Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State
Roger D Harris and Sara Flounders for Counter Currents May Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth,…
The CIA’s Cuba Ultimatum: Regime Change With a Diplomatic Smile
Joshua Scheer View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Nation Magazine (@nationmag) The CIA did not sneak into Havana this time. It landed in broad daylight. Peter…
Trump Admin Claims of Cuban Plans for Drone Attacks Denounced as ‘Ludicrous Pretext’ for War
“Like any country, Cuba has the right to defend itself against external aggression,” said the Cuban embassy. “It is called self-defense, and it is protected by International Law and the…
Waterboarding for Dollars in Cuba
“What the United States is doing to Cubans is equivalent to waterboarding them into submission, and all CBS could seem to talk about is Castro.” Jeffrey McCraryThe CBS Sunday Morning…
President Diaz-Canel Calls To Avoid US Imperialist Aggression On Cuba
By TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, called on the international community this Saturday to determine whether it will allow Washington to militarily attack his country after…
They Film the Darkness
Michelle Ellner When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness. They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment windows, families sleeping on…
The Trump Administration’s War on Cuba (w/ Medea Benjamin) | The Chris Hedges Report
The US economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and how we can break the…
When Flotillas Fight for Life, Not Empire
Olivia DiNucci for Codepink Flotillas have historically been fleets of military vessels—tools of empire designed for swift offensive or defensive operations at sea. The images they evoke are ones of…
I Support Cuba Because I Am on the Side of Humanity and Life: An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill
By Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, Orinoco Tribune. An Interview With Gabriel Rockhill. I met Gabriel Rockhill by chance, but not by accident. We were introduced by Helen Yaffe, a dear friend…
The U.S. War on Cuba’s Doctors
Nuvpreet Kalra “Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve…
Trump Declares ‘Cuba Is Finished’ While Letting Russian Oil Tanker Break Illegal US Blockade
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams President Donald Trump said Sunday that his administration would let a Russia-owned tanker carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of oil to reach Cuba, loosening the…
‘US Siege Is Warfare’: Cuba Faces Second Nationwide Blackout in Under a Week
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams Some Cubans got power back on Sunday after another nationwide blackout on Saturday—the second in less than a week and the third time the grid…
As Trump Talks of Taking Cuba, Havana Promises “Impregnable Resistance”
Joshua Scheer As Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced escalating threats from Donald Trump, Havana made clear that any U.S. attempt to impose regime change by force would not go unanswered. “The United…
Trump Can’t Blockade Love: Why I’m Going to Cuba
By Leonardo Flores I’m traveling to Cuba for the first time on March 21 to be in Havana with the Nuestra América Convoy, in which people from dozens of countries…
“Cuba is where the broader aspirations of the US elite as a whole intersect”: Why the US wants to destroy Cuba
Pablo Meriguet Peoples Dispatch The administration of US President Donald Trump has launched a series of military and political offensives in the last several months in different corners of the…