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</h3>  - from Zoltan Zigedy is available at:<br><span><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">Congratulations to
the Cuban patriots (the Cuban Five), the remaining three of whom were finally released from US jails for the
“crime” of making the world a safer place from US imperialism
(How extensive and racially and economically selective must a prison
system be before we can refer to the installations as <i>concentration</i>
<i>camps</i>?) All fair-minded people should rejoice at the moving reunion
of these internationalists with their families and their countrymen
and women!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">Before
we are overwhelmed by adulation for President Obama's role in the
release of the remaining Cuban Five, a fawning process that has begun
in earnest, we should remind the adulators that it is bad form to
praise someone for doing what he or she should have done long before.
Nothing has really happened to precipitate a change in US-Cuban
relations at this moment except the passing of Obama's final national
election cycle-- a fact that suggests that Obama's welcome moves are
more political expediency than any serious change of heart. Those who
sense faux-liberal stroking in anticipation of the forthcoming
election season are probably on solid ground. The U-turn regarding
policy towards Cuba demonstrated recently on the editorial pages of
the <b>New York Times </b>also point to a strategic shift in the
thinking of key elements of the US ruling class.</span></span></span></div>

<span style="color:black">● </span><span style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28011-war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda" target="_blank"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><u>John
Pilger</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">,
by way of Michael Munk's always interesting blog, l</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><b>astmarx</b></span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">,
asks what became of Malaysian flight MH17</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">,</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">
which crashed in the Eastern Ukraine</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">.</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">..<span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b> TO READ MORE, GO TO:</b></span><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><i><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></i></span><br></div>