“US no closer to lifting Cuba embargo”
Published: 14 April, 2009, 01:42
The U.S. President has introduced measures to ease travel and money transfers to Cuba for Cuban Americans, but nobody sees it as a step towards easing the embargo, says Andres Martinez from the New America Foundation.
He views this as a return to the Clinton years in terms of Cuba policy – which means lessening some of the additional tough measures put in place by the Bush administration.
13.04.2009, 15:59
“Touching Americans is the worst that pirates did”The history of the US Marines started with fighting African pirates, and now a permanent US military presence in Somalia is the only solution to the modern piracy problem, says RT’s military analyst Eugene Khrushchev. |
14.04.2009, 11:40
Online news put US newspaper industry under threatThe American newspaper industry says it is in dire straits as readers and advertisers turn to digital sources. Some believe that getting news online is posing a serious threat to print newspaper journalists’ careers. |
