Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane […]
Eighty-eight corporations that paid no federal income tax last year spent roughly $852 million on US campaign contributions and lobbying during recent election cycles, a report published Thursday revealed. The report, “The Current Price of Zero,” was authored by Eileen O’Grady, a researcher at Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. The publication draws upon an analysis […]
A group of Democratic US senators warned Monday that congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump could be gearing up for a push to raise the retirement age as part of a broader—and deeply unpopular—effort to slash Social Security benefits after the 2026 midterm elections. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) […]
An international group of leftist lawyers on Tuesday condemned the US blockade, sanctions, and war threats against Cuba, and the mounting repression of solidarity with the long-suffering Cuban people. The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) held a virtual press conference “to condemn escalating United States measures against Cuba and to call for renewed international […]
Our country’s massive weapons budget has directly enabled the US-Israeli led war on Iran that has caused thousands of deaths and is exacerbating the nation’s affordability crisis. Even if the war on Iran ends soon, it will have cost somewhere in the range of $50 billion to $72 billion, or more. The US weapons and […]
At a time when working people in Cuba are already facing severe shortages of energy, food, medicines and essential goods, further sanctions and restrictions risk triggering another humanitarian crisis. Cuba relies on oil for 90 per cent of its energy, with reserves at critically low levels. According to UN OCHA and the WHO, the energy […]
Abelardo de la Espriella—a far-right political upstart who promises to wield an “iron fist” against criminals and who emulates right-wing presidents, including Donald Trump in the United States—secured the most votes in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election and will advance to a second-round runoff, the country’s electoral authorities announced over the weekend. Leftist […]
On December 18 1865, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, Republican from Pennsylvania, during debate on how to treat the traitorous Confederate states and on support for newly freed people who had been enslaved in the United States and in British North America for almost 250 years, warned, “If we fail in this great duty now, when we […]
Multiple polls and surveys released in recent days have shown US consumer sentiment cratering—and all the while, the US stock market keeps hitting record highs. The Kobeissi Letter, a financial newsletter, posted a graphic Saturday that matched consumer sentiment as measured by the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers with the performance of the S&P […]
(Editor’s Note: NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light (FPL). Over the past 5 years, FPL residential bills have climbed by roughly 45%. This equates to customers paying upwards of $510 to $600 more annually than they did five years ago. FPL has maintained some of the highest profit margins for an investor-owned utility in […]
Si Latinoamérica no logra blindar un consenso mínimo sobre su propia existencia, seguirá siendo el escenario de juegos de guerra ajenos o, a lo sumo, el almacén de materias primas del Norte
En México, estos días, ha acaparado el debate el escándalo respecto a los presuntos agentes de la CIA que operaban en territorio mexicano sin la anuencia del Gobierno federal, pero en colaboración con el…
It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington—or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the second woman ever to hold that title. Weeks later, also in a social media post, […]
Tens of thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against cuts to public universities championed by right-wing President Javier Milei. As reported by The Associated Press, demonstrators in Buenos Aires marched on the Plaza de Mayo toward the Casa Rosada to demand the government implement funding for public universities that was […]
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is urging the watchdog overseeing the Pentagon to investigate “shady” defense contracts that may have benefited the family of President Donald Trump. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the Oversight Committee, sent a letter on Friday to the Department of Defense inspector general, Platte B. […]
Observers are once again raising concerns about insider trading on Wednesday after a trader took a colossal crude oil short position just over an hour before a US-Iran peace deal was reported to be on the horizon, causing prices to fall. The Kobeissi Letter, a financial newsletter, reported on X that at 3:40 am on […]
Even though President Donald Trump has long insisted that his proposed White House luxury ballroom would be funded by private donations, congressional Republicans unveiled legislation on Monday that would put US taxpayers on the hook for the project. As reported by Punchbowl News, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a proposal for a budget reconciliation package […]
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw its 2024 congressional map—which created a second majority-Black district to mitigate persistent barriers to equal representation—in a decision that further guts the already tattered Voting Rights Act. The justices ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in Louisiana v. Callais that the state’s map is “an unconstitutional […]
The US Senate on Tuesday defeated a Democrat-led bid to stop President Donald Trump from following through on his threat to wage war on Cuba, whose long-suffering people are reeling from the American administration’s tightened economic stranglehold. Upper chamber lawmakers voted 51-47 on a procedural motion to block further debate Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-Va.) SJ […]
President Donald Trump is using the US Department of Homeland Security to quietly assert federal control over elections in at least eight states, according to an investigation out Monday from Reuters. Under the US Constitution, elections are run by states, rather than the federal government. But under Trump, who has called on Republicans to “nationalize” […]
Amid renewed scrutiny of self-dealing by President Donald Trump and his relatives ahead of this weekend’s Mar-a-Lago gala for top investors in the $TRUMP meme coin—whose value has plummeted more than 90% from its high—Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday took aim at the First Family’s corruption. “The Trump family has made $4 billion off the […]
When he declared war on Iran in violation of international law and the US Constitution, President Donald Trump announced several objectives. He claims to have won the war, but Iran is emerging as the long-term victor. Let’s count the ways. “Regime Change” No one doubted the capacity of the US armed forces to decimate Iran’s […]
In his first-ever interview on American television, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel tells Meet the Press that Cuba would fight back against any potential U.S. military action, saying Cuban leadership is prepared to “give our lives for the revolution.”
Pope Leo XIV on Monday said he would not back off his criticism of President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran after the president targeted him with an unhinged late-night social media rant. In a Sunday Truth Social post, Trump accused Pope Leo of being “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” even […]
The bipartisan support Israel and its powerful lobby have enjoyed for decades in the US—with lawmakers from both parties insisting the federal government must help Israel “defend itself” with nearly $4 billion per year in military aid—is likely to shift considerably in the coming years as public support for the country continues to collapse, particularly […]
HAVANA, Cuba — U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Jonathan Jackson (IL-01) released the following statement upon the conclusion of their five-day Congressional delegation to Cuba: “The illegal U.S. blockade of fuel to Cuba—90 miles south of the United States—adds to the longest embargo in world history and is causing untold suffering to the Cuban […]
President Donald Trump’s White House released a budget proposal on Friday that pairs an unprecedented, debt-exploding $1.5 trillion in military spending with tens of billions of dollars in cuts to domestic agencies and education, healthcare, climate, and housing programs. Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2027, which must be approved by Congress, includes $73 billion […]
Less than 24 hours after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, declared that the oil blockade on Cuba would no longer be enforced, his White House spokesperson insisted that there had been no change in policy and that Washington reserves the right to seize vessels from Mexico and other countries that send fuel […]
Just 50 billionaire families in the United States have already dumped more than $430 million into the 2026 midterms, with the vast majority of the money flowing to Republican candidates and right-wing organizations such as MAGA Inc.—a super PAC aligned with President Donald Trump. The progressive advocacy group Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) released an […]
What does it mean to be a good Cuban American? If you’d have asked me that question six years ago my answer would have been the standardized one, because it was an answer that had been etched into my mind since I was young. To be a good Cuban-American I had to: Vehemently hate the […]