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Marco Rubio proves he really is Little Marco
By invoking the nickname that once defined his political humiliation, Gustavo Arellano did more than mock Marco Rubio in his recent column in the Los Angeles Times. He exposed a deeper…
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Make America “Great” again? Whose America, exactly?
By any honest reading of history, nostalgia has often been the most dangerous political force in the United States. During and after the Civil War, competing visions of the nation…
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Great majority of Americans disapprove of Trump attack on Iran
President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is extraordinarily unpopular, according to a poll conducted shortly after the US and Israel carried out massive strikes on the country Saturday.…
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Who is the real terrorist nation?
We’ve seen this movie before. Planes violate Cuban airspace, dropping leaflets over Havana. Speedboats approach the coast loaded with men, arms, and ammunition — like the recent…
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4 people on FL speedboat killed in shootout with Cuban troops
In a deadly development that could further strain relations between Havana and Washington DC, Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior announced Wednesday afternoon that four people on a…
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Immigration detention centers are political prisons
Incarceration has been used as a core tactic of the United States in upholding racial capitalism and imperialisms through repression, extraction, and violent control. Growing to more…
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Trump admin kills 3 more people in Caribbean
The ramp-up of deadly boat bombings in the Caribbean since General Francis L. Donovan took over as head of US Southern Command continued on Monday, with three more people killed in a…
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Sovereign immunity exposes the bankruptcy of the Cuba embargo
When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the long-running property disputes tied to the Cuban Revolution, many will frame the moment as a quest for justice for Americans whose assets were…
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Call for fuel to Cuba after Trump tariffs nixed
With the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda—his use of an emergency law to impose tariffs on countries around the world—struck down by the US Supreme Court on…
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Cuba-US: Are they negotiating or will they negotiate?
Obviously, if they don't do the first, they'll do the second, but the moment has come. In 2014, the presidents of Cuba and the United States, Raúl Castro and Barack Obama, respectively,…
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