Sunday, June 08th, 2014

Bill Clinton says travel industry is "good for the earth, the children, and the future"

The travel industry has the potential—and the responsibility—to spread peace and change the world, former US President Bill Clinton told a high-profile audience of travel executives.Speaking at the World Travel & Tourism Council's 13th annual Global Summit in Abu Dhabi, he challenged travel leaders to assume a renewed sense of responsibility."I spent a lot of time when I was president,… [Read Full Article]

Thursday, June 05th, 2014

How many free-market reforms can Cuba make and still call itself Communist?

The world’s last relic of Marxist-style economies relaxed their policies yet again this week to allow the first wholesale agricultural market farmers have seen for generations.  Since 2008, when the reforms of Fidel’s brother Raul began altering the economic legacy of the infamous Cold War Castro regime, over one-half million small businesses have been encouraged to innovate, employ and operate… [Read Full Article]

Wednesday, June 04th, 2014

In Cuba, technology may beat censorship

BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMERThe Miami Herald Published: May 30, 2014Cuba’s first major independent newspaper in more than five decades — a digitaldaily called 14ymedio — was quickly blocked within the island last week, but thebig question is for how long the country’s regime will be able to maintain itsmonopoly on the news media.Yoani Sanchez, the prominent Cuban blogger who launched the new digital… [Read Full Article]

Tuesday, June 03th, 2014

Arn Chorn Pond - Everyone has a Story

Most of Arn Chorn's family was killed during the Cambodian genocide. At age ten he had slaved in a work camp, witnessing wide-scale starvation and murder. When the North Vietnamese invaded Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge forced him to become a soldier until he escaped on foot through the jungle in Thailand.Watch the video here. [Read Full Article]

Monday, June 02th, 2014

Vincent Harding, 82, Civil Rights Author and Associate of Dr. King, Dies

Vincent Harding, a historian, author and activist who wrote one of the most polarizing speeches ever given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in which Dr. King expressed ardent opposition to the Vietnam War, died on Monday in Philadelphia. He was 82.His death, from an aneurysm, was confirmed by the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, where he… [Read Full Article]