Cuba has long been hailed as a “socialist workers paradise.” It is anything but that. Instead it is a nightmare for workers and a fairytale dream for Raul and Fidel Castro, who have ruled the island prison for over fifty years. In the socialist utopia, the goal is to redistribute the wealth … Read more
With companies getting involved in every aspect of the cultural debate today, there seems to be no end to what a corporation will do to further a liberal agenda. The latest example is when Starbucks launched a destined-to-fail effort to promote “dialogue” about race by requiring baristas to write the social media … Read more
With a law set to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $15 an hour, Seattle begins its journey to help those who are impoverished while stimulating its economy at the same time. On the surface this appears to be a win-win situation that only the ignorant and hard-hearted could condemn. Indeed, … Read more
It seems that whenever the communist Chinese have a problem, they like to wall it off by separating the problem from the general population. For a long time, dissidents have been separated in labor and reeducation camps. Now it appears that unwelcome commentary is getting its own wall—a firewall. In a futile … Read more
Frankfurt am Main, Germany — one of the most important aspects in the pontificate of Pope Francis is the Pastoral Policy on Marriage and the Family. In order to analyze and discuss the requirements of our time, he called a “small” meeting of bishops, held in October 2014. That Synod was supposed … Read more
Communist Cuba demands almost $117 billion from the United States for damages. The exact amount is $116,860,000,000. That is what Cuban-American journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner says Cuba is billing the U.S. for the damages caused by the American embargo. How the number came to be so exact is not revealed by Cuban … Read more
Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore is challenging a federal judge’s ruling permitting same-sex “marriage” in his state. Once again, a federal court ruling is trying to override a popular vote in favor of traditional marriage. Alabama voted overwhelmingly to approve a constitutional amendment defending traditional marriage in 2006. However, this case … Read more
Venezuela’s dictatorship, economic crisis and insecurity has everyone fleeing even those not from that country. Cuban doctors sent to work to Venezuela by the Castro regime are leaving in record numbers. The rate of those seeking freedom in the U.S. doubled in 2013 for a total of 700 deserters, Rio de Janeiro’s … Read more
It is called Bolivarian rotation. According to this system, Venezuelans can only buy commodities in state markets on days matching the last digits of their national ID cards. On Monday, for example, the Bicentenário food chain caters to buyers whose IDs end in zero and one, the daily Clarín of Buenos Aires … Read more
Lithuania has celebrated a historic step to get rid of its dependence on Russian gas and of the extortion to which that dependence subjected it by opening the Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal – LNG in the port of Klaipeda. The LNG freighter Arctic Aurora, with a capacity of 155,000 cubic meters of … Read more