Category: Cuba

The Global Convoy to Cuba: Response to Washington’s Strangling of Cuba

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Since 1962 the US imposed an economic blockade on Cuba designed “to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Until 1990 this brutality was greatly alleviated by the solidarity of the socialist countries which provided the Cuban people with essential trade and aid. That provided some protection, but as the film 638 Ways to Kill Castro, the US had other tools, including many acts of terrorism and biological warfare.

The Global Convoy to Cuba: Response to Washington’s Strangling of Cuba

Opinion: Oversight Hearings Are Great, But Where’s the Accountability?

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Congressional Oversight Hearings are meant to monitor the implementation of policy by any given presidential administration and hold those accountable who may have violated people’s civil rights, the nation’s laws, or codes of conduct. However, it seems that more focus than ever is on proselytizing, rather than asking hard questions. Meanwhile, confirmation hearings have always been partisan in this way. Those are largely based on support for a nominee, as we saw in the hearing for Markwayne Mullin, where Republican lawmakers and Mullin promoted false narratives about immigration and migrants who have been detained and deported under Trump.

Opinion: Oversight Hearings Are Great, But Where’s the Accountability?

A bit disconnected? If only.

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I translated this with Google Translate and ran it through Copilot to smooth the language. I hope it’s accurate, because the piece is powerful.

Reading it, I kept thinking of Madeleine Albright’s answer to Lesley Stahl’s question about the half‑million Iraqi children who died under sanctions: “The price is worth it.” I don’t have polite words for leaders who make decisions like that — then or now.

A bit disconnected? If only. | Gustavo Horta

“Scoundrel.”

A bit disconnected? If only.

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Laura Dogu and Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela + More

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Laura Dogu and Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela

Laura Dogu’s appointment ultimately signals not innovation but continuity: a recalibration of tactics in pursuit of the same objective that has defined US policy toward the Bolivarian Revolution for decades – regime change through pressure, attrition, and delegitimization. Whether branded as “stabilization,” “economic recovery,” or “transition,” the underlying premise remains that Venezuela’s political future should be shaped in Washington, not Caracas.

Yet the record in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Venezuela itself suggests that external coercion has limits. Dogu’s mission will test not only Venezuela’s resilience but also the durability of the unremitting US strategy of Latin American interventions.

Previously:

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Europe creates a ‘Russian government-in-exile’, consisting of a bunch of losers

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Europe creates a ‘Russian government-in-exile’, consisting of a bunch of losers

Among the members of the so-called Russian government-in-exile are names such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch once convicted in Russia for fraud and theft, who has already served time in a Russian prison, and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who has a far stronger connection to modern-day Azerbaijan or Armenia, having been born and spent his entire childhood in Baku, present-day Azerbaijan.

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