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The Target: Tourism in Cuba

Fernando Ravsberg Havana Times
Now the target seems to be tourism, a fast moving locomotive that can bring growth to other economic sectors as well. In June Trump forbade doing business “with the military” well aware that it is in the tourism industry where Gaesa (the business group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces) has its greatest weight.

Clinton, Assange and the War on Truth

John Pilger teleSUR
Assange remains a political refugee from the war-making dark state of which Donald Trump is a caricature and Hillary Clinton the embodiment.

Sabotaging Apartheid

Marcus Barnett, Ronnie Kasrils Convergence
Ronnie Kasrils, head of intelligence during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, on his revolutionary life and the prospects for the country’s left.

The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics

Tara C. Smith Quanta Magazine
If you didn't get a flu shot, you are endangering more than just your own health. Calculations of herd immunity against common diseases don't make exceptions.
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