Lee on Sep 10 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Don’t like them? Cuba hasn’t any…and thus hurricane damage is forever. Ike is thereby beating down on towns in Cuba still unrepaired from Hurricane Charlie, in 2004.
“It’s been four years since Charlie and we’re still waiting for new homes,” said Rachel Gonzalez Ojeda, 44, seated outside her roofless wood and concrete home. “We never even [...]
Lee on Sep 06 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia:
“I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.”
(AFP)
We’d welcome that. It’s distressing that the Russian government hears only our resistance, without our reasons [...]
Peg on Aug 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Too often, I have heard people I know laud Cuba’s health care or some other aspect of their nation.
If you are someone who admires Castro’s Cuba - please read this
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Lee on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says “the world can forget about” Georgia’s territorial integrity. Quite a remarkable statement from the former permanent representative to the United Nations. As a statement of purpose or justification in his country’s war, it is of course an explicit violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter.
Furthermore, Lavrov’s [...]
MichaelW on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The New Centrist posts a letter from the former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, and other signatories, highlighting Cuba’s systematic violations of individual rights, and encouraging the EU to aggressively address the communist nation:
Five years ago, the European Union was on the verge of fulfilling one of the aspirations of the Velvet Revolutions that swept [...]
Keith_Indy on Feb 22 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Keith's Page
John McCain is speaking in Indianapolis today.
Some high lites
* Doesn’t think subsidies are needed for ethanol
* Speech was heavy on National Defense
* Wants free and fair elections in Cuba, will not provide aid or assistance until political prisoners are released.
* Wants to keep tax rates low, and simplify the tax code.
* We need to eliminate [...]
MichaelW on Feb 21 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Education, Foreign affairs, Health Care, MichaelW's Page
A Cuban medical office with a sign reading “No prescriptions available.” Photo by: Dr. Darsi Ferrer [via The Real Cuba].
News of Fidel Castro’s retirement has elicited some interesting responses. Chris Bertram’s has to be one of the most arrogant and least informed:
So let’s hear it for universal literacy and decent standards of health [...]
MichaelW on Feb 12 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, MichaelW's Page, Society
The current dust-up over the Cuban-Che flag (flags?) hanging in the Houston campaign office for Barack Obama (opened by supporters, with actual staffers intended to occupy by next week), has spawned some interesting commentary. Captain Ed advised:
Oh, my. Barack Obama may want to call his new Houston office and suggest some decorating ideas…No, that’s [...]
Lee on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: History, Lee's Page
Communist documents promoting North Korea, which were seized from Cuban personnel during the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Not your ordinary tourist brochures. Click to enlarge:
photo: Department of Defense
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Peg on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Media, Peg's Page, Race
(Cross Posted at What if?)
We all know that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Similarly, an anti-racism conference that features Libya as its chair, with Cuba as its vice-chair, has virtually no chance of achieving any rational dialogue about combatting racism.
In the past, too much of the world [...]
Lee on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
The tomb of Jonas Savimbi in Moxico has been looted by graverobbers. A number of items were stolen including his bronze epitaph. A bit of a sad addendum for the former US ally and UNITA leader who had battled the Soviet and Cuban backed MPLA for decades in the Angolan Civil War, but in the [...]
Lee on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Video clip of John McCain recounting his experience as a Navy pilot waiting on alert standby to bomb targets in Cuba during the missile crisis.
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Lee on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Brian Ledbetter thinks he may have found the elusive Cuban despot in Cairo.
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Lee on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
For only six bucks the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand sells necklaces with glass bottle pendants containing soil samples from only the holiest totalitarian shrines. Select your choice of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, or East Los Angeles (in occupied Aztlán).
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