Today marks 60 years of the Cuban embargo. What exactly is it?
Fidel Castro once called it “a tangled ball of yarn," and after six decades, Washington's keystone regime change policy still hasn't worked.
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Fidel Castro once called it “a tangled ball of yarn," and after six decades, Washington's keystone regime change policy still hasn't worked.
Running a picturesque vineyards could make for an idyllic life. And Sally Smerz Grooms Cowal ’66 appreciates her “absolutely gorgeous” surroundings. But a traditional retirement? Not for her.
France Enabled Genocide. It Continues to Blame the Victims. After the genocide, the French government sought to obfuscate its role, and France’s Constitutional Court ruled records surrounding the period should remain secret. KIGALI, RWANDA—In the first years of the twentieth century, an anonymous author or authors in Tsarist Russia published Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated account purporting to document secret discussions between world Jewish leaders as they plotted to take over governments, monopolize markets, control media, and dominate the world. No other anti-Semitic h...
May 4, 2021 12:44:24 pm French lead prosecutor Remy Heitz said Monday that the investigations carried out by the French government could not prove direct involvement of French troops in the Rwandan genocide and asked the investigating magistrates to drop the case. The investigation centers on the 991-page report that was published by the Research Commission on the French Archives relating to Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide, known as the Duclert Commission. In March, the Duclert Commission’s report found that France was not complicit in the Rwandan genocide, but that France bears responsibilit...
April 20, 2021 02:07:12 pm The French government bears significant responsibility for enabling the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, according to a Monday report from the Rwandan government. The report was commissioned by the Rwandan government in 2017 and compiled by Robert Muse of the Washington, DC, law firm of Levy Firestone Muse. While the report acknowledges French humanitarian intervention after the genocide began, it argues the French government “helped build and fortify” Rwandan institutions for years in a bid for East African influence that later became instruments of the genocide. The Mus...