“Trump ran on an explicitly anti-interventionist platform when he ran for president,” noted one critic. “He lied to the American people.” As the world braces for a possible US war on Iran and people in Venezuela, Nigeria, and Yemen still reel from recent US attacks, President Donald Trump—the self-proclaimed “peace president” who has bombed more countries than any […]
“We are living in a world where mass suffering is excused away… where humans are used as bargaining chips… where international law is treated as a mere inconvenience,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The secretary-general of the United Nations and the body’s top human rights official did not call out world leaders by name as they warned that […]
“Cuba isn’t failing, it’s being suffocated,” said one anti-war group. US President Donald Trump’s latest comments on his government’s blockade on Cuba Monday evening amounted to “boasting of a war crime,” one journalist said after the president told the press that the Caribbean island is a “failed nation” weeks after Trump himself cut off Cuba’s main source […]
“There’s no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don’t think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It’s easy to put tents in Florida. But they’re putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why.” Fears are growing that the offshore U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba […]