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"The secretary knows very well the damage and suffering that the criminal oil siege he himself proposed to his president is causing the Cuban people today," said Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez.
While President Trump is ever more desperately focused on the Middle East, maybe some of us should still be focusing on El Salvador, where President Bukele (elected democratically like Donald Trump) is following the same strongman handbook that Trump has been using.
A legal expert explores how the administration is "weaponizing the law... to effectuate a widespread harassment and mass deportation campaign that is more akin to ethnic cleansing than routine immigration enforcement."
The perspective of Vietnam and Iraq has taught Trump nothing. But the American people have learned from those experiences, and are not swallowing Trump’s lies.
The president is using the power of the US military to steal the wealth of Latin American countries to enrich himself, his family, his closest business associates, and US corporations.
Data centers are not just toxic installations in communities’ backyards—they are a driving force behind wars and instability, and they keep American workers tied to the endless cycle of wars for fossil fuels.
The current fraught détente with Washington is a window of opportunity to recover an economy operating at roughly 30% of its pre-sanctions level.
The president's latest aggression toward Cuba comes amid his repeated threats to "take" the island.
"The greatest obstacle to peace is the incompetence of the secretary of defense and of the president of the United States," declared Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
For a long time, the word “capitalism” was taboo. Now that multimillionaires and billionaires have taken over the US government, it’s on everyone’s lips. Yet there are only a few systematic analyses of “capitalism and war.”