monthly review

At the Havana Tri-Continental we are told Cuba put the cult of the gun on the table. This hardly does justice to Cuba’s role in the third world. Failure to suppress the Cuban Revolution in 1961 led more or less directly to the disastrous U.S. invasion of Vietnam four years later. ..

ashcroft criticizes judges' rulings

District Judge James Robertson rejected the Bush administration's blanket decision to deny prisoner-of-war status to detainees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba. . The Justice Department has pledged to appeal the ruling. . . . . . . . ..

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