[Guardian] Barack Obama will hold a formal meeting with Cuban president Raul Castro on Tuesday.
The meeting will be held on the sidelines of the annual United Nations general assembly, a massive gathering of world leaders in New York City.
It will be the second face-to-face meeting between Obama and Castro since the US and Cuba restored diplomatic relations late last year. Obama and Castro also convened a rare phone call earlier this month, ahead of Pope Francis's visit to both their countries.
At the UN on Sunday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urged the US to lift its embargo on Cuba and to end other sanctions which he said "bypassed the UN security council".
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An American flag went up with a special ceremony at the newly opened U.S. Embassy in Havana. A special flag lowering ceremony will no doubt be required at GITMO.
[Politico] "We want to give Boehner a governable majority so the crazies you hate will be irrelevant."
This is how the Washington Republican Establishment talks to its K Street allies. It's a quote from last October when a Republican campaign operative told the business community why it was important for Republicans to capture 245 House seats. The establishment isn't focused on marginalizing liberal lawmakers trying to grow the size and scope of government. They want to marginalize conservative lawmakers fighting to keep the reasonable promises they have made to their constituents.
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Beltway Party. Conned the rubes to think it was the old Trunk Party, just like the socialists con the rubes into thinking its the party of Truman, Humphrey, et al.
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Beltway Party. Conned the rubes to think it was the old Trunk Party, just like the socialists con the rubes into thinking its the party of Truman, Humphrey, et al.
Yes, but honestly, that train left the station long before Boehner came to Washington.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.