Cuba

Niccolo Machiavelli

JFK’s Insider Cigar Deal

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Feb 8th 2012 at 8:16 am in Cuba, History | Comments(17)
From the Daily Mail: President John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as he could just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo – which subsequently made them illegal. Kennedy asked his head of press and fellow cigar smoker Pierre Salinger to obtain ‘1,000 Petit Upmanns’ on February 6, 1962, [...]
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John J. Xenakis

21-Jan-12 World View: France May Withdraw Early From Afghanistan After Soldiers’ Deaths

Posted by John J. Xenakis Jan 21st 2012 at 4:10 am in Afghanistan, Asia, China, Cuba, Economy, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, United Nations | Comments(21)
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Los Zetas cartel the most powerful in Mexico Cuba makes plan to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico U.S. seeks Russia’s explanation on Syria-bound weapons ship Thailand recognizes a Palestinian state Another nail-biting weekend as Greece bailout talks hit snag The Baltic Dry Index may be crashing France may withdraw early from Afghanistan after [...]
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Humberto Fontova

CBS News Shills for Castro: Reef Preservation Covers a Multitude of Human Rights Abuses

Posted by Humberto Fontova Dec 23rd 2011 at 7:49 am in Cuba, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, human rights | Comments(13)
Last week’s 60 Minutes featured another entry in the show’s long line of joint CBS-Castro productions. This time Anderson Cooper and his production crew partnered with the Stalinist regime’s Centro de Investigaciones Marinas for a propaganda piece on the marvels of Cuban coral reef conservation. The co-host of the CBS show and [...]
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Spyridon Mitsotakis

The Tyrants Of Cuba Murder Once Again: Laura Pollan, Brave Freedom Fighter, Dead

Posted by Spyridon Mitsotakis Oct 16th 2011 at 1:04 pm in Communism, Cuba, Featured Story, History, Humanitarian, Intelligence, human rights | Comments(41)
On the 40th birthday of her daughter, one of the bravest freedom fighters in the world, Laura Pollan, founder and leader of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, died this week of a mysterious “illness”. Sound strange? Her friends know so: In my opinion, and in the opinion of many others, Laura Pollan was murdered by [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Celebrating The Anniversary Of Che Guevera’s Execution

Posted by Humberto Fontova Oct 7th 2011 at 3:06 pm in Cuba, History | Comments(51)
If the Occupy Wall Street crowd thinks the NYPD is brutal, they’ve seen nothing. Che Guevara would clear the “occupation” in a New York nanosecond. His colleagues of the time recall him cheering the Soviet tanks slaughtering Hungarian freedom fighters on the streets of Budapest. The youths they machine-gunned and ground under their tank treads [...]
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Institute for Energy Research (IER)

Obama Balks At Offshore Oil Drilling-But Not Castro’s Cuba

Posted by Institute for Energy Research (IER) Oct 3rd 2011 at 3:45 pm in Cuba, Energy, Latin America, Obama | Comments(20)
The United States is suffering from high unemployment, high energy prices, stagnant economic growth, and a massive budget deficit. By expediting the development of offshore oil resources, the government could tackle all four of these problems simultaneously. Yet for some reason, the Administration continues to drag its feet. In contrast, the Cuban government has no problem [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Ahmadinejad Humiliated In New York

Posted by Humberto Fontova Sep 25th 2011 at 12:52 pm in Communism, Cuba, History, Iran, Justice/Legal, Nuclear Proliferation, United Nations, human rights | Comments(78)
As he attempted to address them this week, one third of the UN General Assembly walked out on Iranian “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Then he was pointedly snubbed by all U.S. political figures and hard-balled by the media, who grilled him on human rights abuses and nuclear weapons. We’re not interested… Fidel Castro’s sides must be hurting as [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Che’s Failed 9/11

Posted by Humberto Fontova Sep 18th 2011 at 10:00 am in Cuba, Culture/Art, History, Terrorism | Comments(19)
On the Friday after Thanksgiving 1962 Cuban agents planned to detonate 500 kilos of TNT inside Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdale’s and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal. Che Guevara was the head of Cuba’s “Foreign Liberation Department” at the time. On September 11th 2001, roughly 50,000 people worked at the World Trade Center. Macy’s alone gets roughly 50,000 shoppers [...]
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Institute for Energy Research (IER)

Rest Of The World Developing Their Oil Resources: Will We?

Posted by Institute for Energy Research (IER) Sep 15th 2011 at 5:00 am in Africa, Asia, China, Cuba, Energy, Featured Story, Israel, Latin America, Obama, Russia, saudi arabia | Comments(35)
By November 23, a team of 12 Congressmen and Senators will determine if they can agree on a way to cut at least $1.2 trillion dollars from the federal deficit. If they fail to agree, predetermined cuts will automatically occur, half of which will be to the Department of Defense budget.[i] One way to get revenues [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Hezbollah In Cuba For Attacks On Israeli Targets In the Americas

Posted by Humberto Fontova Sep 4th 2011 at 10:18 am in Cuba, Featured Story, Israel, Latin America, Terrorism | Comments(25)
A year ago many prominent Israelis seemed smitten with Fidel Castro. “I thank you from the bottom of my heart,” wrote Israeli President Shimon Peres to Fidel Castro on Sept. 24, 2010. “I must confess that your remarks were, in my opinion, unexpected and rife with unique intellectual depth. Your words presented a surprising bridge [...]
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