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NSA: Cuba and The U.S.: ‘Intimate Diplomacy’
As Castro Era Ends, the National Security Archive posts Records on Back Channel Efforts toward Rapprochement by Pioneering Journalist Lisa Howard Continue reading
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KISSINGER CONSIDERED ATTACK ON CUBA FOLLOWING ANGOLA INCURSION
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered a series of secret contingency plans that included airstrikes and mining of Cuban harbors in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s decision to send Cuban forces into Angola in late 1975, according to declassified documents made public today for the first time. Continue reading
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Madiba – The Rebranding of a Freedom Fighter – Part 2 by Akwesi Shaddai
One noticeable absence from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was the former President of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi. Arguably, had he not been murdered at the instigation of the West in 2011, it is likely that Gaddafi would have been honoured with an opportunity to commemorate his comrade. Indeed, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison in… Continue reading
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“Scientific Assassinations” Are Part of the CIA’s Modus Operandi By Wayne Madsen
The Guardian newspaper’s self-proclaimed Venezuela expert Rory Carroll has glibly categorized serious charges that Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez Frias was assassinated by a United States-produced bio-weapon as being in the same league with «conspiracy theorists who wonder about aliens at Roswell and NASA faking the moon landings». A number of Venezuelan and international officials… Continue reading
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Fidel Castro: NATO ‘has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.’
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced NATO on Monday for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the ‘brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.’ Continue reading
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In Cuba, the revolution continues, softly, as times change By John Pilger
‘Accelerating the hard features of Cuba,’ a US diplomat once said memorably, ‘will be the measure of our success, not theirs.’ Continue reading
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Libya: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered By William Bowles
So why did Chavez and Castro (as well as Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua) offer public support to Ghadafi? Well, as things have turned out, it is clear that this is not about Ghadafi but all about imperial ambitions and I hazard the guess that they both knew more about the machinations of the Empire than… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 