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On Guillermo Farinas
By: Daniel Nardini While in the United States, Cuban political dissident Guillermo Farinas talked to Fox News about what things are like for him and those he knows. He gave… Read more
Depriving the College Dream in South Carolina
By: Daniel Nardini It almost sounded like a replay of what happened in Florida. A South Carolina resident named Joel Licea wanted to go to the University of South Carolina…. Read more
Killing the Food Stamp Program
By: Daniel Nardini Once again it is time for the federal budget fight of what programs are kept, what programs may be expanded, and what programs may be cut. One… Read more
Cuba Mail
By: Daniel Nardini For the first time since the United States suspended direct mail shipping to Cuba in 1963, both representatives from the U.S. and Cuba are now discussing resuming… Read more
What PRISM is Not Saying
By: Daniel Nardini There has already been more than enough written about Edward Snowden and his revelations about the U.S. government’s secret surveillance program PRISM. I will not go into… Read more
More Venezuela and Cuba Antics
By: Daniel Nardini The good news is that Timothy Tracy, the independent filmmaker who was working on a documentary in Venezuela when the Venezuelan government arrested him for “spying,” was… Read more
A Bookstore of Banned Books
By: Daniel Nardini Here in the United States, it sounds like a contradiction in terms. In truth, there is no such thing as banned books. What I mean by this… Read more
A Man Who Kept His Promise
By:Daniel Nardini This story began in 2010, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago of all places. A man named David House was returning from Mexico when he was stopped by… Read more
The Nicaragua Canal
By: Daniel Nardini In a bid to increase Nicaragua’s trade, connection with both Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and to increase the country gross national product, the country is going ahead… Read more
The New Jungle
By: Daniel Nardini It almost sounds like a page from the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, written in 1906. In a report entitled “Unsafe at These Speeds: Alabama’s Poultry… Read more »