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[from weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Feb. 28, 2026

Also:

• Liz Oliva Fernández on Influencer Hasan Piker’s Livestream
• Honduras Ends Cuban Medical Mission, U.S. Pressures Italy Over Doctors
• According to The New York Times, Embargo Is Now a “Blockade”
• SCOTUS Tariff Decision Could Puncture Trump’s Oil Blockade
• #US Companies Greenlit to Sell Oil to Cuban Private Sector as Washington Moves to Make Island Economically “Dependent”
• Canada Pledges Food, Mexico Dispatches More Humanitarian Aid
• Russian Oil Tanker Headed to Cuba Reportedly Reverses Course
• Cuban Doctors and Security Personnel Reportedly Leaving Venezuela

The U.S. is lifting some restrictions on Russian oil and considering more actions to “unsanction” it as the conflict in Iran raises prices globally, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday.

Bessent told Fox Business that the U.S. would allow India to buy Russian barrels.

“Yesterday, Treasury agreed to let our allies in India start buying Russian oil that was already on the water,” Bessent said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44132390

Feb. 20, 2026

[from weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Since the Trump administration imposed what amounts to an oil blockade on Cuba three weeks ago, most media outlets have focused on how the island has radically cut back fuel consumption. But that's not the only story: The Cuban government insists overcoming the energy crisis requires a bold shift to renewable energy. A new solidarity initiative offers ways you can help.

Also:

• Travel to Havana with Belly of the Beast!
• Belly of the Beast’s Liz Oliva Fernández Cuts Through “Bullshit” Propaganda
• Cuba Vows to Continue Protecting U.S. From Drug “Scourge”
• More Talk About Talks — and More Anonymous Sources
• Spain to Send Food, Russia Signals Upcoming Fuel Delivery
• UN Human Rights Commission Condemns Oil Blockade
• Canadian Mining Company Suspends Cuba Operations
• Mexico Offers to Serve as “Air Bridge” to Cuba

People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die

Sleeplessness, fear and exhaustion gripped residents of Tehran as successive waves of strikes struck the Iranian capital, judging from messages sent by people in the city after the latest overnight onslaught, which several described as the worst bombardment in six days of war.

With Iran imposing a near-total internet blackout, information emerging from inside the country is fragmentary and difficult to verify. But in a series of accounts sent through proxy connections, and calls with friends abroad, Tehranis described a night of intense explosions.

Zahra, a teacher and mother of one living in central Tehran, said the strikes, in what she said was the heaviest attack to date, had left her deeply worried for civilians who found themselves in danger not just from Iran’s attackers but from their own government.

“This is the first time since the war began that I am genuinely scared for my fellow Iranians,” said Zahra*. “We are trapped between the regime that is killing us with machine guns, and a foreign power has likely decided that we are collateral damage.”

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In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a press briefing on March 5.

The statement comes as tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East after the U.S., in a joint operation with Israel, carried out strikes on several Iranian cities on Feb. 28 that killed Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

"Ukraine has never had this many missiles to repel attacks. More than 800 have been used over the past three days alone," Zelensky said.

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PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - European Union member states that join the U.S. and ​Israel attacks on Iran would ‌become "legitimate targets" for Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said in an interview ​with TV station France 24.

"Any ​country that joins in the ⁠aggression against Iran, joins America and ​Israel in the aggression against ​Iran, definitely, they will be also legitimate targets for Iran retaliation," Takht-Ravanchi said.

RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the first Democratic state to try to shape how such events are taught.

“The White House webpage says January 6 was a peaceful protest, and people who instigated it were the police and National Guard,” said Del. Dan Helmer (D-Fairfax), the sponsor of the bill, which passed the state Senate this week and the House of Delegates last month. “This is a preventative measure against a massive disinformation campaign on the part of the White House.”

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath. Though the Supreme Court has stymied the tariffs for the time being, the situation remains in flux for companies manufacturing goods outside the U.S. and sent stateside.