On Sept. 15, the United States announced that another boat in international waters thousands of miles from the U.S. coast had been bombed by U.S. forces, killing three people. Daphne Eviatar, [...] Continue Reading
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U.S. Threats and Attacks in Latin America
In August, Trump secretly issued a directive approving use of military force in other countries “to target Latin American drug cartels.” This would give the Pentagon authority to invade other [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Government Repeatedly Attacks Mexican-Americans
Farmworker labor and community organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino came to the United States as a child and had applied for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). In March 2025, he was [...] Continue Reading
Agustín Lira: Music and Theater for the People
Agustín Lira will be inducted into the Valley Music Hall of Fame on Sept. 17. It is not the first honor for the singer-songwriter-organizer-director, who has previously been honored as a National [...] Continue Reading
Honoring Our Revolutionaries
The third annual Malcolm X El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz birthday event on May 18 at Free AME Ministries featured young poets Alani Kent and Love Quezada, speakers Dr. Melissa Knight and Dr. Michael [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Doctors the Pride of the Nation
For many decades, Cuba has been sending thousands of medical professionals overseas to work in countries that needed doctors for a variety of reasons—post-colonial countries such as Algeria, Zimbabwe, [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Threats Against Cuban International Medical Program
For many years, Cuba has been providing both disaster-related and not-quite-routine medical care to many countries in the world, almost all in the Global South. This is often focused on post-colonial [...] Continue Reading
Marco Rubio’s Powerful Secret Backers
Marco Rubio, as everyone knows, is now the U.S. Secretary of State. Among his first acts was attempting to deport a legal permanent resident of the United States who had committed no crime. The [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with the Revolutionary MLK
Each year on the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., people who hated him and everything that he worked for, spoke and wrote for, went to jail for and ultimately died for, take his name [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Briefly Off the “Terrorism” List
(Editor’s note: Just a few hours into the new Trump administration, the White House announced that Cuba is back on the list of “terrorist countries.”) The U.S. State Department maintains a list of [...] Continue Reading
Fascists Steal Children
As we prepare for the re-inauguration of a fascist monster, it might be good to learn more about something we already know: Fascists steal children. The first Trump regime separated children from [...] Continue Reading
Devastating Hurricane Rafael Hits Cuba
On Nov. 6 (Wednesday), Hurricane Rafael hit central Cuba, and I was there. This is a contemporary account written from Marianao, Havana, four days later, while our electricity was still out. It’s [...] Continue Reading