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Beyond Total Pressure

By José Luis Méndez Méndez on June 24, 2025

The bellicose mayor of Miami, Francis Suárez, who in July 2021 called for bombing first and then invading Cuba “humanitarianly” on the ruins of its cities, is now being echoed by the disastrous US demagogues Carlos Gimenes and the convert María Elvira Salazar, US representatives who are loudly demanding that the island be wiped off the map in the name of peace from the grave and US-style democracy. (more…)

Uruguay Considers it Essential that the BRICS Counterweight Continues to Grow

June 24, 2025

cooperating for an inclusive and sustainable world

The Uruguayan government considers it essential that the founding members of the BRICS group advance in their role as a balancing factor in the international system, said Álvaro Padrón, advisor on regional integration and international cooperation to the Uruguayan government. (more…)

Scapegoating Solidarity: US War on Cuba’s Doctors

By Prince Kapone  on June 18, 2025

When Edith M. Lederer ― a UN press-room fixture since Vietnam ― files a wire, the voice of Uncle Sam still echoes through the copy. Her latest piece for the Associated Press claims that Cuba’s global health brigades amount to “forced labor.” The accusation doesn’t come from a patients’ union or a medical watchdog; it drips straight from Senator Marco Rubio’s podium, yet Lederer repeats it verbatim, without pausing to verify whether the hundreds of thousands who have queued for Cuban care consider their physicians enslaved or emancipatory. (more…)

We Urgently Call for an End to this Dangerous New Military Adventure: ICAP Statement

Havana, June 22, 2025

The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), faithful to the principles of solidarity, peace, and respect for sovereignty that guide the foreign policy of the Cuban Revolution, strongly condemns the military attacks carried out by the United States government against three nuclear facilities in Persian territory and expresses its unwavering support and solidarity with the Iranian people and government, victims of this unjustifiable aggression. (more…)

Reality Is Winning: War, Resistance, and the Reunification of Nation and State in Iran

By Nahid Poureisa on June 20, 2025

graphic: Zeinab el Hajj, Al Mayadeen 

Something is Happening in Iran.

People are not only supporting the war, but they are getting closer to the state. The concept of “nation” has undergone a shift. In recent days, I have seen things I never could have imagined. (more…)

Venezuelans Take to the Streets in Solidarity with Iran and Palestine

June 20, 2025

Venezuelans marching in support of Iran. photo: press-tv

Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, thousands of Venezuelans marched through the streets of Caracas on Thursday to call for global peace and express strong support for Iran and Palestine in the face of Israeli military actions. (more…)

Cuba: University Students Present More Than 40 Proposals to ETECSA in Search of Joint Solutions

By Oscar Figueredo Reinaldo on June 18, 2025

University students meet with ETECSA in search of joint solutions. Photo, Yasiel Hernández

As Cubans try to deal with the recent rate hikes of phone services they have set up a problem solving collaboration between ETECSA and a panel of university students as a way to improve communication accessibility in the shadow of the Blockade. Something like this would be unfathomable in the US where the only problem the corporate phone companies are concerned with is their profit margin. – editorial (more…)

Why Washington Targets Iran and Venezuela: Empire, Energy, and Ideology

By Roger D. Harris on June 19, 2025

Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have also been targeted for regime change by Washington. The two commonalities are not unrelated. (more…)

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