Year: 2024

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Cuba

Cuba: Blackout and blockade

October 23, 2024 La Jornada
Cuba is going through its greatest energy crisis, with practically the entire island and 10 out of 11 million inhabitants deprived of electricity. The blackouts that have been occurring with increasing frequency and duration for […]
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Cuba: Havana’s electricity system fully restored

October 23, 2024 Laura Mor
Empresa Eléctrica UNE reported through its usual Telegram channel the reestablishment of the electric system in the Cuban capital, after a new total nationwide disconnection suffered yesterday. Yesterday at  4:01 pm (local time), Havana’s electricity service was […]
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Cuba

U.S. blockade of Cuba causes electricity system to collapse due to lack of stable fuel supply

October 23, 2024 Resumen
On Sunday, Oct. 20, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel pointed directly at  the blockade policy of the United States government as the fundamental cause of the national collapse of the National Electric Power System (SEN) over […]
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In the U.S.

Justice for Jordan Neely! Vigilante killings must be stopped!

October 21, 2024 Stephen Millies
Oct. 21 — A hundred people came to the Criminal Courts Building in lower Manhattan this morning to demand justice for Jordan Neely. The 30-year-old Black man was strangled to death by the white vigilante […]
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Palestine

Los Angeles stands with Gaza: Protest against Western media’s pro-Zionist bias

October 21, 2024 Struggle-La Lucha Los Angeles bureau
Oct. 18, Los Angeles – Seventy-five people turned out for an emergency protest in front of CNN.  The protest was called when the Israeli military bombed targets that had been declared safe zones – a […]
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Cuba

Cuba under intensified U.S. sanctions confronts its greatest challenge: The continuity of Obama-Trump-Biden policy

October 21, 2024 Roger D. Harris
“The majority of Cubans support Castro … every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” […]
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In the U.S.

Gov. Jeff Landry, lawmakers to spend millions on juvenile detention center expansions

October 21, 2024 Julie O’Donoghue | Louisiana Illuminator, Verite News
Oct. 16 — Louisiana officials expect to put tens of millions of dollars over the next two months into expanding juvenile detention centers that house children and teenagers accused of crimes. At the beginning of the […]
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In the U.S.

A law was meant to target teen violence. Instead, 17-year-olds are being charged as adults for lesser offenses.

October 21, 2024 Richard A. Webster, Verite News
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In February, a prosecutor from […]
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Struggle ★ La Lucha PDF – October 21, 2024

October 20, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
Get PDF here Hurricane chaos: Capitalism fails in a crisis Meat monopolies ripped off McDonald’s and everybody else Elections at a time of growing war budget and shrinking wages The U.S. war drive against China, […]
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U.S. to be ready for war on China by 2027: Navy Chief

October 19, 2024 Gary Wilson
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, a large-scale military exercise named Kamandang commenced in the Philippines. The exercise, scheduled to run until Oct. 25, involves over 2,300 military personnel from the United States, the Philippines, Japan, South […]