Kraken🟡 Economic Warfare | 7/10
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Iran begins collecting tolls from ships in Strait of Hormuz
Iranian officials confirmed they are collecting tolls from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The amount depends on cargo type and risk level.
🟢 EconomicWarfare | 5/10
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Trump Claims Iran is Financially Collapsing
US President Trump claims Iran is financially collapsing with military and police forces complaining about unpaid salaries. He reports the country is losing $500 million a day.
🟢 EconomicPressure | 5/10
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US Blocks Dollar Shipments to Iraq
The U.S. has blocked shipments of U.S. dollars to Iraq to pressure Baghdad into curbing Iran-backed militias that exploit access to dollars through Iraq's financial system.
🟢 EconomicWarfare | 5/10
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Russia to halt Kazakh oil exports to Germany via Druzhba
Russia is set to stop oil exports from Kazakhstan to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline starting May 1. Exports totaled 2.146 million metric tons in 2025.
Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Video - Interview with Cuba’s Ambassador to the UK
https://peertube.world/w/uTVn1x2FUM3giEDkL8RTZo
[A #video #podcast about #Cuba from the podcast team #CubaAnalysisPodcasts]
Duration - 1:05:51
In this episode of Cuba Analysis, #HelenYaffe sits down with Cuban Ambassador Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter to discuss recent and escalating threats from the #US government under #Trump. These include the designation of Cuba as a threat to US national security, the imposition of an #oil #blockade, and the threat of military aggression to enforce regime change. The conversation explores the human cost of these measures, from energy shortages and blackouts to the damage inflicted on Cuba’s public #healthcare and #education systems. These coercive measures expose the real strategy behind US policy towards since 1960, as outlined in a secret memo written by US diplomat Lester Mallory advocating #EconomicWarfare to provoke “hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”.
Interview with Cuba’s Ambassador to the UK, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter
Video - Cuba Marks 65 Years of Socialism Amid Shortages and U.S. Threats
https://peertube.world/w/5khProaKY76tYCcFc42icT
Duration - 2:28
[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
Hundreds of Cubans gathered in Havana to mark the 65th anniversary of #FidelCastro’s declaration of the #socialist character of the Cuban Revolution.
Iván Domínguez Rivera, sugar industry #union leader, described the event as an affirmation of national unity at a time of economic hardship and renewed threats from Washington.
Participants also condemned the U.S. government’s #EconomicWarfare, intensified in recent months by fuel restrictions that have deepened shortages across the island.
“No threat will prevent the unity of these people,” Domínguez said.
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol
Cuba Marks 65 Years of Socialism Amid Shortages and U.S. Threats
Why U.S. Policy Toward Cuba Violates International Law
https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/52145
April 17, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
For more than six decades, US policy toward Cuba has been based not on diplomacy but on #EconomicWarfare.
This week, Alfred de Zayas, a Cuban-American lawyer who worked for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to BotB about how and why #US policy toward Cuba violates international law.
Also:
- #Trump Administration Beats the Drums of War
- Miami Herald Funds Dodgy, War-Mongering Poll
- The Science Behind Cuba's #Alzheimer's Breakthrough
- From Mercenaries to #Medicare: US Hypes Baseless Claims
- Building Bridges from NOLA to Cuba
- #Colombia to Send Cuba #SolarPanels
- #Spain's Biggest Airline to Suspend Flights to Cuba
- Amid US Pressure, Cuba Welcomes #Russian Industry
- Cuba Accepts 91 Deportees from #US
Video - Why US Policy Toward Cuba Violates International Law
https://peertube.world/w/fa5TjLFy31bJYYftPWiKFg
Duration - 19:24
[a #video about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast]
For more than six decades, #US policy toward #Cuba has relied on #EconomicWarfare instead of diplomacy. The US claims to target the #Cuban government but ends up hurting the lives of millions of civilians.
Int'l law expert Alfred de Zayas speaks to BotB on #Trump’s latest executive order, which allows him to slap tariffs on any country that ships #oil to Cuba, and how the policy violates #InternationalLaw. He explains the difference between #sanctions and unilateral coercive measures, and how the devastating measures are really a form of collective punishment.
“We are witnessing an assault on the #UN Charter, on international law, and on civilization itself,” warns Professor Alfred de Zayas.
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol
Why U.S. Policy Toward Cuba Violates International Law
🟡 Airstrike | 7/10
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Israeli airstrikes on Iran
Israeli airstrikes caused significant damage to major petrochemical facilities in the South Pars region, including Mahshahr, Bandar Imam, and Asaluyeh.
💬 SENTINEL: Strike on critical economic infrastructure (33% of Iran's non-oil exports). Escalation in shadow war, risk of Iranian retaliation.
🔴 Naval Blockade Announcement | 10/10
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Trump Announces Immediate US Navy Blockade of Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump has declared an immediate naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. According to his statement, the United States Navy has been ordered to halt any vessel attempting to transit the critical waterway. Trump indicated that recent talks with Iran progressed well on numerous issues, but a resolution on the nuclear dossier was not achieved. The announcement frames the blockade as a direct response to this diplomatic impasse. The U.S. Navy has been commanded to enforce the maritime closure without delay.
💬 SENTINEL: КРИТИЧНА ЕСКАЛАЦІЯ. Блокада головної нафтової артерії світу є актом війни та спричинить глобальну економічну та військову кризу.
🔗 https://newsgroup.site/tramp-oholosyv-pro-pochatok-blokady-ormuzkoyi-protoky/