Daily Archives: 17. März 2026


17.03.2026 - 18:29 [ CodePink ]

PRESS CONFERENCE: Delegation of 140 Activists Departs Miami with Medical Aid for Cuba, Condemning U.S. Economic Siege

MIAMI, FL — March 20, 2026 — On Friday morning, 140 people from across the United States will depart Miami for Havana as part of the international Nuestra América Convoy, delivering humanitarian aid to Cuba and protesting U.S. policies that are deliberately creating an economic crisis on the island.

WHAT: Press availability before departure
WHEN: Friday, March 20, 2026 — 10:00 AM
WHERE: Miami International Airport, Terminal G departures, across from Dunkin’ Donuts

SPEAKERS:

– Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-founder
– Brenda Lopez, Global Health Partners
– Danny Valdes, founder, Cuban Americans for Cuba

17.03.2026 - 18:23 [ NovaraMedia.com ]

Aid Convoy to Deliver More Than 20 Tonnes of Food and Medicine to Cuba

Organiser David Adler drew parallels between the convoy and the Gaza aid flotilla, which he took part in last year. “From the global movement that helped end apartheid in South Africa to the flotillas that sailed to challenge the siege of Gaza, international solidarity has repeatedly emerged to confront injustice,” he said. “This convoy to Cuba continues that tradition, delivering critical supplies to the Cuban people and a simple message: you are not alone.”

17.03.2026 - 18:14 [ NuestraAmericaConvoy.org ]

Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba

There is no time to waste, as the Trump administration ramps up its assault on the island and its campaign to isolate its people.

So join us in Havana, and support our efforts to secure critical aid for homes, hospitals, schools, and families in need.

Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination.

17.03.2026 - 18:08 [ Jacobin ]

Wir müssen Kuba gegen die USA verteidigen

Die aktuelle Aggression zeugt von einer untergehenden Großmacht, die ihre Hegemonie verliert, von Widersprüchen und internen Krisen geplagt ist und verzweifelt versucht, alle Widerstände und Alternativen zu zerschlagen, um ihre Dominanz zu bewahren.

17.03.2026 - 17:59 [ TKP.at ]

Blackout in Kuba

Der Ausfall am 16. März wurde nicht durch ein einzelnes Kraftwerk (wie das oft kritisierte Antonio-Guiteras-Werk bei Matanzas) verursacht, sondern dürfte durch ein Übertragungsproblem ausgelöst worden sein. Die Regierung untersucht die genaue Ursache. Bis zum 17. März war Strom in weiten Teilen teilweise zurück – Santiago de Cuba bleibt jedoch weiterhin dunkel. Weiterhin sind Millionen ohne Strom.

17.03.2026 - 17:47 [ Junge Welt ]

Libanon: Neues Gaza

Tatsächlich werden aber vor allem Zivilisten zum Opfer der israelischen Angriffe. Hunderttausende mussten seit der Intensivierung des Krieges gegen den Libanon im Windschatten der US-amerikanisch-israelischen Aggression gegen Iran bereits fliehen. Israel greift nicht nur tagtäglich zivile Infrastruktur an, darunter auch die Libanesische Universität in Beirut, wobei zwei Professoren getötet wurden, sondern setzt auch international geächteten weißen Phosphor gegen die Zivilbevölkerung des Zedernstaats ein.

17.03.2026 - 17:38 [ Taylor and Francis Online ]

Stephen Miller and the cultural politics of fascist subjectivity

(March 11, 2026)

Miller’s very being evokes the cold mechanization of a machine, a body turned against itself, moving without rhythm, empathy, or grace. His presence feels engineered: cold, scarred, and hollowed out, the body made into an instrument of command. It is as if a war within himself has long since been lost, a war against vulnerability, imagination, and the capacity to feel. What remains is a man armored against life itself.

17.03.2026 - 17:20 [ theAtlantic.com ]

The Wrath of Stephen Miller

(January 7, 2026)

Trump has described Miller as sitting “at the top of the totem pole” inside the White House.

“He oversees every policy the administration touches,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told us. “I can’t tell you the number of times a policy matter is discussed in the Oval and Trump will say, ‘Where’s Stephen? Tell him to get that done.’”

To critics, Miller is the smirking embodiment of everything they view as dangerous and authoritarian about the Trump administration. He has been called a Nazi, a neo-Nazi, a white supremacist, a kapo, and Lord Voldemort. Posters of Miller—pursed lips, furrowed brow—have been plastered around the nation’s capital, stamped with CREEP and FASCISM AIN’T PRETTY. His own uncle has denounced him, writing at one point that if Miller’s immigration policies had been implemented a century ago, their family—which fled anti-Jewish pogroms in Europe—“would have been wiped out.”

17.03.2026 - 17:10 [ BBC ]

‚Trump‘s psyche‘: The aide driving president‘s most controversial policies

(February 9, 2026)

„By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland?“ Miller asked. „Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland.“

He went on to assert that there are „iron laws of the world“.

„We live in a world, in the real world… that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,“ he said.

It was heady stuff coming on the heels of America‘s surgically precise use of military force in Venezuela. And, for a president who a few days later would tell the New York Times that the only limit on his global powers are „my own morality“ and „my own mind“, it may have been warmly received.

17.03.2026 - 16:52 [ New York Times ]

America, Alone

Operation Epic Fury is accurate branding for the war, Peter Baker writes. By the president’s own description, everything he does is epic — the most, the biggest, the best. And Trump is certainly driven by fury. Anger is at the heart of much of his work. He chose the name himself.

Here’s one (epic) paragraph of Peter’s analysis:

Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage. Anger at foreigners who come to this country and change its nature. Anger at allies who take advantage of America. Anger at Democrats who cross him. Anger at Republicans who cross him. Anger at appointees he deems insufficiently loyal. Anger at prosecutors, F.B.I. agents, judges, journalists, law firms, elite universities, cultural figures, corporate leaders, pollsters, central bankers and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

17.03.2026 - 16:41 [ Daily Beast ]

Confused Trump, 79, Forgets Who President He Installed Is

“The president has done a really good job. We get along with him really well,” Trump added.

The acting president, Delcy Rodríguez—who was Maduro’s vice president and has led the country since a military raid that saw Maduro captured and flown to the U.S. to face trial—is a woman. Rodríguez assumed presidential powers after Maduro’s capture in January.

17.03.2026 - 16:27 [ Joe Kent / X ]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.

Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

17.03.2026 - 16:21 [ New York Times ]

Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War

Mr. Kent is the first Trump administration official to quit in opposition to the conflict. He said pressure from Israel had pushed the president into war against Iran.

17.03.2026 - 16:04 [ CNN ]

Israel offensive in Lebanon echoes tactics used in Gaza, think tank says

Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center think tank, told CNN’s Eleni Giokos that “we’re seeing a replay of things we have seen in Gaza.”

She said Israel had issued evacuation orders across roughly 10% of Lebanese territory, affecting an estimated half a million people.

“It’s the same story, mass evacuation notices, targeting of Israeli policy makers, threatening ambulances and accusing ambulances of carrying Hezbollah members,” Yahya said.

“It’s no more just about whether Hezbollah may have military assets. It’s basically a collective punishment of the entire population,” she added.

More than 1 million people in Lebanon have been internally displaced and at least 886 people killed since the latest conflict began two weeks ago, according to Lebanese authorities.

17.03.2026 - 16:01 [ NNA-Leb.gov ]

Security Update: Israeli Strikes and Drone Attacks Hit Southern Lebanon, Two Killed

NNA – Israeli drone and airstrikes earlier on Tuesday targeted multiple areas across southern Lebanon, leaving casualties and damage

17.03.2026 - 15:48 [ NNA-Leb.gov ]

Lebanese Army Soldier Dies of Wounds After Israeli Strike in Nabatieh

NNA – The Lebanese Army on Tuesday announced that one of the soldiers wounded in an earlier Israeli airstrike in the Qaqaiyat al-Jisr area in Nabatieh has died from his injuries.

The army said the death comes as a follow-up to its previous statement reporting that five soldiers were injured in the strike.

17.03.2026 - 15:39 [ CNN ]

Israeli military says it killed head of Iran‘s Basij paramilitary force

The Basij is a volunteer militia under Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that enforces internal security, suppresses dissent and mobilizes civilians in support of the regime.

Iran has yet to confirm his alleged killing.

17.03.2026 - 15:26 [ PressTV.ir ]

Iran confiscates large number of Starlink satellite systems

The ministry said its operations will continue until the complete discovery of all the satellite terminals, which are all but at the enemy’s disposal.

The ministry said providing and using the illegal Starlink satellite is a “crime” and at war time, those who use it, particularly the enemy’s agents, will receive the harshest punishment.

17.03.2026 - 15:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel says Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani assassinated in Tehran strike

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed that Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani was killed in Israeli strikes on Tehran overnight. There has been no official confirmation from Iran.