Biden has maintained many of Trump’s sanctions against Cuba. He must fulfill his promise to reverse Trump’s actions.
Cuba Says Biden Applies Blockade Even More Aggressively Than His Predecessors
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A massive new US embassy complex in a tiny Middle East nation is raising eyebrows
A massive new US embassy complex in a tiny Middle East nation is raising eyebrows
Sprawling over a 43-acre site, the complex in the Beirut suburb of Awkar is almost two-and-a-half times the size of the land the White House sits on and more than 21 soccer fields.
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Plans for the embassy complex were announced in 2015 and it is reported to have cost $1 billion.
Lebanon is part of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Regime Change Continues: Thousands Rally in Georgia’s Tbilisi Against Government
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as the Black Sea nation’s government faces mounting accusations of backsliding on democracy.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Georgian parliament for a rally organized by the country’s main opposition force, the United National Movement (UNM), founded by jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Protesters waved Georgian, Ukrainian and European Union flags and held a huge banner that read “For European future.”
Thousands Rally in Georgia’s Tbilisi Against Government
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Regime change proceeds: State Departments sanctions Georgian judges, assassinations feared next
Leader of billionaire-funded protest of Surrey journalist expresses remorse for violent attack
The exiled Chinese billionaire connected to Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon paid $300 a day for picketers to march daily outside a Surrey journalist’s house in fall 2020.
Leader of billionaire-funded protest of Surrey journalist expresses remorse for violent attack
“There is no pressure on Israel to change”: Palestinians respond to Blinken visit to Jerusalem
Palestinians say Antony Blinken’s statements in Jerusalem show the U.S. remains biased. “When the US draws an equivalence between the butcher and the butchered, then it is necessarily on the side of the butcher,” says Ubai Aboudi.
“There is no pressure on Israel to change”: Palestinians respond to Blinken visit to Jerusalem
CIA director holds secret meeting with Zelensky on Russia’s next steps
CIA Director William J. Burns traveled in secret to Ukraine’s capital at the end of last week to brief President Volodymyr Zelensky on his expectations for what Russia is planning militarily in the coming weeks and months, said a U.S. official and other people familiar with the visit.
CIA director holds secret meeting with Zelensky on Russia’s next steps
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Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests. Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a
major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.
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Israel sinks to new low by smearing slain children as “terrorists”
Leave it to innovative Israel to sink to ever-new lows.
It isn’t anything new for the state to smear Palestinians killed by its police and military as terrorists. But it seems to be a fresh twist for Israel to try to convince the UN that most of the Palestinian children slain by its forces had “terror” ties.
Israel sinks to new low by smearing slain children as “terrorists”
Don’t like Sudan’s new political deal? The US may ban you
Antony Blinken’s threat was straightforward. Any “spoilers” of the US-sponsored power-sharing agreement between the Sudanese military and some civilian political groups would be hit with visa restrictions.
Don’t like Sudan’s new political deal? The US may ban you
Feet on the Ground in St. Petersburg: The Public Mood
by Gilbert Doctorow
One of the first questions put to me by a reader via the Comments function with respect to Monday’s report of my initial impressions after arriving in St Petersburg was: and what is the general mood of people? I begged off answering, saying that I would have to speak to a lot more people before I could confidently answer that question.
Feet on the Ground in St. Petersburg: The Public Mood
Sanctions don’t seem to be effecting the wealthy or the middle class, in Russia, much.
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