Max Simpson @maxsimpson007

Some of you have asked how much electricity we have been getting as Cuba battles a criminal and deadly U.S. energy blockade. In our neighborhood we average 2 hours of electricity per day, sometimes 3. Obviously that means no refrigeration or fans. No running water most of the time. During the nation-wide collapse of the power grid last week our neighborhood went 50 hours without electricity. Three days later the power went out for 42 hours before being restored. This morning, after another power grid collapse, the eletricity came on after being off for 63 hours (and it's still on, 5 hours later!). Nearby, visible in the photo, is a section of a neighborhood that usually has power because it is part of a protected circuit that supplies a group of medical facilities there. To be clear, my situation here is incredibly fortunate in comparison to most. When my food spoils, I can buy more. That I don't have lights and running water and fans does not negate the fact that I can leave any time. Make no mistake: people are dying in Cuba because of the U.S. fuel blockade on top of decades of sanctions: from complications from lack of medications that Cuba can no longer produce in sufficient quantites; because hospitals can no longer meet previous standards of care for newborns and expectant mothers, perform many non-emergency surgeries, or reliably run ventilators and dialysis machines. Less deadly in the short term is the damage being inflicted on the nation, and the incredible difficulty of daily life. The fuel blockade effects every aspect of society, from schools that can't hold classes, businesses that shut down, government offices that have to reduce services and capacity, workers who can't get to their jobs, people who go hungry, who can't sleep for the heat. Elderly people who sit in the darkness alone, social workers who cannot effectively look after the vulnerable. An entire generation of Cuban youth is being robbed of the full benefits of the world class free kindergarten to Ph.D. education that is their socialist birthright. Public concerts canceled, clubs closed or almost empty, tourism virtually nonexistant, beaches inaccesible to many because of the cost of fuel. The fuel blockade is an assault on an entire population. Collective punishment. It is a crime against a people, justified by smug public intellectuals and cheered on by internet trolls and influencers whose depravity is a thing to behold. The United States must pay reparations to Cuba---and to the people of every other nation that it has subjected to the economic warfare of punitive economic sanctions. Despite all this, Cuba is still standing, owing to the incredible tenacity of its people. Being here during this difficult time for so many, it's incredibly clear that the U.S. pressure campaign, which is aimed at creating the conditions for regime change and the return of U.S. domination of the island, is not succeeding, at least not yet. Cuba is not a failed state, although the U.S. desperately wants to make it one. Cuban society is not on the verge of collapse, despite the intense pressure it is under, and despite the enormous hardship of daily life and the damage being inflicted on the nation. The streets are full of activity and life. Neighbors banter, kids play, street soccer matches rage, people joke and criticize and gossip and politick. People are still living their lives, or trying to, as best they can. But the cost of national survival will be enormous, in ways no one can yet fully predict. From Teishan Latner.

The most expensive navy ever created is engaged virtually exclusively in wars with fishermen all over the world.

Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani

3 days ago

The U.S. claimed it was targeting IRGC speedboats. In reality, they BOMBED 30 CIVILIAN Fishing Boats across Iran's Hormozgan province. Now DOZENS are families have lost their only way of making money. 3 people were also killed.

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The EU has given almost $530 million to Hebrew University of Jerusalem over the past two decades. By doing so, Brussels has enabled Israel to promote a "world-class" institution while subjugating Palestinians in a neighboring village.

It is not illegal to campaign for the de-proscription of an organisation. But as the UK slips further into fascism, that really doesn't matter. In October they are going to get the mass jailings underway.

The Aftershock @The_Aftershock_

5 days ago

BREAKING: A protestor was arrested under the Terrorism Act, for wearing a Palestine flag with the words "De-proscribe Palestine Action" on it. He was arrested outside UAV Engines Ltd, an Elbit weapons factory in Staffordshire, which makes engines for Israeli killer drones.

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The Palestinian author and visionary Ghassan Kanafani was murdered by Israeli agents on this day in 1972, together with his niece, who was a child. Kanafani's family was forced out of their home during the Nakba in 1948. His writings—Men in the Sun, and Return to Haifa—spoke to the ongoing trauma of Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing. Kanafani called for the right of return for all Palestinian refugees. This demand is more relevant now than ever.

Victim of capitalism sleeps outside the Victims of Communism Museum.

US soldiers force Vietnamese woman to become "human minesweepers", walking through minefields, Vietnam War (1966).

After wasting 2 1/2 years of everyone’s time isn’t it about time that @Linuslahoj and co at Glenbrook put their hands up, admit they dropped a clanger trying to demolish the UK’s oldest working cinema and walk away from The Electric? Give it back to Birmingham.

Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt

5 days ago

The hourglass is running out of sand. Nobody can get a straight answer from Glenbrook Property. We need the likes of @RichParkerLab & @rogerbhx to get Glenbrook to walk away from their disastrous destruction of what was the UK’s oldest working cinema so real Brummies can save it.

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A reminder — from an article in the Italian daily La Repubblica — that US bases in Italy were directly involved in false-flag terrorist attacks (coordinated by Gladio, NATO’s secret army) aimed at curbing the power of the left and keeping Italy “inside the Atlantic orbit”.

Labour has always been the party of the British Empire 7 Labour PMs so far, all implicated in horrific imperial crimes: MacDonald - India Attlee - Malaya Wilson - Biafra Callaghan - East Timor Blair - Iraq Brown - Sri Lanka Starmer - Gaza No accountability for any of them

Una profesora infantil de Luxemburgo llamada Fátima fue despedida de la escuela por apoyar a los niños palestinos que sufren el genocidio en Gaza, debido a las presiones del lobby sionista. Las niñas a las que daba clase y sus familias salieron en su apoyo pidiendo que vuelva. Vivimos en un sistema donde la empatía es castigada y perpetrar un infanticidio es impune.

Bielsa explained that the Uruguayan players asked him to shorten his 10-minute team talks I understand that today's youth struggle with attention. But is it right that PROFESSIONAL players who earn millions can't concentrate for 10 minutes? Should coaches adapt? I don't know...

"No siento pena por los palestinos. No hay que sentir pena ni por los ancianos ni por las mujeres ni por los niños ni por nadie de Gaza, hay que dejarlos morir de hambre". No es la TV del Reich nazi del siglo pasado, es la TV de "Israel", donde los periodistas sionistas llaman al exterminio de Gaza sistemáticamente, afirmando que los palestinos se merecen morir de hambre y que no hay que sentir pena ni por los niños. A la misma vez que se pasan el día diciendo estas barbaridades genocidas, se hacen la víctima ante Occidente.

This is the bestial, unimaginable, inhuman cruelty the glorious Ukrainian Armed Forces visit on men who do not want fight. Everyone in Europe who has fed this abyssal horror needs to be locked up.

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@sharpeleven I think you answered your own question there. These articles keep paying. It's a grift. Totally sane from the point of view of the ruling class.

@CrispinShow Great article. Thanks for all the important work you have done covering this trial.

BREAKING 🧵 A gut bacterium is showing up — or rather disappearing — across all three phases of COVID-19. Severely ill patients have less of it. Recovered patients get it back. Long COVID patients don't. Its name is Faecalibacterium prausnitzii. And what it does explains a lot. 👇

"Votaré solo a Itamar Ben Gvir, él es el único que salvará a nuestro pais, a todos los árabes y a todos los izquierdistas había que quemarlos vivos a todos en mitad del océano". Mientras tanto en la TV de "Israel", los colonos sionistas piden quemar vivos a todos los árabes e izquierdistas, mientras afirman que solo Ben Gvir les salvará. Esta es la sociedad colonial sionista, se dice que el problema solo es Netanyahu, pero realmente el problema es todo el apartheid, de arriba a abajo.

@ZdenekVrozina @threadreaderapp unroll

Anyone to the left of Paul Mason is now banned from the UK Total occupied territory

Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy

3 weeks ago

Earlier this month, I planned to stop in the UK on my way to report from Lebanon. The British government denied my visa application, claiming that my presence in the country would "not be conducive to the public good."

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