This is the beginning of the end for the MAGA movement, which propelled Trump to power just 18 months ago as the “peace president” who would bring back jobs and bring down prices. The war has no off-ramp for Trump, there is no end in sight, and $4 a gallon gas is just the beginning of higher prices.
At the center of the crisis lies the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery of the global energy system. While millions suffer, others profit. Paradoxically, one of the economic beneficiaries of the conflict may be Russia.
The Cuban Revolution has held on for nearly seventy years, right under the nose of the most powerful imperialist country on earth—which has tried every possible means to overthrow it.
On 4 March, US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Venezuela. The Secretary was welcomed with a red carpet at the Miraflores Palace and cordial smiles from Acting President Delcy Rodríguez.
It is a “rite of passage” for newly radicalized socialists or communists in the US to learn about the bloodstained reality of American history and foreign policy. And yet, left-leaning people often seem to continue grouping themselves with the US ruling class when they talk about this history!
On February 25, the Cuban Ministry of the Interior published a report by the Cuban Border Guard about the interception of a Florida-based speedboat into Cuban territorial waters a mile off Cayo Falcones, in Villa Clara province, on the north coast of the island. This is a very serious escalation in the US imperialist aggression against the Cuban revolution.