A recent Black Caucus delegation visitation to Cuba has riled up America’s anti-Fidel Castro forces. They are against lifting the 47-year-old trade and travel embargoes of that island nation. President Barack Obama proposes lifting travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans, but Black Caucus delegation members say the larger economic blockade of Cuba should also be brought to an end.
In East Africa hijacking has developed into a highly structured social and business model. Modern-day piracy is Somalia’s most lucrative business. In the booming pirate port of Ely, Somalia big villas and hotels are sprouting and former subsistence fishermen are driving Mercedes-Benzes.
Hodari Abdul-Ali, Muslim Alliance of North America, spoke at the ANSWER Coalition rally March 21, 2009 in Washington, D.C. prior to the March on the Pentagon and corporate military establishment in Crystal City, VA
The reality is America’s first black president governs in the same ways as the white ones. Since January 20, the Obama administration has continued the worst of his predecessor’s policies. Barack Obama is following President Bush’s dour treatment of Haitians.