By Saul Landau Fidel Castro scored one big political victory last week, without speaking or even leaving his house – and one sort of amusing little win. By a lopsided score at the Summit of the Americas meeting in Cartagena, Fidel beat President Obama 31-2. The USA and Canada still want to exclude Cuba from […]
“…they cannot forgive us that we are just so close to them, that we have made a Socialist revolution under the very nose of the United States!” - Fidel Castro, April 16, 1961 “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.” - English book of Common Prayer, 1662 […]
By Saul Landau “Why can’t we “get some of the people in these downtrodden countries to like us instead of hating us.” President Dwight Eisenhower, March 1953 (NY Times, August 10, 2003) Does Washington possess a consistent set of foreign policy principles? Presidents make war – without after 1941 ?? having Congress declare it as per […]
The State Department echoed by the EU has once again raised the human rights issue to beat up Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro declared his independence from the United States – possibly without realizing that punishment could last 51+ years. Even when US national interests are involved, Washington acts petulantly if not downright childishly. Following […]
“The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The other hottest recorded years have all occurred since 1998, NASA said.” Global […]