The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
The Soviet Union collapsed shortly thereafter. The Central American
Civil wars are over. The cold war is long dead, yet the United
States still enforces a relic of that cold war with an economic embargo
against Cuba. With a new administration in the White House ushering
in a era of renewed diplomacy and international cooperation, isn’t
it about time for the U.S. to do what most other countries around the
world have done and normalize relations with its largest Caribbean neighbor?
WASHINGTON - As the clash between the U.S. and Israeli governments over settlements in the occupied territories intensifies, many of Israel's traditionally staunch defenders in Washington have been pushing back, tentatively but with increasing assertiveness, to urge the Barack Obama administration to alleviate its pressure on Israel.
Powerful
special interests - energy, coal, utilities, financial, pharmaceutical
and insurance lobbies - have flexed their muscles and confronted
President Obama on the most important legislative priorities of his
domestic agenda. But this kind of politics-by-influence-peddling
doesn't stop at the water's edge. And in foreign policy, the
consequences can be more immediately violent and deadly.
To assist the corporate bottom line, the Obama Administration is peddling the worst sort of wares abroad.
The
consolidation of power through brute force represents a serious step
backward for the region. How is it possible that a coup d'etat could
take place and survive in the 21st century? This is the question that
the international community faces after the coup d'etat that Honduras
suffered on June 28. On that day, the Honduran Armed Forces kidnapped
the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, and forced him
onto a flight bound for Costa Rica. The Organization of American States
(OAS), the UN General Assembly, the U.S.
