This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/10/obamas-hard-turn-to-the-right-in-hemispheric-policy/ March 10, 2015 by FREDERICK B. MILLS U.S. hemispheric policy reached a new low today when President Barack Obama invoked emergency powers to declare “a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United … Continue reading Antagonizing Venezuela Obama’s Hard Turn to the Right in Hemispheric Policy
What Is Happening in Venezuela?
by Greg Grandin http://www.thenation.com/blog/199681/what-happening-venezuela# Coups and countercoups. Crackdowns. Economic crackups. Seven cents for a tube of toothpaste and $755 for a box of condoms. As a result of the latter, Bloomberg says, “Venezuela has one of South America’s highest rates of HIV infection” (disturbing, and, Bloomberg didn’t mention, exactly the same rate of HIV infection … Continue reading What Is Happening in Venezuela?
Obama’s Cuba Policy: An End to the Embargo? What does this really mean?
DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. We hope you join us for this important eventc once we have a new date. Please bring your family and friends and do help us pass the word! Download a printable flyer here. Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:30-4:00 p.m. (1:30 p.m refreshments; 2:00 p.m. program) Elkridge … Continue reading Obama’s Cuba Policy: An End to the Embargo? What does this really mean?
The blockade has not ended
Interview with Josefina Vidal, Ministry of Foreign Relations Director General for the United States Author: Cristina Escobar | informacion@granma.cu february 12, 2015 18:02:55 Cristina Escobar.- Cuba and the United States are entering a new stage of diplomatic relations. How can these relations be constructed after so many years of confrontation, and what do the recent … Continue reading The blockade has not ended
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