Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
As someone living under a US-backed dictatorship, I can tell you this is how it begins. 2 years and 21 State of Exceptions later, we’re ruled by perpetual martial law with Pentagon bombs, sexual torture, military checkpoints, activists starved, waterboarded or disappeared by soldiers. A little DEA operation turns into the opening of an entire FBI Office in our capital, the military killing protesters at a general strike turned into targeted assassination plots on indigenous labor activists, a few visits from a U.S. Envoy turns into U.S. boots-on-the-ground operations where campesinos are electrocuted. Ecuador has lived all of this already: the hijacking of a once socialist nation literally beat into a Yankee colony. We cannot let it happen to our sister nation of Bolivia too.
I often get asked how I’m able to do all my Palestine organizing in my socialist Lao PDR with overwhelming support and turnout from both Lao government officials and locals 🧵 1/
CUBANS LIVING IN DARKNESS AMID US BLOCKADE
Cuba is facing blackouts lasting up to 30 hours, plus disruptions to gas, water, internet, medicine supplies, and waste collection — all consequences, officials say, of the intensified U.S. economic blockade.
Sovereign Media’s Marxlenin Valdés reports to us from Havana.
From January to March 2026, Cuba lived without oil imports. On March 31, a Russian tanker arrived with 730,000 barrels, providing only 15 days of relief — proof, Cuban authorities argue, that the crisis stems from external aggression rather than internal failures.
Since then, the country has survived on domestic crude and solar panels installed rapidly over the past two years.
On Thursday, May 14, a grid collapse left half the island dark from Ciego de Ávila to Guantánamo. President Díaz-Canel blamed "the genocidal energy blockade," while the Energy Minister admitted Cuba has "absolutely no fuel oil and absolutely no diesel." In Havana, blackouts reach 22 hours daily.
U.N. experts have condemned U.S. measures as "energy starvation", violating human rights, noting fuel scarcity blocks hospital access and school attendance. Cuba faces over 96,000 pending surgeries, including 11,000 for children.
At the U.N. Economic and Social Council on May 15, Ambassador Soberón Guzmán declared: "There is no moral or ethical justification for such hostile actions."
Despite hardships, Díaz-Canel insists Cuba remains standing. "The situation would be dramatically better without this unconventional warfare," officials conclude, "but electrical workers are tirelessly restoring the grid under material and psychological attack."
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the demand that victims of empire carefully separate the “good soldiers” from the bad ones is just another way of recentering american feelings in conversations about american violence