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• Curious

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  After listening to Tim Grosclose speak about media bias in the Uncommon Knowledge piece that George recommended earlier, I decided to try an experiment.

  I googled the following (in quotes) "Pinochet Dictatorship" and in .25 seconds Google returned 115,000 results. The top two [...]

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• A Call to Action

  
  
  

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia's call to action for a free Cuba Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia
  

  Just five days ago, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia founded together with other opposition activists who desire to finalize the democratic [...]

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• Pablo Milanes denounces Castroite brutality against Ladies in White

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  "Come on Baby!--Let's do the Twist."--(Whoops! Sorry. Wrong singer.)

  "Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanes has harshly criticized government-backed harassment of the Ladies in White dissident group in his country. Milanes says the way they are treated inspires feelings of “shame” and “indignation.”....Milanes" [...]

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• And here we go again…

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  From Yoani's twitter and Facebook feeds:

  #cuba Mi telefono no para Todos preguntan si es verdad q Fidel Castro esta muy grave. NO SE, si es asi cubanos seremos ultimos en enterarnos

  "My phone doesnt stop. Everyone asking if it's true that fidel castro is gravely" [...]

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