The Fracturing of Communist Cuba's Propaganda Machine
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
His rationale is both weak and would have justified keeping out his own father - a refugee from Cuba.
While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.
Biden's underperformance among Cuban-American voters likely cost Democrats Florida. He can begin to heal the breach by reversing the Obama administration's cruel policy (continued by Trump) of barring most Cuban refugees.
"There’s a big difference between equality and equity."
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The studio’s decision to thank repressive Chinese government authorities, meanwhile, makes it something far darker.
In the video, I also make the case for extending the same rights to other victims of Chinese government oppression.
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The similarities between the image and totalitarian propaganda of old are unmistakable. But we all have bigger things to worry about right now.
The Cuban revolutionary was not a big fan of life, liberty, and property.
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A happy occasion - but also one with lessons that remain urgent today.
While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, if it can attract a broader consensus.
The PRC committed the biggest mass murder in the history of the world, and numerous other atrocities and human rights violations, some of which go on at this very moment.
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Today is the anniversary of perhaps the most awful international agreement in all of world history.
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Why May 1 should be a day to honor the victims of the ideology that took more innocent lives than any other.
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There's a word for that….
It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
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The tech giant appears willing to do almost anything to win access to the vast Chinese market.
Condoms have become a multi-purpose tool in a country that does not have much access to resources.
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House Committee on Un-American Activities
Sometimes censorship is a public-private partnership.
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May Day is a fitting time to commemorate the tens of millions of victims of this murderous ideology.
From One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Black Peter, the Czech-born Oscar-winner championed eccentric individuals and artists over small-minded bureaucrats and a stifling state.
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Americans should be wary of something similar.
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
Under Stalin, people could be killed for carrying joke books about him. They did it anyway.
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Centrally planning the climate will work about as well as centrally planning economies did.
The U.S. may have won the cold war, but the ideological struggle never ended.