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Castro's Promise: A Future Without Poverty; Now Only the Poor Remain

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Raul Castro, Human Rights, Cuba, Fidel Castro, World, Cuban Revolution, Poliics, Communism, Socialism, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The Humble I had not yet been born in April 1961, when the socialist character of the Cuban process was declared. "This is the socialist revolution ...

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January 20 has Special Meaning...Even in Rome

Tamar Abrams | Posted 01.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, Obama Inauguration, Obama in Europe, President Obama, Election Reactions Around the World, World, Election Reaction Around the World, Obama Reaction Abroad, Style News
Tamar Abrams

In Istanbul last year, my daughter and I decided to pass as Canadians because it seemed easier. It was sad to "represent" a war I didn't support and a president I never voted for.

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Cuban Doctors Traded for Venezuelen Oil

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing in Cuba, Politics, Family Separation, Human Rights, Cuba, World, Medicine, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

In Havana, your bank account would grow with the fifty convertible pesos you'd receive each month for your stay in Caracas. Your wife ordered a laptop and your youngest son asked for Play Station.

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Al Jazeera English Beats Israel's Ban on Reporters in Gaza with Exclusive Coverage

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World, Gaza, Middle East, Media, Hamas, Qatar, Al Jazeera, Israel, Journalism, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Srael Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, Video, Al Jazeera English, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Some may call it propaganda but I call it hardcore reporting. If you are not watching Al Jazeera English's coverage of the War on Gaza, you are missing much, if not, most of the story.

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Israel in Gaza: Self-Defense or Slaughter?

Tom Farer | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Legal and Moral Doubts, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel, Justification for Assault on Gaza, World, Gaza, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News
Tom Farer

Gaza has most of the characteristics of a very large prison, much of it outdoors, with the guards withdrawn by the authorities to the periphery in order to save manpower and money.

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From Anonymity to a Global Voice For Human Rights... In Just a Year

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Independent Journalists, Cuba, World, Fidel Castro, Human Rights, Politics, Blogosphere, Convivencia, Gorki Aguila Arrest, Reuters, Reinaldo Escobar, Political Blogging, Yoani Sanchez, Social Activism, Blogging, Media News
Yoani Sanchez

The Year of Yoani Note: The following post is from Desde Aqui, the blog of Yoani Sanchez's husband, independent journalist Reinaldo Escobar. It is ...

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British Couple Has 'Black-And-White Twins' For A Second Time

AP | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Twins, Black and White Twins, World, Mixed-Race Twins, World News

LONDON — A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds _ twice _ by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and t...

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Last Year's Truths: What We Got Wrong in the Aftermath of the Mumbai Attacks

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: India, South Asia, Terrorism, Mumbai Attacks, Media, Mumbai Terrorism, India Pakistan Relations, World, World News
Vamsee Juluri

We were quick to spot the similarities between some Indian and American reactions to 26/11 and 9/11 respectively, especially from the Right, but we failed to see the differences.

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The Return of the Bully: Ukraine - Russia Gas Conflict 2008

Tammy Lynch | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Gas, Republic of Georgia, World, Conflict, Nato, Georgia, Ukraine, Gas Conflict, World News
Tammy Lynch

Russia today turned off the gas to Ukraine for the second time in three years. They are not providing gas despite Ukraine's full payment for all gas received from Russia in 2008.

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Kuwait's Political Machinations Lower U.S. Stocks as War on Gaza Raises Oil Prices

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 12.31.2008 | World

Read More: Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, Kuwait, Gaza, World, America, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Economic Crisis, Oil, Oil Prices, Israel, United States, Hamas, Palestinians, Foreign Policy, War on Gaza, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

As the American dollar declines and bombs drop on Gaza, the likeliness of regional countries becoming drawn into the conflict are mounting.

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Beloved Cuban Singer: "We are Paralyzed... We Make Plans for a Future That Never Comes Nearer."

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.31.2008 | World

Read More: Civil Rights, Yoani Sanchez, World, Cuba, Latin America, Human Rights, Politics, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Beyond the strings of his guitar he modulated his best tune yesterday, the one that raises dissent and the finger of the citizen pointed at power. It's the same tune hummed by thousands.

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Kreskin's Predictions for 2009

The Amazing Kreskin | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Socializing, Cell Phones, Kitchen Table Conversations, Vegetarian, Waterboarding Ban, Waterboarding Torture, Bailouts, Malls, Vegetarianism, Eric Holder, Predictions, The Future, 2009 Predictions, Society, Family, Hillary Clinton 2012, Bankruptcy, World, Shopping, England, Terrorism, Military Draft, Barack Obama, Recession, Cell Phone Use, Draft, Hillary Clinton, Shopping Malls, Jackie Gleason, Hollywood, Politics News
The Amazing Kreskin

2009 Prediction: There will be a growing movement in the US to follow in the steps of England, and that is to restrict, discourage, or even ban cell phones in restaurants.

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The Cuban People and the State: Who Subsidizes Whom?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.30.2008 | World

Read More: Communism, Cuban Revolution, Yoani Sanchez, World, Cuba, Politics, Economy, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The end of subsidies The tedium of this end of year drove me to go see the dreary spectacle of our parliamentarians in their final meeting of 2008. ...

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Larry Mellon's Inspiring Mid-Life Crisis

Diana Odasso | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

Read More: Health, Haiti, The Giving Life, Charitable Gifts, Poverty, Charity, World, Third World, Hopital Albert Schweitzer, Midlife Crisis, Tuberculosis, Infant Malnutrition, Mid-Life Crisis, Third World Countries, HIV/AIDS, Charitable Organizations, Starvation, Aids, Port-Au-Prince, World News
Diana Odasso

As I reflect on my holiday experience last year and in light of this year's economic and moral climate, I marvel on the ability of a few to change the lives of many.

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In Cuba, Isolated Islanders Wait For The Internet

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Yoani Sanchez, World, Cuba, Civil Rights, Internet, Politics, Internet Access, Cuba Internet, Computer Access, Technology, World News
Yoani Sanchez

A vague completion date, and the question of whether it will bring information for all, surrounds the submarine cable linking Cuba and Venezuela.

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Christmas in Cuba 2008, Marking Another Year of a People in Waiting

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.26.2008 | World

Read More: Christmas, Dissidents, World, Yoani Sanchez, Cuba, Politics, Emigration, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Today could be the 3rd of June or the 9th of September, because in Cuba, there are hardly any signs that it is Christmas.

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Solutions for Cuba: Let Everyone Speak

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Yoani Sanchez, World, Cuba, Pope John Paul II, Politics, Economy, Free Speech, Civil Rights, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

Let everyone speak, no matter whether in complaint or in support of a proposal designed to address the problems.

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Iraqis Respond To House Of Saddam

Nour Akkad | Posted 12.19.2008 | World

Read More: House of Saddam, Slideshow, Saddam Hussein, World, Iraqis, Iraq, House of Saddam Accuracy, Documentry Video Sadam, Nour Akkad, World News
Nour Akkad

In an effort to be as objective in nature as possible, I spoke with Iraqi-Americans from different walks of life -- Shiites and Sunnis, young and old -- all of whom by the way wanted to remain anonymous.

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Mariela Castro Responds: Calls Yoani a "Cocky Hen"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.17.2008 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Homophobia, Gender, Politics, Cuba, World, Free Speech, Transvestism, Women in Politics, Insults, Semantics, Grammar, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Gallita / "Cocky hen" A curious end of the year in which the surprises accumulate, Christmas trees return and sexologists start to use the language of...

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Cuba: Maintaining the Revolution Block by Block, with a File on Every Citizen

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.16.2008 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, World, Cuba, Government Surveillance, Politics, Spying, Cdr, Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, World News
Yoani Sanchez

In one of those confusions so common in children, I thought for years that the logo of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution was an enormous eye carrying a machete.

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50 Years Later We Ask: When did the Cuban Revolution Die?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Yoani Sanchez, Cuba, Generation Y, Fidel Castro, Revolutionaries, World, 1968, Spanish, Black Spring, Hippies, Sierra Maestra, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

In 1975, the year I was born in Cuba, nothing remained of the rebellion that the older people remembered. We had neither long hair nor euphoria.

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What Ms. Roosevelt Might Have Said About Gay Rights

Pia Sawhney | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Politics News, Politics, California Gay Marriage, Human Rights, Gay Rights, Religion and Politics, Breaking Politics News, Human Rights Abuses, Homosexual Rights, Gay Marriage, Eleanor Roosevelt, 60th Anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, World, Politics News
Pia Sawhney

If Ms. Roosevelt was around today... would she have used the 60th anniversary of the UDHR the way gay activists have; and would she have endorsed a national boycott in solidarity with them?

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Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 12.11.2008 | World

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Lebanon, Montenegro, Kosovo, World, War, George W. Bush, Serbia, Obama Administration, Weapons, Laos, Barack Obama, Politics, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Albania, Mines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, Barack Obama Administration, President Clinton, World News
Donald Steinberg

Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.

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AIDS Charity and our Domestic Needs

Cord Jefferson | Posted 12.11.2008 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Sub-Saharan Africa, Infectious Diseases, World, Africa, Aids, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Statistics, World AIDS Day, Living News
Cord Jefferson

Among Manhattan's middle-aged black men, the HIV/AIDS rates are comparable to those of sub-Saharan Africa. Blacks in the United States are at a flash point in their struggle with AIDS.

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President-elect Obama Should Engage Iranian Women Calling for Change

Soona Samsami | Posted 12.09.2008 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Islam, Fundamentalism, Women in Iran, Women, Change in Regime, World, Women for Obama, Muslims, Iran, Muslim Womens Rights, Power, Barack Obama, World News
Soona Samsami

Iran's monopolistic, suppressive, dogmatic, misogynous, and terrorist political regime strives to preserve and expand the velayat-e-faqih (absolute rule of the clergy).

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