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“They’re a very weakened nation right now.” After imposing a fuel blockade on Cuba, leading to a nationwide blackout and humanitarian crisis, Donald Trump says he can now “take” the country and “do anything I want with it.” On Monday, the state-owned company Unión Eléctrica said the country’s power grid had completely collapsed, causing a “total blackout”.

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Workers of CBS News 24/7-WGAE, the unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after the union’s contract expired on March 9th and negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded. Meanwhile, Paramount— the parent company of CBS—is buying Warner Brothers for $111 billion dollars. The deal has made David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros., a billionaire with a compensation package reported $887M.

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“With a blackout, you can’t do anything. You have to sit here, that’s all.” On Monday, Cuba was plunged into total darkness as a massive blackout hit the entire country. BT’s @ldejesusreyes reports from Havana and spoke to residents about how they’re responding to the nationwide outage.

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Cameron Kasky, a survivor of 2018's Marjory Stone Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida, calls out the hypocrisy of praising the Israeli government despite its near daily murders of Palestinian and Lebanese children.

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Multiple Pentagon officials and their friends stand to profit every time we drop a bomb. @JessicaBurbankShow reports.

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“I wish they would arrest the real criminals.” On the Wright Stuff, David Currey from civil resistance group Take Back Power and Guardian journalist Owen Jones argued that the super-rich “steal from us every single day”. “Our government is too far in the back pockets of the super rich to tax them,” said Currey. Meanwhile, supermarket workers are visiting food banks because their wages cannot lift them out of poverty.

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A new video appears to show an Israeli aircraft dropping white phosphorus on a town in southern Lebanon on Sunday night, ahead of a ground offensive that began on Monday. Lebanese commentators shared the video - which Novara Media has verified - of an aircraft releasing a substance on a region flanked by mountains. It was published just days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Israel unlawfully used the corrosive substance against Lebanese civilians on 3 March. On Monday morning, Israel said it had launched ‘limited and targeted ground operations against Hezbollah’ in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reported. White phosphorus is a corrosive, chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs and rockets that ignites when exposed to oxygen and causes indiscriminate damage, burning through human tissue and other materials alike. Its offensive use against civilians is illegal under international law. “The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at HRW earlier this month. Novara Media has geolocated the explosion to the small town of Khiam, in keeping with reports from the ground in Lebanon. Khiam is around 20km away from Yohmor, where HRW verified the use of white phosphorus earlier this month. The pattern of the explosion seen in the video is consistent with other incidents of white phosphorus fire by the IDF, previously documented by HRW in Gaza and Lebanon. Online, some commenters have contended that the ammunition appears to have been dropped between Khiam and the mountains themselves, therefore avoiding civilians. However, in the 15km between the town of Khiam and the mountains, seen in the backdrop of the video, are several villages: Mari, Darjat and Halta. Independent journalist Sarah Abdullah, who shared the video on Sunday night, wrote on X: “Israel is dropping white phosphorus on the village of Khiam in South Lebanon. On homes. On civilian areas. “This is a war crime. Not a peep from the international community. Not a word from the International Criminal Court.” HRW has previously accused the Israeli military of widespread use of white phosphorus between October 2023 and May 2024 across border villages in southern Lebanon, killing, severely injuring and displacing civilians. In 2013, the Israeli High Court rejected a petition to ban the use of white phosphorus on civilian populations after HRW exposed the IDF’s unlawful use of the substance during the 2008-2009 Gaza war. Subsequent Israeli military investigations have held no one responsible for these international human rights violations. There have been at least 859 people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since the start of Israel’s expanded offensive on 2 March.

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President Trump threatens Cuba again, saying he could "take" the island as it's in a weakened state due to the U.S.-imposed fuel blockade.

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“AIPAC has spent over $19 million in Illinois’s Democratic primary. This is a corruption of our elections.” Chicago police arrested several @sunrisemvmt activists sitting outside of AIPAC’s Chicago office on Thursday. The activists were protesting AIPAC’s interference in upcoming primary elections. Due to widespread outrage about the genocide in Gaza, AIPAC donations have increasingly become a liability for pro-Israel Democrats. In response, AIPAC is using shell PACs like “Elect Chicago Women” to continue bankrolling their preferred candidates.

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"We're still humans, and we still have the right to be safe."

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“The nuclear taboo is still incredibly strong.” On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar argues that Israel is unlikely to use a nuclear weapon on Iran, even if it were to lose a conventional war. Gulf states would stop cooperating, Western powers could impose economic penalties and Iran could retaliate, if not with its own nuclear weapon then with a “dirty bomb”, she says.

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In August 2025, a Tesla cybertruck in self-driving mode almost drove a mother and her infant off of a bridge. The mother is suing Tesla for $1 million.

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BREAKING: Cuban officials report a nationwide blackout on Monday, leaving the country’s population of 11 million without power. This is the first blackout affecting the entire country since Trump’s fuel chokehold on the island began. President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated last week the country has gone over three months without receiving oil shipments, forcing the government to rely on limited supplies of solar energy, natural gas, and thermoelectric plants. On X, Cuba Ministry of Energy and Mines reported,” A total disconnection of the SEN has occurred; the causes are being investigated and protocols for restoration are beginning to be activated.”

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“There is a segment of the Iranian diaspora that wants to belong to the mainstream of American society – and so they embrace Israel and the Maga movement.” On Novara Live, Iranian-American political scientist Vali Nasr explains why some of the Iranian diaspora is so pro-monarchy.

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The annual pro-Palestine Quds Day protests erupted in major cities worldwide over the weekend. From South Korea and Canada to Iceland and London thousands took to the streets. Quds Day is held on the last Friday of Ramadan and was first called for by Iran’s Supreme Leader Khomeini after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Protestors condemned the US-Israeli war on Iran, the invasion of Lebanon and the ongoing occupation of Palestine. Despite a ban by the UK government on the march through central London, a static rally went ahead. Iranian monarchists and pro-Israeli protestors staged a counter-demonstration.

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In a press conference in Havana last week, @fredmmembe of @socialistpartyzambia called out the US oil chokehold on Cuba, along with efforts to deny food and medicine, as "an attempt to strangle the country." M'membe was part of an International People's Assembly delegation to Cuba to talk with leaders and witness the effects of the US blockade. Pres. Miguel Díaz-Canel stated last week the country has not received oil shipments since December due to the US fuel blockade, and the country is currently experiencing a nationwide blackout.

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Former Greek Finance Minister @yanis.varoufakis explains how tech companies like Palantir train their AI programs on the data of death and destruction coming out of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Watch @raniakhalek Dispatches on BT's Youtube.

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In an interview with Fox News, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explains how Trump is begging for help from NATO and Gulf allies in opening up the energy-critical Strait of Hormuz. Gas prices continue to skyrocket in the U.S. as the war in Iran drags on.

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Nearly 4,000 meatpacking workers are on strike in Colorado — the first big strike the industry has seen in decades. They work for JBS, an immensely corrupt company that's harming U.S. consumers, and its own workers.

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In an interview with Face the Nation on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi rebuts Trump's claim that Iran is begging for a ceasefire, vowing to “continue our self-defense.” Araghchi also called out the administration’s war crimes and, when asked about the status of the two Americans detained in Iran, responded, “If the U.S. and Israel don’t attack our prisons, I guess they are safe.”

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“We didn’t need to be in this war. This is uncalled for. And this is what we get.” Twenty-eight-year-old U.S. Airman Tyler Simmons was killed last week when his aircraft crashed during combat operations with Iran. In an interview with local station NBC4, his family calls out Trump for starting an unnecessary war on Iran and pleas for an immediate end to the attacks.

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BT’s @raniakhalek reports on the ground from Beirut, as Israeli attacks on Lebanon intensify, with hundreds of thousands displaced and at least 850 Lebanese killed – including 66 women, 107 children, and 32 health workers. Khalek explains how this massive bombardment campaign is aimed at depopulating South Lebanon as part of the plan for “Greater Israel.” Watch the Freedom Side Live on Breakthrough News’ Youtube.

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"The one thing worse than having a shi*t job under capitalism is having no job under capitalism, because you can't reproduce the basics of your own life." Aaron Bastani in conversation with economist, Professor Clara Mattei. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

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