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Spare Change

Stephen Molton and Gus Russo | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The G2, Richard Bissell, Cia, Colin Powell, Guatemala, Vietnam, Allen Dulles, The Best and the Brightest, Barack Obama, Cuba, Politics News

Barack Obama, like Jack Kennedy, combines great intellect, good looks, and grace. Unlike Kennedy, Obama seems uncluttered by the moral baggage that added to Kennedy's miseries.

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History on Cuba - Hidden in Plain View - In Florida's Election Returns

Sarah Stephens | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Florida, Election Results, Cuba Policy, Cuba, U.S.-Cuba Policy, Cuban American, John McCain, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Joe Biden, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Election, Barack Obama, Presidential Results, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Presidential Election, Election Analysis, Politics News

In the election returns, hidden in plain view, is license for President-elect Obama to fundamentally rethink U.S. policy toward Cuba and expand on his incremental approach.

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Cuba, the UN, and the US Election

Sarah Stephens | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cuban Embargo, Cuba, Embargo, U.N., United Nations, Politics News

The US embargo imposes sanctions more comprehensive than any we impose on Iran, Sudan, or Syria. And still, this flawed and futile embargo lives on.

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Election Amnesia: Cuba on My Mind

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Human Rights, Fidel Castro, Hillary, Obama, Mccain, Political Prisoners, Cuba, Election, Voting, Politics News

With the election in the air, there are many things we've forgotten to remember. But Oscar Elias Biscet isn't one of them because, sadly, we never remembered the good Doctor Biscet in the first place.

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Five Guantanamo Prisonners' Charges Dropped By US

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Us Drops Charges, Foreign Affairs, Cuba, Islamic Extremists, Politics News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. military abruptly dropped charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one who allegedly plotted to...

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Cuba Reports Discovery Of 20 Billion Barrels Of Oil

The Guardian | Rory Carroll | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Cuba Oil, Huge Cuba Oil Reserve, Oil Industry, Cuba Economy, Economy, Cuba Oil Find, Cuba, Business News

Friends and foes have called Cuba many things - a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny - but no one has called it lucky, unt...

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Chuck Hagel Will Help Obama Find his "Inner Nixon"

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Toxic Financial Products, Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Boris Yeltsin, Latin America, Colin Powell, US Foreign Policy, Lilibet Hagel, Diplomacy, Chuck Hagel, China, Japan, Barack Obama, Global Financial Crisis, Iran, International Financial Crisis, Richard Nixon, Middle East, South Korea, Georgia, Russia, Israel, Cuba, Secretary of State, Politics News

Rumors are swirling that Chuck Hagel -- and Colin Powell -- may both endorse Barack Obama in the days shortly after this debate. I have no idea if that is true -- and to some degree it doesn't matter.

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Sox Season a Success? You Can Put it on the Board

Jon Greenberg | Posted 10.07.2008 | Chicago

Read More: American League, Joe Crede, White Sox, Orlando Cabrera, Ken Griffey Jr., Kenny Williams, Jay Mariotti, Alexei Ramirez, Jim Thome, Cuba, Carlos Quentin, Ozzie Guillen, White Sox Hot Stove, White Sox Free Agency, White Sox Playoffs, Buscones, White Sox Offseason Moves, Chicago News

There were few tears, if any, shed Monday night by a Sox team that never quit, even as it was running on fumes. This team didn't promise a World Series. There was no "curse" to break. The epitaph of the 2008 White Sox? They lived on the edge and died with their spikes on.

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Virtual Obama, Virtual JFK

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eisenhower, Koji Masutani, Vietnam, Berlin, Laos, James Blight, Documentary Film, Obama, Lbj, Jfk, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News

I urge you to see a new film, Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, by Koji Masutani, now at the Film Forum in New York through September 30.

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Hurricane Ike Upon Us: Cuba, Haiti, Texas Need Help!

Richard Walden | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Campaigns, Philanthropy, Ike, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Ike, Cuba, Giving, Gulf Coast, Haiti, Politics News

It's hard to pay attention unless you are living at ground zero.

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Don't Let Hurricane Relief for Cuba Drown in Politics

Sarah Stephens | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: US-Cuba Relations, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, Politics News

Our Cuba policy is inhumane, and the Bush administration should be singled out for its short-sighted and politicized response to the tragedy taking place on the island.

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Right-Wing Extremists Unmoved by Devastation in Cuba

Joe Garcia | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Garcia, Caribbean, Hurricane Relief, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Ike, Cuba, Gustav, Cuban Americans, Politics News

The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.

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Ike Sights Texas, Gains Strength After Devastating Cuba

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Extreme Weather, Hurricane Ike, Ike, Hurricanes, Texas, Cuba, Green News

HAVANA — Hurricane Ike grew stronger as it barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday toward the Texas coast af...

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How Mean Can the Bush Administration Be?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Disaster Relief, Cuba, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike, Foreign Aid, US Foreign Aid, Condi Rice, Hurricane, Embargo, Fidel Castro, Cuban Relief Aid, Disaster Aid, Relief Aid, Cuban Aid, Hurricane Aid, Politics News

The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.

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Cuba Needs Emergency Aid After Hurricanes Gustav and Ike

Richard Walden | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, Condoleeza Rice, Cuba, Humanitarian Aid, Trade Embargo, Operation Usa, Politics News

With even Miami's hardline Congressional delegation asking for official US assistance, Rice stands alone in her obstinacy towards Cuba.

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Gustav Floods Haiti, Kills 11, Heads Toward Cuba

AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Extreme Weather, Hurricanes, Hurricane Gustav, Gustav, Haiti, Cuba, Home News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gustav stalled offshore Wednesday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil ...

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Obama on Latin America

Laura Carlsen | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Venezuela, Obama, Nafta, Cuba, Latin America, Politics News

Although it isn't a headline-grabber these days, the debate over Latin American policy raises matters that deeply affect people south of our border and the millions of Americans with family ties to the region.

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What storm? Keys take Tropical Storm Fay in stride

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Hurricane Fay, Tropical Storm Fay, Extreme Weather, Hurricane Florida, Florida Hurricane, Cuba Hurricane, Florida, Cuba, Green News

KEY WEST, Fla. — Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropi...

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Withdrawing From ABM Was Destabilizing: Here's Proof

Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Anti-Ballistic Missile, Nuclear Weapons, ABM Treaty, Nuclear Arms, Russia, Bush Foreign Policy, Cuba, Bush, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Think about consequences. Is it really a good trade-off to station a missile shield in Europe, one that has not even been proven to work, for having Russian bombers 90 miles south of Florida?

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Al Sharpton For Human Rights in Cuba?

Roger Hernandez | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Prisoners, Human Rights Abuses, Cuba, Reverend Al Sharpton, Politics News

Activist in black causes, Sharpton asked the Cuban gov. to allow him into the country to learn about the situation of political prisoners. But is he also concerned about imprisoned dissidents who are not black?

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Are There Some Terrorists that are OK by Lieberman? A Call for Senator Lieberman to Recant

Steve Clemons | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Southern Command, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Terrorism, Joseph Lieberman, Max Kampelman, Lexington Institute, Phil Peters, Patrick Doherty, Palestine, Cuba, The Havana Note, US-Cuba Policy, Invasion, Fbi, Politics News

Lieberman agreed to carry to Bush a "pardon request" for a convict that the FBI sent to prison for terror activities aimed against Cuba.

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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

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

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

Read More: John McCain, Obama Cuba, McCain Cuban Embargo, Barack Obama Embargo, Mccain, Obama Cuba Policy, Obama, Barack Obama, John McCain Raul Castro, Elian Gonzalez, Barack Obama Cuba, Cuba Embargo, Embargo, Cuban Embargo, Vigilia Mambisa, Raul Castro, Barack Obama Miami, Miami, South Florida, Florida, Barack Obama Smears, Smears, Right-Wing Smear, Obama Smears, Cuba, Mario Diaz-Balart, David Rivera, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Politics News

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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