Congress Considers Historic Bill on Cuba
Historic legislation to soften the 50-year-old embargo toward Cuba is currently pending in Congress. H.R. 4645, a bill to permit unrestricted travel and greater agricultural exports to Cuba, has already passed the House Agricultural Committee. After the August recess, the bill will move on to the Foreign Affairs Committee, and from there, to the House floor
"This is the perfect opportunity for President Obama to distance himself from the failed policies of the past and to send a strong message to the U.S. Congress on the need to end the embargo," Amnesty International said recently. "The U.S. embargo against Cuba is immoral and should be lifted. It's preventing millions of Cubans from benefiting from vital medicines and medical equipment essential for their health."
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Wikileaks Exposes Futility of War in Afghanistan
The bad news about the war in Afghanistan keeps coming. When the website Wikileaks recently published close to 100,000 internal military documents, we learned that the war is even deadlier and more futile than we thought. The documents reveal the incompetence and corruption of Afghani government officials and security forces. They show American troops' involvement in gruesome attacks on civilians and targeted killings of suspected insurgents. Perhaps worst of all, they suggest that Pakistan's complex allegiances in the region work to undermine US military strategy.
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BP Oil Disaster Threatens Cuba
Like you, we are horrified at the seemingly unstoppable BP oil spill -- and at the images on the nightly news of scary underwater plumes, distraught fisherman, and doomed wildlife. But our concerns about this disaster have focused mainly on the wetlands of Lousiana and the Florida beaches.
We forget there's another victim in this disaster: Cuba.
Massive amounts of oil could get into what's known as the loop current and reach Cuba's north coast beaches. Some analysts say that, alternately, it could flow directly to Cuba's northern coast even before it reaches the Florida Keys.
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