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Washington v. Cuba After Castro
By Stephen Lendman

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Cuba now begins a new era, its challenges are huge, and consider the biggest of all – Washington’s relentless pressure the way Deputy Secretary of State (and veteran state terrorist) John Negroponte put it: Castro stepping down means nothing, US policy won’t change, “I can’t imagine that happening any time soon.”

What I Wrote On Tuesday 19
By Fidel Castro

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Change! But, inside the United States. Cuba changed long ago and will now follow a dialectical path. We will never go back to the past! Cries our people. Annexation! Annexation! Annexation! Responds the adversary. That is what it really means when it speaks about change

The Failure Of Human Rights Watch In Venezuela And Haiti
By Joe Emersberger

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The way Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments

The Enduring Trap In Iraq
By Adil Shamoo

www.countercurrents.org/shamoo250208.htm

A showdown is brewing between Republicans and Democrats over the Iraq War once again. The Bush administration is stirring the pot once again by negotiating an agreement with the “sovereign” Iraqi government to place U.S. military troops and bases permanently on Iraqi soil despite strong objections from many Democrats

The Door To Iraq’s Oil Opens
By M K Bhadrakumar

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As can be expected, Washington is keen to exploit the vastly improved security situation in Iraq. The Bush administration is leaning on Shahristani not to wait for the fractious Iraqi Parliament to approve the Iraqi oil law that would have provided a legal framework for foreign investment in the oil industry. As the first step, the executives of some of the world’s oil majors have been meeting with Iraqi Oil Ministry officials since January 24 in Amman, Jordan, for discussing the terms of technical support contracts, which are in the nature of shorter-term deals

From Lebanon With Hate
By Franklin Lamb

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The Maid of Darkness from Lebanon’s ‘Meadow of Springs’ imports extreme Islamophobia Stateside

Delusional Hope: The Obama Rapture
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

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Obama hoped that he could tap into the national desire for change from the awful conditions produced by the Bush administration by selling hope to voters rather than his experience and accomplishments. Like a political medicine-man he has succeeded as a compelling seller of hope, better than the best infomercial charlatan

India And China: Conflict, Competition, And Cooperation In The Age Of Globalization
By Dr. Aqueil Ahmad

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India and China are two of the world’s most ancient civilizations. For centuries they shared advanced ideas, inventions, religious and philosophical traditions. But their economies and societies stagnated during the colonial period. In the post-colonial era mutual relations suffered a setback due to political and boundary disputes. In contemporary times they have reemerged as leading techno-economic nations. It is high time for them to move beyond conflicts and start cooperating politically, economically, and technologically for mutual benefits

A Nation With A Heart
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

www.countercurrents.org/ulrich250208.htm

Once again the Bush administration is leading the pack to impose a third round of sanctions on Iran although Tehran has cooperated with the IAEA. However, they have failed to prove a negative to the satisfaction of Mr. Bush as reported to him by his informants, the MEK, a terrorist cult who had a hand in the US embassy takeover in Iran and the murder of American civilians . Nor has Tehran been able to satisfy Washington of their ‘future intentions’

Hezbollah And The ‘Unknown Knowns’
By Ramzy Baroud

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We know well who killed the top Hezbollah commander, Imad Mugniyah on Feb 12th in Damascus. While in the US media, only journalists like Seymour Hersh will have the nerve to point out the obvious, the Israeli media has not shied away from evidence of the Israeli intelligence’s involvement in this well-calculated assassination

Waterboarding Is Just Very Unpleasant . . . Right?
By Robert Weitzel

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A society that accommodates itself to the idea of torture, be it torture of minutes or hours or months or years, forfeits the right to think of itself as moral or humane. That nation is not the beacon light of liberty and justice shinning on less enlightened countries. It is the umbra

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