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4 hrs ago | Harry's Place

Cuba's black democratic socialist dissidents

The Washington Post's leftwing columnist Harold Meyerson recently met the Afro-Cuban dissident Leonardo Calvo CA rdenas- who, as the former director of Cuba's Lenin Museum, "hasn't always been on the outside looking in."

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Central America, The Washington Post Company, Washington Post, Publishing,

8 hrs ago | Gazette.net

Our shrinking freedoms

I'm not a conspiracy guy. I need proof, not speculation, if you want me to believe in UFOs, that Lyndon Johnson killed JFK or that a secret cabal of Freemasons runs the world.

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Related Topix: UFO and Alien, Lyndon Johnson, Prison, Idaho Government, Idaho, Opinion

12 hrs ago | The Daily Journal

'Magic City' returns for new season

MIAMI -- Miami Beach's resort hotels showed guests a tropical paradise when they were built in the 1950s, but just beyond the sunny facade was a shady, more dangerous world.

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Related Topix: Miami, FL, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

16 hrs ago | American Thinker

Why not Zimbabwe?

When I heard about President Barack Obama's plans for a $100 million trip to Africa with his family and entourage, I was surprised that Zimbabwe is not on the itinerary.

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Related Topix: World News, Zimbabwe, Africa, Tribal, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Robert Mugabe, Hugo Chavez

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Trend Hunter Magazine

Dictator Cigarette Character Ads - The Bem Ser Integrative Health...

The Bem Ser Integrative Health ad campaign cleverly likens the addictive powers of cigarettes to the grip Dictators have over whole nations.

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People's Daily Online

Chinese President meets Cuban VP on stronger ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban first vice-president of the councils of state and ministers.

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Related Topix: Raul Castro

CBS 3 Springfield

Cuban dissident: Repression forced family to flee

One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek refuge in Miami after facing continued repression on the island.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Holyoke, MA, Springfield, MA

Bellingham Herald

Cuban dissident: Repression forced family to flee

Rosa Maria Paya, left, the daughter of a prominent Cuban dissident who died in a car crash, and her mother, Ofelia Acevedo, right, talk to the media about her family’s decision to seek refuge in the U.S during a Tuesday, July 18, 2013 press conference in Miami.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News

The Epoch Times

Cuban dissident: Repression Forced Family to Flee

Rosa Maria Paya, daughter of late Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya who died in a car crash, left, and her mother Ofelia Acevedo talk to the media about their family's decision to seek political refuge in the U.S., in Miami, Fla., Tuesday, July 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News

Babalu Blog

Cuban Booty: The Art of Looting

Excerpts from an article appearing in the summer edition of the German art journal KUR by our good friend Tania Mastrapa, Ph.D. For those interested in Cuba's looted art, Dr. Mastrapa will be holding a conference in Miami on July 20th addressing the thefts in Cuba as well as the USSR, Nazi Germany, and other communist countries: 1959 was the year ... (more)

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Central America, US News, Conservative Political News

Washington Times

U.S.-Cuba mail talks spark speculation of wider outreach

The announcement that U.S. and Cuban officials will hold landmark talks this week toward restarting direct mail service between the two nations prompted a mix of reactions Veteran Cuba watchers agreed that the development is unlikely to trigger a wider normalization in relations any time soon.

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Related Topix: Cuba, NY, Prison, US Politics, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

Mon Jun 17, 2013

RedState

Ecuador's Correa Cozies Up With Dangerous Allies

We have written before about Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who seems determined to seize the mantle of Latin American Lefty Authoritarian of the Decade from Hugo Chavez's dead body.

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Related Topix: Rafael Correa, Hugo Chavez, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News

Charter97

Guillermo Farinas: Belarusian opposition has its own army

The legendary Cuban dissident gave an interview to charter97.org on the eve of tbeing awarded the Andrei Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament .

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Related Topix: Raul Castro

Foreign Affairs

Cuba After Communism

Cuba has entered a new era of economic reform that defies easy comparison to post-Communist transitions elsewhere.

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Related Topix: Yale University

Arab Times

Cuban dancers adjust to US, seek work

Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front room.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Watergate Scandal

Richard M. Nixon that were revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington , D.C., on June 17, 1972.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Public Relations

Sun Jun 16, 2013

The Daily Caller

Castro government funded 'flu shot' abortion doctor's education in Cuba

The doctor who compared abortion injections to a "flu shot" received her medical training in Cuba, fully funded by the regime of Fidel Castro, and returned to the U.S. planning to advocate for universal health care, according to an interview she gave in 2007.

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Related Topix: Abortion, Albuquerque, NM, US News, Conservative Political News

Sat Jun 15, 2013

New York Post

'What do I wear to a hijacking?'

On June 2, 1972, a disturbed Vietnam veteran named Roger Holder packed the following items into a briefcase: "an alarm clock, a dog-eared copy of Madame Blavatsky's 'The Secret Doctrine,' and an empty disposable-razors box."

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, US News, Federal Aviation Administration, Opinion

The Guardian

BolA var by Marie Arana - review

The swaggering, verbose, former coup plotter Hugo ChA vez , who died this year, renamed his country "the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela " after finally winning election to the presidency.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Venezuela, Rafael Correa

Fri Jun 14, 2013

O-R Online

Editorial voices from the U.S., elsewhere

Simply allow Americans – the most effective ambassadors for democracy and free enterprise – to travel more easily to Cuba.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, Opinion