Operation Epstein's Fury

When Natalie Portman was balancing Hollywood and studying psychology at Harvard University

Massie’s Race Matters!

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

Cuba’s lights are all off. Totally dark.

I will admit it: my initial assessment about the situation in Venezuela after 3rd January was incorrect. I was hesitant to accept the level of treachery that had taken place by the very same people who had, for years, been such loyal allies to both Chávez and Maduro. However, it seems that everyone has a price, or at least everyone has a threshold of intimidation that they can accept before they either sell out or capitulate (although the same cannot be said of the heroes of the Axis of Resistance, who do not fear worldly loss). The Venezuelan government led by Delcy Rodríguez has opened the floodgates to US neocolonialism, which had been kept firmly shut by the revolutionary stalwart and man of God Nicolás Maduro. He was ready to be captured or martyred in defence of his people. Rodríguez, on the other hand, has spent the past few months delivering on any US demand put in front of her, whether it’s the passing of new laws that benefit US companies, rolling out the red carpet to US officials and journalists, staying silent on the ongoing imprisonment of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, purging Maduro’s allies from the government, or even handing over the hero Alex Saab to be locked up in a US dungeon. Whether Rodríguez had advance knowledge of the 3rd January kidnapping or not, it’s clear that the US made the correct assessment that she would be a willing accomplice to their ransacking of the country following Maduro’s departure. Some people may wish to quote Fidel Castro in 1991, when Cuba introduced capitalist measures during the Special Period of economic hardship and he declared that Cuba had to ‘find the formulas to save the country, save the revolution’. However, this is not a case of pragmatism and buying time to save the Bolivarian Revolution: it is an outright betrayal.