Why Cuba's Dreams of Major Oil Discoveries Might Come True - US News and World Report

REPOLITIK OIL
Cuba is one of the biggest wild cards in the Western Hemisphere's energy outlook. A major oil find in Cuban waters could subvert the logic behind the U.S. embargo of Cuba, a policy that endures in part because it imposes only minor economic costs while meeting the political demands of hard-liners. "It would obliterate the domestic political excuse," says one Cuba expert. Adds another, "It could be a game changer."
(US News & World Reports)

AM I RED?
Even as we all turn red, I've still encountered just two avowed democratic socialists in my daily rounds through the nation's capital: Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders . . . and the guy I see in the mirror when I shave. Bernie is quite capable of speaking for himself, so what follows is a report on the state of actual existing socialism from the other half of the D.C. Senators and Columnists Soviet.
(WASHINGTON POST, suggested by TRUTHOUT)