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Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

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To 1,100 graduating schoolteachers, Cuba’s dictator cried that the rebels in the hills hanged three captured Fidelistas (unconfirmed reports put the real figure at 20), including an 18-year-old ...

Gone are the days when the so-called "Cuban revolution"—essentially dictator Fidel Castro—would proclaim to Cuban emigrants, "we don't want you, we don't need you." As we near the 45th anniversary of ...