Samira M. Addrey, MD

End the Criminal Blockade against Cuba!! Medical diplomacy is NOT terrorism. Negotiating peace in Latin America is NOT terrorism. Educating the world's youth is NOT terrorism! #HandsOffCuba #StopTheBlock

Miriam Makeba performing Jorge Ben's "Chove Chuva" live in Sweden, 1966. South Africa meets Brasil on a Stockholm stage.

The enemies of the people are those who keep them in ignorance - Captain Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso.

Cuba’s first solar-powered charging station opened in Santa Clara in early April — and it’s free. People are flocking to the “solinera” to charge electric vehicles, appliances and mobile phones, AP reports.

Protests have exploded against President Rodrigo Paz as economic collapse and fears of political repression push the country toward crisis. Starting on Wednesday, 13 May 2026, indigenous groups, miners, campesinos, unions and civilian protestors call for the resignation and removal of the US-Backed President. The workers also demand that transnational corporations withdraw from Bolivia, urging that they won’t allow the privatisation of the country’s natural resources. The groups are blocking roads and clashing with police, as President Paz has openly welcomed security assistance linked to Argentine President Javier Milei, including reported aircraft, tear gas, & security equipment. Bolivia faces fuel shortages, inflation, falling wages and rising poverty. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales says the U.S., DEA, and Southern Command backed a plan to kidnap or kill him, which prompted protestors to create human barriers in order to protect him. With the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro in January, South American countries have been on full alert for US military interventions in support of right-wing governments in the region.

Vietnamese revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh was born May 19, 1890, Asian-American revolutionary Yuri Kochiyama was born May 19, 1921, revolutionary Black nationalist Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925, and Black lesbian communist playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930. #OTD

BREAKING: At least two people are dead and multiple people are injured after an active shooter opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego. This is a developing story.

El imperio norteamericano no sólo quiere eliminarme fisicamente, quiere invadir Bolivia para apropiarse de sus recursos naturales como el litio. Nosotros tenemos las mayores reservas mundiales de ese metal. Los mercenarios y piratas extranjeros ya empezaron a actuar en coordinación con el gobierno de Rodrigo Paz y sus aliados derechistas. Como siempre, sus primeros ataques son la mentira y el insulto. Inventan pretextos para invadir con violencia, masacrar al pueblo y asaltar nuestras riquezas.

Fidel Castro giving an interview, 1991.

Marco Rubio, self-proclaimed architect of Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign against the island, claimed at the Vatican recently that the U.S. had offered Cuba $100 million in humanitarian aid, but the Cuban government allegedly refused to “distribute it to the people."

Fidel Castro explains why the US despises Cuba and is desperate to destroy it: "Our country does not drop bombs on other people, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities. Instead our country sends doctors to those most lost corners of the world."

Zambia must decide by April 30 if it'll provide US businesses with preferential access to its minerals, or lose support for 1.3 million people who rely on funding from Washington for HIV treatment. Al Jazeera’s @marthevdwolf explains.

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Ghana’s Former Defence Minister Admits Signing U.S. Military Access Deal Ghana’s former Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, now a Member of Parliament under the New Patriotic Party (NPP), admitted on March 11, 2026, that he signed the now-controversial 2018 Defence Cooperation Agreement. The agreement allows the United States to stage, train, and deploy its troops in Ghana, as well as maintain a West Africa Logistics Network, effectively a U.S. military base, on Ghanaian soil. Although many, including some Ghanaians, do not view the security arrangement between Accra and Washington as a military base, the former minister-turned-MP openly acknowledged its existence. Nitiwul’s admission came after Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) disclosed at Chatham House in London on March 9, 2026, that the Nigerian and U.S. governments had reached out to the John Mahama-led administration to collaborate on the December 25, 2025, airstrikes in Nigeria by U.S. forces. While the foreign minister’s disclosure confirmed that Ghana had been invited to collaborate with the United States and Nigeria, he did not say whether Ghana accepted the invitation. Nitiwul, alongside Samuel Abu Jinapor, has since called for parliamentary ratification of the 2018 security agreement, the same agreement he confirmed signing in 2018 as defence minister under former President Nana Akufo-Addo.

See, if Nkrumah didn't build those psychiatric hospitals, I wonder if we'd ever have one. If he didn't build Tema port, I really wonder.

Dr. Samuel Kountz Jr performed the first successful kidney transplant between humans who were not identical twins, up until 1960 such transplants were impossible. He also helped develop a machine used to preserve kidneys between transplants.

“Un obrero sin trabajo, no importa que sea o no sea marxista, no importa que sea o no sea cristiano, no importa que no tenga ideología política, es un hombre que tiene derecho al trabajo y debemos dárselo nosotros” Saludamos a todas y todos los trabajadores en este #1DEMAYO

A UN-backed report indicates that 1.24 million people in Lebanon—nearly a quarter of the population—are expected to face acute food insecurity at crisis levels or worse between April and August 2026. This represents a sharp rise from the 874,000 people (17%) experiencing hunger in March 2026. Following a six-week war that killed over 2,500 people and forced over a million to flee, the situation remains dire. Agricultural losses are estimated at $11 billion, and years of economic crisis have exhausted household resources. Over 580,000 Syrian and Palestinian refugees, along with 390,000 displaced children, are at high risk. High-severity hunger is concentrated in Baalbek, El Hermel, Akkar, Baabda, Bent Jbeil, Marjaayoun, El Nabatieh, and Tyre.

Every baby born in Iran is screened for 56 metabolic disorders — for free. The tech behind it? Nuclear. Built by Iranian scientists. Iran is one of only 5 countries in the world producing these kits. This is just one example of our peaceful nuclear technology.

48 years ago, Stephen Bantu Biko, an anti-apartheid activist, and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement died in a prison cell in Pretoria. 20 years later, an Apartheid Security Police, Gideon Nieuwoudt, admitted to murdering him. Steve Biko was born in 1946, in King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. As a medical student at the University of Natal, he was involved with the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) and went on to found the South African Students’ Association (SASO). At a time when the African National Congress and Pan-Africanist Congress were banned by the government, SASO filled the political vacuum by evolving into the Black Consciousness Movement. In 1972 Biko was expelled from the university, and the following year he was banned by the authorities. Despite this, he played a key role in organizing the protests that culminated in the Soweto Uprising of 1976. He helped to unite over 70 black consciousness groups which helped to develop the Black Consciousness Movement and help advance the liberation struggle..building a vanguard party. He was banned between 1975 and 1977 and caught, arrested and in police detention September 12, 1977 after being beaten mercilessly, he slipped into a coma to his death! Although Biko never lived to write his memoirs, he left behind some revealing documents. African Lives includes a portion of an interview Biko gave to an American businessman a few months before he was detained and beaten to death. He was assassinated because he represented power of Africa Unity and the black consciousness and courage of the people!!! Long live the life, consciousness, courage and contributions , legacy of Stephen Bantu Biko...may his spirit live and manifest in future generations!. UHURU!

On International Workers' Day, as protests around the world linked economic hardship to U.S. military aggression, Donald Trump issued an executive order intensifying his administration’s war on the Cuban people.