Christopher J. Cloonan

🇨🇺 Policy Fellow @JustFP

[Christopher J. Cloonan @ChrisCloonan]

Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leaders, but get gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray-suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio

[Christopher J. Cloonan @ChrisCloonan]

@MJ_Busta Seems as if the US is negotiating in bad faith with an end-goal nothing short of regime change. These reforms should have been applauded, even with skepticism about their implementation

[Michael Paarlberg @MPaarlberg]

In Venezuela, Exxon has been pushing for regime change, hoping to be paid out a $1.6b claim over expropriated property. In Cuba, they are suing for a payout as well. Not since United Fruit Co. has one company been so central to US interventionist policy in Latin America.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

FULL UN REPORT accusing the Israeli government of Genocide in Gaza and War Crimes in the Occupied West Bank in Palestine.

https://t.co/JMCaFtsF1H

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

READ THIS - Gaza Genocide

In one example investigated by the Commission, between 20 and 21 December 2023, in Sheikh Radwan, Israeli soldiers threw four hand grenades inside a house with 30 family members without any warning, severely injuring a five-year-old boy who suffered from multiple injuries including abdominal evisceration.

The Israeli security forces then forcibly entered the house, shot and killed eight family members, including the parents, and ordered the survivors to evacuate to a nearby school.

The Israeli security forces did not provide any medical assistance to the injured or assist with their evacuation. The boy was carried from the house to the school with severe injuries. He lost consciousness at the school, while he was treated by a doctor who reinserted his exposed intestines by using diapers and taped his stomach. He was taken to the Al-Shifa Hospital where he underwent surgery alone.

Later, the boy was medically evacuated out of Gaza and underwent eight surgeries, while three more were still needed, as of December 2025. The boy has been left with a permanent disability in one of his legs and has to use a wheelchair.

The boy and his surviving six-year-old brother suffer from severe mental harm and behavioural change as a result of this incident, in particular since they witnessed the brutal shooting of their parents by the Israeli security forces, including their pregnant mother shot in the abdomen and breasts and father in the head (see para. 244 in the Section (V). Mental harm against Palestinian children by Israel).

The Commission finds that Israeli soldiers of the 162nd Division, specifically the 401st Brigade and Shayetet 13, were operating in the area at the time of this incident.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel is pursuing “a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.”

The UN’s highest investigative body concluded today that an aspect of Israel’s genocide involves “deliberately shooting children in vital organs using precision weapons”

And arresting, torturing, and subjecting Palestinian children to sexual violence in detention.

[Nichole @nickyyknowsball]

Your lack of planning does not constitute and emergency on American Airlines part, travel the day before next time

[RT @RT_com]

China delivers MASSIVE 75,000-TON aid package to Cuba

15,000 TONS of rice unloaded at port

‘Fraternity and solidarity’

[Erik Sperling @ErikSperling]

Rubio says a "humanitarian organization that's already operating inside of Cuba" is prepared to distribute US "aid"

Could be generosity... or could be part of a US regime change plan to sideline and displace the Cuban authorities by weaponizing civilian hunger and desperation

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Making yourself feel powerful by sending special forces to arrest a 94 year old former leader of an island nation impoverished by U.S. sanctions doesn't exactly suggest a strong, self-confident and ascendant superpower.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade https://t.co/dK8TzoXnX4

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Rubio now full Orwellian: the total blockade that we have put on your country after decades of an embargo has nothing to do with the scarcity in your lives or the fact that we are intentionally starving your children.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

On this day in 1958, Richard Nixon's motorcade is attacked in Venezuela🇻🇪. The US had granted asylum to dictator Marco Perez Jimenez, who had been overthrown in a revolution. Crowds of communists smashed the windows of his motorcade in anger.

One sign read 'Go home-out dogs'. Since Trump wants to be the President of Venezuela, or make Venezuela a state of the US, he should note that this is how he would probably be greeted on the streets of Caracas.

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

"We returned from our trip certain that if the American people knew the full extent of what is happening on the ground in Cuba, they would demand an end to the blockade immediately."

-@RepJayapal & @Rep_Jackson of @HouseForeign in @NYTOpinion

[Francisco Rodríguez @frrodriguezc]

A recent paper by Bastos, Geloso, and Bologna Pavlik argues the US embargo is at most a minor cause of Cuba’s underperformance. My new paper argues that their results hinge on an elasticity that is neither representative nor a credible upper bound. https://t.co/lwxSP2BIOk

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

Our paper on the impact of US sanctions on Cuba’s infant mortality rate is out. Our results are deeply troubling. The tightening of the US embargo after 2019 led to the infant mortality rate rising from 4 to 9.9/1000 in 2025. We estimate that an additional 1800 Cuban babies died from these harsher US sanctions.
https://t.co/WHXfiC61bP

[Erik Sperling @ErikSperling]

Major admission: Rubio's own State Dept argues that Cuba has thousands of frontline-ready ground troops

This would mean that US military invasion or occupation of Cuba would face stiff resistance and suffer real casualties

Americans do not want US troops getting killed in Cuba

[Jacob @AndThatsBB]

I miss old lineup construction:
1. Fastest player
2. Bat control guy (he sucks)
3. Best all-around hitter
4. Best power hitter
5. Lumbering power or bust hitter
6. High-OBP guy who leads off now
7. Bad switch hitter
8. Catcher
9. Gold Glove defender (-5 DRS, can't hit)

[Christopher J. Cloonan @ChrisCloonan]

Walter Kendall Myers, the former State Dept analyst convicted of spying for Cuba, has died in federal custody on March 12, 2026, per Bureau of Prison records.

Name: WALTER KENDALL MYERS
Register Number: 29796-016
Age: 88
Race: White
Sex: Male
Deceased: 03/12/2026

[Iran Embassy in Cuba @IraninCuba]

Con todos y para el bien de todos.

Por favor, escribe aquí una frase de Martí!

[NBC News PR @NBCNewsPR]

"@MeetThePress moderator @kwelkernbc has landed a sit down with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his first American television interview"

"The interview was taped on Thursday morning in Cuba, with the first excerpt to be shown on Meet the Press NOW at 4 p.m. ET and on NBC Nightly News"

https://t.co/0NJkkGygEI