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Maximum Pressure, Maximum Blackouts: The Gazafication Of Cuba

March 23, 2026 Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News. , , ,
Havana is unusually quiet. A city normally buzzing with traffic and nightlife lies still, dark, and silent. The Trump administration’s economic strangulation of the island has led to frequent and extended blackouts across the country, creating an economic crisis and uncertainty about the future.  “I can do anything I want with Cuba,” President Trump said recently. “I think something will happen with Cuba pretty quickly,” he added. The country’s electrical grid, public transportation systems, hospitals, schools, and stores run on imported fuel. And now that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have threatened the world into complying with their agenda, including ending fuel shipments, Cuba is suffering. 

Cuba, Venezuela And Regime Change

March 22, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Donald Trump is well known for being a liar. His lies are usually very obvious, so much so that proving his statements to be untrue is very easy to do. Yet it must be pointed out that, in his uniquely bombastic and crude way, Trump also tells the truth about his actions. “Taking Cuba in some form … whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth. They’re a very weakened nation right now.” While leftists may debate whether or not the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro or the creation of a humanitarian crisis in Cuba constitute regime change, Trump provides an answer himself when he says he can do anything to Cuba that he pleases.

Economic And Information War: Manipulation Of March 13 Events

March 18, 2026 Isaac Saney, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The events surrounding the peaceful protests of March 13 in the Cuban city of Marón are being deliberately distorted by reactionary political forces and segments of the monopoly media. What began as a demonstration by citizens—during which a small group engaged in acts of vandalism and violence—is now being cynically manipulated to discredit the Cuban Revolution and manufacture a climate of disinformation and confusion. The objective is clear: to legitimize further aggression against the island nation and reinforce a narrative that obscures the broader context in which these events have unfolded.

Trump Tells Cuba: You Are Next

March 17, 2026 Sara Flounders, Workers.org. , , , ,
We are in the midst of a vicious, rapidly expanding U.S. instigated war on Iran. This is a moment of maximum pressure. So I’ll open this session on “Anti-intervention and Internationalism” with quotes from Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to the people of Iran: “We feel deep sorrow and grief upon learning of the assassination of the Supreme Leader of the Iranian nation as a result of the vile aggression of the United States and Israel. …  “We will remember him as the outstanding statesman and leader of the Iranian people, who contributed decisively to the development and consolidation of friendly and cooperative relations between our countries.”

Before Khamenei Killing, CIA Assessed He Would Likely Be Replaced By More Hardline Elements

March 2, 2026 Dave DeCamp, AntiWar. , , ,
Before the US and Israel launched a war against Iran on Saturday morning and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the CIA assessed that if the Iranian leader were killed, his rule would likely be replaced by “hardline” figures from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters has reported. The report said that the assessment was produced over the past two weeks as the US was building up its forces in the region and preparing to launch the war. The New York Times reported that the CIA had been tracking Khamenei for months and knew that he would be at his compound in Tehran meeting senior Iranian officials on Saturday morning, where he was hit by a joint US-Israeli strike.

The Decapitation That Failed

February 20, 2026 Roger D. Harris and John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signaled both its disregard for international law and its confidence that it would face little immediate consequence. The response within the US political establishment to the attack on Venezuela has been striking. Without the slightest cognitive dissonance over President Maduro’s violent abduction, Democrats call for “restoring democracy” – but not for returning Venezuela’s lawful president. So why didn’t the imperialists simply assassinate him?

US Smuggled Thousands Of Starlink Terminals Into Iran To Fuel Riots

February 14, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Washington covertly sent 6,000 Starlink terminals to Iran to help protesters and rioters communicate during internet shutdowns, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 13 February, citing US officials. The US State Department had purchased about 7,000 of the satellite terminals for use in Iran in the months preceding the protests that erupted in January after the Iranian currency collapsed. US Treasury officials manufactured the collapse of the rial by choking off the supply of US dollars into the Iranian economy. Mossad-backed rioters and armed gangs carried out a wave of attacks against protesters, security forces, government buildings, and mosques in an effort to sow chaos.

Rubio ‘Deliberately’ Lies About Cuba Talks

February 11, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has falsely informed President Donald Trump that “high-level” negotiations are taking place between Washington and Havana – despite no such talks existing, Drop Site News reported on 9 February.  According to the report, Rubio has fed this information to Trump as part of “his ambitious play to overthrow the Cuban government.” Five Cuban and US officials told Drop Site News that “there are and have been no negotiations involving high-level officials between Havana and Washington.” “He’s saying that because that’s what Marco is telling him,” a senior US government official said.

Engineering Iran’s Unrest

January 30, 2026 Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares, Consortium News. , , ,
John Maynard Keynes famously wrote inTheEconomic Consequences of the Peace(1919):  “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” The United States mastered this art of destruction by weaponizing the dollar and using economic sanctions and financial policies to cause the currencies of targeted countries to collapse. On Jan. 19, we published “The US–Israel Hybrid War Against Iran,” describing how the United States and Israel are waging hybrid wars on Venezuela and Iran through a coordinated strategy of economic sanctions, financial coercion, cyber operations, political subversion, and information warfare. 

Iran And The Strategy Of Tension

January 29, 2026 Hanna Eid, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The strategy of tension refers to the NATO strategy in post-World War II Europe to defeat the ascendant communist parties. In Italy, this was referred to as Operation Gladio, and involved money laundering, ballot stuffing, murder, and kidnapping. Outside of Italy, this strategy of tension took many forms: funding fascist stay-behind armies in Germany, setting up fake press agencies full of hitmen as in Aginter Press, and coordinating assassinations and decapitation operations. When viewed historically over the longue duree, the imperialist class that implemented the strategy of tension in postwar Europe is still a hegemonic force in geopolitics.

Israel-Backed Rioters Fail Regime Change Operation

January 24, 2026 Mnar Adley, Mintpress News. , , ,
Iran is in the crosshairs of both Western corporate media and the U.S. and Israeli governments. What started as a peaceful protest against rising inflation and the cost of living quickly exploded into something much more dangerous: an attempt to topple the government. Corporate media framed this as a democratic uprising against a viciously repressive regime, who mowed down protestors in their thousands in a desperate attempt to maintain its grip on power. Dozens of outlets, from The Times of London to The New York Post, described it as a “genocide” – a word seldom used to frame Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The Regime Change Machine Is Turning On Iran Again

January 17, 2026 Mnar Adley, Mintpress News. , , , ,
Make no mistake: the U.S. and Israel are ready to seize this moment in Iran’s mass protests to drive a regime change operation. And it’s not even subtle. Trump has openly threatened airstrikes against Iran — and he’s told protesters to keep going, promising: “Help is on the way.” And Israeli security analysts are already gaming out a collapse scenario — suggesting the Israeli military could hit Iran’s strategic infrastructure and government targets if the state begins to crumble — to weaken the Islamic government and shape the outcome towards regime change with a plan to install Reza Pahlavi, the son of the brutal dictator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Who Governs Honduras?

January 13, 2026 John Perry, London Review of Books. , , ,
Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its head of state have overshadowed his less brazen but possibly more effective regime-change operation in Honduras. No one can be sure if the National Party’s Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura really won the presidential election on 30 November, but he was Trump’s endorsed candidate and will almost certainly assume office on 27 January. Since 2021 Honduras has had a left-wing government, headed by the Libre party’s Xiomara Castro. She revitalised a neglected public health service, reduced poverty and curbed gang violence. But presidential power in Honduras is heavily constrained.

Khamenei Slams ‘Arrogant’ Trump, Vows Iran ‘Will Not Back Down’

January 10, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed in a speech on 9 January that Tehran “will not back down” in the face of US pressure and threats, while strongly condemning foreign-backed rioters causing unrest in the country. “Everyone should know that the Islamic Republic came to power with the blood of hundreds of thousands of honorable people and will not back down in the face of saboteurs,” the supreme leader said. “Our nation does not tolerate mercenaryism (working) for foreign powers. Whoever you are, when you become a mercenary for a foreigner, when you work for a foreigner, that country considers you rejected,” he added, stressing that Iran will “not tolerate agents supported by foreign powers.”

Inside Venezuela’s Response To Donald Trump’s Attack

January 4, 2026 Bhaskar Sunkara, Jacobin Magazine. , , , ,
Yesterday the United States carried out a direct military attack on Venezuela, abducting President Nicolás Maduro and conducting strikes around Caracas — a grave violation of international law that risks plunging the region into wider conflict. To understand how Venezuelan officials and supporters of the Bolivarian project are interpreting these events — and what they believe comes next — Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara spoke last night with Carlos Ron, a former Venezuelan diplomat who served as one of the government’s principal interlocutors with the United States during years of sanctions and diplomatic confrontation.
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