You’ll never guess why a quick peace in Ukraine might be in the ambassador to Washington’s interests, writes SOLOMON HUGHES. Actually, of course you will – he stands to make a lot of money from his business links to Russia
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NATASHA HICKMAN reviews the destruction caused by a cynical policy designed solely to hurt and 'punish' the Cuban people
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ON SEPTEMBER 7, President Joe Biden, amid an escalation of US hostility toward Cuba, extended the Trading with the Enemy Act for another year.
This is the law that serves as the basis of the US blockade and has been renewed annually by every US president since Kennedy first imposed the cruel and punitive policy in 1962.
When the blockade enters its sixth decade in 2022, it will be as stringent and savage as at any time in its history. Arguably more so since the US government chose to intensify it at the peak of a global health crisis.
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