David O'Sullivan
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Deprivation and depopulation: inside Cuba under US siege @profdannyshaw, a scholar of Latin American and Caribbean studies and longtime supporter of the Cuban revolution, documents harrowing conditions across Cuba following the Trump administration's blockade of fuel to the island. A humanitarian crisis has been manufactured by Washington to unravel the last vestiges of Cuba's revolutionary structure. Traveling from Holguin to Banes to Santiago this February, Shaw finds a population increasingly deprived of nutrition, with dwindling transportation options as gas runs low, schools shuttered, and surging inflation making basic goods unaffordable. The US embargo has hollowed out once-thriving areas, pushing young people to migrate. Shaw explains how concessions imposed on the Cuban government have created a new class of crypto-capitalists which forms an economic bridge to Miami, and a base for Trump's promised "takeover" of the country. Having lived among average Cuban people suffering through a humanitarian crisis imposed by Washington, Shaw delivers an unflinching chronicle of their experience under siege.






The Prime Minister has slammed Irish rap trio Kneecap’s views as "completely intolerable" after the High Court found a member will not face a terror trial. Sir Keir Starmer said the CPS will be reviewing the judgment regarding Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who was accused of displaying a Hezbollah flag during a gig in 2024.




The executive editor at the Irish Daily Mail has refused to comment on the paper’s Facebook page being run from Israel – claiming he “wouldn’t be licensed” to do so John Lee said he couldn’t say anything about the page’s three account managers in Israel ontheditch.com/irish-daily-ma…















