
Today in history: U.S. invasion of Dominican Republic teaches lessons today
The U.S. invasion was justified as protecting American lives. Within days, this was changed to "preventing a Communist takeover."

Cuban women’s success is America’s hope
Cuban women occupy 48 percent of the parliament and out of 15 provinces in Cuba, women lead 10.

U.S. moves against Venezuela make for rough Summit of the Americas
The possibility of confrontational situations at the summit is now very high, and can only be diffused by the retraction of the anti-Venezuela statement and sanctions.

U.S troops take dragoon ride through Eastern Europe
At the demonstration against "Dragoon Ride" in Prague, speakers also denounced Czech membership in NATO.

Cuba, United States “respectfully” chat about human rights
The U.S. has talked of supposed maltreatment of "political prisoners" in Cuba. Cubans need simply say "Guantanamo" to put that in perspective.

