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February 25
(NYT) HAVANA — Raúl Castro, who has labored in the shadow of his brother Fidel since the days of their revolution, became Cuba’s new president on Sunday, ending his brother’s 49-year rule and washing away […]

23 January 2008
We are delighted that at the suggestion of Consul General Mary Marshall, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins will be joining us for (part of) this Wednesday Night’s Salon. Ambassador Wilkins’ visit is particularly timely given that the Republican Primary was held in his native South Carolina on Saturday, however, we understand that he […]

By Oscar Avila Chicago Tribune
December 21, 2007
Only 1 TV station survives to criticize, but for how long?
CARACAS, Venezuela - The reporters at Globovision, the only remaining broadcast television station routinely critical of the Venezuelan government, work behind a towering wall and barbed wire. Just in case.
Someone once threw an explosive device at […]

FREE TRADE IN WASHINGTON:
ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME
David T. Jones

If all politics are local, then in Washington, all trade is politics. Twenty years after the FTA and 15 years after the NAFTA, former US diplomat David Jones looks at the results and prospects for free trade from Washington, where lobbyists and […]

22 August 2007
As we prepare for #1329, we offer the following indispensable addition to the Wednesday Night lexicon:
The word outsight, defined as “A statement believed by the person who utters it to be an important or profound insight, but which is in fact regarded by its audience as so obvious or elementary that it […]

The North American Reality
Stephen Blank
August 9, 2007
In the heat of the summer, we have been washed over by a wave of blogs warning about plans afoot to create a North American Union or to build new gigantic new NAFTA superhighways across the US.
Alien invaders — a “Bushite” coup, announces one blog - will swarm across […]

18 August 2007
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was created in March 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase co-operation on security, trade and public-health issues among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing.
“To hear some people talk, the Security and Prosperity Partnership meetings are nothing to get […]

Globe & Mail Report on Business
NEIL REYNOLDS
August 10, 2007
OTTAWA - John Kenneth Galbraith was perhaps the world’s most consistent liberal economist of the 20th century. Contemptuous of free-market economics from the beginning of his adult life (when in 1931, at age 22, he abandoned Canada for the United States) to the end (when in 2006, […]

25 July 2007
Our mental capabilities are exhausted from the intense and challenging conversation of last week’s Salon covering Global Governance, China, Iraq and the Geopolitics of Environmental Change including Canada’s claims to the Northwest Passage
The relevance of our WN topics was confirmed today by the BBC report today that Russia is sending a mini-submarine to […]

13 September 2006
As we began to write this week’s invitation we could not help a slight tremor - what would the fifth anniversary of 9/11 bring? As it turned out, -nothing-, but our collective psyche has been damaged as the dreaded, unidentified threat remains, and our foreboding increased by the