Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
ormer national security adviser John Bolton at a forum moderated by Peter Feaver, the director of Duke’s American Grand Strategy, at Duke University on Feb. 17, 2020, in Durham, N.C. Photo: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images
Jon Schwarz
IS JOHN BOLTON’S new memoir of his days in the Trump administration, “The Room Where It Happened,” an accurate account of what he saw in the White House as national security adviser? The answer is almost certainly yes, making it a valuable historical record. Journalists may be particularly interested to learn that Donald Trump said that we “should be executed.”
Nearly 600 U.S. health care workers in direct contact with coronavirus patients have died after contracting the respiratory disease, according to a joint survey by the British newspaper The Guardian and the San Francisco, California-based organization Kaiser Health News (KHN).
Whether it’s police violence, poor medical care, or simply trying to breathe, we suffer from an underlying condition: racism
Gwen Carr, racial justice activist and mother of Eric Garner, at a press conference calling for a ban on police chokeholds on Tuesday. Photograph: Scott Heins/Getty Images
Derrick Johnson
We die driving our cars. We die playing outside. We die babysitting. We die eating ice cream. We die sleeping in our own beds. We die and die and die at the hands of the police who are sworn to serve and protect us.
Even then, we are not done dying. We die giving birth. We die trying to breathe. We die when doctors under-treat our heart attacks and dismiss our calls for help.
The National Endowment for Democracy reported spending $5,405,400 in Cuba grants in 2019. That was a 16 percent increase over 2018 and a 42 percent increase over 2017. (más…)
The State Department is offering up to $2 million to organizations that will promote human rights in Cuba.
An award announcement stated:
“Proposals should offer a specific vision for contributing to change while acknowledging and developing contingencies for challenges to program implementation.” (más…)