Oil shipments to Cuba have virtually stopped, writes Marjorie Cohn. Lack of electricity has led to widespread blackouts, impacting hospitals and essential services. Cuba’s oil reserves could be totally depleted by March.
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
In the hands of Israel’s genocidal settler-colonial society, the state of exception is a relentless nightmare that will not stop at the borders of Palestine, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Edith Romero reports on the unbridled power, tech fantasy and resource hoarding of ZEDEs — Zones for Employment and Economic Development — where the governments are run by AI and crypto is the main currency.
Of the 75,200 violent deaths in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and Jan. 5, 2025, 56 percent were women, children, and elderly Palestinians, the study reveals.
Ann Wright reports on how Minneapolis neighborliness is organized, block-by-block, to mobilize and defend communities from a deadly immigration crackdown.
Chilling is as unconstitutional as silencing, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. And when the feds conscript private entities to do for them indirectly what the U.S. Constitution prohibits them from doing directly, that’s chilling.
The administration’s claims of power to erase or hide historical accounts “echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984,” ruled Judge Cynthia Rufe.
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza grinds on, the persecution of Albanese indicates the escalating lawlessness of the West.
Trump’s National Committee for the Administration of Gaza is a part of a broader strategy of genocide management, writes Yara Hawari.