The Catch-All American “Freedom of Expression” Mantra: Ask Julian Assange
By Arnold August “Freedom of expression,” and the pitfalls of the market as it is playing out in Cuba these
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COHA in English
TUG-OF-WAR: Forced Labor on the New Panama Canal?
The Panama Canal Authority completed a five billion dollar expansion in 2016, introducing a new set of locks, adding a new, wider sea lane able to haul twice as many supertankers between the Atlantic and the Pacific as before. But instead of hiring extra personnel needed to meet the increased workload, the Panama Canal simply doubled-down on the workload for existing employees, stretching them past the brink of exhaustion, and creating a deadly climate of fatigue embedded in a labor struggle on the isthmus.
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Fascism Now: The Legacy of World War II in Today’s Latin America
By Nicholas Birns Latin America is not often thought of as a factor in World War II. Indeed, considering Japanese
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It’s Official: the Monroe Doctrine Is Back. And as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose Is to Serve the Neoliberal Order.
By Peter Bolton In November 2013, then-Secretary of State John Kerry declared: “The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.”[1. Ken
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Socialist Cuba Decides: Cubans Vote in Full Force to Approve the New Constitution
Op-ed By Tamara Hansen On February 24, 2019, over 7.8 million Cubans voted in the country’s constitutional referendum. Of the
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Cuban Constitution of 2019
The new Cuban Constitution was affirmed by 87% of the country’s voting public on February 24, 2019, following an extensive process of public debate and popular participation. It is largely an aspirational document that seeks to move the country forward, economically and socially, while retaining socialism as the ideology of the revolution.
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