Law at the End of the Day (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It has long been true that the control of educational institutions have been a principal site for the control of social, cultural and political norms within a society. Everyone, from John Dewey to Fidel Castro and John Paul II , has understood that education is less about the production and dissemination of knowledge than it is about the production of citizens fully (to the extent possible) assimilated...
Jesus' General (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fred Kaplan 's 1959: The Year That Changed Everything (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited the United States. Fidel would do the same on April 15th, followed by Khrushchev on September 15th. On April 9th, Lenny Bruce appeared on television. On March...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has condemned the recent military cooperation agreement between the U.S. and Colombia which allows Washington to deploy troops at Colombian military bases
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Fidel Castro has survived 600 assassination attempts to become the world symbol of anti-capitalism. His sister has just confessed she used to spy on him, the US embargo stands, and his health is failing, yet still he endures
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Alexa Williams 11/3/09 9:42PM This article discusses Fidel Castro’s statement about the rising cases of swine flu in Cuba being caused by an increase in United States citizens visiting the country. The increase in tourism is due to President Barack Obama’s lift on restrictions for US citizens to visit relatives living in Cuba. Castro said that all eighty three provinces had reported cases...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
His new novel, "Back to Blood," is set in Miami and focuses on immigration and bloodlines. It's due out in fall 2010 from Little, Brown & Co. "I kept hearing about immigration. There are a lot of great stories about how people got into this country illegally," Mr. Wolfe said in a telephone interview from his New York City office. "I was more curious about what's the life...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
WSJ: Hillary's Honduran Exit Strategy If there is one person in Honduras who is more despised these days than deposed president Manuel Zelaya it is a foreigner who goes by the name of Hugo. We refer here not to the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez but to U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens. Many Hondurans, including, rumor has it, President Roberto Micheletti, see Mr. Llorens as the principal architect...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Continuing my theme of late to recall and honour the brave young men who fought the wars on the border, soldiers that the ANC terrorist regime will not recognise but instead honours communists and terrorists like Che Guevara and Arafat who had nothing to do with South Africa plus mass murderer and dictator Fidel Castro and his soldiers, here is a stirring rendition with English subtitles of Bok van...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It's time for another Gawker Book Club meeting: Ann Louise Bardach will be discussing her new book Without Fidel: A Death Foretold. Our topic today at 4pm: how Perez Hilton caused havoc in Miami by...
France24 (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Cuba's state-run media on Monday condemned a just-published book in which Fidel Castro's sister admits she spied for the Central Intelligence Agency. The country's media added that the expose proves that the former Cuban leader was a "victim" of decades of US targeting. "The truth is in full view: Fidel Castro is the victim, the offended person, the individual against whom they conspired,"...
TrueNorth (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Reason TV: Ayn Rand’s relevance Reason TV kicks off its Ayn Rand retrospective this week with a look at how suddenly relevant the philosopher and novelist has become. A-list Hollywood stars want to make...
Exposing Liberal Lies (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Great email: Obama's First Six Months' Accomplishments 1. Offended the Queen of England. 2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. 3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega. 4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek. 5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia. 6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras. 7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions while...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is pointing a finger at American visitors for the spread of swine flu in that Caribbean island.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro says relaxed travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba have helped spread the H1N1 swine flu virus. In an opinion piece published Saturday in Cuba’s state-run newspapers, Mr. Castro says the first cases of the H1N1 viruses were brought to the island nation by visitors from other nations. He says [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
When the year 1959 began, there were only 48 states. Alaska and Hawaii would became part of the United States during that annum, the third year of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. It was the year Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba and took a goodwill tour of U.S., two months after an interview with Edward R. Murrow on CBS television...
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