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[PaddyD @paddyd55]

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[CATERINA😇 @Caterin49788702]

Estas imágenes fueron grabadas en La Habana, la capital de Cuba, el 23 de octubre de 1962.

Justo el día después de que el presidente de los EE. UU., John F. Kennedy, anunciara el bloqueo (la decisión de cuarentena) a Cuba, Fidel Castro compareció ante las cámaras en una transmisión conjunta en vivo en todas las redes de radio y televisión cubanas.

Durante este período crítico, que pasó a la historia como la 'Crisis de los Misiles de Cuba' (o la Crisis de Octubre, como se le conoce en Cuba), Castro declaró la postura oficial y de principios de Cuba contra la hostilidad y las amenazas de los EE. UU. hacia la isla con este discurso.
Fidel Castro:

"...hostilidad de Estados Unidos hacia nosotros.
¿Cuál es nuestra posición de principio respecto al armamentismo o al desarme? Somos partidarios decididos del desarme.

¿Cuál es nuestra política sobre bases militares? Somos partidarios decididos del desmantelamiento de todas las bases militares.
¿Cuál es nuestra política sobre la presencia de tropas en los distintos países? Somos partidarios de una política de paz y que no haya tropas ni personal militar de ningún país en el territorio de otro país.

Esa es nuestra posición de principio.
Y nuestra, de todos de los revolucionarios, de los patriotas, será la misma suerte. Y de todos será la victoria."

Patria o muerte, venceremos

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Lindsey Graham: “I feel good about where we’re going as a nation. We’re killing all the right people…Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs.”

Pay close attention to every politician who mourns this lunatic’s passing. It means they are genocidal warmongers too.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: "I said Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We applied the Rafah model. Destroy everything. 24 villages flattened. 15,000-20,000 homes destroyed. Infrastructure demolished."

Only Israel can brag about committing genocide in broad daylight - and the world calls it "defense."

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

‘I would like this conference to clearly declare that we cannot pay this debt…just to avoid being assassinated individually. If Burkina Faso🇧🇫 is the only one to refuse, I won’t be at the next conference.’

-Thomas Sankara was assassinated 3 months after calling on African countries to the IMF, World Bank, and European countries.

The goal of the IMF’s and World Bank’s loans is not to free a country from its economic woes, but to privatise the economy for mega corporations and make the nation and its people debt slaves.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

[ET Heisenberg @UtdHeisenberg_]

The moment it happened - literally the day after a @SkySports reporter called the failed medical “embarrassing for Manchester United.”

You can literally hear the pop and the scream. Non-contact, landed awkwardly going for a header. Full ACL gone. Yet Fergie still paid more the next year. Proper old-school faith.

#MUFC

[ET Heisenberg @UtdHeisenberg_]

The Ruud van Nistelrooy special.

Summer 2000: Man United are ready to smash the British transfer record with £18.5m for the PSV striker. Cue training ground ACL rupture. Deal collapses, full year out.

Fergie’s response? Come back next summer and pay £19m for a player who’d barely kicked a ball. Proper footballing logic. He went on to become a Utd legend.

So no, Manuel Ugarte’s knee injury doesn’t magically make him unsellable in a year. Relax.

#MUFC

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

To ask the Irish to get behind England is akin to asking the fly to get behind the spider.

Englishness in the context of its national football side is inextricably linked to its history of empire, war, colonialism, class oppression, and Royal worship.

The England worthy of support is the England of the Levellers, the Chartists, the NHS, council housing, the trade union movement, Harold Pinter, Ken Loach, The Specials, Happy Mondays, UB40, the England of Cable Street, the Miners Strike, the Hillsborough families, Liverpool, and so on.

It's not we dislike England, it's that we dislike that particular version of England.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Only Congo fan in the mid of gigantic Colombian fans sea is singing his anthem.

Colombian fans respectfully stay quiet and at the end celebrates with him.

This makes you feel better and better as more as you watch it

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Allow me to correct a few things.

First, "Israel" is not some vulnerable state that emerged organically in the region. It is a settler colonial project established under British patronage and sustained for decades by unprecedented Western political, military, and financial support, enabling nearly eight decades of occupation, displacement, war and ethnic cleansing, which evetually resulted in a Gaza genocide.

Second, if we're talking about a "tiny country that has spent decades facing enemies committed to its destruction," that description fits Lebanon far better than the Israeli entity. Lebanon has endured repeated invasions, occupations, massacres, bombardments, assassinations, and territorial violations at the hands of a heavily armed military power. The evidence is not hypothetical; it is documented in photographs, videos, UN reports, and historical records.

And here is the question that supporters of "Israel" never seem willing to answer:

If "Israel" has the right to treat the protection of its citizens as its highest obligation, why does the Resistance in Jabal Amel not have the same right to protect the people of South Lebanon, especially when the Lebanese state historically lacked the means to defend them from repeated invasions and occupation?

Look at the map.

Who invaded whom?

Who crossed internationally recognized borders?

Who bombed villages, cities, schools, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure?

Who advanced tens of kilometers into whose territory?

And for what purpose?

The irony is that we are constantly asked to understand Israel's "security concerns" while being told to ignore Lebanon's lived experience of invasion, occupation, and destruction.

A population defending its land from a foreign military incursion is not the anomaly in this story. The anomaly is expecting them not to resist.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🕊️ Before Zionism, this is how Jerusalem actually was.
A Christian grandmother born in the city explains how Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together as equals no second-class citizens, no checkpoints, no occupation.
Then 1948 came.
Zionist forces attacked Arab residential areas.
Her family was forced out.
Like ~98% of the Christian residents of West Jerusalem.
She ends with the line that hits hardest:
“Our homeland is gone…”
This is the history they work overtime to erase.
Watch every second.
Then ask yourself why this testimony is buried while the opposite narrative is amplified everywhere.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

“Tenemos el honor de haber puesto nuestro granito de arena en la lucha por la liberación de las colonias imperialistas en el África y participar en la lucha contra una de las formas más detestables de injusticia y de opresión, como fue el apartheid en Sudáfrica.”

Fidel Castro.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The corrupt political elites, and their client media have been telling you the "Russians are coming" for decades

The Russians never came. Its serial political idiocy and incompetence that have destroyed our towns, cities and countries. Not the Russians.

[ME Energy Markets @Menergyfuture]

Iranian military personnel 20 years ago were predicting the days of war with America with such precision and were teaching resistance tactics and asymmetric strikes to their young officers. Everything stated in that old Iranian training film has been successfully executed against America over the past year. Today, they are still alive and dynamic, fiercely defending Iran, and they have plans for all kinds of scenarios for the next half century as well...

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Leaders of nations in Latin America overthrown either directly by the USA or in coups with US involvement:

🇬🇹 Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemala, 1954

🇵🇾 Federico Chaves, Paraguay, 1954

🇨🇺 Fidel Castro, Cuba, 1961
(attempted)

🇬🇾 Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana, 1964

🇧🇷 João Goulart, Brazil, 1964

🇩🇴 Juan Bosch, Dominican Republic, 1963/65

🇧🇴 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivia, 1964

🇧🇴 Juan José Torres, Bolivia, 1971

🇨🇱 Salvador Allende, Chile, 1973

🇺🇾 Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguay, 1973

🇦🇷 Isabel Perón, Argentina, 1976

🇬🇩 Maurice Bishop, Grenada, 1983

🇵🇦 Manuel Noriega, Panama, 1989

🇭🇹 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, 1991 & 2004

🇻🇪 Hugo Chávez, Venezuela, 2002 (attempted)

🇭🇳 Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, 2009

🇧🇴 Evo Morales, Bolivia, 2019

🇻🇪 Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, 2026

John Pilger to former CIA Latin America Chief Duane Claridge: What right do you have to do what you do in other countries?

Claridge: National security interests

Pilger: The people you do it to have no say

Claridge: Well that’s just tough

Pilger: Is it ok to overthrow a democratically elected government?

Claridge: It depends on what your national security interests are

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Absolute madness in the US right now as the Uruguay national team gets pulled to the side of the road and treated like straight-up suspects.

​They literally just landed for the World Cup and security is already ripping their luggage open on the tarmac with sniffer dogs everywhere

​Qatar and Russia hosted without this level of paranoia but the "land of the free" is handing out pure humiliation to Global South athletes before a single match is even played, the double standards are screaming.

[Yiğit Deniz @altligleren]

Bu gece DC Kongo tribünlerinde maç boyu sabit duran şık bir adam görürseniz şaşırmayın. Antiemperyalist politikaları nedeniyle Belçika-ABD ittifakı tarafından katledilen kurucu önder Patrice Lumumba'yı onurlandıran ünlü taraftar Michel Nkuka Mboladinga o.

[Emelia🌙 @Emelia8z0]

How will you continue your day after hearing that a father in Gaza, trapped beneath the rubble, begged rescuers not to save him?

Not because he had lost hope in life, but because he could hear his daughters’ final breaths beneath the debris. Their tiny hands were holding his in the darkness, as if pleading with him one last time. He was the father who had always been their safe refuge, yet this time he was powerless to pull them from the dust and shattered concrete.

Only his head was visible above the wreckage. He looked into the eyes of the rescuers, his own eyes exhausted by fear and helplessness, and said:
“Leave me… my daughters are here… I do not want to come out alone.”

What heart can bear such a scene? What language can describe the agony of a father who realizes he is losing his daughters one by one, while still holding their hands until they grow cold, unable to offer rescue or even one final embrace?

How will your day go on after knowing this story? How will you sit at your table in peace, or laugh at something trivial, knowing that somewhere there was a father whose last wish was not to survive alone?

And the question that continues to haunt the human conscience remains:

How much pain must the world witness before it finally hears the cry of a single father there?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Anne Read: "of course I do not class myself as a terrorist. I accept that I am classed as one by a govt that supports terrorist regimes"

Trudi Warner: "One of the tricks that authoritarian govts play is to label opponents.. as terrorists"

Both women were arrested yesterday.