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Americans generally don’t like to use the word “war” when the country is actually in one (see: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, increasingly, Pakistan and Yemen). Rhetorical wars, though, politicians and policy-makers love, whether it’s the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, or the amorphous War on Terror. (more…)
On Monday Cuba accused eminent blogger Yoani Sanchez of being part of a “cyber war” launched by America. They allege that the aim of these attacks is to destabilise the communist government in Cuba. Allegations were made against Sanchez in a documentary series accusing the US government of targeting Cuba through “cyber dissident proxies”.