Year: 2025

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Cuba

The Cuban Revolution inaugurates the centennial of Fidel’s birthday

August 18, 2025 Andrew Matatag
On Aug. 13, friends of Cuba were invited by the Cuban embassy to celebrate the 99th birthday of Fidel Castro. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on Aug. 13, 1926. His 100th birthday will be […]
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Cuba

Mariela Castro on Cuba’s path to LGBTQI+ rights

August 18, 2025 Mariela Castro Espín
Following is a talk by Mariela Castro Espín on July 29 at the ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos / Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples) House of Friendship, in Havana, Cuba, […]
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U.S. / NATO war

The Alaska summit and the crumbling proxy war in Ukraine

August 17, 2025 Gary Wilson
The carefully staged handshake between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the tarmac of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Aug. 15 wasn’t just a photo op. Big business media fixated on the summit’s brevity […]
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In the U.S.

Trump’s racist takeover in Washington, D.C., is just the beginning

August 17, 2025 Stephen Millies
Pentagon preparing “reaction force” to crush protests Donald Trump’s Aug. 11 news conference announcing his hijacking of Washington, D.C.’s police force was a racist tirade of lies and threats. The wannabe dictator claimed that the […]
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China

Taiwan’s residents reject being Washington’s proxy in its war against Socialist China

August 17, 2025 Chris Fry
The Pentagon’s war plans against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have hit a snag. On July 27, Taiwan’s residents voted to reject the ruling secessionist Democratic Peoples Party’s (DPP) bid to recall 24 opposition […]
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Political Prisoners

Dialogue with a political prisoner of today, part 1

August 17, 2025 Jay Burton, Adé T.W. Jackson, Esq., and Scott Scheffer
“We don’t get how we are all tied to the prison industrial complex. Nobody’s out.” – Mariame Kaba, interviewed by Mahogany L. Browne, 2019 Having a conversation with a political prisoner would be rare under […]
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Around the world

Washington’s escalating war on Venezuela: Narco myths and imperial designs

August 13, 2025 William Camacaro
Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution. The Trump administration continues to deploy political, economic and military measures aimed at the overthrow of Venezuela’s […]
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In the U.S.

Same-sex marriage is absolutely on the chopping block

August 13, 2025 Imani Gandy
We’ve had a decade of marriage equality—and that may be all we’re going to get. When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022, it didn’t just reverse Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional […]
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Cuba

Fidel Castro’s centenary begins: A legacy for today’s troubled world

August 13, 2025 Isaac Saney
Today marks the beginning of Fidel Castro’s centenary—a hundred years since the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution. As we enter this centenary period, we do so not with statues or monuments, […]
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U.S. / NATO war

Proxy war in ruins: How U.S. and NATO led Ukraine to disaster

August 12, 2025 Gary Wilson
On Aug. 12, Russia’s Foreign Ministry reported that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had discussed preparations for an Aug. 15 summit in Alaska between President Vladimir Putin and Donald […]