(2023-10-06). US Sanctions Missing From Coverage of Russia's Cuban Soldiers. orinocotribune.com 
By Julie Hollar — Oct 4, 2023 | When Cubans began telling Reports emerged that Cuban recruits were promised citizenship and a monthly salary far higher than what most Cubans could ever hope…
(2023-10-06). Haiti As Empire's Laboratory. popularresistance.org In December 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R.2116, also known as the Global Fragility Act (GFA). Although this act was developed by the conservative United States Institute of Peace, it was introduced to Congress by Democratic Representative Eliot L. Engel, then chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and cosponsored by a bipartisan group of representatives, including, significantly, Democrat Karen Bass. The GFA presents new strategies for deploying U.S. hard and soft power in a changing world. It focuses U.S. foreign policy on the idea that there are so-called "fragile states," countries…