Israeli state terrorism in case Israeli settler terrorism doesn't do the trick: Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Palestinian Father, Mother and Two Children in West Bank www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
It is really extraordinary the knots that foreign media outlets will twist themselves into to avoid calling the tyranny has squatted over Cuba for nearly 70 years a dictatorship.
"Of course, it would have been pleasant to have the security of regular employment, with vacations, a pension, a living allowance, & all the rest, but I kept thinking that probably many of us covering the wars would never get home alive anyway, so why worry." - Robert St. John, Foreign Correspondent
If you wanted to distill all that is wrong with Puerto Rico's politics into a single person, it would be this dude. noticel.com/noticias/202...
After barely 14 months in office, Jenniffer González's administration has entered the accelerated decline that has plagued Puerto Rican administrations for the past 30 years. www.elnuevodia.com/opinion/las-...
Brazil has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
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This guy must hold some kind of record for being arrested: L’ex-député Arnel Bélizaire appréhendé par la police lenouvelliste.com/article/2652...
Organizations warn of dire environmental risks posed by expansion of Mexico LNG project in Gulf of California www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/202...
The ecological catastrophe of the AMLO/Sheinbaum era continues: Massive oil spill turns daily life upside down in southern Veracruz elpais.com/mexico/2026-...
If things continue apace, I really do hope that the members of the DSA, Peoples Forum, Code Pink etc get a firsthand taste of "revolutionary justice" during their upcoming colonizing, dictatorship-supporting tourist venture to Cuba.
The night Cubans burned communism. On Friday night, Cubans in Morón, in the center of the island, set fire to the Communist Party headquarters. elpais.com/us/2026-03-1...
Happy Sunday.
Working class kids die and gas is nearly $4 a gallon, but the the Trump family must profiteer at all costs.
The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist destroyed our international alliances in less than a year and now comes begging for help to get out of a war that he started: Trump urges UK and other nations to send ships to Strait of Hormuz www.bbc.com/news/article...
In the last 72 hours, gunmen attacked the home of Radio Kiskeya's Marvel Dandin & Radio Uni FM's Osnel Espérance & Radio Television Megastar's Junior Célestin were kidnapped in downtown Port-au-Prince amid clashes between Viv Ansanm & security forces. Spare a thought for our colleagues in Haiti.
Acting as if it was his royal privilege, the former Prince Andrew conducted "a campaign of international larceny masquerading as public service" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
French authorities open war crimes investigation following death of aid worker Karine Buisset in drone attack in DR Congo's Goma www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...
Puerto Rico fiscal oversight board issues grim forecast for island's economy noticel.com/economia/202...
“We’re just playing out the last act of a whimpering story" pretty much sums up the political legacy of Ron DeSantis www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
Cuba's regime holds 1,200+ political prisoners & has never allowed democratic elections. Politicos affiliated w/the DSA should be grilled about its latest colonizing project in support of the dictatorship. I wrote about their disastrous previous trips here michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/the-dsas-c...
People are fed up living under a brutal, reactionary tyranny: Protesters in Cuba set fire to Communist Party building; one person shot www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
"The lack of transparency regarding Brooklyn Rivera’s detention confirms a wider pattern of repression against Indigenous leaders, critical voices and civil society organisations in Nicaragua." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Oh, they do that too, but it's nothing compared to what they do the island...It still boggles my mind that someone as untalented & unlikable as JGO made it all the way to the governor's office but the world is going through a moment, it seems.
This week was apparently time for another round of ponderous, inexpert think pieces on Haiti, but they all fail to confront a single fact: Despite all the nation has been through over the last 5 years, the values & modes of operating of its political & economic elite seem to have changed not at all.
Aren’t we all?
The contempt with which the pro-statehood PNP grandees treat the people of Puerto Rico is often equaled or even exceeded by the contempt in which they hold one another. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...
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As a former New Yorker who was in Manhattan on 9/11, I can say that it is Tommy Tuberville who is actually the enemy of New York’s values and all that the city stands for.
As one could have predicted, the "pact for stability" among Haiti's political parties instead promotes instability lenouvelliste.com/article/2651...
