"However, its best form of resistance has been not just the assertion of national sovereignty, but the creation of an alternative model of development that places human welfare and environmental concerns at its core."
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For decades, the dominant development model imposed on poor countries has been:
Open your economy to foreign capital. Sell off public assets. Export raw materials. Compete through cheap labor.
Cuba pursued a different path by investing heavily in social development through healthcare & education.
Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe
One of the most depraved aspects of U.S. policy towards Cuba is the effort to coerce developing countries into expelling Cuban doctors.
Ending these programs not only punishes Cuba, but it also harms some of the world's poorest and most medically underserved people.
Regardless of whether your politics align with the Ellison family or not, everyone should be concerned by the principle of one family owning such a large share of the media.
In the past year alone, the Ellison family have captured CBS, CNN, and control of the TikTok algorithm.
The graph is a visual representation of class power.
The bottom 50% barely moved. The top 0.1% increased 501%
When the wealthy fund campaigns, hire armies of lobbyists, and shape economic policy, redistribution upwards is the result.
This chart is absurd.
Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden: millions.
Trump & family: $3.4 billion.
"Donald Trump could save Cuba."
The headline reflects a familiar media framework: U.S. sanctions on Cuba are presented as a form of liberation, while the human costs of these sanctions are treated as secondary or ignored altogether.
"Like Haiti having to pay back the “debt” to slaveowners from their lost property values after the revolution, Cuba is expected to pay for treating its assets as belonging to the people as a whole rather than belonging to a small moneyed elite."
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"The human rights office, OHCHR, cited alarming figures: infant mortality has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births; childhood cancer survival rates have fallen from 85 to 65 per cent; and essential medicines are available at only around 30 per cent of normal supply levels."
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The Supreme Court revived a lawsuit claiming cruise lines “trafficked” confiscated Cuban property by docking in Havana.
A lower court had thrown the case out because Havana Docks Corp.’s lease expired before the cruises ever operated there.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
Popular Education
There’s barely any pretense that Trump cares about Cuban democracy. This is about privatizing Cuba’s public assets and getting them into the hands of Trump’s cronies.
Children are dying because doctors cannot access essential medicines, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in a stark warning on Monday, calling for the immediate lifting of United States sanctions ...
