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The True Story of U.S. #EconomicSanctions Against Cuba
From #ZNetwork
By Salim Lamrani
Nov 1, 2025That amount [ $7.55 billion] is equivalent to the electricity consumption of Cuba’s 10 million inhabitants for six years. With the same sum, Cuba could fill every household’s grocery basket for six years, cover the nation’s medical needs for 22 years, or guarantee public transportation for the next six decades.
Imposed by President Eisenhower with the aim of overthrowing Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government, the #sanctions have been maintained and reinforced by successive #US administrations. They have extraterritorial features — meaning they apply beyond US borders and affect all countries around the world. For example, any foreign ship that docks at a Cuban port is banned from entering US ports for six months. The purpose of this legislation is to prevent #Cuba from developing international trade with the rest of the world.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-true-story-of-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/
#news #politics #USpol -
"Step Right Up!"
> Change won’t come through conventional politics but by circumventing it. We must create proximity directly—through door-knocking and local assemblies organised around small group listening.
> This is the next political revolution. I’m convinced that new movement parties could rise from zero to winning local and national elections in six months with these methods.https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-stop-fascism/
#ZNetwork #RogerHallam #StopFascism -
> In May 1970, an estimated 4 million young people joined protests that shut down classes at seven hundred colleges, universities, and high schools around the country. Dozens were forced to remain closed for the rest of the spring semester.
#SteveEarly #ZNetwork #CampusActivism #AntiWarUniversities #AntiWarStudents
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> Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated #NegevDesert (where it was mainly #PalestinianBedouin who were put in danger), the military significance of this action was minimal...
> The only casualty appears to be a 7-year-old Palestinian #Bedouin girl, who was seriously injured by a falling missile.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-empowered-by-bidens-grant-of-impunity-baits-iran-into-his-genocidal-gaza-war/
#IsraelIranWar #IsraeliBombing #IranRetaliation #JuanCole #ZNetwork -
> In 2022, [#USA] federal spending on roads totalled $52 billion. We could transform public transportation with a fraction of that sum.
> A 2020 analysis by the Urban Institute suggests that, with an additional $16.7 billion annually in federal funding, we could bring transit service in every U.S. urban area up to that of the Chicago region — doubling per-capita transit service throughout the country.
#TransitEquity #ZNetwork #TransitEquityDay -
> #StevenPinker’s.. book, The #BetterAngelsOfOurNature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state, currently engaged in multiple wars, with over 800 military bases across the globe, asserting and using the right to kill untried “terrorists” any place on earth and still operating a torture gulag abroad and a record-breaking and abusive prison system at home...
https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/stephen-pinker-on-the-triumph-of-angels-by-edward-herman/
#EdwardHerman #ZNetwork #HermanOnPInker