In the spirit of the season, a very Happy Hanukkah gift from Bibi Netanyahu.  It's a thorough dressing down of the unethical rag--enjoy!
From Aish.com
Bibi Rejects the New York Times
by Ron Dermer, Senior Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister
Why Netanyahu refuses to publish an op-ed in the so-called “newspaper of record.”
 Ron Dermer is a senior [...]

While the MSM continues to parrot Cuban state press run by a murderous outlaw dictator, they ignore the brutal violent acts of repression against Cuba's peaceful dissidents. 
The life of Cuban opposition leader Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez) is in danger.

I am pleading with the MSM and international human rights organizations to please speak out [...]

Frances Martel at Mediaite has written a lengthy article interviewing CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Havanna, Cuba. Dr. Gupta is in Cuba to investigate for himself the facts about Cuba's healthcare system that everyone seems determined to hold up as a prime example of a successful government/state-run system. Democrats, Hollywood celebrities such as Michael Moore [...]

Here's more on Estela Bravo, currently on a propaganda tour peddling the regimes version of Operation Pedro Pan.  Agustin Blazquez takes a revealing look back at Ms. Bravo's long association with the bloody Castro regime.
The 2005 article is about a pro-Castro documentary shown on PBS by filmmaker Estela Bravo, a known collaborator with the Castro regime.  It's quite [...]

Thanks to the inimitable Paquito D'Rivera for shedding light on this phenomenon, because I've been unable to understand how it is beneficial for Americans to spend their hard-earned, and increasingly hard to acquire dollars on propaganda shows produced by tyrannical dictators who enslave their people and hate us. While it's easy to understand why the [...]

Darn! What a bummer. The socialist paradise on the Caribbean is being sucked into a 52 year – wide black hole of its own creation and some self centered “reporter” by the name of Portia Siegelbaum, who must have graduated from the Anita Snow School of communist propaganda regurgitation, is so bummed she felt compelled [...]

Once again, the MSM shows that it  is either incapable of, or refuses to report about Cuba within the realm of reality.  The AP headline   reads, "Cuba embraces 2 surprising free-market decrees." 
Either the AP writer is deliberately obscuring the facts, or is ignorant of basic economic principles.  "Free Market", simply defined is, " business governed by the laws [...]

Dear Sir or Madam:
We write to you worried about the police and paramilitary harassment denounced from Banes, a small town in the Cuban province of Holguín, by Reina Luisa Tamayo. She is the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo the prisoner of conscience who died on 23 February after a prolonged hunger strike that up to [...]

 The first thing that caught my eye in today's Cuba news feed is a speculative article about Hillary Clinton traveling to Cuba to help gain the release of Alan Gross. You can bet this rumor is just a tickler put out to ensure that when the actual event takes place it will have the correct "buzz," and you know [...]

CubaNet reports that at checkpoints on entrances to Havana,  the PNR (Agentes de la Policía Nacional Revolucionaria) stopped citizens transporting seafood to Havana, and seized fish, lobster, and other products.  They also arrested  some citizens because they possessed more than their allowed limit of of food items- onion, garlic, fish, yogurt, alleging that the objective was to sell [...]

George (and hopefully Alberto) will be on my BTR show tonight, "Infidel's Watch", to discuss the background, details, and political aspects of the developing Cuban prisoner release.
You can listen to the show here starting @ 10:00pm eastern time (7pm west coast).
If you aren't already registered @ Blog Talk Radio you can do so for free. [...]

The Cuban political prisoners that reportedly are being freed and allowed to leave are neither.  They are mere slaves in a $cam to prop up a murderous dictator for the $ake of business as usual.  How is the current practice of the state selling the labor of Cuban workers , more here, and here, to [...]

In light of the MSM's continued coddling of brutal dictators, even going so far as to circulate without question raul castro's "regret" for a death he himself is responsible for, (to understand the degree of insult and pain this cruel parroting inflicts on survivors and their families, imagine how Jews would feel if say the NYT's [...]

There was a time when the MSM sometimes did their job vis á vis Cuba.  To all those who want to end the embargo and normalize relations with Cuba, and to all those taking cheap shots at the Cuban exile community because some exercised their free speech rights and complained because they were  offended that lackeys [...]

While reporting on Cuba has usually been misleading and favorable to the regime, ignoring easily obtainable, publicly known facts reaches a new level of sloppy reporting. Either that or these reporters’ loyalties unabashedly lie with the regime.
Recently, the Seattle Times erred in an editorial about the embargo, stating:
SEN. Maria Cantwell calls our attention to a [...]

Penultimos Dias has word that Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers have been arrested in Havana.
Yoani Sánchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, Ciro Díaz and Claudia Cadelo among those arrested. Cadelo is reported to have already been released. Details on whereabouts of other dissident bloggers are still sketchy.
UPDATE 6:46 EST: Im told all were picked up, [...]

Are you sick and tired of the inescapable groupthink impersonal racist politically correct labels seemingly applied to everything in our society? Then go read Jose Reyes' latest article, "“HITN, Latino and Categorizing,” at Cubanology, and be sure to click on the link there to view Jose's diagram illustrating the connection between the castro regime and all [...]

It's common knowledge, at least to those that understand the laws of the marketplace, that there’s “no such thing as a free lunch.”
But in the socialist worker’s paradise of Cuba, apparently there has been a “free” lunch to go along with the “free” education and healthcare. Really.
Unfortunately though, the “free” lunch is coming to an [...]

The Cuba Research and Analysis Group (CRAG) recently initiated a letter to President Obama  requesting an end to the "Cultural Embargo" against Cuba. The esteemed Paquito D' Rivera, exiled Cuban musician and author responds; published with the authors permission:
Music can Wait
by Paquito D'Rivera (English / Español)
It’s been more than 5 decades since Fidel Castro jumped to [...]

Kendrick Meek, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Albio Sires, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, all members of the Congressional Cuba Democracy Caucus,  have stepped up to the plate on behalf of Cuban political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya.  The lack of action by other members of Congress, as well as international Human Rights organizations, and the [...]