Americas

Cuba's new Foreign Investment Law will go into effect this coming June, along with its complementary regulations, and that its primary objective is the attraction of foreign capital, to support the socio-economic development of the country.

The deep suffering caused by US policy at international level has made the world perceive the United States as the top warmonger, said former President Jimmy Carter.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton misused her position “as a powerful ally” for airplane manufacturer Boeing, advocating for foreign countries to purchase their airplanes or soliciting sizable donations from the company for William J. Clinton Foundation.

The U.S. State Department, under the leadership of John Kerry, has drawn up and circulated a so-called "rationale" challenging Russia’s position in Ukraine following the 12 April rebellion which saw pro-Russian para-military insurgents seize government buildings in the eastern part of the country. This is the second time since the beginning of the crisis that the State Department has provided and fed the mass media with anti-Russian arguments which the journalists repeat ad nauseum.

Richard Stengel, TIME Magazine's managing editor, was sworn in as undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the US State Department. Stengel is now US propaganda chief.

Cuba plans to launch its own social media sites to counter "subversive" ones such as a Twitter-like app Zunzuneo that the United States was funding and set up between 2009-2012 to destabilise the country.

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has agreed to be godmother to the baby daughter of a lesbian couple who asked the president over Facebook.

Washington is pushing the panic button, claiming austerity is hollowing out U.S. armed forces and their national security is at risk. They are lying. Again.

U.S. surveillance state grows ever more pervasive, domestically and globally, as the corporate version of the same expands exponentially, as prying “eyes” and “ears” of every technological variety proliferate as people fall for the "Big Data" craze.

American racism has grossly violated the proposition that “all men are created equal” and the worst form of racism involves invasion of other countries. The US has invaded about 70 countries since its inception and has invaded a total of about 50 countries since 1945.

The Obama Administration is trying to appoint an Israeli and the head or former head of the Israeli Central Bank as the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Stanley Fischer was also former Vice Chairman of Citigroup.

While the Venezuelan opposition - which narrowly lost the April 2013 presidential election and later lost the municipal elections of December 2013 by a wide margin - calls for "regime change", the media are busily engaged in numerous manipulations, using events from other countries and mass rallies that never took place, in order to smear, distort and implicate President Nicola Maduro and the Chavista government.