Female Bylines

« Gaza’s Crushed Childhoods | Main | Face it – Fox News Isn't Something to Aspire to »

April 6, 2008

Cuba: New Freedoms Unaffordable to Many

by Patricia Grogg, IPS News Agency, Italy - The wall of prohibitions that has marked Cuban life for years has begun to crumble, with the lifting of the bans on Cubans staying in upscale tourist hotels and buying mobile phones and computers. The obstacle now is the same one faced by a majority of people in any developing country: money, or lack thereof.

Leave a comment

BYLINE PORTAL

Tribes Versus Terrorists

by Ashley Bommer, Today's Zaman, Turkey - The United States went into Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda. But seven years later, what has the US achieved?...

Illiteracy Eradication Programs Struggle with the Numbers

by Safaa Abdoun, Daily News, Egypt - Amid the noisy, crowded streets and bustling activity in the Cairene squatter settlement of Mansheyat Nasser, in the...

Ban the Cluster Bomb

by Lynn Bradach, Los Angeles Times, USA - In the last 10 years, the United States has used cluster bombs in civilian-populated areas of Afghanistan,...

Diction Matters

by Saba Naqvi, Outlook, India - Terror has given Indian politics a big jolt. Just when the political process appeared to be the sum total...

The Rights of the Land

by Robin Kimmerer, Orion, USA - The Onondaga Nation of central New York proposes a radical new vision of property rights....