Cuba

Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism

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On Monday, the State Department released a 100-page report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism”, which blames the country for the rise of Democratic socialism and warns that it is a threat to the United States. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), who just returned from a trip to Cuba, joins Antonia Hylton with his reaction to the report.

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Linked, in Some Way, Shape, or Form

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The State Department’s new report on Cuba staples a documented Cold War history to an undocumented present, and asks the reader not to notice the seam. Its most revealing sentence is the hedge at its center — a causal claim engineered to be unfalsifiable, published at the precise moment Washington needs a predicate.

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