The United States is not indicting Raúl Castro because it has suddenly developed a concern for an incident that occurred nearly thirty years ago. If justice were the driving principle, the timing would be difficult to explain. Why is this happening now, when Cuba is experiencing its most severe economic crisis in decades? Why now, when power cuts have become a feature of daily life, hospitals are struggling with shortages, and hundreds of thousands of Cubans have left the island in search of (…)

Ukraine's systematic drone campaign against Russian oil refineries and fuel depots is now forcing export bans, rationing and spreading shortages on the Russian dide. Meanwhile a new military-industrial dynamic, joint Ukrainian-European arms production based on Ukrainian designs, is shifting the balance of supply on the Ukrainian side. Against this backdrop, Mikael Hertoft surveys the state of the war as of early June 2026, examines Russia's collapsing territorial gains despite undiminished (…)

THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATED on Sunday against the KMT's cuts to defense spending, which reduced spending from 1.25 trillion NT to 780 billion NT. The main organizer of the demonstration was the Economic Democracy Union, the politically progressive social movement organization that played a key role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement and 2024 Bluebird Movement. Organizers claimed that 8,000 attended. The protest began at the SOGO outside of the Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT and progressed eastward through (…)