#Video - US Voices Against the Blockade Episode 2: Imani Bashir
https://peertube.world/w/oBRgayfhyQKmpGizL1YXZj

[from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Duration - 2:02

#ImaniBashir is a Black American activist from Washington D.C. She visited to #Cuba following a radical political tradition, one that includes Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, and Kwame Ture, figures who understood the #CubanRevolution as part of a broader struggle for liberation.

For Bashir, visiting Cuba wasn't just political, it was personal. Seeing #AfroCuban people, she says, was seeing people who look like her, who share her history, who have maintained their culture and dignity under decades of sanctions.

Her argument on the #blockade is straightforward: Cuba has never been a threat to the US. It has never put #US safety, its food supply, or resources at stake. "It has only been the other way around," she says.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

The #US #military fired on an Iranian #oil tanker Wednesday as #Trump seeks to pressure #Iran into accepting a deal to end the #war.

A fighter jet shot out the rudder of the tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the US #blockade of Iran’s ports, #CENTCOM posted.

The attack occurred as Iran & the US are supposedly in a ceasefire. Trump threatened Tehran with a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached that includes opening the critical #StraitOfHormuz.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-war-china-may-6-2026-3d061a90ccde095178d9b988d94d08f3

#Macron Calls For End To Hormuz #Blockade -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Ghana

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https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-government.html#6

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#israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #truce / #blockade / #restrictions / #disruptions / #health / #lowintensitywarfare / #uno

„Civilians in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritory continue to come under fire as airstrikes and gunfire exchange hit residential areas, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( #OCHA ) said (…).
Last week saw one of the highest numbers of security incidents since the Oct. 2025 #Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas (…).“

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167447

#griechenland #israel #palästina : #gaza / #genozid / #blockade / #entführung / #menschenrechte / #haftbedingungen / #gefangene

„Dies berichteten 2 Anwältinnen der palästin.-israel. Menschenrechtsorganisation #Adalah in einer Presseerklärung der #GlobalSumudFlotilla (GSF) am Montag. Die Inhaftierten seien »systematischer psychologischer #Folter & expliziten #Drohungen gegen das Leben ihrer Familien« & »physischem #Missbrauch« ausgesetzt, so H. Abu Salih & L. Tuma.“

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/522109.gaza-flottille-gefoltert-wegen-solidarit%C3%A4t.html

Update:⚡"Trump says that he's paused the US effort to guide stranded vessels out of the SoH to finalize an Iran deal. Trump announced the decision in a SM post on Tues evening, saying he was pausing the effort for a short period⚡to give space for US efforts to finalize a settlement with Iran to end the war.

Trump: was making the move based “on the request of Pakistan & other countries... He added that the🚨US #blockade of the strait would remain in place."
#IranWar #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-ceasefire-negotiations-strait-hormuz-b8a77d16945085e5a5039032a55b3a90

#israel #palästina : #gaza / #genozid / #blockade / #agendasetting / #rls / #politischestiftung / #kommentar

„Seit Beginn des Krieges gegen #Iran ist Gaza aus den arab. & internat. #Nachrichten & #Medien verschwunden. Um Gaza ist es so ruhig geworden, als hätte jemand das Licht gelöscht, das eine große Tragödie beleuchtet hatte. Es gibt keine #Solidaritätsdemonstrationen mehr, & sogar die #Solidaritätsschiffe haben in ihren Häfen die Motoren gestoppt (…).“

https://www.rosalux.de/news/id/54739

#eu #österreich #israel #palästina : #gaza / #genozid / #blockade / #kultur / #musik / #esc / #boykott

„Der Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Wien ist von politischen Konflikten, Boykottaufrufen und Protesten rund um Israels Teilnahme geprägt.
Die Europäische Rundfunkunion und ESC-Direktor Martin Green betonen, dass der Wettbewerb unpolitisch sein soll, bleiben aber von Weltkonflikten nicht unberührt.
Historisch zeigt der ESC immer wieder politische Dimensionen (…).“

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https://www.wienerzeitung.at/a/wtsc-wie-politisch-ist-der-esc