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August 19, 2008

John Edwards: Scummy, fake, manipulative and pretty?

Since the former Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extra-marital affair, bloggers from around the world following the story have largely focused on two major issues: First, the sad irony of a politician having an affair while his wife, Elizabeth, fights breast cancer; Secondly, the role the mainstream press played in keeping the story silent.

August 15, 2008

Cuba, U.S.A.: Trading Partners

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Child of the Revolution reports that “newly-released figures confirm what many of us have known for some time” - that the US trade restrictions on Cuba are really “not much of an embargo”. ...

August 13, 2008

Sharpen those machetes, Democrats!

Aggregated from: Babalu blog

Here's today's oxymoron, brought to you by the Democratic National Party: Mandatory volunteerism. Cut that cane for Obama! Venceremos! ...

August 11, 2008

What if the National Enquirer is Also Right About Obama?

Aggregated from: Review of Cuban-American blogs

The only fault which its critics can ascribe to The National Enquirer is that it strikes while the iron is hot. The establishment media prefer to strike when it is cold, very cold. They call their reticence prudence when it is nothing more than complicity. Such is their hubris that they can sit on a...

Choices, choices, choices…

Aggregated from: Babalu

With all the talk about McCain and Obama, we forget that there are other choices on the presidential ballot come November. You have Ralph Nader running as an Independent, Bob Barr representing the Libertarian Party, Cynthia McKinney as the Green Party candidate, and then you have Gloria La Riva. ...

August 6, 2008

Russia, US: A Cuba Crisis in the Making

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Der Spiegelfechter (GER) comments on rumours in Moscow, according to which Russia might station strategic bombers on Cuba in reply to deployment of the US missile defence system to Poland and the Czech Republic. Is it a new Cuba crisis in the making? ...

August 5, 2008

Cuba, Venezuela, U.S.A.: Empty Dialogue?

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Cuban bloggers Babalu and Ninety miles away…in another country focus on U.S. Republican senator Arlen Specter's upcoming Latin American trip, during which he hopes to meet with both Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez: “The Cuban government has made clear that the only thing it is interested...

July 30, 2008

Obama's mentor

Aggregated from: Babalu

Frank Marshall Davis, Obama's putative mentor in Hawaii, was a real flesh and blood communist. No way around it, libs: he really was a commie. There's a great piece today from Accuracy in Media detailing the whole thing. A snip: The story of Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s Marxist mentor, is comp...

Russia: Exaggerated Rumours of a New Cuban Crisis

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

FP Passport - Russia follows up on the commotion and official denials following rumours of Russian plans to station strategic bombers to Cuba. ...

July 25, 2008

Barbados, Cuba, U.S.A.: The Times Rejects Mc Cain

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Caribbean blogs are irate over The New York Times‘ rejection of John Mc Cain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's recent editorial on Iraq: Babalu Blog: “Who the hell gave them the power to think they speak on behalf of my best interests?” Barbados Free Press: “As much as we ...