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Blackouts hit millions in Cuba
The government’s electric utility said on social media that the outage affected people from the western town of Pinar del Rio to the central town of Camaguey. Energy and Mines Minister Vicente de la O Levy wrote on X late Wednesday that the government was powering critical infrastructure in the affected region as two power plants came online. Such infrastructure includes hospitals and medical clinics.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/blackouts-hit-millions-cuba

Venezuela to ensure security of mining companies, exceed oil production goals, US Interior Secretary says
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said a new mining law in Venezuela will create opportunities for companies, licenses allowing them to operate are on the horizon and the ​interim government of Delcy Rodriguez has promised to ensure their security, sounding an optimistic note at the end of a two-day visit.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuela-ensure-security-mining-companies-exceed-oil-production-goals-burgum-2026-03-05/

Ecuador’s new mining and energy law puts the Galapagos Islands at risk
The new mining law contradicts what the Ecuadorian people expressed in recent referendums, but the government decided to push ahead with radical mining exploitation and energy privatization anyway. The decision sparked protests in Quito.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/03/04/ecuadors-new-mining-and-energy-law-puts-the-galapagos-islands-at-risk/

Diplomats tell Lebanon ban on Hezbollah worthless unless army steps in
One diplomatic source told Middle East Eye an Israeli official informed a foreign diplomat in Israel that the Lebanese government’s decision to ban Hezbollah military activities was “not worth the ink it was written with”The diplomat, according to the source, later relayed that message to Lebanese counterparts with an even sharper warning: unless the Lebanese army begins confronting and pursuing Hezbollah members, the decision will be treated in Tel Aviv as politically hollow. That message lands at a moment of extraordinary strain for the Lebanese state.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/diplomats-tell-lebanon-ban-hezbollah-worthless-unless-army-steps

'Dahiyeh will look like Khan Younis': Israel orders Lebanese to leave Beirut suburbs
Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, "will look like Khan Younis," after the military instructed its tens of thousands of residents to leave immediately or risk being attacked.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-israel-orders-everyone-beiruts-dahiyeh-leave

Ethiopia summons Sudan ambassador over drone attack allegations
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Sudan’s ambassador to Addis Ababa following accusations by Khartoum that drone attacks on Sudanese territory were launched from Ethiopia. The move came after a statement by Sudan’s Foreign Ministry accusing Ethiopia of interference and alleging that drones entered Sudan from Ethiopian territory and struck targets inside the country.
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/ethiopia-summons-sudans-ambassador-over-drone-attack-allegations

Miliband leads cabinet revolt over the US using British bases to attack Iran
The opposition was apparently led by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, who blocked a British attack on Syria in 2013 when Labour leader. He was allegedly backed on Friday by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, all on Labour’s right, according to the Spectator.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/miliband-leads-cabinet-revolt-over-us-using-british-bases-attack-iran

French policeman to be tried over 2023 killing of teen Nahel
Lawyer Laurent-Franck Lienard, who represents the officer, said the appeals court should have dropped the charges because his client had simply "followed the law". Frank Berton, an attorney representing Merzouk's mother, denounced the Versailles court's decision as "scandalous" and "shameful". Downgrading the charge was tantamount to protecting the police officer from facing a jury, he said.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260305-french-policeman-to-be-tried-over-2023-killing-of-teen-nahel
https://archive.ph/qGFjx

Communist Party of Burma warns revolutionary factions against infighting as territorial disputes escalate
Reflecting on the history of the armed struggle since 1948, the CPB characterized current tensions as “conflicts between allies” that must not be resolved through military means, urging all resistance groups to refocus their weapons on the “Three Military Evils” – the junta, its administration, and its bureaucratic apparatus. This intervention comes amid a volatile period for the resistance, marked by significant territorial disputes in northern Shan State between members of the Brotherhood Alliance – specifically the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) – as well as ongoing friction between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and TNLA over tax collection and recruitment in overlapping regions.
https://eng.mizzima.com/2026/03/05/31882

Staggered fuel price hikes start next week
“We talked about staggering increases, as well as the discounts, and they appear to be amenable to these efforts,” Energy Secretary Sharon Garin told radio dzMM yesterday. “This is a voluntary thing that they do because oil companies incur losses with these staggered hikes. Traditionally, firms have responded positively.”
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/03/06/2512414/staggered-fuel-price-hikes-start-next-week

US House rejects war powers resolution to end Trump’s hostilities with Iran
By a vote of 212-219, the House voted to reject a war powers resolution proposed by Thomas Massie, a Republican representative, and Ro Khanna, a Democratic representative, which would have forced the US to withdraw from the conflict until Congress authorized military action. The vote was largely along party lines, with two Republicans breaking with their party to support the resolution, and four Democrats voting against it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/us-house-war-powers-resolution-vote

GOP Senator and AIPAC Darling Tim Sheehy Accused of Breaking Anti-War Veteran’s Arm
US Sen. Tim Sheehy came under fire Thursday after the former Navy SEAL was involved in an incident in which a Marine Corps veteran and Green Party Senate candidate’s arm was fractured after he disrupted a hearing to protest the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-sheehy-breaks-marine-s-arm

Trump fires Homeland Security head Kristi Noem, names Mullin as replacement
The staffing change, he added, will take effect starting March 31. It marks the first major cabinet-level shake-up of Trump’s second term so far. Trump praised Noem upon her departure from the cabinet-level post, writing that she “has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!)”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/trump-says-he-will-replace-homeland-security-chief-kristi-noem
https://archive.ph/iSWSE

Court says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can't call civil rights group a 'terrorist organization'
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a preliminary injunction against the governor's actions related to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. DeSantis issued an executive order on Dec. 8 calling CAIR a "terrorist organization," which prevented the organization from "receiving any contract, employment, funds or other benefit or privilege."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/court-says-florida-gov-ron-desantis-cant-call-civil-rights-group-terro-rcna261901

Out-of-state police access Silicon Valley license plate readers
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is the most recent slate of officials to join Los Altos Hills and Mountain View in severing ties with Flock Safety over concerns the company has enabled unlawful data-sharing between California law enforcement and out-of-state police. Mountain View officials revealed last month Flock had included their camera network in a national “lookup” setting without the city’s permission, allowing unauthorized law enforcement agencies to access their data.
https://apnews.com/article/general-news-law-enforcement-california-c4329597fa7ffefa4f35db18ef79e2cb

Paxton offers conditions for potential exit from Texas Senate race
Paxton said on Thursday he would consider exiting the race if Senate leadership eliminated the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold needed to clear most legislation in the upper chamber — and passed a bill that would require voters to show proof of citizenship to register to vote.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5769246-paxton-offers-conditions-on-potentially-dropping-out-of-texas-senate-race/
https://archive.ph/BC5B2

Allstate must face privacy lawsuit over cellphone tracking of drivers
In a decision on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge ​Jeremy Daniel in Chicago said drivers in the proposed class action ⁠can try to prove that Allstate violated the Federal Wiretap Act by monitoring ​their travel locations, trip distances, speed, acceleration, braking, phone usage and attention to ​the road, and tried to monetize that data to boost profit.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/allstate-must-face-privacy-lawsuit-over-cellphone-tracking-drivers-2026-03-04/

CP of Greece, D. Koutsoumbas: The people will find a way out of this burning world by joining forces with the KKE
“Developments speak for themselves and shatter the complacency you have fostered for so long, while confirming the persistent warnings of the KKE”, said Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, at the start of his speech in Parliament on 4 March. Addressing the Prime Minister, he refuted the propaganda that “as long as US forces are here, no one will bother us”, at a time when US bases across the region are coming under attack. D. Koutsoumbas also addressed those who try to disconnect the role of the bases from their very presence Greece, pointing out that it is precisely the governments and Euro-Atlantic parties that have supported their presence. “You are hypocrites and liars”, he said bluntly. He stressed that the bases must go, because the Greek people will not tolerate their country being turned into an aggressor against other peoples in order to enhance the position of the ruling class —that is, those who exploit their labour. The GS of the CC of the KKE highlighted the need to denounce the agreement granting infrastructure to the US and NATO forces, and called for the return of all Greek Armed Forces units stationed abroad.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-D.-Koutsoumbas-The-people-will-find-a-way-out-of-this-burning-world-by-joining-forces-with-the-KKE/

Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no
I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you today. The bad news is, well, everything. As you may have noticed, the world is on fire. The good news, however, is that a savior may be at hand. Kamala Harris, a politician who has never won a presidential primary and lost the popular vote to Donald Trump in 2024, hasn’t ruled out running for president again. Harris has kept a fairly low profile since November 2024, focusing most of her energy on promoting 107 Days, her account of her truncated presidential run, and appearing as the guest of honour at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference. But she has also made it clear that she still has an eye on the White House: in an interview with the BBC last October, Harris said she was “not done” with politics and strongly suggested she might run for president again. Harris echoed these sentiments in a conversation with the podcaster Sharon McMahon last week. “I might,” she said when asked if she will run again. Harris has also dipped a foot back into politics recently. The former vice-president publicly backed Jasmine Crockett, who co-chaired her 2024 national presidential campaign, in the heated Texas Democratic Senate primary: her first time backing a Democrat ahead of a primary since 2024. If Harris was looking to this as a test of her political capital, she will have been disappointed: Crockett lost to James Talarico on Wednesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/kamala-harris-election

Why They Hated Rosa Luxemburg
Since 1998, Rosa Luxemburg’s name has slowly been crumbling to pieces. Back then, she was included on a huge monument in Barcelona’s Montjuïc hill alongside twenty-four other founding fathers of the European project. She thus figures alongside Willy Brandt and Winston Churchill: now the site has fallen into disrepair. Yet even the fact that she was ever included in such a memorial to contemporary European liberalism is a testament to just how far-reaching — and distorted — her memory has become. Since her murder in 1919, it sometimes feels like Rosa Luxemburg has become everything to everyone. Her unique status in German politics at the time means she is often praised for who she was — a “source of inspiration” as a Polish, Jewish, disabled woman — rather than engaged with for what she did and thought. At the same time, the sheer breadth of her engagement has allowed her to be adopted as a figurehead by everyone from anarchists to the Stalinists of the first postwar Polish government. Luxemburg’s most oft-recited quote, holding that “freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently,” has often helped make her a stand-in for a “libertarian” and soft version of socialism, an image sometimes bolstered by highlighting the more “feminine” parts of her private life. Surely, she was a sensitive woman and a wonderful writer. From her prison cell, she wrote movingly to friends and lovers, listened intently to birdsong, captured the beauty of the sky, and collected plants and flowers. But it’s also important to remember why Luxemburg was in prison in the first place — as a revolutionary and a threat to the stability of the German Empire. Luxemburg was a deeply contradictory figure: not least given that she was from Poland but against Polish independence. She was a woman who refused to be siloed into typically female domains of socialist politics; Jewish, but uninterested in focusing on “Jewish issues.” She criticized Vladimir Lenin, but from the perspective of a comrade who shared his core assumptions, and her own tactics as a leader in her own party rivalled or even surpassed Lenin’s in their ruthlessness. In her day, she was more likely to inspire awe, or anger, than admiration. On this anniversary of her birth, I want to highlight why “Red Rosa,” as she would come to be known, was in her own time more often called “Bloody Rosa” or even a “poisonous b-tch” or much worse. Rosa Luxemburg would want you to remember why they hated her, and why they killed her.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/rosa-luxemburg-communism-nationalism-legacy

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