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Unregulated Clinical Trials, Exploitation, and Profit: How the FDA Allows Big Pharma to Exploit the Poor in South America

Kelly Hearn, The Nation. September 28, 2011.

In South America, Big Pharma takes advantage of an extreme lack of FDA oversight by conducting unwarranted, unsafe experiments on the poor.

The Pentagon Won't Stop Spewing Propaganda About Prisoners Released From Guantánamo

Andy Worthington, TruthOut.org. January 24, 2011.

Why won't the Pentagon engage in honest, grown-up debate about the perceived dangerousness of prisoners at Guantánamo?

No Major Progress Expected from New Immigration Talks With Cuba

Patricia Grogg, IPS News. January 21, 2011.

While there is currently less tension between the two governments, it cannot be said that progress is being made towards an improvement in relations.

Luis Posada, Right-wing Terrorist and Former CIA Asset, Goes to Trial

Peter Kornbluh, The Nation. January 11, 2011.

Posada is still not being charged with actually perpetrating those terrorist operations, only with lying about aspects of his involvement in orchestrating them.

Eight Reasons US Healthcare Costs 96% More Than Cuba's--With the Same Results

Don Fitz, AlterNet. December 9, 2010.

Why does Cuba's healthcare system do so much with so little money--while we do so little with so much? The author visits Cuba, and revisits US health costs, to find out.

Cuba Moves Toward Privatization by Big U.S. Businesses; Cuban Workers Stand To Lose Almost Everything

Hannah Gurman, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 5, 2010.

Foreign direct investment exacerbates labor abuses. The only recourse for workers at foreign companies is the very state union that suppresses the right to organize.

The US Blockade of Cuba Is Pure Punishment for Cuban and American People

Anna Kalinina, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 10, 2010.

The crippling Cuban embargo must go. Will Congress finally do the right thing?

Life After Oil: Cuba Can Teach Us How to Live Without Our Dirty Fossil Fuel Addiction

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. June 18, 2010.

The crisis in the Gulf is only the most recent reminder that we have to begin imagining a post-carbon future.

Healing Body and Heart, Cuban Style

Beverly Bell, YES! Magazine. April 5, 2010.

Cuban doctors and artists -- on the ground in Haiti even before the earthquake -- are helping survivors heal.

How Cuban-Trained U.S. Doctors Treated Thousands of Haitians After the Quake

Renée Feltz, Indypendent. March 17, 2010.

Dr. Melissa Barber joined six other Cuban-trained doctors from the U.S. for a journey to Haiti in late January. "We've only put a dent in what is needed," she says.

Americans Are Learning Medicine the Cuban Way

Julia Landau, East Bay Express. February 5, 2010.

The Bay Area is a hub for new doctors who want to practice family medicine and help the poor, yet had to leave the country to learn how to do it.

Time to End the Cold War: Why I'm Defying my Government and Visiting Cuba

Tim Kingston, AlterNet. August 3, 2009.

The cold war is long dead, yet the United States still enforces a relic of that cold war with an economic embargo against Cuba.

U.S. and Cuba to Talk About Immigration

Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor. July 20, 2009.

But that's likely the extent of the dialogue to come.

Cuba, U.S. to Resume Immigration Talks at UN

Agence France Presse July 13, 2009.

Ernest Hemingway Revealed as Failed KGB Spy

John Dugdale, The Guardian. July 13, 2009.

A new book says the Nobel prize-winning novelist was on the KGB's list of U.S. agents, describing him as a "dilettante spy" code-named "Argo."

Gay and Proud in Havana: Celebration of Diversity Brings Out Best and Worst of Cuba

Marina Sitrin, AlterNet. June 4, 2009.

The Cuban government is beginning to take homophobia seriously, and people are starting to respond.

Why Obama Should Take Notes from Cuba on a Green Energy Revolution

Peter Bosshard, International Rivers . May 26, 2009.

Cuba has successfully greened its energy sector over the last few years, and is now exporting its energy revolution.

What Are the Real US Aims in 'Bringing Freedom' to Cuba?

Reese Erlich, PoliPoint Press. April 15, 2009.

According to US plans, Cuba's people would finally breathe the free air of democracy and eat the golden fruits of capitalism -- it's not so simple.

Fidel Castro: Mr. Obama, the Blockade of Cuba Takes Lives and Brings Suffering

Fidel Castro, CounterPunch. April 15, 2009.

Obama has so far been silent about revoking the harshest of measures against Cuba: the blockade.

Respecting Human Rights in Cuba Would Mean Ending the Embargo, Total Freedom to Travel and Shutting Down Gitmo

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 14, 2009.

Actual change in U.S.-policy would decriminalize travel to Cuba by any U.S. citizen or resident and allow Cuba to do business and trade freely.

Obama's Cuba Moves Do Little to End the Economic War on Havana

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 7, 2009.

While a step in the right direction, easing travel restrictions to Cuba doesn't end the economic blockade of Cuba. That change is long overdue.

Hugo Chavez: Released Gitmo Prisoners Can Come to Venezuela

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 3, 2009.

"We wouldn't have any problem in taking in human beings," Chavez said this week, calling on the U.S. to "finish with that miserable prison."

OMG Gitmo! Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo Bay, Finds it 'Relaxing' 'Calm and Beautiful'

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 30, 2009.

Dayana Mendoza on the U.S. prison camp: "I didn't want to leave."

What President-Elect Obama Must Do Once He Closes Gitmo

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation. December 9, 2008.

Help end the unconstitutional military commissions.

Conversations with Chavez and Castro

Sean Penn, The Nation. November 26, 2008.

Sean Penn talks with Raúl Castro about Obama and Guantánamo and Hugo Chávez about human rights and the next U.S. administration.