Pompeo: ‘Change Is Inevitable in Cuba’; Youth Demand Opportunity
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Chinese Communist Party Elevates Xi Jinping to Same Status as Mao
The Communist Party of China has promoted Xi Jinping to the same level as the country’s first communist leader, Mao Zedong.
California State Assembly Passes Law Allowing Communists to Work in Government
The California State Assembly passed a bill Monday that would repeal a Red Scare policy that made being a member of the Communist Party while working for the state a fireable offense.
Communists Have Safe Space at Samford University
Samford University in Alabama is now a safe space for communists after the school banned an anti-communist conservative student group from campus.
CIA Director Once Voted for Communist Presidential Candidate
CIA Director John Brennan voted for the Communist Party candidate in the 1976 presidential election.
Obama Says He Welcomes Criticism From Raul Castro
Sofi Oksanen, the Most Important Eastern European Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of
As a child, Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen spent her summers visiting relatives on a collective farm in Soviet Estonia. Oksanen and her family would travel from Finland in secret, sidestepping Soviet laws. Each summer she would learn a bit more of Estonia’s code of euphemisms, which included phrases like ‘he went into the forest’ or ‘he was taken to Siberia.’
Majority Oppose Obama’s Cuba Reset When Informed of Rights Abuses
A majority of Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba when they are informed of reports of continued weapons smuggling and human rights abuses by Raul Castro’s regime, according to a new poll.
Communist Interrupts Ferguson Press Conference
New York Times Wants Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants, Unless They’re Cuban Doctors Fleeing Communism
The New York Times editorial board supports comprehensive immigration reform that would give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. In the meantime, the Times’ editors want President Obama to take “big and bold” action on his own that would effectively legalize millions of unauthorized immigrants.
But while the Times does not appear to have a problem with illegal immigration, its editors have found at least one form of legal immigration they want to stop. In an editorial published on Sunday, the board lamented the “Cuban brain drain” brought on by U.S. immigration policy. Specifically, they want to do away with a program allowing highly trained Cuban doctors to defect to the United States while serving on medical missions abroad:
