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Franklin: Sending Off the 23rd Friendshipment Caravan
Znet Article, July, 12 2012
Jane Franklin
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In poll after poll, year after year, we see that most Americans, including Cuban-Americans, want improved relations with Cuba
Franklin: New Cuba Games
Commentary, December, 04 2010
Jane Franklin
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A new video war game hit the stores on November 9 and set a sales record of five million six hundred thousand games on its first day and continues to be a record seller.
Franklin: The Silent War Against Terrorism
Commentary, September, 25 2010
Jane Franklin
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On September 19, 1960, Fidel Castro and Malcolm X had an historic meeting in Harlem’s Hotel Theresa. Fifty years later people packed a meeting hall in the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building across 125th Street to commemorate that meeting. A...
Franklin: Legitimization And Normalization Of Terror
Commentary, August, 29 2009
Jane Franklin
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On Varadero Beach, a hail of bullets fired from a speedboat hit their target, shooting up the Hotel Melia, one of Cuba's main resort hotels. A week later, the Miami Herald reported that it had received a "war communiqué" boasting that "On the ev...
Franklin: Panama: Background And Buildup To Invasion Of 1989
Commentary, September, 18 2007
Jane Franklin
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In November 1989, three weeks before the U.S. invasion, I attended a conference in Panama hosted by Panama's Center for International Studies to inform 118 U.S. delegates about what was taking place. Panamanians were already under constant attack...
Franklin: FUGITIVE TERRORIST AT LARGE
Commentary, May, 18 2007
Jane Franklin
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A major story about terrorism is breaking. Day by day the story is changing dramatically. On May 7, 2005, Luis Posada Carriles, one of the two most notorious terrorists in the Western Hemisphere, was apprehended by the FBI. But two years later...
Franklin: Tripping Over Cuba
Znet Article, August, 28 2006
Jane Franklin
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Poor Robert Torricelli. Four years after losing his senate seat because of corruption, he tries to invent a life in which he stars as a man of principle, the hero in a struggle to bring freedom to Cuba. In real life, Representative Torricelli ...
Franklin: Terrorist's Best Defense
Commentary, July, 08 2006
Jane Franklin
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If you?re a Cuban-American caught redhanded in illegal activities, there?s a great defense these days. Just claim that you?re trying to kill Fidel Castro or overthrow the Cuban government. Proclaim that you?re just loyally carrying out the polic...
Franklin: Terrorists Arrested In Miami
Znet Article, December, 10 2005
Jane Franklin
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Among the many terrorists in Miami, two have finally been arrested. Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat were picked up on November 18 and 19 and charged with possession of numerous weapons, including fully automatic machine guns along with ammuniti...
Franklin: How The New York Times Discovered All Those Wmds In Iraq And Cuba
Commentary, November, 26 2005
Jane Franklin
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"U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts" blared the lead article of the New York Times on Sunday, September 8, 2002. That fateful article is now a notorious example of the disastrous symbiosis between the White House and corporate me...
Franklin: Miami Vice
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
Jane Franklin
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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has now provided legal recognition of the fact that the city of Miami is so inflamed with passion against Cuba that it is unfit as a site for the trial of any case involving Cuba where the defendant is not in ...
Franklin: Bolton The Destroyer
Znet Article, April, 03 2005
Jane Franklin
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John Bolton has been nominated by President Bush as ambassador to the United Nations despite the fact that Bolton has repeatedly expressed contempt for the UN, including, "There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international com...
Franklin: Who's Afraid Of Venezuela-Cuba Alliance?
Znet Article, March, 14 2005
Jane Franklin
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For a long time there was only one country in Latin America offering free health care to all its citizens. Now there are two. The governments of both countries regard health care as a basic human right. So Cuba, rich in health care, and Venezuela,...
Franklin: Building a prison and preaching democracy
Znet Article, June, 07 2004
Jane Franklin
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On the one small piece of Cuban territory occupied by U.S. military forces--the Naval Base at Guantanamo, the Bush Administration has created a prison that has become notorious around the world. Yet President Bush insists that he will bring democr...
Franklin: Building a prison and preaching democracy
Znet Article, June, 07 2004
Jane Franklin
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On the one small piece of Cuban territory occupied by U.S. military forces--the Naval Base at Guantanamo, the Bush Administration has created a prison that has become notorious around the world. Yet President Bush insists that he will bring democr...
Franklin: Through The Looking Glass In Guantanamo
Znet Article, May, 03 2004
Jane Franklin
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ALICE: "If the Bush Administration wants to keep control of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba, why is it arguing before the Supreme Court that Cuba has sovereignty?" HUMPTY-DUMPTY: "What easy riddles you ask. Because if Cuba has sovereignt...
Franklin: Terrorist Connections Resurface In Florida
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Jane Franklin
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Governor Jeb Bush is about to choose a Florida State Supreme Court judge. There are five finalists and his deadline is August 12. Since there is no Hispanic on the Court, most people expect Jeb Bush will want to name a Hispanic. There is only one ...
