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Years of Meddling in Cuba and Nicaragua

Edward Hunt Foreign Policy in Focus
Establishment leaders are doing everything they can to save an organization that not only meddles in sovereign countries but is willing to go rogue.

Tidbits-Mar 19-Reader Comments: Iran War Quagmire; Make No Kings 3 Largest Antiwar Protest in US History; Sexual Violence Allegations by Cesar Chavez; One Battle After Another: Different Perspectives; Putin Repression of Left Opponents of Ukraine War

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Reader Comments: Iran War Quagmire; Let’s Make No Kings 3 Largest Antiwar Protest in U.S. History; Allegations of Sexual Violence by Cesar Chavez; One Battle After Another - Differing Perspectives; Putin’s repression of left opponents of Ukraine war

The Russian Idée Fixe

Andriy Movchan CounterPunch
Putin dusts off millennia-old chronicles, finding in them proof of his reactionary utopia, his imagined historical right to possess Ukraine. Let’s talk about the most underestimated cause of this war — ideological obsession. The Russian idée fixe.

Friday Nite Videos | February 20, 2026

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Why Are the Peace Talks Not Working?

A status update on the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Where the two sides disagree and how to read the often overly optimistic messaging in the media.

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Heated Rivalry and Modest Fantasies for Monstrous Times

Helen Stuhr-Rommereim Jacobin
An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of tenderness and bravery in overwhelming times.
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