Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 27, 2008	The two Koreas - Part II
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: ON October 19, 1950, more than 400,000 voluntary Chinese combatants, on orders from Mao Zedong, crossed the Yalu and waylaid the US troops that were advancing towards the Chinese border. The US units, surprised by the vigorous response of the country that they had...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 28, 2008	Truth and Diatribes
Reflections of Fidel: We know that people living in industrialized and wealthy countries spend, on average, 25% of their income on food. Those who live in nations which were condemned to economic underdevelopment by the former devote up to 80% of their income to this end. Many go...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 19, 2008	The Elephant and The Ant
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: IT would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. During this...... [view]

Posted By:  manpo2k Posted On:  Jun 17, 2008	Zimbabwe Must Live
It is on the news! It is everywhere! Zimbabwe is in trouble! Last night, I watched with keen interest on MTV, where young people questioned Mr. Tsvangirai bout the recent development in Zimbabwe. I have carefully observed that Mugabe is operating with young people in Zimbabwe. The ones I saw...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 15, 2008	CHE IN 1959
• From 1959, the heroic guerrilla became one of the central leaders of the revolutionary process as a result of his proven determination, versatility and abilities and because of the dynamic of the tremendous events resulting from the aggression against Cuba • Héctor Rodríguez Lompart...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 7, 2008	The empire’s hypocritical politics
Reflections of Fidel: IT would be dishonest of me to remain silent after hearing the speech Obama delivered on the afternoon of May 23 at the Cuban American National Foundation created by Ronald Reagan. I listened to his speech, as I did McCain’s and Bush’s. I feel no resentment towards...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 21, 2008	Two hungry wolves and a Little Red Riding Hood
Reflections of Fidel: ONE basic idea has been occupying my mind since my old days as a utopian socialist. It came from nowhere, with the simple notions of good and evil inculcated in everybody by the society in which they are born, full of instincts and lacking in values that parents,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 10, 2008	Yankee response in the hemisphere: the Fourth Fleet of intervention
IT was created in 1943 to fight Nazi submarines and protect shipping during World War II. It was deactivated as unnecessary in 1950. The Southern Command was meeting the needs of United States hegemony in our region. However, it has been reborn in recent days, after 48 years, and its...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Apr 22, 2008	Peace and prosperity
Reflections of Fidel: POPE Benedict XVI outshone Brown, the British Prime Minister, who replaced Blair, whom I met and spoke with for a few minutes during a recess at the WTO Second Conference in Geneva 10 years ago; it was following his speech and I was expressing my disagreement on the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Feb 22, 2008	Reflections of President Fidel Castro: The Republican Candidate - (Part Three)
YESTERDAY, I said that while Bush was speaking to Congress, McCain was being honored at the Versailles Restaurant of Little Havana. It was there that most of the fiercest enemies of the Cuban Revolution and their families took up residence, Batista’s followers, the big landowners, owners of...... [view]

Posted By:  prcizmadia Posted On:  Jan 22, 2008	Nuclear First Strike
Briefly: five former generals have written a manifesto demanding that nuclear first strikes must be a right of current nuclear powers in the coming century, due to threats such as proliferation and international terrorism. They cite, entirely without irony, that the impossibility of a nuke-free...... [view]