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The Castro Brothers, the African Brothers and Brother Obama

Byalmariam December 21, 2014

Cuba finally coming in from the Cold (War)? “I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun,” said Fidel Castro in an interview in January 1959, shortly after he ousted President Fulgencio Batista. With that declaration, Castro established Cuba as the…

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Is America Disinventing Human Rights?

Byalmariam August 18, 2013October 14, 2015

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.” In a New York Times op-ed piece in June 2012, Carter cautioned, “At a time when popular revolutions are sweeping the globe, the United…