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Estados Unidos intenta quitarle la vida a Cuba

Desde diciembre de 2025, Estados Unidos ha impedido el suministro de petróleo a Cuba, utilizando a sus fuerzas armadas, además de amenazar con aranceles a otros países.

Este severo recrudecimiento del bloqueo estadounidense a Cuba ha reducido drásticamente el suministro de combustible a la isla y está privando a la población del acceso a muchos bienes básicos.

En este breve video, Gisela Cernadas entrevista a Llanisca Lugo González sobre este asedio en desarrollo.

Llanisca Lugo González es investigadora de la Cátedra Antonio Gramsci del Instituto Juan Marinello de Cuba. Es diputada a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, psicóloga y educadora popular.

Gisela Cernadas es economista argentina. Es miembro del colectivo internacional No Cold War.

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February 21, 2026

The US is attempting to squeeze the life out of Cuba

Since December 2025, the United States has been preventing the supply of oil to Cuba, using the US military, plus US threats, including of tariffs, against other countries.

This severe tightening of the US blockade of Cuba has dramatically reduced the island’s fuel supply and is depriving the population of access to many necessities of life.

In this short video, Gisela Cernadas interviews Llanisca Lugo González about this developing siege.

Llanisca Lugo González is a researcher at the Antonio Gramsci Chair of the Juan Marinello Institute of Cuba. She is a Deputy to the National Assembly of People ‘s Power, a Psychologist and Popular Educator.

Gisela Cernadas is an Argentine economist. She is a member of the international No Cold War collective.

This is: No Cold War 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 #21 Video

February 21, 2026

Trump 2.0 is not retreating – it is recalibrating for global confrontation

By John Ross

The second Trump presidency differs from previous US administrations in rhetoric and tactics.

It is carrying out military attacks and intensified blockades against Cuba, Nicaragua and Iran. But it simultaneously imposes tariffs, insults allies, and makes threats such as seizing Greenland from  Denmark.

Against China, early in this presidency, the US threatened 145 per cent tariffs before retreating and Trump has attempted to negotiate an end of the Ukraine war with Russia.

All this has led some to argue Trump is fundamentally changing US goals. It is suggested he is proposing the US retreat into the western hemisphere or is prepared to divide the rest of the world into “spheres of influence” with countries such as China and Russia.

No change in US goals

These ideas are wrong and dangerous, as will be demonstrated as events unfold, because they leave countries unprepared for what is happening. They are also used to suggest that it is not so vital to defend countries such as Cuba, because the US is only interested in the western hemisphere, and will not attacks other countries if they do not interfere with US goals there.

Such views are in contradiction with even the Trump presidency’s words in its two new major policy statements — the National Security Strategy and National Defence Strategy.

Certainly, these stress US desire to control the western hemisphere.

The Security Strategy states: “After years of neglect, the United States will reassert … American pre-eminence in the western hemisphere.”

But it makes clear that its target is not only Latin American countries seeking independent development but also China — which is the chief trading and construction partner of many Latin American countries....

February 17, 2026

‘An attack on Iran is an attack on the Brics and the multipolar world’

Marco Fernandes speaks with Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi 

Shortly after the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Deputy and former President of the National Assembly, Cilia Flores, in the first days of the year, the White House directed its “regime change” machine towards another energy power, Iran. About to celebrate its 47th anniversary, the Islamic Revolution has always been a thorn in the side of the U.S. and, especially, Israel. Tehran is the biggest supporter of the Palestinian cause in the world and, in practice, the biggest obstacle to the Zionist project of “Greater Israel,” which presupposes the expulsion or extermination of the Palestinian people from their land. For this reason, overthrowing the Iranian revolutionary government has always been among the priorities of Washington and Tel Aviv....

February 16, 2026

The National Committee for Gaza Management, Against Imperial Oversight

By Mikaela Nhondo Erskog

Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures repurposed as displacement camps after Israel’s genocidal assault reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble. His wife was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. She needs urgent treatment abroad, but the Rafah crossing remains sealed.

As international powers announce frameworks and phases, Abu Jarrar watches the gap between diplomatic language and ground reality: “In the media, they talk about withdrawals and reconstruction, but on the ground, the bombing continues from the north and the south, and things seem even more complicated… On the ground, the shelling never stops.”

This gap—between the lived reality of Palestinians in Gaza and the geopolitical frameworks imposed upon them—defines the current moment. On one side stands the so-called Board of Peace, a US-led body designed to assert Western control over Gaza’s reconstruction and governance. On the other, Palestinians themselves have formed a technocratic committee, supported across factional lines, attempting to deliver services and preserve unity under catastrophic conditions. Understanding this moment requires holding both realities simultaneously: the imperial architecture of the Board of Peace, and the Palestinian political sophistication navigating within and against it.

The Gaza Peace Board: Imperial Trusteeship by Design...

January 28, 2026

Mujo in Iran

By Biljana Vankovska

Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with his inseparable friend Haso) of countless jokes that generations of Yugoslavs grew up with. Wars took many lives, erased towns, and destroyed futures, yet Mujo survived even the darkest days of the Bosnian conflict. One particular joke has stayed with me for more than three decades, because it captures, better than most analyses, the arrogance of superficial Western “expertise.”

The scene unfolds in a small Bosnian town, in a local tavern where a foreigner (from the West, of course) is instantly recognisable. One day Mujo walks in, notices the stranger, and—warmly, as locals do—approaches him. He asks when he arrived and how long he plans to stay. “Yesterday,” the foreigner says. “Tomorrow, I leave.”
“And what are you doing here?” Mujo asks.
“’I’m writing a book about Bosnia.”
“And what will the book be called?”
The answer is unforgettable: Bosnia: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

This is how ignorance dressed as authority looks. A brief visit or two, or no visit at all, some borrowed impressions, a few media clichés, and suddenly one claims mastery over an entire country, its people, its history, and its future. So let me be unequivocal: I have never been to Iran. I say this openly, unlike many loud voices who pretend otherwise. I work with Iranian colleagues; Iran has long been a dream destination for me. I hoped to visit it before the pandemic, but now I genuinely wonder whether such a moment will ever come....

January 20, 2026

Greenland on the chessboard of U.S. imperialism

By Lotte Rørtoft-Madsen

On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of its NATO allies reinforced their military presence in Greenland and announced that more reinforcements would follow.

Some interpreted this move as pressure on the Trump Administration before the meeting. But anyone familiar with NATO-Denmark politics would recognise that appeasement with the empire is the more likely explanation.

At the Washington meeting, the U.S. reiterated its firm demand for “having Greenland”: “It is clear that the president wants to conquer Greenland,” declared the Danish foreign minister after the meeting. The parties agreed to establish a “high level working group” in an effort to contain the crisis.

But the crisis continues, and its magnitude is huge.

The reality is that for over a year, the nearly 57,000 Greenlanders and their vast island have been turned into a bargaining chip, a pawn to be moved at will on the great chessboard of U.S. imperialism.

Trump has repeatedly stated that the U.S. seeks to control and own Greenland, by military means if necessary. The brutally effective aggression against Venezuela on January 3 and the kidnapping of the country’s head of state and his wife have erased any doubt that the White House administration is capable of putting Trump’s words into action.

The threat is imminent, and it is felt acutely among the Greenlandic people. The population is stuck in a vice, and the country’s politicians must fight hour by hour simply to get a seat at the table and be heard. Not only by the U.S., but also by Denmark....

January 16, 2026

How South Korea’s billions will upgrade Trump’s war machine

By Dae-Han Song

In a flagrant disregard for international law and national sovereignty, the Trump administration invaded and kidnapped Venezuela’s President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. Rather than being an isolated event, the increasing bravado of and remarks from President Donald Trump open the terrifying possibility that, if not opposed, Trump’s war machine will proliferate its aggressions, with next possible targets being Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia or Greenland. US hyperimperialism is dividing and unraveling the world at a time when we should be coming together to address our most existential crises.

Key in this strategy for military domination are ‘AI, quantum computing, and autonomous systems, plus the energy necessary to fuel’ them. South Korea’s pledge of $350 billion dollars in factories, manufacturing know-how, and technology in these sectors will strengthen Trump’s war machine. Opposing this memorandum of understanding is one front in resisting the Trump administration’s hyper-imperialism.

Robbing the Mouse...

January 14, 2026

¿Qué tiene que ver Venezuela con Taiwán?

Por Biljana Vankovska

El Año Nuevo no comenzó con esperanza ni alegría, excepto para los traficantes de armas. Más precisamente, para el complejo militar-industrial-mediático-académico-ONG que se alimenta de la guerra permanente. Los pedidos fluyen, las ganancias se disparan y la sangre se ha convertido una vez más en un sector en crecimiento. Para cualquier sociedad normal, los piratas pertenecen a las películas de aventuras, no al corredor del poder civil. Sin embargo, Venezuela, más precisamente su presidente legalmente elegido, Nicolás Maduro, se convirtió en el primer trofeo del Año Nuevo....

January 13, 2026

What does Venezuela have to do with Taiwan?

By Biljana Vankovska

The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that feeds on permanent war. Orders are flowing, profits are booming, and blood has once again become a growth sector. For any normal society, pirates belong in adventure films, not in the civilian power corridor. Yet Venezuela, more precisely, its legally elected president Nicolás Maduro, became the first trophy of the New Year.

A week after the grotesque “spectacle” of assault and kidnapping, analysts remain confused. It is not because the facts are unclear, but because they are often imprisoned by prefabricated narratives, many of which they themselves manufacture. Such is the “Taiwan issue” for quite some time. About Venezuela, much has already been said in a brilliant and insightful way. But let’s focus on the rest of the story. Much of it was delivered by Trump personally, with no shame and no restraint. In a grotesque parody of Kant, he openly declared himself “above international law,” constrained only by the ‘moral law’ within. To invoke morality and Trump in the same sentence—under the shadow of Epstein and ICE death squads—is not irony but obscenity....

January 13, 2026

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A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity

We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.

We therefore believe that any New Cold War would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead we stand in favour of maximum global cooperation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.

We therefore call upon the US to step back from this threat of a Cold War and also from other dangerous threats to world peace it is engaged in including: withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement; withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accords; and its increasing disengagement from UN bodies. The US should also stop pressuring other countries to adopt such dangerous positions.

We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.

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