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UN, US call for cease fire in Gaza as Turkey preps “Freedom Flotilla II”
Flames, gasoline, some assembly .... a bad idea. Because nothing says cease-fire like running a blockade, right? The Erdogan government in Ankara has given its blessing to a repeat of the 2010 attempt...
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Breaking: Cuba frees Gross in spy swap … and promised new look at US policy?...
Quid pro quo? Alan Gross will return to the US today after spending years in a Cuban prison for espionage. The Obama administration cut a deal for his release that may prompt the most significant...
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Cuban dictator to Obama: You should use executive action to lift this embargo...
Authoritarians. First spotted by USA Today reporter Gregory Korte, the key bit is at the very end of the clip below. No wonder they had a meeting of the minds: Castro and The One are both fans of rule...
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Shep Smith wonders: Is America about to “ruin” Cuba?
"Are we about to get up in there and ruin that place?" I first heard of this when John Podhoretz tweeted about it and I thought, “Nope, John’s exaggerating. I wonder what Shep really said.” Then a...
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Rand Paul: “Opening up Cuba is probably a good idea”
Maybe we can find some American fugitives that way. Thus does the first RINO of the 2016 presidential primary reveal himself. That’s a joke, of course, but imagine if Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney or Chris...
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Quotes of the day
Isolation. The Republican split over Cuba is heating up. A day after Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul broke with the majority of the GOP to back President Barack Obama’s shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba, he has...
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NYT laments that Cuban oppression will give GOP “ammunition” to retain embargo
Priorities. The opening of diplomatic relations hasn’t changed Cuba much, the New York Times’ editorial board notices today in some detail. After Barack Obama announced a new era in Cuban-American...
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Obama to announce US, Cuba will open embassies this month
Win? Fifty-four years after the rupture in US-Cuba diplomatic relations, both nations will announce today that they will once again host embassies and receive ambassadors from each other. The...
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Looks like Obama will pretty much ignore Congress on easing Cuba restrictions
Short cut By the pen and the phone update. Now that the excitement of seeing John Kerry watch a flag being raised over the American embassy in Cuba has faded into the background, what comes next?...
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Video: White House eases Cuba embargo through new Treasury regulations
Obama to big business: Tell Congress to lift the embargo. The Obama administration can’t end the Cuban embargo unilaterally, much of which exists in statute. They can, however, work around Congress to...
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Too bad to check: Cuba reportedly sends general, military operatives to …...
Humiliation. I’m torn on what to think about this. On the one hand, it reeks of propaganda designed to discredit Castro and blow up his fragile detente with Obama. With the possible exception of...
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In other news, we just changed our UN vote on the Cuba embargo
Here’s yet another story which largely slipped through the cracks in the final days until the election. Every year the United Nations holds a symbolic vote on ending the Cuban embargo. The US has stood...
View ArticleWould the White House press briefing work better on tape delay?
Ari Fleischer and Mike McCurry, each a former press secretary, say yes. I don’t get it. So, what to do differently? First, we recommend that President-elect Trump keep the press briefing, but no longer...
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Trump could sink Nicolas Maduro with an embargo on Venezuelan oil
As the world watched Venezuela fall under the shadow of complete tyranny over the past couple of years, many of us have been asking if there is anything we could conceivably do about it short of a...
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