemons

One of the very coolest and most informative blogs I check in on a daily basis is ArmsControlWonk.com published by my New America Foundation colleague...

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Huffington Post Soon to Have More Cuban Readers

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Raul Castro, Cuba, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Policy, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Raul Castro has opened the door for a new consumer appetite. He is allowing Cubans to purchase -- completely unrestricted -- the vehicles for the consumption and transport of "culture."

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Friday Talking Points [21] -- Bash Bush Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Happy Leap Day! Because we are given an extra day this year, I would like to spend it in a good old fashioned Bush-bash. Maybe it's because everyone'...

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Human Rights Hypocrisy: Hidden In Plain Sight

Robert Weissman | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Castro, Sanctions, Human Rights, Bush, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Business News
Robert Weissman

There was a time, not so long ago, when U.S. governmental hypocrisy on human rights and corporate interests was at least acknowledged. But now it se...

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