The US Empire’s 25-Year War On Venezuela
Matt Willgress, Orinoco Tribune. Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela. While Britain continues its colonial theft of gold. Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of…
Cuba’s Health Miracles While Under Blockade
Nuvpreet Kalra Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made…
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Starve, Strangle, Invade: How Washington’s Siege of Cuba Is Pushing a Nation to the Brink
Medea Benjamin warns that a decades-long economic war against Cuba has escalated into what she calls a “medieval siege,” as fuel shortages cripple hospitals, food systems and daily life while…
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,…
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…
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…
Growing Calls To End Unilateral Coercive Measures
Jill Clark-Gollub, Popular Resistance. April 2026, Washington, DC- This spring constituents and grassroots organizations have been raising awareness in Congress and in public forums of the harms caused by Unilateral…
Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year
A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year.
Meet the DC Think Tanks Impoverishing Masses of Latin Americans
These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.
Iran, Russia, China Reject ‘Unlawful’ US Sanctions After Tripartite Meeting
The meeting was aimed at discussing stalled US–Iranian nuclear talks, which Tehran refuses to engage in under threats and sanctions.
ICC Condemns Trump Sanctions as UN Human Rights Office Demands Reversal
"The rule of law remains essential to our collective peace and security," said a United Nations spokesperson.
Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions After Six Decades
The ever-tightening US blockade is designed to ensure that socialism does not succeed; to strangle in the cradle all possible alternatives to the established imperial order.
UN Overwhelmingly Votes to Sanction Israel, Impose Arms Embargo
The vote passed with 124 states in favor of ending the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
Developing Countries Demand Unconditional Withdrawal of Sanctions by US and Allies
The US and its allies use unilateral coercive measures to achieve their geopolitical and strategic objectives against other countries, in spite of them being in violation of basic principles of…
The Olympic Refugee Team Was an Inspiration — And a Tragedy
If the U.S. can do its part to help these athletes return home safely, that would beat any medal.