Image is of thousands of Cubans gathering in 2026 to honor José Martí.
After the Soviet Union fell, in the 1990s, Cuba entered a period (known as the Special Period) of extreme economic pressure, losing almost all of its international trade and fuel imports. Caloric intake almost halved, and electricity was mostly unavailable for much of the day. In response, Cuba undertook Option Zero, in which the country prioritized distributing resources to the most vulnerable, and rationed what little was available as fairly as possible. During this time, the threat of total collapse led to experiments and innovations, and, paradoxically to those on the outside, Cuba's population came together under pressure, rather than shattering. The collective understanding that their suffering resulted from abroad rather than from internal inefficiencies and corruption meant that Cuba's government, and thus their sovereignty, survived.
As the American Empire contracts in the wake of multipolarity and can now no longer tolerate sovereignty in the Western Hemisphere, we are seeing a return to the time of the Special Period, with the illegal blockade being dramatically worsened - among other measures, the US is preventing all fuel from entering the island, a strategy made more viable with Venezuela's fuel exports now restricted. Imperialist supporters are predicting an imminent collapse, after which American mining corporations would descend on Cuba's massive nickel and cobalt reserves.
While it's absolutely possible that this time Cuba's government could collapse, it's important to note four things: 1) as noted, Cuba has been in a situation like this before and survived; 2) the geopolitical situation is quite different to how it was in the 1990s, with China and other powers increasing in power and influence compared to the USSR's incompetent final leaders leaving the lane wide open to American exploitation; 3) there has been a concerted effort to transition to renewable energy sources recently, with solar panels being imported from China and making up an increasing amount of the energy supply; and 4) Cuba's government is taking this threat very seriously, and beginning rationing efforts immediately.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
El Paso has grounded all flights until the 20th. The airspace is reclassified as National Defense Airspace.
Looking at the NOTAMs, it wasn't a complete closure, only from ground level to 18 000ft. Obviously aircraft can't take off and land if they can't fly below 18 000ft, but overflight above that altitude was permitted. Also the second NOTAM over New Mexico is still active.
18 000ft isn't an arbitrary number, anything above 18 000ft is Class A airspace in the United States. That requires an IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) flight plan filed, VFR (Visual Flight Rules) are not allowed in Class A.
My guess is that the US military were performing some sort of anti drone/low performance cruise missile ( collectively known as Unmanned Aerial Systems, or UAS for short) test in the electromagnetic spectrum (jamming or high power microwave) near Fort Bliss or the nearby White Sands Missile Range, the air defence capital of the USA essentially, possibility including El Paso and parts of New Mexico. They really wanted to make sure that they didn't accidentally zap a civilian airliner or military transport, so they banned all flights outside of Class A airspace to ensure that they could positively identify all flights, and couldn't guarantee the safety of air traffic below 18 000ft. Most, if not almost all UAS will also really struggle to get above 18 000ft, so for testing purposes it's adequate. And why not zap any drones around the Mexican border for good measure. No better test than a real world engagement. The cartels have made use of UAS for a while now, it's not new.
Not necessarily connected but it's interesting timing that just yesterday a House representative from Texas posted this, about Fort Bliss located nearby:
Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anamariafortexas.com
I had seen a lot of military air traffic on flightradar24 in the area recently, helicopters in particular looking like they were doing training missions possibly. I wonder if they just wanted to do some large scale exercises and needed the air open?
I'm going to be careful here. I have friends who've worked at this site. In fact, I worked construction at this site. I don't work there anymore. The biggest danger I've seen is neglect but I'll ask friends who still work there if things have changed.
The vast majority of the guards who worked here and at the old detention facility are literally kids. We are talking 18-24. There is also a lot of older guards. ICE were the boss but they were hardly seen. No jokes, they were mostly seen trying to hook up with the younger guards. Same for BP.
When I worked construction, these guards were pathetic, the people at the east Montana were mostly from prisons beforehand. (They would arrive in their prison uniforms, colored based on severity of the crime.) I'll see if anything has changed.
The camp the reports are about was opened in late 2025, I'd imagine conditions could be a bit different than before that, and may be particularly bad in areas seen only by certain security employees.
I worked there at that time. I have been to every section in the camp as construction. If there was a change, its happened within a month.
They have officially reopened the space.
White House is saying the cartel flew a drone over, total horse shit. Manufacturing consent?
inventing reality
it was a party balloon
where's the f-22 when you need it
Pls be something to do with aliens and not more crimes
ICE tried to kidnap
and it went on a rampage with it's femboyization Ray gun. The regime is desperately trying to cover this up by closing airspace before 
takes to it's saucer and utilizes it's cat-enby beam to transform whole cities at a time
Wonder why, it has a big airforce base and is close to the border? They didnt quarantine any roads. 10 days is also very very long, like unprecedented without like a 9/11.
Some disease? Getting ready for strikes against Mexico??
but why?
I don't know, city council is saying military is not exempted.