Mark

Macintosh guru. World traveller. A Dr. but not the kind that "helps" people (well, I can apply a bandage in a pinch)

[Mark @cubamark]

@davidpugliese @OttawaCitizen David, you may want to review the coverage of MLS done by The Halifax Examiner. This is a classic example of a boondoggle. https://t.co/ZeXNAlazFD

[Lianys Torres Rivera @lianystr]

The oil blockade & the rest of the US unilateral coercive measures are a collective punishment against the 🇨🇺 people. + than 11,000 children & 85,000 adults are awaiting surgery due to the negative impact of these measures on the Cuban healthcare system. https://t.co/sO7q6UqyP7

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

The fucking @TheDemocrats do not deserve to win the midterms just by sitting by and letting Trump commit war crimes and drag the entire world into the abyss.

Do something, you absolutely useless and worthless cowards.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

One of the most atrocious international crimes being committed right now is the US blockade on Cuba.

The US government is doing everything it can to strangle Cuba’s economy, especially by ramping up the oil blockade. No electricity, no oil, no fuel. Barely any food. A severe health crisis has erupted.

Why is the US doing this? For no reason other than its dislike of the Cuban regime. Cuba poses no threat to the US.

There is overwhelming global opposition to the US blockade. UN human rights experts have condemned it as a serious violation of international law.

Now, Trump wants to take over Cuba, saying: “I can do anything I want with it.”

This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.

[Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo]

"For the U.S.’s part, the only threat Cuba poses is to its industries. For example, Cuba has created countless vaccines, including one for lung cancer, and they give them away. No patents. No barriers. Just free. When underdeveloped countries need help with manufacturing the drugs, Cuba obliges and helps get them started. Allowing Cuba’s biotech sector to operate in a free market would singlehandedly cripple and reshape the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S."

https://t.co/QokriYjOFm

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

"Iran-related hostilities" is how Canada's prime minister describes an imperialist US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.

Anyone who thought this former Goldman Sachs executive was actually going to challenge US imperialism because of a Davos speech was way too optimistic.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US terror war on Cuba never ends.

The CIA invaded Cuba in 1961.

The US tried to assassinate revolutionary leader Fidel Castro 638 times.

The US bombed Cuban sugar mills and burned cane fields.

The Pentagon even prepared plans to launch false-flag attacks on Cuba. As this report notes:

"In the spring of 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated a top-secret memorandum titled 'Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba.' It described numerous false-flag operations that could be employed to justify a U.S. invasion. These proposals included staging assassinations of Cubans living in the U.S.; developing a fake 'Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area … and even in Washington'; a plot to 'sink a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated)'; faking a Cuban air attack on a civilian jetliner filled with 'college students'; and even staging a modern 'Remember the Maine' incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters — and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage".

Source: https://t.co/8XsD3c9Wdm

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇺 NEW: Cuba’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said that as soon as authorities detected the vessel had originated from U.S. territory — before the shooting confrontation unfolded — Cuba alerted and remained in contact with U.S. counterparts, including the State Department and the Coast Guard.

📌 He shared additional details on what Havana says was a thwarted armed infiltration attempt involving 10 people traveling on a Florida-registered vessel.

🔹 Cuban authorities say the boat was intercepted carrying assault rifles, a sniper rifle, pistols, Molotov cocktails, night-vision equipment, body armor, camouflage clothing, ammunition, combat rations and communications gear. Four of the 10 individuals are reported dead. The investigation is ongoing and officials say details remain preliminary.

🔹 Officials corrected an earlier identification error, removing one mistakenly named individual from the list of participants in the attempt.

🔹 Two of the suspects — Amijail Sánchez González and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez — were already on Cuba’s national terrorism list shared with the U.S. in 2023 and 2025. Cuba says it previously asked Washington for information about individuals on that list and has not received a response.

🔹 “This is not an isolated incident,” Fernández de Cossío said, saying that Cuba has in recent years warned of an “increase in violent and terrorist plots and actions against Cuba,” and a “prevailing sense of impunity among the organizers and perpetrators due to inaction.”

🔹 He said “anti-Cuban groups operating in the United States resort to terrorism as an expression of their hatred of Cuba and the impunity they believe they enjoy,” and noted that many past acts against Cuba were “organized, financed and executed from U.S. territory.”

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Who did this?? 😂

[CEPR @ceprdc]

Broad US sanctions target civilian populations with economic violence to force the political changes the US government seeks. US officials have said this for years—decades, in the case of Cuba, CEPR co-director @MarkWeisbrot writes in @Newsweek.https://t.co/1pPIF9vNBU

[Mark @cubamark]

@WWLTV Until they are confirmed as ICE / HomeSec, @WWLTV is incorrectly naming them as "agents". These are "unidentified, armed masked men", full stop. Do not give them legitimacy without proof. Glad I live in a free country... just stay on your side of the border, gringos!

[Mark @cubamark]

@Acyn Members of my family died in the effort to liberate Hoekstra’s family from the Nazis. He can drag his ungrateful ass back under the fascist dung hole he crawled out of. He’s an embarrassment as an ambassador, and yet a perfect representative for the MAGA maniacs.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

Spot. Fucking. On.

[Rod Mickleburgh @rodmickleburgh]

Fun fact. Pete Hoekstra, US Ambassador to Canada, who has launched foul-mouthed tirades against this country, was born in an area of Holland liberated by Canadian soldiers, at a cost of 209 casualties, including 43 dead #LestWeForget

[Gary Mason 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @garymasonglobe]

“If U.S. President Donald Trump’s goal in selecting a diplomat to station in Canada was to find someone who embodied the pure arrogance of his administration, who would give new life to the old epithet, "ugly American,” he found his man in Pete Hoekstra.” https://t.co/fvQjccJlWG

[JanKoller @RomanEmpir52142]

@LongTimeHistory

[The Pearson Project @ProjectPearson]

Stephen Harper opened up Canadian companies to foreign ownership

Now around 70% of Canadian media is foreign owned, mostly by Postmedia - who are owned by Chatham Asset Management, a right wing US company

Please read and consider signing this petition https://t.co/xnoLHOSL0U

[Mark @cubamark]

@jonlippe You're a physics teacher, and are posting about a comet that doesn't exist. Hmmmmm.

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

Trump wants to paint 1300 miles of border wall black.. so it will be too hot to touch. Estimated to cost $2.7 billion. The estimated cost of gloves for illegals: $5.00 a pair. History will record this time as the Dumbest of All Ages..

[Peggy Gabour @peggy_gabour]

@Acyn