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.
John Dugdale, The Guardian AlterNet: PEEK. 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."
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.
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.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. 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.
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.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. 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."
Sean Penn, The Nation AlterNet: Video. 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.
Greg Grandin, The Nation. July 19, 2008. Readers of Fidel Castro's 'My Life' will hear all about the Cuban Revolution, but no apologies for its suppression of dissent.
Sue Katz, Consenting Adult. July 1, 2008. Organizers of the parade intended to demand a government apology for past and present repression of LGBT people.
Machetera, Machetera. May 24, 2008. The U.S. government p.r. creation, the “Ladies in White,” (Damas de Blanco) takes money from right-wing terrorists.
Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. May 20, 2008. In a speech in Miami, John McCain is preparing to attack Sen. Obama for suggesting a new approach toward Cuba.
Lissa Weinmann, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 14, 2008. Most Americans expected that the passing of Castro -- however it should happen -- would be a convulsive event for Cuba.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. February 20, 2008. The Cuban people have suffered under an arrogant and idealistic revolutionary whose vision floundered on the rocks of cynical U.S. foreign policy.
John Nichols, The Nation. February 20, 2008. If we look past their bland pronouncements on the campaign trail, it becomes clear that Clinton and Obama have widely divergent views on Cuba.
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