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@missed_sla This looks exactly like a computer. If you ask someone to draw a computer this is what they draw 100% of the time. That is a computer.
Those black or white boxes with rainbow lights inside them are not computers. They don't look like computers. They look like an evil machine designed to mine Skittles on some fuckass cryptocurrency.
Lol, in a weird sort of way this is almost actually not a bad idea?
(As a side note, I think I might have had this exact model of car radio head units with the removable faceplate and etc. If it supports bluetooth that's definitely it or a really close model in the same line. EDIT: Wait, no. I used line input with that one I think! It's definitely it!)
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@msbellows I have a horribly overengineered super cursed solution for this that involves a heavily shielded RCA cable running under the building to a wall plate next to the computer
@kajer maybe with today's cases that are super thicc due to ever expanding GPUs and tower coolers, one could reasonably put in a DIN slot or two, and it would still fit nice.
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Back in college I legit had a pc with an AM/FM tuner / CD/MP3 player built-in. You could turn it on even with the system powered off, or it would interface with a proprietary media player app when booted into windows.
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Centrist historian Milt DeWalt claimed that opponents of the Nazis should have been willing to reach across the ideological aisle to ensure that guards at Auschwitz received better training.
Friends come and friends go,
but a true friend sticks by you like family. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly:
And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Die Kommentare hier wieder von fanatisierten Linksliberalen, die die Realität ausblenden.
"Putin will aber nicht verhandeln."
Die Aussage ist Wissenschaftsleugnung und gleichzeitig ein Scheinargument. Es gibt Friedens- & Konfliktforschung und aus der weis man, unter welchen Bedingungen Kriegsparteien bereit sind zu verhandeln. Daher weiß man auch, dass "wollen" hier überhaupt keine Rolle spielt - es ist ein Scheinargument - sondern ...
Aber um zu wissen, wann ein "müssen" eintritt, müsste man sich ja mal mit der Realität auseinandersetzen. Wie viele Soldaten kann #Russland noch einsetzen bzw. zwangsrekrutieren? Wie viele und welche Waffen haben sie aktuell und können sie demnächst produzieren bzw. aus dem Ausland kaufen? Wie viel Zeit braucht es, die Waffen an die Einsatzorte zu transportiere? Das Ganze muss man dann auch nochmal für die #Ukraine analysieren.
... Staaten, ob sie einen Krieg weiterführen oder nicht. Wer das leugnet betreibt Wissenschafts- und Geschichtsleugnen und disqualifiziert sich damit für jegliche Diskusion.
"Ja, aber die russische Regierung darf nicht die Erfahrung machen, dass sich Krieg lohnt." Siehe die letzten 10.000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschchts, die gezeigt haben, dass sich Kriege lohnen. Ein einzelner verlorener Krieg fällt hier nicht ins Gewicht.
Ich glaube zu verstehen, was Du aussagen möchtest. Ich habe auch "Die Macht der Geografie" gelesen, auch einige andere Bücher mit reichlich ähnlichem Inhalt. Auch verfolgte ich die Monate vor und nach dem Februar 2022 intensiv die Entwicklungen und politischen Äußerung bezüglich der Invasion der Ukraine. 1/5
Nach langem Hadern und auch ergebnisoffenem Studium von Putins Reden und Schriften zu seiner Sichtweise bin ich zum Schluss gekommen, dass "die Realität ausblenden" eher auf denjenigen passt, die immernoch der leeren Hoffnung auf Verhandlungen anhängen, leider. Letztes prominentes Beispiel war imho D. Trump. Der Realität ins Auge gesehen haben Scholz und Baerbock. Scholz hat zu dem Ukraine-Krieg wahrscheinlich zeitnah recht offen und anspruchsvoll kommuniziert. 2/5
This was the first one that came to mind. I wanted to post something less obvious or well known, so I tried to google ‘songs about obedience’ but it was all Christian worship songs that came up🤔😳, so I just went with my first instinct
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Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue.
uh oh. This sounds like the response to covid. We are not plants and it doesn't take much thought to realize increased carbon dioxide levels in our blood means we won't be healthy and will die off.
"As part of the reactionary international, [Goodwin] displays an obvious dislike of a universal and equal franchise. In the days before the election, Reform had raised the spectre of ‘sectarian’ or ‘religious’ voting. It’s fatuous to claim that a Muslim voting for a feminist plumber standing for a party that’s vocal on trans rights and headed by a gay Jew is somehow making a religious vote, but the claim persists.” bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/…
hi every1!!! waves communist flag just learned shrimp husbandry is NOW 9000% more efficient under party guidance!!! lol… collectivism makes the shrimp STRONGER ^_^… DOOOOOMMMM to capitalism!!! <--- me bein random again hehe… solidarity toodles!!!!!
Diese Hofberichterstatter machen sich mit der Regierung gemein und glauben, die deutsche Regierung und den deutschen Staat in gutem Licht dastehen zu lassen, sei #Journalismus. Nein, das ist #Propaganda.
Aus diesem Verständnis heraus sehen sie echten Journalismus als Feind an.
Es ist so gut, wie es Tilo Jung & Team gelungen ist aufzuzeigen, dass diese Leute sich der Regierung und nicht der Bevölkerung verpflichtet fühlen.
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The Caribbean People’s Debt to Cuba
Introduction
What we are seeing across the Caribbean in 2025-2026 is a total absence of political and moral leadership, specifically in regards to the failure of elected officials and prominent regional organizations like the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to speak out against the criminal blockade and embargo of Cuba, and the imperialist attacks against Venezuela – which includes the violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty that resulted in the kidnapping of the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and First Lady, Cilia Flores by the United States (US).
We heed Tennyson Joseph’s (2025) warning:
Given the apparent weaknesses of Caribbean leaders in the face of US power, it is necessary for the Caribbean people, academia, civil society organizations to put pressure on their governments to resist the isolation of Cuba, or to themselves directly amplify their voices and their actions in direct support of Cuba and its people. The Caribbean simply cannot allow Cuba to fall. If Cuba fails, Caribbean sovereignty will come to an end.[1]
We also echo Norman Girvan’s (2008) statement that the debt owed to Cuba is unpayable (“la deuda es impagable”)[2] and, as Horace Campbell (2025) writes, this debt is “not quantified in monetary terms.”[3] Instead, the debt owed to Cuba – by Caribbean people especially – is in real solidaristic terms. It is our duty to uplift regional unity against imperialist visions for domination in our region, given the sacrifices and solidarity of Cuba and its people to us. Cuba’s solidarity to the Caribbean region has brought progressive developments – including independence. Without the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the colonial pretense that island states could not be self governing – unless neocolonial governors were installed – was shattered. While anti-colonial movements shifted to neocolonial governments in the Caribbean, which garnered many of them US support (such as the US-supported dictatorship of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier), Cuba’s Revolution rejected that shift.
The US imperialist vision for our region includes the denial of state sovereignties, and directing our external and internal policies so that foreign capital and the global capitalist system continue to sustain our underdevelopment. The US imperialist attacks on Cuba have only been emboldened by the lack of regional response to the imperialist attacks against Haiti and Venezuela. Going beyond the issue of solidarity, as we will explain, the Cuban and Venezuelan Revolution have arguably been the biggest contributors of progressive development to the region – in terms of material support – for the past 60 and 20 years respectively. The silence amidst the imperialist attacks on Haiti and Venezuela cannot be allowed against Cuba. On this question of the unpayable debt of real solidarity, it “belongs to those who have benefited from Cuban solidarity and have yet to respond in kind” (Pambuzaka News Editors, 2025). While our focus here is on Caribbean states that have benefitted from Cuban (and Venezuelan) solidarity, Cuban internationalism has been global.
Though imperial narratives often frame Cuban aid and development assistance in a negative light, convincing large swaths of people internationally that Cuba’s extension of development assistance is “harmful,” we provide facts to correct this record. The new articulation of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which includes the “Trump corollary,” demonstrates the continuation of US imperialist strategy in the Western Hemisphere that directly forces compliance from the states in the region.
A Brief Note on the Importance of Revolution for the Caribbean
As far as the Caribbean is concerned, there are three countries that notably structurally transformed the region and regional dynamics in the 18th and 19th centuries. Those countries are Haiti, Cuba, and Grenada – in that order. The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) rendered slavery structurally untenable in the Caribbean – forcing the first permanent abolition of slavery and rendered direct colonial control untenable.[4] The Cuban Revolution (1953-1959) continued the project of making US direct colonial (and legal) control structurally untenable, and asserted the Caribbean region’s anti-imperialist right to sovereignty and self- determination. In real terms, the Cuban Revolution’s example provided Caribbean independence fighters and leaders with a model, or a small state being able to self-govern without territorial status or “association” designation, which had almost been “pre-determined” for the Caribbean, based on colonial histories.”[5] Nevertheless, numerous US regimes (and their proxies) denied Cuba’s revolutionary transformation, claiming instead that the island was simply a geopolitical proxy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
The same could not be said for Grenada. The Grenada Revolution (1979-1983), picking up on this understanding of the Caribbean state’s anti-imperialist right to sovereignty and self- determination successfully took popular power. The Cuban example and its revolutionary aid to Grenada created the first regional project not tied to – or seriously supported by – the USSR, which was always a longstanding critique against the Cuban model. Previously led by dictator Eric Gairy, who was regarded as “democratic” given his ability to please the foreign capitalists and Western imperialists,[6] revolutionary Grenada was able to pursue a Caribbean oriented, non-aligned path of development that challenged foreign control over a Caribbean economy. For the first time in the Caribbean region, an English-speaking Caribbean state was able to advocate ideas of ideological and developmental paths that did not align with imperialism, worker exploitation, or foreign ownership and exploitation of one’s economy and resources.[7]
The World Bank was even forced to admit in its 1982 report that despite inheriting a deteriorating economy from the former dictator Eric Gairy, the policies and platform of the PRG were turning Grenada’s economy around. Grenada was one of the few countries in the Western hemisphere to see sustained, multi-year growth during a global economic downturn.[8] By 1983, 37% of the national budget was being spent on education and health, unemployment dropped to 14%, and the percentage of food imports dropped from over 40% to 28% at a time when market prices for agricultural products were collapsing worldwide. The short lived example of the Grenada Revolution proves that the people of the Caribbean have a material interest in being anti-imperialists.
Cuban Internationalism, Net Benefit to the Caribbean (and The World)
On January 29th, 2026 the US President, Donald Trump, issued Executive Order 14380 escalating US imperialist strategy and economic warfare against Cuba and those that trade with the island – by threatening to tariff all of Cuba’s trading partners that directly or indirectly provide the island with oil.[9] The executive order (EO) went on to state that the US President had the power to modify the order in the event that Cuba and its trading partners found ways to sidestep US “national security and foreign policy objectives,”[10] directly signaling the intent of the EO to control states behavior and external relations. Paired alongside statements made by the US President that the US had effectively “taken control of Venezuelan oil”[11] and now had the power to “starve Cuba of oil”[12] – while threatening Mexico for sending oil to Cuba[13] – the new US attempt to destabilize Cuba for the purpose of eradicating the political institutions in Cuba and further undermining the Cuban government – to destroy the Revolution – was (and is) in full effect. The outcry against the EO by organizations and civil society in the Caribbean, and globally, was swift – even as many of the governments in the region, and abroad, that have benefitted from Cuban internationalism and anti-imperialist politics, were quiet.
Many argue that leaders of Caribbean states are afraid of the overwhelming strength of the US military and the threats by the US Trump regime, to enact unilateral sanctions and tariffs. Nevertheless, this is no excuse for cowardice and complicity. We need only point to its unilateral actions against Cuba for 60+ years or the 1915 occupation of Haiti. And yet still, history shows courage – not cowardice – at opposing this US bully intent on directing the internal and external affairs of our Caribbean states. This is true even during the founding of the CARICOM by the leading independent states – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago – in 1972, who opposed imperialist attempts to isolate Cuba in the Caribbean region. CARICOM rejected the isolation of Cuba by establishing formal diplomatic ties with the nation, paving the way for solidarity projects in technical cooperation, health, and education.[14]
Across the Caribbean today, various states’ current and former Prime Ministers and Presidents partially owe their political successes to the infrastructure, social services and programs that directly come from, or received assistance from, states like Cuba. For instance, Venezuela’s PetroCaribe initiative and program – which provided discounted oil to the region to aid regional economic development – kept the Caribbean region afloat during a time of massive debt and declined investments. We need only see the dire consequences of the forced ending of projects such as PetroCaribe – through US sanctions and insistence – wherein it led to the fall in the standards of living for Caribbean people and increased regional debt and dependence. It is not a big leap, therefore, to suggest that abolishing medical and educational programs that Caribbean governments have with Cuba – again given US pressures and threats of sanctions or tariffs – will also have dire consequences for Caribbean peoples.
These destabilization campaigns by the US are not new to the Caribbean region. For instance, unable to paint the Grenada Revolution as a USSR proxy, US destabilization propaganda painted all positive developments in Grenada as nefariously planned “Cuban expansionism” into the country. Given that the Grenada Revolution highlighted that Caribbean people had a material interest in being anti-imperialists, public opinion was consistently constructed through US and Western propaganda with two purposes: (1) garner Caribbean support for Western models of development, and/or (2) make populations more amenable via fear – through the prospect of use of force or sanction – to support Western imperialism and development models.
This, the Grenada Revolutionaries themselves pointed out, was a successful strategy, given:
the substantial influence, and in some cases, control, which US imperialism and its allies in the industrial developed world, still exercise[d] over events in the Caribbean and in particular over some of the region’s leaders.” [This was buttressed] “by threats of naval blockades, US military maneuvers in Caribbean waters, increased US military presence in Florida, Guantanamo Bay [, today in Puerto Rico and Haiti as well], the involvement of American ships in murderous plots to overthrow [revolutionary and/or progressive leaders], and the refusal of [US allied] countries” to sell revolutionary/progressive governments necessary military equipments to defend their sovereignty. Though these same countries sell to “fascist governments in South Africa [today, Israel and the UAE] to kill [Palestinian and African] black people.”[15]
Today, we see these same tactics in play: imperialist propaganda framing Cuban aid and development assistance to countries – in the form of education and or medical aid – as “terroristic” and “human trafficking,” alongside wider condemnations, by leaders, of communism. This is supported, however implicitly– by a wider turn of cowardice and complicity by Caribbean governments. This is why it is imperative that we correct the record on Cuban internationalism.
Cuban Medical and Education Support in the Caribbean
Today, imperialist counter-narratives are working hard to obscure Cuban internationalism. For us, it is important that we not assume that these counter-narratives by US imperialism will be outright rejected – given the current climate of cowardice and fear. The truth is, that since the 1970s, Cuba has offered life changing opportunities in the form of scholarships to train tens of thousands of Caribbean nationals to be doctors, nurses, technicians, engineers, agronomists, teachers and other professions, at no cost. For example, a total of 14 Cuban doctors, nurses and technicians came to Jamaica in 1976 to support the staff and community served by the Savannah-la-Mar Public General Hospital.[16] This was extremely important at the time, given structural adjustment policies in the Caribbean, including Jamaica, which cut the social services that could be accessed by Caribbean populations. Fast forward 30+ years later, and in 2025, the Jamaican government announced that 88 Cuban doctors, 199 nurses and another 100 technicians were working across the country in the Cuban Medical Cooperation Program.[17] For countries across the region still grappling with the consequences of IMF structural adjustment and a host of underdeveloped public service sectors that it produced, we cannot underestimate how important Cuban assistance has been to Caribbean health and education sectors.
Jamaica as an example is instructive, because it has one of the harshest austerity budgets in the world – mandated to run a budget surplus of 7.5%.[18] This program necessitated drastic cuts to government spending in order to pay down debt, resulting from following US/IMF led budgets over the past 40+ years. It is within this context, where Cuban medical assistance has acted as a safety valve, helping to offset personnel shortages and service gaps that are magnified by the systemic brain drain as underpaid and overworked healthcare workers have been under a wage freeze and thus seek higher salaries elsewhere, often in the US. This is why during the initial push for states to rid themselves of medical cooperation with Cuba, Caribbean leaders had such a strong reaction towards the US efforts to undermine these programs and label them as human trafficking. On top of the personnel, Cuba has also helped to establish long running programs to refurbish medical equipment, and the Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme has undertaken thousands of sight-saving surgeries across Jamaica for free.[19] In fact, between 2004 and 2019 the Cuba-Venezuela program, Operación Milagro, restored the vision of 4 million people across 34 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, for free, by providing eye surgeries to low-income communities and people.[20]
Though the economic contribution of Cuba’s medical assistance to the Caribbean has not been broken down by individual countries, it can be reliably valued in the billions of dollars. Contrast this with the fact that a country like Jamaica has paid more than $19 billion to the IMF and World Bank during the decades of structural adjustment, money that could have gone to help build and maintain a public healthcare system, Cuba’s medical solidarity is truly unmatched.[21] Cuba’s internationalism is only threatened by US and Western imperialism, seeking to cut communities off from healthcare given their vision of Caribbean lives as disposable. Jamaica, like other Caribbean governments, must reject this from happening.
PetroCaribe
PetroCaribe was a preferential energy alliance started by Venezuela in 2005 with Cuba also a founding member of the oil initiative. It offered countries in the region the ability to purchase oil at preferential terms, paid for below market rates (of 1 – 2 percent), with due dates ranging between 15 – 20 years. This stood in stark contrast to traditional oil purchases which required full payments in 90 days, and typically required states in the Caribbean and Latin America to borrow money (at 5 -15 percent) to pay the oil companies directly. The preferential terms of PetroCaribe allowed cash strapped governments from across the Caribbean to redirect money that would have otherwise gone towards oil related debt payments, into infrastructure and social service provisions. It has been estimated that PetroCaribe cost the Venezuelan government between 6 – 8 billion USD per year until it ended in 2019.
For Caribbean countries like Guyana that benefitted from PetroCaribe, it paid up to $3 billion of its oil debt in the form of goods – like rice exports to Venezuela.[22] This is important to highlight given that PetroCaribe repayments by Caribbean countries did not necessarily happen on monetary terms, but in this spirit of regional solidarity. Through separate agreements with embargoed Cuba, Venezuela – again in this spirit of solidarity – sent Cuba about 100,000 barrels of oil per day.[23]
What this means is that Cuba and Venezuela were, at the VERY LEAST, larger donors to the Caribbean over the past 20 years far surpassing that of the US and its Western allies. Yet, today, both Cuba and Venezuela are being discarded in favor of the US who engages with the region through threats of military intervention, economic blackmail, and travel bans. This is important, as it turns the argument that Caribbean governments must maintain – not just friendly relations with the US, but to take a downright subservient position vis a vis the US given development and monetary ties, all the more ludicrous. It is true that the US is the richest country on the planet, and it is also true that the US has instead been the biggest saboteur of Caribbean development projects and progressive programming – given its ideological disdain of solidarity, whether it be from Cuba, Venezuela, (and today, China).
To put Cuban and Venezuelan support in context, reports from the Congressional Research Service, USAID and ForeignAssistance.gov have highlighted that from 2010 to 2024, the US has contributed between $7.5 – 9 billion to the Caribbean IN TOTAL, with the majority of that funding going to the ongoing occupation and failed “reconstruction” of Haiti – enriching US institutions, NGOs, and military contractors.[24] This is also not conjecture. Forensic reporting by the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) broke this down further, revealing that Haitian reconstruction efforts were largely a money laundering exercise, with 92 percent of USAID funding going to DC area firms, and less than 1 percent to Haitians and the government.[25] In contrast to US thievery, after the 2010 earthquake, Venezuela cancelled Haiti’s outstanding PetroCaribe debt, with Hugo Chavez stating “Haiti has no debt with Venezuela…on the contrary, it is Venezuela that is historically indebted to that nation.”[26]
At the same time as Venezuela announced the debt forgiveness, the puppet government of Michel Martelly would be installed by Hillary Clinton in a rigged election, and would eventually be accused of stealing an estimated $3.8 billion in PetroCaribe funds. Because that stolen money came from Venezuela, and not US oil companies, Martelly was able to live the high life in Florida, rather than face justice for his crimes which led to ongoing collapse of both the Haitian state and later assisted in the bankrupting of the PetroCaribe program given large losses amidst US sanctions on Venezuela.
None of this had to happen, but was made to happen. Dumbfoundedly, Caribbean leaders are consistent in their position that they cannot afford to alienate the US government – who they claim is their largest patron, customer, investor and supporter. We must be clear that US foreign investment has yet to build a hospital or train doctors – but has fractured regional unity while siphoning billions out of the region through the treadmill of debt repayment and economic policies which discriminate against domestic production and regional trade.
“Donroe Doctrine,” Down with Sovereignty: An Imperialist Tool of Forced Compliance
Only anti-imperialist solidarity can push back US bullyism in our region. After invading, bombing, and violating Venezuela’s sovereignty – Trump proclaimed US “dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” noting that “they call this the “Donroe Doctrine.””[27]
Under US President Trump’s tenure, the “Donroe Doctrine” is only the recent iteration of US imperialist strategy to downplay state sovereignty through economic warfare, psychological warfare, and violent military violations of sovereignty via bombings, invasions, kidnappings, assassinations, extrajudicial murders, and weapons testing.
The forced policy compliance of states thus far, in this new “Donroe Doctrine,” have been specifically done in ways that help to enrich individual members of the Trump regime, his friends, and the US military industrial complex seeking new ways to accrue profit outside of West Asia (commonly referred to as the “Middle East”). These blatant violations and conflicts of interests, while manifested through the Trump regime, is tolerated amongst a large swath of US government officials and the US state apparatus given an overall agreement with the Trump regime’s attempt to (re)assert US hegemony in the Western Hemisphere amidst perceived challenges posed by China, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas (all states and names that the administration has thrown around).
As various Prime Ministers talk about pressures from the US government to cut medical and educational ties with Cuba, as well as pressures from the US government to install various kinds of military equipment to surveil states like Cuba and Venezuela, as well as US threats of sanctions and travel and visa bans for not complying with US policy – we must be very clear about US imperialism being the primary contradiction and the destabilizing force in the region.
It is not by accident that the US has extrajudicially murdered 140+ Caribbean and Latin American nationals in our countries territorial waters. It is not by accident that after kidnapping the President and First Lady of Venezuela, the US claimed to own and control Venezuelan oil and land. It is not by accident that the US has threatened to sanction Mexico, Cuba’s largest oil trading partner as of 2024 given the sanctions against Venezuela, if it sends oil to Cuba. It is not by accident that Cambridge Analytica helped to usher in, in Trinidad and Tobago one of the most hostile Prime Ministers seeking to actively undermine Caribbean unity in favor of US Trumpism. It is not by accident that US President Trump talked about new technologies used to invade and bomb Venezuela, resulting in the deaths and injuries of hundreds, only to then brag about similar technologies being used in Gaza. It is not by accident that US mercenaries are now freely operating drones in Haiti, yet again contributing to the overwhelming death toll by US weapons in the region.
In 2025, three out of four of the leading CARICOM states – Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago – refused to align with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to oppose growing US militarism in the region.[28] These states consented and complied with US militarism, and have been notably silent on US war crimes committed in the region and against Caribbean people – except for Trinidad and Tobago, which has done nothing but extol and grant numerous praises on the US capacity, intent, ability, and actions of killing Caribbean and Latin America people.[29] Amidst this fact, Guyana’s silence has been accompanied by increased security collaborations with the US[30]; Jamaica’s silence has been accompanied by quiet dismissals of Cuba’s medical programs[31] – it does not take a genius to surmise where those two governments also stand in relation to the “Donroe Doctrine.”
Conclusion
The collapse of the Grenada Revolution and the role that Caribbean leaders played in undermining it continues to traumatize the region to this day. Given these facts, the concern regarding Caribbean collaborators enabling the destruction of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and the Cuban Revolution in Cuba, is concerning for all Caribbean people who care about justice, fairness, progressive development, and the sovereignty of our sisters and brothers in the region.
Today, Cuba’s humanitarian crisis is sparked by direct imperialist aggression against it and its revolution faces a critical point given US military might amassed in the region – that has already been deployed against Venezuela. US imperial hubris has long targeted Cuba via assassination attempts, biological, chemical, commercial, financial, medical and agricultural warfare – as well as the wider Caribbean region by committing one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in 1976 against Cubana Airlines Flight 455.[32] This is only surpassed by the ongoing US terror campaign of extrajudicial murder in our region targeting boats of fisherpeople – whose death toll of 145+ has yet to stop, and at the time of this writing, rises weekly. The January 3rd, 2026 attack on Venezuela has only emboldened US violence in our Caribbean region, and Isaac Saney (2026) provides us with some insight, as to what an attack on Cuba and its Revolution would mean:
“The crushing of the Cuban Revolution would embolden imperial aggression everywhere. It would reinforce the doctrine that no country, however principled its aspirations, can defy the dictates of global capital and survive. It would deepen cynicism and despair among oppressed peoples and movements struggling for emancipation, sending a chilling message that resistance is futile and alternatives are illusions.”[33]
In other words, just as we have yet to address where the Grenadian Revolution left off – that is building up anti-imperialist movements and states that can weaken the dictatorship of foreign capital in our region not determined, or capped, by US and Western foreign interests – a blow to the Cuban Revolution would mean erasing those gains that it made for us, namely: making US direct colonial and legal control of Caribbean states untenable. If we acknowledge that the “Donroe Doctrine” seeks to undermine sovereignty in favor of states being forced to comply with the policy interests of the US in ways that enrich the Trump regime, its allies, and the US military industrial complex – then not engaging in struggle with Cuba against US imperialist aggression means throwing out the red carpet for US direct control over Caribbean people and resources.
We believe that it is our duty to be in real solidarity with Cuba by opposing imperialism in our region and fighting alongside them in their struggle against continued US imperialist aggression in the Caribbean and elsewhere. It is our duty to remind the world that the Caribbean people have a material interest in being anti-imperialist and it is for this reason that the US has targeted Cuba for decades, as they shine as a bright beacon reminding us of that fact.
[1] Tennyson S.D., Joseph. ”Cuba and Caribbean Sovereignty: An Unpayable Debt.” February 20, 2026, Pambuzaka, pambazuka.org/Cuba-and-Caribbe…
[14] Antillean Media Group. “1972: How Four Caribbean Countries Led the Collapse of the Cuban Embargo in the Americas.” AMG, antillean.org/1972-caribbean-l…
[15] Free WestIndian Editorial. “Of Yard Fowls, Uncle Toms and Political Crapouds of Hypocrisy, Spite and Intimidation.” December 8, 1979.
[18] Johnston, Jake. Partners in austerity: Jamaica, the United States and the international monetary fund. No. 2015-09. Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), 2015. cepr.net/publications/partners…
[21] Johnston, Jake, and Juan A. Montecino. 2012. Update on the Jamaican economy. Washington DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research. cepr.net/publications/update-o…
[24] Meyer, Peter J. 2023. U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: FY2023 Appropriations. CRS Report No. R47344. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. congress.gov/crs-product/R4733…;
U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State. “Foreign Assistance Data Dashboard: Caribbean Region (2010–2025).” ForeignAssistance.gov.;
U.S. Agency for International Development. “U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants: Greenbook.” USAID Explorer. explorer.usaid.gov/aid-trends.
[28] Watts, Jay. “CELAC Unity Shattered by Minority Siding with US Imperialism.” Mexico Solidarity Media September 4, 2025, mexicosolidarity.com/celac-uni…
[29] Associated Press. “Trinidad and Tobago Leader Praises Strike and Says US Should Kill All Drug Traffickers ‘Violently’.” CNN, September 3, 2025, cnn.com/2025/09/03/americas/tr…
[32] Pambuzaka News Editors. 2026. “The Debt is Ours: Cuba, Solidarity, and the Obligation of the World.” Pambuzaka, pambazuka.org/Debt-is-Ours-Cub…
[33] Saney, I. “Cuba Must Not Fall – Its Revolution Matters to the Whole World.” Morning Star February 13, 2026. morningstaronline.co.uk/articl…
Tamanisha John is an Assistant Professor at York University. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), Caribbean Solidarity Network (CSN), and the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC). @tamanishajohn (Twitter and Instagram)
Kevin Edmonds (@kevin_edmonds) is a member of the Toronto-based Caribbean Solidarity Network (CSN), an organization committed to the principles of Caribbean Liberation and Unity across the region as well as throughout the Diaspora. He is also an assistant professor in the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto.
Caribbean governments are betraying Cuba through silence and compliance with U.S. empire. The only way to challenge this failure of leadership is for the people to build an anti-imperialist movement.
Came up on the spin of my Movie Roulette Wheel... I'm sure I song this long ago when the movie appeared on HBO.
It was okay. Of note, a young Cynthia Nixon as a cute high school girl... and also, they're already talking about "eating bugs," because one person at the NY science competition made some protein powder of mosquitoes and other bugs... 😐
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Just finished listening to #Enshittification by @pluralistic. A clear and unambiguous diagnosis of where we are and how we got here. Alas, I feel that it’s mostly preaching to the choir at this point, at least from the naked capitalism perspective that is the US. Still, there is hope - even if it’s likely to be an uphill battle.
1197 words on the Security Poverty Line, for a chapter of a book in development. I’m always in admiration of @pluralistic and his work ethic, so I decided to Word Up.
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Empire ‘sleepwalking’ into Iran war catastrophe
Over recent weeks, an ominous US military buildup throughout the waters and territories of West Asia has gathered pace. Concurrently, murderous mass protests – openly sponsored by Western leaders – have raged with fluctuating intensity throughout major Iranian cities. All along, President Donald Trump has issued dire threats of impending “bad things” if Tehran rejects curbs on its nuclear research and missile production. But as the drums of war reach a belligerent crescendo, urgent notes of warning are being widely sounded.
The Western media has singularly failed to question the ultimate objectives, let alone legality or morality, of US military action against the country. Instead, outlets have typically outlined the potential merits of “intervention”. The BBC has gone to the extent of publishing an explainer guide to different attack “scenarios”. On February 19th too, the British state broadcaster expressed bewilderment that efforts by Washington and Tel Aviv to intimidate Tehran into dismantling her vital national and regional security architecture have floundered:
“Why do Iranian leaders, at least publicly, remain defiant in the face of the world’s most powerful military and its strongest regional ally in the Middle East?”
The BBC attributed this intransigence to Iranian displeasure with the terms sought by Trump, noting that “from Tehran’s perspective, [US] demands amount not to negotiation but to capitulation.” However, senior officials in Washington precisely endorse this view. On February 21st, White House envoy Steve Witkoff spoke of how the President was “curious” as to “why, under this sort of pressure, with the amount of sea power and naval power” in West Asia, Iran’s leadership “haven’t capitulated.”
Two days later, an answer to the apparent enigma of Tehran’s refusal to be bullied into rendering herself a defenceless target for Judeo-American imperialism was provided. Axios, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post published virtually identical ‘exclusive’ reports on how top US general Dan Caine has privately cautioned the Trump administration of “significant risks” attached to taking military action against Tehran; in particular, the very high prospect that even a “limited strike” would produce prolonged conflict, which would be deeply destructive for all concerned.
A scathing February 24thFinancial Times editorial echoed Caine’s admonitions. A nameless “Israeli intelligence official” told the publication how despite the vast recent buildup, Washington only boasts military capacity to sustain a four- to five-day “intense aerial assault, or a week of lower-intensity strikes.” This raised the risk of sizeable “American casualties”, and resultant “domestic blowback”. Cited polling data indicates the overwhelming majority of US citizens oppose conflict with Iran. Meanwhile, think tank apparatchik Aaron David Miller laments:
“Nobody wants this. We’re sleepwalking towards a war, in search of a strategy…the President has put himself in a box. He has put himself in a situation where unless he manages to extract a considerable concession from the Iranians to avoid a war he doesn’t want, he’s going to be forced into one. This is a crisis of his own making.”
‘Available Forces’
Analysis published by ‘think tank’ the Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reinforces how for all the sound and fury, Washington’s overhyped military buildup in fact could neither fight nor sustain a vaguely protracted conflict. Of the US Navy’s 292 available battle force ships, “most are in port or in maintenance and training, with less than a fifth of the force at sea for operations.” Of this significantly truncated total, apparently just 41% are deployed to West Asia.
This force is “far smaller” than Washington fielded in 1991 and 2003 against Iraq, “for major combat operations and regime change.” The assets are more comparable in size and clout to Operation Desert Fox, a four-day bombing campaign against Baghdad in 1998. If all the US Navy’s 13 available destroyers are in range, they could only launch 150 – 250 Tomahawk missiles, “alongside long-range missiles from strike aircrafts.” The Tomahawk total is twice that expended during the disastrous, nine-month-long Operation Prosperity Guardian, which targeted Yemen’s AnsarAllah.
Even if the Empire was to burn through the entirety of its exorbitantly expensive and difficult-to-replace Tomahawk stockpiles striking Tehran, CSIS forecasts it “unlikely the US will attack Iranian leaders.” The Islamic Republic has repeatedly demonstrated considerable “resilience” in the face of relentless Judeo-American belligerence, suggesting “decapitation will not destabilize the regime.” Moreover, Washington is concerned about Iranian “retaliation” to such operations. “Available forces” in theatre are simply “insufficient for regime change beyond limited targeted strikes,” with “logistics for an extended air campaign” lacking.
CSIS also robustly dismissed any suggestion of a forthcoming US invasion of any kind. “The large number of cargo aircraft…and tankers” homing in on West Asia “does not indicate any deployment of ground forces.” These assets facilitate air operations exclusively, and are insufficient to support even “an extended, multi-week air campaign.” There will also be no repeat of the January lightning strike abduction of elected Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. The US “lacks Marines [or] special operations forces for raids or ground operations.”
Unstated by CSIS, the Empire’s flaccid encirclement of Iran represents the absolute maximum force deployment possible. An official factsheet published by the Government Accountability Office paints an utterly damning picture of the US military’s parlous contemporary state. “Nearly two decades of conflict has degraded US military readiness,” it states, leaving America’s armed forces unable “to adapt to growing threats posed by major powers (such as China and Russia) and other adversaries.”
A welter of deleterious issues blight every component of the Empire’s bloated military machine, although the Air Force and Navy – which reap the bulk of US war spending – are particularly impacted. Although hundreds of billions are sunk into the pair annually, their fleets of air and sea craft are decrepit, with “a lack of parts, maintenance delays, and other problems” limiting. Moreover, US facilities for repairing weapons systems and equipment, and naval shipyards generally, are in “poor condition”.
‘Lethal Force’
Adding to the US Navy’s woes, there are “an insufficient number of sailors” in its ranks, leading to chronic understaffing, and in turn mass “service member fatigue”. On several occasions, this has produced “fatal ship collisions”. Yet, the most damning factor lethally impacting the Empire’s “military readiness” is unmentioned by the GAO. Namely, even Washington’s much-reduced roster of pilots and sailors aren’t prepared for a war in which an adversary can actually fight back.
In July 2024, the Associated Press published an extraordinary, little-noticed report on the US Navy’s return Stateside after nine gruelling months failing to crush Ansar Allah under Operation Prosperity Guardian. The outlet described the effort as “the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II.” Pilots and sailors were “relieved” to be home, having been bombarded relentlessly by Ansar Allah drones, and ballistic and cruise missiles. And Yemen’s anti-genocide blockade of the Red Sea wasn’t disrupted one iota.
As such, the Pentagon was forced to investigate “counseling and treatment for possible post-traumatic stress” not only for all pilots and sailors involved, but their families too. Some sailors described seeing “incoming Houthi-launched missiles seconds before they are destroyed by their ship’s defensive systems.” Astonishingly, one pilot told AP the ship’s crew “weren’t used to being fired on given the nation’s previous military engagements in recent decades.” He described the experience as “incredibly different”, “traumatizing”, and “something that we don’t think about a lot.”
Undeterred, in March 2025, the Trump administration launched a fresh broadside against God’s Partisans [Ansar Allah]. US military and political chiefs were determined to avenge Operation Prosperity Guardian’s abject failure. The President bragged Yemen would be “decimated” via “overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” while the Pentagon planned a ground invasion once relentless aerial assaults had wiped out Ansar Allah. Two grand aircraft carriers, a huge fleet of bombers and fighter jets, and air defense systems duly flooded the region.
After almost two months, the Empire beat a hasty retreat from the Red Sea yet again. Along the way, multiple MQ-9 drones costing tens of millions each were shot down by God’s Partisans, while several F-16s and F-35 stealth fighter jets were almost struck by the Resistance group. Pentagon planners were aghast at the threat of American casualties, and the wretched endeavour burning through billions in finite weapons and munitions, to the extent stockpiles were dangerously drained.
Any conflict with Iran will be considerably more bruising. Within minutes of any standoff erupting, US military bases across West Asia will be decimated by Tehran’s ballistic and hypersonic missile arsenal. The Strait of Hormuz, through which $500 billion in oil and gas flows annually, will be shut down, paralysing the global economy. Washington’s aircraft carriers – a redundant relic of a bygone, unipolar age – will be blitzed from every direction. And the Zionist entity could suffer a fate worse than the 12 Day War.
On February 25th, Politico reported that the White House “would prefer Israel strike Iran” before any US assault commences, as retaliation from the Islamic Republic would offer some justification, and manufacture public consent, for all-out war. Unstated by the outlet, outsourcing responsibility for starting the war to Tel Aviv would shift blame for an inevitable fiasco of historic proportions onto the Zionist entity. It is not just Trump, but the Empire, that is in every way stumbling into a “crisis of his own making.”
Ow! Fuckshitfuck, that burns. People put ice on razor burn all the time, so I just figured dry ice would basically do the same thing, but, you know, better.
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Tonight for a BONUS SPW Movie Night we are watching Ted K (2021) and A Shock to the System (1990). Showtime is at 5:30pm US Mountain Time (UTC-6) tonight. Come watch Youtubes with us until then!
I've never seen that Michael Caine movie, but the poster reminds me of that Dressed to Kill movie where he plays an insane tranny murderer or whatever lol.
@coolboymew A Shock to the System was mildly amusing, just to hear Michael Caine shout "fuck", kill his nagging wife, and give a chick a date-rape drug. but it was still too slow, and each murder is way too understated. and it has an annoying soundtrack comprised of plucked jazz cello. nowhere near as good as Falling Down or Fight Club, two better "regular guy stops taking shit" movies.
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As international attention to the intended dismissal of Berlinale-director Tricia Tuttle grows and hundreds of artists speak up in support of her the managment of this reputation crisis goes a bit like this:
While backpedaling from the demand to fire Tuttle the credibility of Israel-related antisemitism is protected by arguing that there is no repression happening against the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany - everything is quite okay as people could express their political views without having to fear the backlash of Deutsche Staatsräson.
So firing Tuttle now would damage the reputation of Berlinale needlessly by strengthening the wrong impression that Germany suppresses voices of dissent. There should be no reason to suspect that artistic freedom and freedom of speech weren't guaranteed to each and everyone in Germany, they say while ignoring what's happening on a daily basis.
How misdirecting lame excuses like this are can be evidenced by studying the Index Of Repression from Forensic Architecture - an empirical work listing events in solidarity with Palestine that were attacked and suppressed in Germany since October 7 2023.
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Anarchists Take Responsibility for the Following Arsons: Thessaloniki, Greece
We take responsibility for the 6 following arsons:
• The arson at the Alpha Bank ATM in the early hours of December 31st on Artakis Street • The arson at an Alpha Bank ATM in the early hours of January 7 on Siniosoglou Street • The ATM arson in the early hours of January 13 on Antigonidon Street
In a world where everything is programmed to work like clockwork for the benefit of the system, there will always be pockets of rebellion. As anarchists in action, we do not want to limit ourselves to clashes with cops on marches (which we obviously consider necessary) but choose to open new dialectics on the street. We refuse to wait for social conditions to mature in order to attack and we propose direct action as a perspective for attacking in the here and now. Through it, we give substance to our desires by choosing the time, place and target we want to strike, expanding the anarchist rebellion throughout the metropolis. For us, the authentic feeling of freedom is experienced through aggressive action, which is the expression of a continuous internal process and our unwavering desire for an anarchist life on our own terms.
In the society of control, oppression and subjugation where everything is measured in economic terms and people’s needs have been turned into commodities, banks and ATMs will always be targets. Anarchy was, is and will be dangerous for this rotten world, which the rulers know very well. Anarchy has this dangerous and hostile character towards the authoritarian complex because of the actions and attitude to life chosen by the comrades who experience its flame within them.
It is possible that many of these comrades have left this world or are imprisoned, but they are always present at every roadblock, in every arson, in every broken window. They are with us, every time we conquer fear, beside us in every aggressive action as WE ARE BUILDING ANARCHY TOGETHER.
PS1: Citizen snitches who play the role of cops will be treated with the same hostility that we show towards cops.
PS2: Double-sided tape, flammable material, and a little imagination are enough to cause damage.
HONOUR FOREVER TO THE GURRELLA KYRIAKOS HONOUR FOREVER TO SNIZANA PARASKEVAIDOU POWER TO ALL PRISONERS UNTIL FREEDOM LONG LIVE ANARCHY
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Police Report 2 Naxalites Killed Battling Security Personnel In Bijapur District: India
Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces on Thursday morning in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, Bijapur Superintendent of Police (SP) Jitendra Yadav announced to the press today.
The firefight took place in a forested area along the Indravati River when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, the SP declared in his report.
According to the SP, the security forces had received reliable intelligence inputs concerning the presence and movement of Naxalites in the region. Acting on this information, teams of security personnel launched a search operation.
As the search operation began, a squad of Naxalites opened fire on the security personnel. The security forces retaliated, leading to an exchange of fire. Following the gun battle, the bodies of two uniformed Naxalites were recovered from the site of the encounter, the SP stated in his prepared remarks.
As per the SP’s statement, weapons and explosives were seized from the spot. The recovered items include a Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), an INSAS rifle, a 12-bore rifle, and a large quantity of ammunition and explosives.
The SP told the press that he suspected the Naxalites had gathered in the area to carry out a major attack on security forces.
Several other Naxalites are believed to have escaped by taking advantage of the dense forest. A search operation is still underway in the area, the SP said in conclusion.
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in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Dammit I miss the early 2000's PC mods. It was just chaos. Beautiful, horrible, chrome and lexan, Autozone clearance aisle chaos.
Luna Lactea
in reply to missed_sla • • •@missed_sla This looks exactly like a computer. If you ask someone to draw a computer this is what they draw 100% of the time. That is a computer.
Those black or white boxes with rainbow lights inside them are not computers. They don't look like computers. They look like an evil machine designed to mine Skittles on some fuckass cryptocurrency.
My name is Gordo
in reply to missed_sla • • •@missed_sla It truly was the best of times. Computing will never be the same.
Nibor4000 🇬🇧 Ⓥ
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*quiet
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in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Lol, in a weird sort of way this is almost actually not a bad idea?
(As a side note, I think I might have had this exact model of car radio head units with the removable faceplate and etc. If it supports bluetooth that's definitely it or a really close model in the same line. EDIT: Wait, no. I used line input with that one I think! It's definitely it!)
Chris [list of emoji]
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I mean, this is a real thing that exists:
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in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Back in college I legit had a pc with an AM/FM tuner / CD/MP3 player built-in. You could turn it on even with the system powered off, or it would interface with a proprietary media player app when booted into windows.