Full text of Nagasaki Peace Declaration 2010 The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration presented on August 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the August 9, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. This year’s peace ceremony has commenced with a song by hibakusha, [...]
Summary of the interview Given by Fidel Castro to Venezuelan Journalist VANESSA DAVIES— We greet the people of Venezuela, the people of Cuba and Latin America who will be following us during this interview. Comandante Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution and continental leader has made some reflections and some warnings about the possibility of a [...]
As part of his incessant battle to convince US President Barack Obama not to start a nuclear war, the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, met on Monday with Cuban scientists to speak about nuclear weapons and the dangers of a nuclear conflict. In this planet, only 100 (nuclear) explosions would be enough to cause [...]
Fidel Castro: “Humanity must preserve itself in order to live for thousands of years Fidel emphatically affirmed that however enthusiastic we might feel about survival in other spaces within the solar system, it is better for us not to lose what we have on Earth, because that is the only way not to lose everything [...]
REFLECTIONS BY FIDEL CASTRO: I am embarrassed to not know about a subject, one that I have not even heard mentioned. Otherwise I should have understood much earlier that the risks of a nuclear war were much more serious than I imagined. I was assuming that the planet was able to withstand the explosion of hundreds [...]
After addressing the Cuban National Assembly of the Peoples Power in an extraordinary session on Saturday, the Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro exchanged and answered questions with the deputies about the possibility of a new war breaking out in the middle east and its consequences. Cuban News Agency, Cuba, Aug 7 Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon [...]
Message to the National Assembly read by comrade Fidel: At the beginning, only eight weeks ago, I thought there was no possible solution to the imminent danger of a war. The situation before my eyes was so tragic that I thought there was no other way out but the possibility of survival -quite likely perhaps- [...]
“The US-Colombian axis was guaranteed to be maintained and to both—continue to be strong. And that’s actually one of the factors in ruining the relationship towards Venezuela and towards the other neighbors of Colombia, that the US is constantly pushing Colombia to take a harder line against Chávez or against Correa. But Colombia internally. It’s [...]
The Greek Laboratory: “There is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is beginning to fall across the land. Call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will; it is the nearest I dare approximate it. What its nature may be I refuse to imagine. But what I wanted to say [...]
In ancient society ‘barbarism’ and its carriers ‘the barbarians’ were envisioned as threats by outside invaders from outlying regions descending on Rome or Athens. In contemporary societies, the barbarians came from within, among the elite of society, intent on imposing a new order which destroys the social fabric and productive base of society, converting stable [...]