Cubadebate opens its new Web page in English

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With versions of Fidel Castro's Reflections, El Paso Diary of José Pertierra, exclusive materials from Cuba's Reasons series and news articles about various national and international themes, Cubadebate opens today its Web page in English that you can find here.

Of course, it will be always updated with information about the Cuban Five that are in jail in the United States, and the world wide solidarity for the freedom of these fighters against terrorism, that already have more than 12 years in prison after a judgment marred of irregularities and injustices in Miami.

This is the first of a series of blogs in many languages, at least 8, which we will publish in the next days, as beginning of the redesign of our Web site, public on the Internet since august 5th, 2009.

Although it is not a mimetic mirror of the Web site in Spanish, the English version of Cubadebate reproduces some of our most popular sections and the services for the Web 2.0, with its own channels on Facebook and Twitter, also it will keep opened its pages for the visitor's opinions.

• Fidel's Reflections
• El Paso Diary
• Cuba's Reasons 
• The Cuban Five

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• Twitter
• Facebook

A message from Fidel

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“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.

Albert Einstein

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The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was candidly foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein who was able to measure their destructive capability to generate millions of degrees of heat, which would vaporize everything within a wide radius of action.

 This brilliant researcher had promoted the development of this weapon so that it would not become available to the genocidal Nazi regime.

Each and every government in the world has the obligation to respect the right to life of each and every nation and of the totality of all the peoples on the planet.

Today there is an imminent risk of war with the use of that kind of weapon and I don’t harbour the least doubt that an attack by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran would inevitably evolve towards a global nuclear conflict.

The World’s peoples have an obligation to demand of their political leaders their Right to Live. When the life of humankind, of your people and your most beloved human beings run such a risk, nobody can afford to be indifferent; not one minute can be lost in demanding respect for that right; tomorrow will be too late.

Albert Einstein himself stated unmistakably: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. We fully comprehend what he wanted to convey, and he was absolutely right, yet in the wake of a global nuclear war, there wouldn’t be anybody around to make use of those sticks and stones.

There would be “collateral damage”, as the American political and military leaders always affirm, to justify the deaths of innocent people.

In a nuclear war the “collateral damage” would be the life of all humanity.

Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!

Fidel Castro Ruz

October 15, 2010

Fidel Castro Defends Peace without Sacrificing Just Principles

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For a real revolutionary to defend peace does not mean to abandon the principles of justice, without which human life and society would become meaningless, pointed out the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on Friday.

In a message delivered by him during the presentation of his book "The Final Strategic Counter-offensive" in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana, Fidel Castro reiterated that he has always condemned the Holocaust.

He highlighted that in his reflections "Obama s speech in Cairo", "A Swipe Waiting to Happen" and "The opinion of an Expert", he clearly enunciates this position.

He pointed out that the great confusion existing in the world can be deduced from the criteria of many Arab friends who, when they heard about his interview with US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, sent him messages indicating that the reporter was the greatest defender of Zionism (2).

Many of the brightest talents such as Karl Marx and Albert Einstein were Jewish, because it is a nation in which the most intelligent survived, under a natural law, he said.

Muslims, he continued, were attacked and persecuted by European Christians for well over 12 centuries because of their beliefs, as were the first Christians in ancient Rome before Christianity became the official religion of that empire.

He stated that history should be accepted and remembered as it is, with its tragic realities and its fierce wars, and then it explains the dangers that now face humanity.

If we add a war in Iran, even if it is conventional, it would be better that the US turn off the lights and say goodbye. How could the US withstand a war against 1,500 million Muslims?, asked Fidel Castro.

All peoples have the right to peace and to the enjoyment of the goods and natural resources of the planet, he said.

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The graphic news coming from the Middle East are amazing, he continued, where Palestinians are deprived of their lands, their houses are demolished by monstrous machines and women, men and children are bombed with white phosphorous and other means of extermination.

The last thing to be expected was the news of the expulsion of the French gypsies, victims of the cruelty of the French extreme right, who now number 7,000, victims of another kind of racial holocaust, he said.

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