We Have So Much to Learn From Cuba

By Grace Lee Boggs - This was my first visit to Cuba and it was only for a week. My sense was that the Cuban people, by recommitting themselves to the struggle for socialism, are beginning to recover from the crisis caused by the loss of Soviet aid. In the process they seemed to be creating an alternative vision for Third World countries and perhaps even for deindustrialized cities like Detroit which must now rebuild, redefine, and respirit themselves from the ground up.

Migrants Deported from the U.S. in Limbo

Migrants deported from the United States sleep under a bridge on the stretch of the Tijuana River known as El Bordo, at the northwestern tip of Mexico, next to the border. Credit: Daniela Pastrana/IPS

TIJUANA, MEXICO (Inter Press Service, Daniela Pastrana) - The areas under the low bridges over a section of the canalized channel of the Tijuana River that runs along the border between Mexico and the United States have become enormous open-air toilets.

More Americans Victims of War Fatigue

So much war. So many anniversaries of lies, death and destruction. Next week is the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin fraud that catapulted the Vietnam War. This week is the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.

You’ve probably noticed that few big online groups have much to say about the wars of today and tomorrow -- especially when there’s a Democrat in the White House. (Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 was awarded to President Barack Obama)

Mayor Reed will Deliver ETLS Welcome

Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association in partnership with Latina Style Business Series is honored to announce that Atlanta's Mayor Kasim Reed will deliver keynote remarks at its 6th Annual Emerging Technology Leadership Summit Luncheon, to be held at the Georgia Tech Research Center in Atlanta Georgia, on Thursday, May 24th 2012. Starting at 7:30 AM with Luncheon at 12:00 Noon and Reed's remarks beginning at 1:15 p.m.

Cobb Commissioners Ignore Dollars & Sense

MARIETTA, GA (By Rich Pellegrino) — Dear Cobb County Commissioners: In learning of your proposed signing of the IMAGE agreement with the federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), which supposedly will help the County prevent any undocumented residents from applying for a County job, one can only recall the popular folk song of the 60’s “When will they ever learn?????”

Boycott USA Elections 2012

Latin American Leaders Under Attack

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez never had cancer despite being diagnosed with the disease last month and having her thyroid gland removed on Jan. 4, her spokesman said on Saturday.