From the monthly archives: August 2010
Gilberto Câmara, General Director of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), earlier this summer said that putting humans in outer space was a “complete waste of money,” adding that the U.S. space program “only serves the purpose of maintaining what Eisenhower called the industrial military complex.” Câmara’s barb was not the first, and certainly not the [...]
Last week we penned a brief note on the potential for an easing of U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba. The change in a policy may arise in response to symbolic release by Cuba recently of a handful of political prisoners. In response to that piece, I was contacted by numerous readers about additional regulatory [...]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published today Congressionally mandated regulations to implement the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA). President Barack Obama signed CISADA into law earlier this summer.
While CISADA specifically targets Iran’s energy sector, the law is already having a [...]
When it comes to U.S.-Cuba policy folks who know me well, and who are not of Cuban ancestry, are usually befuddled as to why some of us still support strong economic sanctions on the Cuban dictatorship. This is especially true when it comes to travel to Cuba – there is way too much of it.
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