Poorest 20%: tax increase
Middle class: tax increase
Richest 1%: tax cut

Don’t worry, they said it trickles down.

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

"Only six of the 202 articles covering Kushner’s diplomatic role mentioned his financial conflict of interest with the Saudi government. That means more than 97% of the coverage ignored Kushner’s conflict."

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Cuba gets hit by an external shock → the U.S. escalates pressure:

1990s: Soviet Union collapses → embargo tightened by Clinton
2020s: COVID + Venezuela crisis → sanctions on tourism expand, oil blockade implemented by Trump
Different decades, same strategy.

Since 2020, overall inflation is ~26%.

But basic groceries?
Coffee +109%
Beef +70%
Eggs +64%

If we can afford $1.5 trillion for the military, we can afford healthcare, education, and housing.

The issue isn’t money—it’s priorities.

Late stage capitalism is where a potentially massive humanitarian catastrophe is viewed as a "market opportunity" for corporations to raise prices and maintain profit margins while the working class is lectured about making patriotic sacrifices during wartime.

Not talked about enough: many Cuban exiles celebrated as “freedom fighters” came from families that owned enormous wealth in pre-revolution Cuba. Their politics aren’t neutral—they’re about restoring an economic system that served them extremely well, prioritizing capital over social programs.

Every politician runs on “law and order.”
No one mentions that the most financially destructive crimes in the country are prosecuted less and less each year.

"It's a 5 Leg Parlay"

- Ground Troops in Iran by May 1st
- The Strait remains closed through the summer
- Oil hits $150
- Trump invades the Vatican by July 1st
- Trump wins the inaugural Peace Prize awarded by the Board of Peace

Imagine any other country openly saying this—threatening to kill foreign political leaders if negotiations don’t go their way. It would be called terrorism. In the US political sphere, it gets printed as strategy.

Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval

Cuba built a model of medical internationalism rooted in solidarity, not profit.

Now Washington is waging a pressure campaign to shut it down—undermining healthcare systems across the Global South just to tighten the blockade. The human cost is staggering.

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Over time, corporate profits have surged dramatically. Corporate taxes? A slow climb at best.

That widening gap isn’t just economics—it’s power dynamics. It reflects who writes the rules and who benefits from them.

The World’s Biggest Banks May Be Benefiting from the ICE Warehouse Craze DHS is likely overpaying for warehouses owned by some of the world’s largest financial institutions.

"Goldman Sachs was also the former majority owner of a 470,000-square-foot vacant industrial warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, that was purchased by ICE in February for $129.3 million — 137 percent over value"

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Reminder: for over 30 years, the United Nations has overwhelmingly voted to end the embargo on Cuba.

This isn’t a contested global issue—it’s a uniquely United States policy, maintained despite near-universal international opposition.

For over 60 years, US policy toward Cuba hasn’t been about “freedom”—it’s been about punishment for defiance. Sanctions, isolation, pressure—all to force regime change. The real story is an effort to dictate how developing countries pursue development—so it serves US economic interests.

Global news: progress, innovation, breakthroughs.

U.S. news: “you’re not gonna believe this one…”

The top 1% didn’t just get richer—they pulled away at a historic scale while the bottom half stagnated. That divergence is artificially engineered through policy: lower taxes on wealth, weaker labor protections for the working class, and rules designed to transfer wealth upward.

First bit of good news for Cuba in months: a Russian oil tanker finally reaching the island, offering a temporary lifeline amid blackouts and a deepening fuel crisis.

But one shipment doesn’t fix a structural shortage—unless more tankers follow, the situation remains precarious.

When a natural disaster occurs, the question should be who needs help—not who they voted for. This chart shows Trump turning federal aid into a loyalty test.

U.S. is one of three countries to vote against U.N. resolution calling slavery a 'crime against humanity' Argentina and Israel also voted against the resolution, which called for reparations. All 27 members of the European Union were among those that abstained.

Beyond this UN vote, here are others the U.S. opposed or abstained on:

- Clean Water as a Human Right
- Food as a Human Right
- Resolution on Combatting the Glorification of Nazism
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Global Health & Access to Medicines

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"Cuba successfully resisted SAPs and instead built a robust system of public provisioning to ensure universal access to essential goods, including housing, healthcare and food. This system has been successful at fighting extreme poverty, hunger and premature mortality."

Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say

The U.S. claims it’s helping the Cuban people while blocking the fuel that keeps hospitals running and water systems functioning. You can’t claim humanitarian concern while deliberately engineering a humanitarian crisis.

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From 1999 to 2020, Cuba maintained a lower infant mortality rate than the US despite far fewer resources and decades of sanctions—driven by a model prioritizing public health.

In recent years, however, the strain of COVID-19 and intensified sanctions has contributed to a rise in infant mortality.

Sugar defines Cuba’s history. After the Haitian Revolution, it became a leading producer, shaping colonial rule and policy under Fidel Castro.

After the Soviet collapse, the industry contracted rapidly, pushing Cuba towards promoting tourism to replace the revenue once generated by exporting sugar.

Despite far fewer resources, Cuba produces the highest number of doctors per capita in the world by heavily investing in healthcare.

That surplus allows Cuba to send thousands of doctors to rural and underserved communities across the Global South—something the U.S. has long tried to undermine.

Planet Palantir - FPIF How a clique of unhinged techno-optimists is putting humanity at risk.

A new Silicon Valley military complex is emerging around firms like Palantir, whose AI tools fuse surveillance data for warfare, policing, & border control. This shift concentrates power over security policy in a small group of tech billionaires with little public oversight.
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You just know that Fox News or CBS is cooking up an article like this.

Paul Bremer ran Iraq for Bush. His emails show what really happened ‘I am now officially the government of Iraq,’ Bremer wrote to his wife in private messages from 2003 unearthed by The Sunday Times. In frank detail, they show the dangers of waging war without the rig...

Newly revealed emails from Paul Bremer show the Iraq occupation descending into chaos behind the scenes. Overthrowing a govt is one thing—running the country afterward is another. Before talking about regime change in Iran, maybe we revisit what happened in Iraq.

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Jamaica to end decades-long agreement with Cuba over medical missions criticized by US Jamaica’s foreign ministry says it is ending a decades-long agreement with Cuba involving its medical missions.

Jamaica is ending its agreement with Cuban doctors who helped staff hospitals and rural clinics. Cuba’s global medical missions provide revenue for Havana while filling physician shortages abroad. Without them, Jamaica’s rural health system could face major gaps.

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Supreme Court Abuse of the Shadow Docket Under Trump The Court has sided with the administration 80 percent of the time when making “emergency” rulings, often without revealing its reasoning.

The Supreme Court repeatedly used its secretive “shadow docket” to revive Trump administration policies blocked by lower courts—often without hearings, briefing, or explanation.

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