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Pressure mounts to end Cuban travel ban

July 18, 2009 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO -- Pressure is mounting on multiple fronts to end U.S. government travel and trade restrictions against Cuba: the only country in the world American citizens cannot freely visit. The battle is increasingly centering in the...

Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras

July 18, 2009

While every day dramatic scenes are acted out on the streets of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and other cities in Honduras, pro- and anti-coup forces are also active in the United States, and especially on Capitol...

COMMENTARY A coup is a coup is a coup is a coup

July 8, 2009

The pre-Neanderthal characters who have taken control, at gunpoint, of the government of Honduras are telling us that this was not a coup d’etat, but an orderly legal proceeding against a president who had violated the...

Scientists question N. Korea nuclear test

July 6, 2009

In an article recently published in the journal Science, noted scientific journalist Daniel Clery has raised serious questions about the actual nature of the May 25 underground explosion claimed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea...

EDITORIAL Zelaya must return as president to Honduras

July 4, 2009

The coup d’etat carried out against the legally elected president of Honduras last Sunday is meeting with worldwide resistance that is as strong as it is broad. Literally, not a single country around the world is...