The Indypendent13d
Cuba’s Devastating Blackouts Worsened by U.S. Economic Blockade
The Cuban government is struggling to keep an aging Soviet-era power grid running while crippling U.S. sanctions make it ...
UPI23d
Cuban Missile Crisis
Unknown Speaker: At the height of tension over the Cuban Crisis, with the world purged ... with vituperative attack on the Americans-Cuban blockade. The military newspaper Red Star warned that ...
CounterPunch2d
Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions After Six Decades
For the thirty-second time in so many years, the US blockade of Cuba was globally condemned at the UN General Assembly’s ...
c-span28d
JFK White House Tapes, Cuban Missile Crisis
In this October 18, 1962 recording, he dictates an account of the debates among his top advisors in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This tape was made two days after the president was ...
Pipe Dream14dOpinion
Cuba’s latest blackout is a symptom of the U.S. blockade
On Oct. 18, Cuba’s power grid fell victim to Tropical Storm Oscar. The only working power plant in Cuba at the time was the ...
The Real News Network15d
New Yorkers protest Cuban blockade as blackouts, hurricane batter island
Though the blackouts have become the target of another round of media demonization of Cuba, the current crisis is really the result of the US blockade, which has starved the Cuban people of fuel ...
c-span24d
President Kennedy's 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Address
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How a black bear that got lost and climbed a fence almost started World War Three
During the darkness of the night on 25 October 1962 at Duluth Air Force Base, Minnesota, a sentry spotted something. The base ...
KTXS29d
Former missile facilities technician remembers Cuban Missile Crisis 62 years later
ABILENE, Texas — Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost had a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. We spoke with the last living crew ...
Time21d
Memoirs: Bobby’s View
At the height of the Cuban missile crisis, a session of the executive ... Secretary Robert McNamara’s arguments for a naval blockade. “The members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous ...
The News Journal19d
Cuban missile crisis, Phillies champs, radio scare: News Journal archives, Oct. 27-Nov. 2
President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis ... s promise to dismantle the missile bases.
UPI23d
Cuban Missile Crisis
Unknown Speaker: At the height of tension over the Cuban Crisis, with the world purged ... with vituperative attack on the Americans-Cuban blockade. The military newspaper Red Star warned that ...