Fidel Castro celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution on July 26. Though he still insists history will remember his Cuba as a Marxist utopia, the Miami Herald strongly disagrees, noting the failures and excesses of his repressive regime.
According to the Herald:
The Cuban economy
It is a myth that U.S. farm policies are better than those of the European Union, says EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler. In some ways EU policies are better.
The United States was clearly in the lead of farm policy reform in the mid-1990s, says Fischler but made a
Evening news programmes are filled with stories of Americans chartering buses to Canada to purchase prescription drugs at state-controlled, bargain prices. This week, however, a busload of Canadians made the trip in reverse, as they went from New Brunswick, Canada, to Bangor, Maine.
The socialised medicine refugees were searching for
Sanctions first appeared in the mid-1800s when a country or coalition would blockade a wayward country’s ports to cut off trade and force debt payment. Economic sanctions restricting trade, money or migration from a country have been routinely used in recent decades to coerce states without direct military conflict.
New hydrogen fuel cells could help deplete the ozone layer because large amounts of leaked hydrogen would enter the stratosphere, according to researchers at the California Institute of Technology.
According to the report:
If hydrogen replaced fossil fuels completely, about 10 to 20 percent of the hydrogen would leak from pipelines,
