Progreso Weekly - April 20, 2006

“They attempted to execute Chávez but the firing squad refused to shoot” (Keep reading…)

“From Deep Inside the Washington Beltway” March 24, 2006 http://www.waynemadsenreport.com By Wayne Madsen (Keep reading…)

Aljazeera 23 January 2006

Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, has offered free eye operations to impoverished Americans and asked the US government to let them travel to his country for treatment. (Keep reading…)

From the Marxmail list, moderated by Louis Proyect January 1, 2006

Virtually nothing has been reported by the English-language imperialist news outlets on Evo Morales’s visit to Cuba, but I think it is of extraordinary significance. It tells me THIS New Year is going to be a VERY New Year in Bolivia, and perhaps all of Latin America. (Keep reading…)

Message of the National Assembly of People’s Power And of the Council of State of Cuba to Evo Morales (Keep reading…)

A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann

FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba (Keep reading…)

Globe & Mail/Rabble

Any sex therapist will tell you: it’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with what you’ve got. Exactly the same principle applies in economics. Economic headlines focus on the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The underlying assumption — rarely stated — is that if the economy is growing, we are getting better-off. In reality, however, the link between economic growth (what you’ve got) and human well-being (what you do with it) is fuzzier than that. (Keep reading…)

The Current Debate

In the mid-1960s, when Che Guevara dropped out of sight to begin his guerrilla campaign in Bolivia, some on the left were asking whether Fidel had had him murdered. In the late 1980s, some were quick to assume that the trial of the Cuban general Ochoa on charges of attempting to organize a drug ring in collaboration with the Medellín cartel was really a political purge. What is striking is that these accusations against Cuba were accepted by so many without investigation, as if the abuses that were alleged were only to be expected and therefore must be true. (Keep reading…)

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“We will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them.” - George W. Bush, Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001 (Keep reading…)