While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
THOUSANDS of people across Britain and beyond have called for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to Cuba’s International Medical Brigades for their heroic acts of solidarity in combating Covid-19 across the world.
In little over three months, the online petition organised by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign has garnered over 6,000 signatures from all over the world, and more are signing every day.
There are signatories from over 100 countries including the United States, Cuba, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, China and South Africa, to name just a few.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS


