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SOME MYTHS AND REALITIES OF CUBA

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/cuba-friend-or-foe","title":"CUBA: FRIEND OR FOE?","summary":"SOME MYTHS AND REALITIES OF CUBA","date_modified":"2026-05-13T17:30:38Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/once-again-to-josh-riley","html_content":"

April 2026

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/once-again-to-josh-riley","title":"Once Again to Josh Riley","summary":"April 2026","date_modified":"2026-04-29T15:27:12Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/the-lesson-of-boston-echoes-in-minnesota","html_content":"

March 2026

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/the-lesson-of-boston-echoes-in-minnesota","title":"The Lesson of Boston Echoes in Minnesota","summary":"March 2026","date_modified":"2026-04-29T15:15:54Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/what%E2%80%99s-happening-in-rojava-and-why-it-matters-to-you","html_content":"

February 2026

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/what%E2%80%99s-happening-in-rojava-and-why-it-matters-to-you","title":"What’s Happening in Rojava and Why It Matters to You","summary":"February 2026","date_modified":"2026-04-29T15:08:14Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/wishing-us-a-healthy-and-happy-new-year","html_content":"

January 2026

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/wishing-us-a-healthy-and-happy-new-year","title":"Wishing US A Healthy and Happy New Year","summary":"January 2026","date_modified":"2026-04-29T15:02:36Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/congress-a-club-on-the-take","html_content":"

Congress lobbying corruption revealed by Rose Garrity. Learn how AIPAC influences U.S. policy in 2025.

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/congress-a-club-on-the-take","title":"Congress: A Club on The Take","summary":"Congress lobbying corruption revealed by Rose Garrity. Learn how AIPAC influences U.S. policy in 2025. ","date_modified":"2025-07-28T12:08:46Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/a-national-issue-has-reared-up-in-our-backyard","html_content":"

By Carolina Cositore Sitrin T his article appeared in Tompkins Weekly in April 2025

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/a-national-issue-has-reared-up-in-our-backyard","title":"A NATIONAL ISSUE HAS REARED UP IN OUR BACKYARD","summary":"By Carolina Cositore Sitrin T his article appeared in Tompkins Weekly in April 2025","date_modified":"2025-04-23T14:02:09Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/josh-riley-in-congress-an-atrocious-start","html_content":"

by Bill Carini

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By Bill Carini

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/a-write-in-vote-for-jill-stein-is-a-vote-for-democracy","title":"A Write-In Vote for Jill Stein Is A Vote for Democracy","summary":"By Bill Carini","date_modified":"2024-10-09T18:54:37Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/getting-what-we-deserve","html_content":"

By Carolina Cositore Sitrin

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/getting-what-we-deserve","title":"Getting What We Deserve","summary":"By Carolina Cositore Sitrin","date_modified":"2024-10-09T16:28:32Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/childrens-peace-fair-international-peace-day","html_content":"

by Jack Gilroy | Fall 2023 Edition

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/childrens-peace-fair-international-peace-day","title":"CHILDREN'S PEACE FAIR INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY","summary":"by Jack Gilroy | Fall 2023 Edition","date_modified":"2024-06-18T11:31:30Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/tax-time-why-the-duopoly-is-bad-for-us-and-for-the-climate","html_content":"

By Carolina Cositore Sitrin

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/tax-time-why-the-duopoly-is-bad-for-us-and-for-the-climate","title":"TAX TIME. WHY THE DUOPOLY IS BAD FOR US AND FOR THE CLIMATE","summary":"By Carolina Cositore Sitrin","date_modified":"2024-06-17T14:09:45Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/%E2%80%9Cspoiler-effect%E2%80%9D-let%E2%80%99s-eliminate-that-with-ranked-choice-voting","html_content":"

By Bill Carini

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/%E2%80%9Cspoiler-effect%E2%80%9D-let%E2%80%99s-eliminate-that-with-ranked-choice-voting","title":"“Spoiler Effect”? Let’s Eliminate That with Ranked Choice Voting.","summary":"By Bill Carini","date_modified":"2024-06-17T13:56:38Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/anti-nuclear-movement-international-intergenerational","html_content":"

MORE URGENT THAN EVER!

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/anti-nuclear-movement-international-intergenerational","title":"Anti-nuclear movement international, intergenerational, ","summary":"MORE URGENT THAN EVER!","date_modified":"2024-06-16T16:57:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/why-vote-green","html_content":"

THE GREEN VIEW 1

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/why-vote-green","title":"Why Vote Green","summary":"THE GREEN VIEW 1","date_modified":"2024-02-26T13:49:24Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/gaza-dominates-my-thoughts","html_content":"

So many issues, from climate change to all our wars (Ukraine/Russia, Yemen, Syria, and on and on) and the 2024 election [Vote Green], I should be writing about, but cannot because of the deliberate Israeli destruction of...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/gaza-dominates-my-thoughts","title":"Gaza on My Mind","summary":"So many issues, from climate change to all our wars (Ukraine/Russia, Yemen, Syria, and on and on) and the 2024 election [Vote Green], I should be writing about, but cannot because of the deliberate Israeli destruction of...","date_modified":"2023-12-17T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/sorry-charlie-no-need-to-be-morally-correct-to-agree-or-disagree","html_content":"

Perhaps from fear of criticism or being perceived as a “Putin puppet”, lately those explaining or defending an action taken by Russia (or China, of course) obsessively add something like “how can the US criticize this wh...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/sorry-charlie-no-need-to-be-morally-correct-to-agree-or-disagree","title":"Your Morality, Or Lack Thereof, Has Nothing to Do with It.","summary":"Perhaps from fear of criticism or being perceived as a “Putin puppet”, lately those explaining or defending an action taken by Russia (or China, of course) obsessively add something like “how can the US criticize this wh...","date_modified":"2023-04-16T18:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/capitalism-is-awful-from-erics-rants","html_content":"

For a video of this post: https://youtu.be/vMd_A-paFbc

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/capitalism-is-awful-from-erics-rants","title":"Capitalism Is Awful -Eric's Rants","summary":" For a video of this post: https://youtu.be/vMd_A-paFbc ","date_modified":"2023-03-19T22:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/no-war-with-china-either","html_content":"

When not beating the war drums for Russia, which has been and is almost always, the right wing in the US beats them for China. So, I ask: \"Is China a threat to the United States?\" Even taking its assertions with a deserv...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/no-war-with-china-either","title":"No War with China Either","summary":"When not beating the war drums for Russia, which has been and is almost always, the right wing in the US beats them for China. So, I ask: \"Is China a threat to the United States?\" Even taking its assertions with a deserv...","date_modified":"2023-03-19T18:27:22Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/my-ghosts-of-red-hill-isadora-jack-and-max","html_content":"

Your spirits were in the village long before I was born

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/my-ghosts-of-red-hill-isadora-jack-and-max","title":"My Ghosts of Red Hill Isadora, Jack and Max","summary":"Your spirits were in the village long before I was born","date_modified":"2022-09-06T18:01:15Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/to-know-yourself-or-the-personal-is-political","html_content":"

We are aware that our political choices are personal; for whom we vote, secretly or not, may even influence our lives from how much tax we pay and what that tax is spent for to whether and against whom we wage war. Not t...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/to-know-yourself-or-the-personal-is-political","title":" To Know Yourself, Or the Personal Is Political ","summary":"We are aware that our political choices are personal; for whom we vote, secretly or not, may even influence our lives from how much tax we pay and what that tax is spent for to whether and against whom we wage war. Not t...","date_modified":"2022-08-31T14:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/nato-is-dispensable","html_content":"

Would the world be better without NATO and consequently, should the US withdraw from it?

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/nato-is-dispensable","title":"Why NATO Is Dispensable","summary":"Would the world be better without NATO and consequently, should the US withdraw from it?","date_modified":"2022-07-21T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/talking-nuclear-blues","html_content":"

Why NOT to Go to War with Russia

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/talking-nuclear-blues","title":"TALKING NUCLEAR BLUES","summary":"Why NOT to Go to War with Russia","date_modified":"2022-07-15T20:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/us-biochemical-research-the-good-the-bad-and-the-monstrous","html_content":"

By Carolina Cositore

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/us-biochemical-research-the-good-the-bad-and-the-monstrous","title":" US Biochemical Research: The Good, The Bad and The Monstrous","summary":"By Carolina Cositore","date_modified":"2022-07-10T17:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/exacting-eden","html_content":"

The search for utopia goes in and out of conscious fashion, but our secret yearning for the perfect system – however any individual social advocate defines that – is what makes us social activists. Yet, as Bruno Bett...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/exacting-eden","title":" The Good Enough Progressive","summary":" The search for utopia goes in and out of conscious fashion, but our secret yearning for the perfect system – however any individual social advocate defines that – is what makes us social activists. Yet, as Bruno Bett...","date_modified":"2022-06-11T12:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/cuba-and-her-permanent-revolution","html_content":"

…with apologies to Trotsky, Bukharin, Marx, et.al

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/cuba-and-her-permanent-revolution","title":" Cuba and her Permanent Revolution ","summary":" …with apologies to Trotsky, Bukharin, Marx, et.al ","date_modified":"2021-09-13T17:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/fear-and-russia-loathing-in-the-national-lawyers-guild","html_content":"

By Riva Enteen

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/fear-and-russia-loathing-in-the-national-lawyers-guild","title":"Fear and Russia-Loathing in the National Lawyers Guild ","summary":" By Riva Enteen","date_modified":"2020-10-03T14:48:35Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/reporters-without-britches-rsf-caught-with-pants-down","html_content":"

Originally published on ZNet by Carolina Cositore

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/reporters-without-britches-rsf-caught-with-pants-down","title":"REPORTERS WITHOUT BRITCHES: RSF caught with pants down","summary":"Originally published on ZNet by Carolina Cositore","date_modified":"2020-10-02T17:02:33Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/the-shout-of-yara---what-one-person-can-begin","html_content":"

Now, when more than ever we may feel overwhelmed by the global powers-that-be, especially in the United States, with Covid killing and confusing us, with seemingly endless wars and politicians sapping our will power to r...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/the-shout-of-yara---what-one-person-can-begin","title":"The Shout of Yara - What One Person Can Begin","summary":"Now, when more than ever we may feel overwhelmed by the global powers-that-be, especially in the United States, with Covid killing and confusing us, with seemingly endless wars and politicians sapping our will power to r...","date_modified":"2020-09-26T17:04:56Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/how-not-to-be-conned-by-news","html_content":"

We have been told so often that our press is supposed to be unbiased and balanced that, although both neocons and progressives often accuse the same media of partiality to the other side, the truth is we want to believe ...

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/how-not-to-be-conned-by-news","title":"How Not to Be Conned by the News - reading a news article","summary":"We have been told so often that our press is supposed to be unbiased and balanced that, although both neocons and progressives often accuse the same media of partiality to the other side, the truth is we want to believe ...","date_modified":"2020-07-16T20:44:24Z"},{"id":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/today-i-bought-a-keffiyeh","html_content":"

http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/today-i-bought-a-keffiyeh/

","url":"https://carolinacositore.org/butterfly-thoughts-blogs-1/f/today-i-bought-a-keffiyeh","title":"Today I Bought A Keffiyeh","summary":" http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/today-i-bought-a-keffiyeh/ ","date_modified":"2020-07-16T17:20:56Z"}]}