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‘No Kings, No #ICE, No #War’: Millions #Protest Across U.S.
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/01/no-kings-no-ice-no-war-millions-protest-across-u-s/

from #WorldOutlook
April 1, 2026

On March 28, 2026, marches and rallies took place in about 3,300 cities, towns, and villages across the United States. It was the third national “No Kings” mobilization. Organizers estimate that more than 8 million turned out, a significant increase over the estimated 7 million that participated in the October 2025 #NoKings actions.

The network Indivisible was prominent among the organizers, but hundreds of other groups — both national and local — helped build the events. These included a number of local and national #labor organizations.

The recent #mobilizations marked an historic overall turnout of protesters in the #US as well as an unprecedented number of individual actions. Among the largest were in the Twin Cities of Minnesota (as many as 200,000); New York City (where organizers reported more than 350,000 in attendance)...

#news #politics #USpol

‘No Kings, No ICE, No War’: Millions Protest Across U.S.

On March 28, 2026, marches and rallies took place in about 3,300 cities, towns, and villages across the United States for the third national “No Kings” mobilization. More than 8 million turned out, a significant increase over the October 2025 participation, marking an historic overall turnout of protesters and an unprecedented number of individual actions. Nearly two thirds of the actions took place in smaller cities or towns. The No Kings mobilizations have drawn forces with a variety of concerns under an umbrella of opposition to the increasing concentration of power in the executive branch and threats to basic democratic rights — including due process, free speech, and voting rights — posing the danger of one-man rule.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧5d ago

‘Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for United Response’
US-Cuba Normalization Conference Maps Out Action Plan
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/21/cuba-under-siege-strategies-for-united-response/

from #WorldOutlook
March 21, 2026

NEW YORK CITY — About 225 delegates representing organizations across the US and Canada attended the conference “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” In welcoming delegates to the meeting, Ike Nahem of the NY-NJ Cuba Sí Coalition, said: “The conference is taking place at an ominous time. A time of imperialist war in the Mideast and intervention in our hemisphere, marked by the January 3 US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, and the siege of #Cuba under the #US blockade of #petroleum to the country.” Nahem called on delegates to focus on actions that represent a united response to this qualitative turn of events in the world situation.

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics #USpol

‘Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for United Response’

NEW YORK CITY — About 225 delegates representing organizations across the United States and Canada attended the conference “Cuba Under Siege: Strategies for Resistance and a United Response.” In welcoming delegates to the meeting, Ike Nahem of the New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, said: “The conference is taking place at an ominous time. A time of imperialist war in the Mideast and intervention in our hemisphere, marked by the January 3 U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, and the siege of Cuba under the U.S. blockade of petroleum to the country.” Nahem called on delegates to focus on actions that represent a united response to this qualitative turn of events in the world situation.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧5d ago

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (II)
Cuban President Lays Out Plans for Countering U.S. Blockade
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/25/cuban-people-act-with-creative-resistance-ii/

from #WorldOutlook
March 25, 2026

This is the second of two parts with major excerpts from the transcript of a press conference #Cuban president #MiguelDíazCanelBermúdez gave on March 13, 2026.

The excerpts are selected from the original Spanish-language transcript as it appeared in the Cuban daily Granma; photos are also from Granma. The translation, breakers, and notes are by World-Outlook.

The full introduction to it can be found in Part I - expressional.social@Peter_Link/116297642519581820

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol #Cuba

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (II)

This is the second of two parts with excerpts from the transcript of a press conference Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez gave on March 13, 2026, as the Cuban people continued to resist Washington’s siege on their country. With characteristic frankness and transparency, Díaz-Canel responded to Trump’s threats and to journalists’ questions about the everyday challenges the Cuban people are diligently working to overcome. Challenges resulting from Washington's relentless economic war, escalated recently with the U.S. blockade preventing any petroleum from reaching the country.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧5d ago

‘Israel Has Become Dangerous for Jews Around the World'
[contains content of Haaretz article by Amira Hass, plus context and commentary]
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/23/israel-has-become-dangerous-for-jews-around-the-world/

from #WorldOutlook
March 23, 2026

#Israel is dangerous for #Jews, precisely because it presents itself as the representative of the #Jewish people across generations. When, together with the #US, it bombs #Iran and crushes #Lebanon, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, Israel does so in the name of the Jewish people, not just in the name of its Jewish citizens.

As it continues a war of annihilation and revenge – now in its low intensity stage – against the Palestinian population, confined to 48 percent of the #Gaza Strip, and after portraying #Palestinians as a link in a historical chain of archenemies, it acts as an ambassador for Jews everywhere.

#SanctionIsrael
#FreePalestine
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #news #politics

‘Israel Has Become Dangerous for Jews Around the World’

For the last 2 ½ years, Israel has been carrying out what seems like an endless war of attrition — against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and now against Lebanon and Iran. In this article, Amira Hass, Haaretz's correspondent in the occupied territories, explains how the Israeli regime’s claim that it does so in the name of all Jewish people around the globe endangers Jews worldwide by feeding the flames of antisemitism. TAn antisemitism advocated more and more openly, implicitly or explicitly, by the ultraright — as was the case with the rise of fascism prior to World War II — and threatens to enter the mainstream of bourgeois politics.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 26

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (I)
Cuban President Lays Out Plans for Countering US Blockade
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/24/cuban-people-act-with-creative-resistance-i/

from #WorldOutlook
March 24, 2026

On March 13, as the Cuban people continued to resist Washington’s siege of their country, #Cuba’s president #MiguelDíazCanel Bermúdez met with reporters. His press conference was a follow-up to one earlier where he had outlined the extreme adversity caused by the #US #blockade of #oil deliveries to the island and measures underway to mitigate and overcome those hardships.

With characteristic frankness and transparency, he responded to #Trump’s threats and to journalists questions about the everyday challenges the Cuban people are diligently working to overcome.

During the press conference he assured the participating journalists that he and other government officials would continue to hold regular sessions with the media to update the population on both progress being made and new challenges.

#news #politics

‘Cuban People Act with Creative Resistance’ (I)

On March 13, 2026, as the Cuban people continued to resist Washington’s siege on their country, Cuba’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met with reporters in Havana. With characteristic frankness and transparency, Díaz-Canel responded to Trump’s threats and to journalists’ questions about the everyday challenges the Cuban people are diligently working to overcome, resulting from Washington's economic war, intensified recently with the U.S. blockade preventing any oil from reaching the country. This is the first of two parts.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 23

Cuban Leader: ‘Do We Talk or Negotiate with the Trump Administration’?
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/22/cuban-leader-do-we-talk-or-negotiate-with-the-trump-administration/

from #WorldOutlook
March 22, 2026

On March 18, 2026, #ErnestoLimiaDíaz posted the following on his Facebook page. Limia Díaz is a historian, writer, member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (known as UNEAC, its Spanish-language acronym), and director of the TV program MARCAS. He is also the author of the bilingual book Patria y cultura en Revolución (Homeland and Culture in Revolution).

Limia Díaz now provides historical context to the recent revelations by Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez that Havana is holding talks with the #Trump administration after Washington imposed a blockade of #petroleum shipments to #Cuba and threatened the overthrow of the #Caribbean nation’s revolutionary government.

#NuestraAméricaConvoy
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#SolidaridadConCuba
#LatinAmerica #US

Cuban Leader: ‘Do We Talk or Negotiate with the Trump Administration’?

Cuban leader Ernesto Limia Díaz is a historian and writer. Here he provides historical context to the recent revelations by Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez that Havana is holding talks with the Trump administration after Washington imposed a blockade of petroleum shipments to Cuba and threatened the overthrow of the Caribbean nation’s revolutionary government.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 17

‘The ‘Problem with Cuba’? Its Example of Solidarity and Internationalism’
Speech by Federation of Cuban Women Leader Osmayda Hernández Beleño
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/17/the-problem-with-cuba-its-example-of-solidarity-and-internationalism/

from #WorldOutlook
March 17, 2026

[...] The “problem with #Cuba” is that it spread its example of #solidarity and #internationalism within a destructive #capitalism that expresses the opposite.

The “problem with Cuba” is that it has been and is an example of self-determination and resistance against the criminal #blockade. It is the example of having become involved in the struggle to end the #SouthAfrican #apartheid regime. It is the example it provided when it received the victims of the #Chernobyl disaster. It is the exemplary commitment of the #medical and health missions that Cuba sends to dozens of countries, and that has deepened as a policy in the middle of the pandemic, when no other country dared to do so.

#NuestraAméricaConvoy
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics #USpol

‘The ‘Problem with Cuba’? Its Example of Solidarity and Internationalism’

This is a speech Osmayda Hernández Beleño, director of international relations of the Federation of Cuban Women, gave on March 14, 2026. That day, the FMC leader addressed the opening of a conference at the City University of New York Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York, on normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 12

Cuban #Athletes: An ‘Unusual and Extraordinary Threat’?
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/12/cuban-athletes-an-unusual-and-extraordinary-threat/

from #WorldOutlook
March 10, 2026
[article also contains news of #Cuba #solidarity actions in the #US]

PHOENIX, Arizona — As baseball fans around the world geared up for the Sixth #WorldBaseballClassic eight members of the Cuban team, along with their pitching coach and other support personnel, were denied visas to come to the United States. As a result, just 11 players were left to face a roster of 37 from the Kansas City Royals on March 3, 2026, and 33 from the Cincinnati Reds the following day.

The visa denials were a blow not just to the Cuban team, which was forced to play at a considerable competitive disadvantage; this was a blow to #baseball fans across the board. And it ran counter to the goodwill of #MajorLeagueBaseball and the organizers of the Classic, which draws together talent from around the globe.

#LetCubaPlay!
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#news #politics #sports

Cuban Athletes: An ‘Unusual and Extraordinary Threat’?

PHOENIX, Arizona — As baseball fans around the world geared up for the Sixth World Baseball Classic, eight members of the Cuban team, along with their pitching coach and other support personnel, were denied visas to come to the United States. As a result, just 11 players were left to face a roster of 37 from the Kansas City Royals on March 3, 2026, and 33 from the Cincinnati Reds the following day. The Los Angeles Hands Off Cuba Committee (LAHOC), together with 5 affiliated Cuba solidarity committees in other cities, has been spearheading a campaign to put pressure on the International Olympic Committee to demand that all athletes be allowed to compete. The Trump administration’s policy is a direct violation of the IOC charter and is especially egregious as Washington prepares to host the games.

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 12

Opinions Shift Among Cuban Americans: ‘We Want Engagement, Not Escalation’
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/10/opinions-shift-among-cuban-americans-we-want-engagement-not-escalation/

from #WorldOutlook
March 10, 2026
[features article from #TheGuardian]

For well over 6 decades, right-wing Cuban émigrés have fed Washington’s narrative that any hardship experienced by the people on the island — including shortages of food, fuel, and medicines alongside periodic electrical blackouts — is the result of the policies of the Cuban state.

To peddle this myth, successive #US administrations, beginning with that of Democrat and liberal icon John F. Kennedy, have relied on their control of the media and the fact that a layer of Cuban Americans were prepared to use violence to silence anyone who countered this narrative. They have used their propaganda machine to try to bury the truth about both the accomplishments of the Cuban revolution and the human consequences of the US economic war.

#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#LatinAmerica #Cuba
#news #politics #USpol

Opinions Shift Among Cuban Americans: ‘We Want Engagement, Not Escalation’

In this column, Cuban-American Danny Valdes explains that Washington’s myth about the source of the Cuba’s economic challenges has been exposed, most recently and most clearly, by U.S. president Donald Trump. “There’s an embargo. There’s no oil, there’s no money, there’s no anything,” Trump said last month. “There is … a growing shift,” Valdes adds. “Whether in Miami or in New Jersey, we are today seeing a wave of Cuban Americans who are mobilizing to demand engagement, rather than escalation.”

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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Mar 12

End the Bombing of Iran; No Blood for Oil!
https://world-outlook.com/2026/03/07/end-the-bombing-of-iran-no-blood-for-oil/

from #WorldOutlook
Editorial - March 7, 2026

The massive bombing of #Iran unleashed by the #US and Israeli governments on February 28, 2026, has thrust the #MiddleEast into a regional war. Tehran is retaliating with missiles and drones directed against US and #Israel targets, as well as #oil refineries and other installations in neighboring countries that directly or indirectly support Washington’s unprovoked assault.

Drunk with the allure of imposing their will by #military power after their recent success in #Venezuela, the super wealthy families that rule the United States — alongside their Israeli allies — have sparked a bloody and expanding conflagration. [...]

This is an imperialist #war, shaking the Mideast and threatening world peace. It has set back prospects for the Iranian people to eventually rid themselves of the oppressive regime in Tehran.

#NoWarWithIran
#news #politics #WestAsia

End the Bombing of Iran; No Blood for Oil!

The massive bombing of Iran unleashed by the U.S. and Israeli governments on February 28, 2026, has thrust the Middle East into a regional war. This is an imperialist war shaking the Mideast and threatening world peace. It has set back prospects for the Iranian people to eventually rid themselves of the oppressive regime in Tehran. It is a war for oil. Ranked third after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, Iran sits atop one of the largest oil reserves in the world. Taking control of these enormous assets would put the U.S. military in a better position to face a future war with China — Washington’s top competitor. All this is done at the expense of working- and middle-class people in Iran and across the region.

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