Some upcoming events are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/06/some-astronomical-and-other-events.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-16-of-2026-palestinian.html , and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/04/update-for-week-15-of-2026-anti-war.html ; some anniversaries are posted at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/07/deep-river-riverkeeper-founded-upcoming.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , etc.
More to come.
See also:
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/bap-and-unac-cuba-under-siege-news.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/return-to-venezuela-what-belongs-to.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/chicago-alba-solidarity-about.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/07/adc-sues-dhs-secretary-mullin-over.html
Democratic Party filth –
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-democratic-org-anti-extremism
www.gregpalast.com/dsa-has-a-race-problem-the-arab-v-black-collision/
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/18/moderates-support-extreme-injustice/
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us
caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-launching-a-new-cointelpro
diario-octubre.com/2026/07/13/caitlin-johnstone-porque-aun-tengo-esperanza/
thefloutist.substack.com/p/further-into-lawlessness
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-invention-of-antifa-fadiman
On NPR's This American Life in mid-July.
www.commondreams.org/news/stephen-miller-nspm-7
www.efrat.blog/p/the-digital-cage-2026-is-the-year
thecause.substack.com/p/the-police-state-has-always-been
zanzibar.substack.com/p/le-manuel-de-mussolini-dans-une-salle
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/ward-churchill-rip/
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/in-memoriam-ward-churchill-1947-2026/
insurgente.org/taty-almeida-un-referente-de-dignidad-y-lucha/
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/how-pokemon-go-players-unwittingly
www.rt.com/news/644016-wikipedia-propaganda-tool-larry-sanger/
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/ukraines-ultranationalist-war-on
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/the-anglo-nazi-global-empire-that
www.rt.com/russia/644284-ukraine-azov-konovalets-zelensky/
internationalpolicy.org/publications/war-on-terror-trump/
fair.org/home/nyt-reduces-israels-arrest-of-ro-khanna-to-a-politicians-publicity-stunt/
timshorrock.substack.com/p/the-korean-war-you-never-saw
On Kozo Okamoto (Ahmad) of Lod? – insurgente.org/palestina-fplp-comunicado-de-duelo-por-un-gran-camarada-y-luchador-revolucionario-internacionalista/
www.rt.com/news/644215-japan-arming-china-worried/
steelcutter.substack.com/p/call-them-opcs-not-flock-cameras
www.rt.com/news/644498-flock-cameras-destroyed-darth-vader/
Flock cameras week of action August 16th-22nd – www.noalprs.com/
Moore County, NC had two hearings August 17-18th.
? – www.usermag.co/p/people-are-peeing-on-flock-cameras
www.rt.com/news/644332-kentucky-farmers-sale-ai-data-senter/
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-art-of-brainwashing
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-your-brain-on-x/
went2thebridge.substack.com/p/how-to-evade-government-sureveillance
doomsdaymachines.net/p/rage-against-the-machines
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-generation-without-winter
www.rt.com/news/643745-quake-italy-volcanic-region/
www.nefariousrussians.com/p/model-predict-control
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/08/gpus-remembering-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html
fearlessarts.substack.com/p/sorath-the-savage-atom-and-the-white/
timshorrock.substack.com/p/annals-of-the-cold-war-the-nagasaki
socraticgadfly.substack.com/p/a-roundup-of-old-reflections-on-aug
www.rt.com/news/643914-hiroshima-anniversary-nuclear-arsenal/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak_Tahn_Waax
www.rt.com/news/644214-cuba-fidel-castro-anniversary/
insurgente.org/fidel-en-su-centenario/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Hatanaka
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/18/happy-91st-birthday-social-security/
insurgente.org/sobre-el-levantamiento-de-paris-del-19-al-25-de-agosto-de-1944/
In Iran – thefloutist.substack.com/p/why-cant-we-see-ourselves-as-we-are
"37th Anniversary of Chertsey Meeting August 19, 1989 • Significance of Historic Meeting in Chertsey, Quebec 59th Anniversary of Necessity for Change Conference August 1-15, 1967" – cpcml.ca/TML2026/TS5619.HTM#1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-last-days-of-the-soviet-union
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-24-days-that-ended-the-ussr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great_Daylight_Fireball
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1783_Great_Meteor
From The Busker on Substack August 21st – Darya Dugina was accidentally (?) assassinated by Kiev, targeting Aleksander Dugina, her father. –
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/don-quixote-is-not-for-geopolitics
The conquest of Mexico (the Mexica, etc., not all of modern Mexico) was in August 1521, August 13th in the Julian (?) calendar or August 21st in the modern Gregorian (?) calendar, following a long war and siege that levelled much of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City. There are some parallels with Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The media, at least in English, missed or ignored the 500th anniversary. The Purépecha or Tarascan empire (capital Tzintzuntzan) in modern Michoacán did not participate in the war and was annexed later. The last independent Mayan state (Nojpetén or Tayasal, now in northern Guatemala) was invaded in mid-March 1697 and there have been rebellions up to recent times. The conquest of the Inca empire took decades, though the Spanish executed the emperor Atahualpa around now in 1533, near the beginning of their invasion. Of course some groups sided with the conquistadores and it wasn't all a story of European agency or cultural superiority. The Spanish came close to defeat or were defeated in some battles. They were driven out of the Southwest for years in the Pueblo Revolt, beginning in mid-August 1680. A few conquistadores switched sides.
spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=14&month=08&year=2026
samidoun.net/2026/06/stop-the-persecution-of-the-solidarity-movement-for-palestine-in-norway/
www.rt.com/news/644392-israel-execution-facility-palestinians/
www.commondreams.org/news/us-airman-iran
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/14/a-day-at-the-national-press-club/
www.commondreams.org/news/nyt-afsc-advertisment-genocide
commondreams.org/t/40-groups-urge-wikipedia-to-oppose-co-founders-censorship-on-gaza-genocide/
www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-wikipedia
www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-censorship
www.rt.com/news/643245-israel-50-million-influence-opinion/
www.rt.com/news/644301-israel-chatgpt-gaza-narrative/
alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-to-be-jewish-or-christian
alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/without-islam-and-christianity-judaism
ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-ae0
reason2resist.substack.com/p/arrested-in-jordan
www.rt.com/news/644243-idf-enabling-terror-palestinians-settlers/
zanzibar.substack.com/p/al-jazeera-trahit-les-journalistes
simplicius76.substack.com/p/irans-strategy-vindicated-as-uss
karat.substack.com/p/a-secret-jet-full-of-gold/
palestinechronicle.substack.com/p/us-aircraft-carrier-problems-tied
palestinechronicle.substack.com/p/iran-foiled-us-backed-syrian-intervention
www.rt.com/news/644219-reaper-drones-lost-iran/
www.tiktok.com/@explosivemedia.tiktok/video/7673054335403691296
the307.substack.com/p/israel-fabricated-iranian-assignation
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/mek-and-zionism-how-albania-risks
karat.substack.com/p/the-two-terrorists-britain-charges
palestinechronicle.substack.com/p/nuclear-holocaust-marjorie-taylor
www.rt.com/news/643770-colombia-trump-palestine-israel/
fair.org/home/media-find-a-new-man-who-will-save-colombia-de-la-espriella-style/
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/06/resisting-the-cat-torturer-in-the-casa-de-narino/
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/18/clownish-start-for-trump-puppet-in-colombia/
www.rt.com/news/644365-venezuela-gold-us-control/
www.rt.com/news/637039-us-lifts-sanctions-venezuela-rodriguez/
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/venezuela-dont-blame-the-victim/
insurgente.org/asi-se-expreso-fidel-sobre-la-revolucion-bolivariana-hoy-indudablemente-traicionada/
the307.substack.com/p/by-normalizing-ties-with-israel-delcy
geopolitiq.substack.com/p/caracas-is-selling-off-everything
ilmanifesto.it/sul-petrolio-agli-usa-caracas-minimizza-e-chi-dubita-tradisce
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-ships-that-werent-supposed-
isitpropaganda.substack.substack.com/p/brussels-pirates
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/medvedevs-warning-any-ship-any-cargo
www.rt.com/news/644085-ukraine-attack-iranian-vessel/
www.rt.com/russia/643746-ukraine-piracy-ship-sunk-rosatom
www.rt.com/russia/644380-greek-tanker-attacked-black-sea/
www.rt.com/news/644171-vance-dresses-down-zelensky-black-sea-drones/
www.rt.com/russia/644387-lavrov-warns-uk-drones/
www.rt.com/russia/644252-nato-latvia-drone-ukraine/
www.rt.com/russia/643769-russian-amazon-founder-mirotvorets/
www.rt.com/russia/643752-blast-restaurant-moscow-dead/
www.rt.com/news/643747-western-europe-needs-russian-threat/
www.rt.com/russia/640925-bloody-history-of-zelenskys-heroes/
www.rt.com/russia/643498-nazis-and-jews-in-ukraine/
www.rt.com/russia/643607-loomer-biletsky-neo-nazi/
www.rt.com/news/644500-ukrainian-conscripts-fleeing-training-camps-germany-zeit/
www.rt.com/russia/642784-ukraine-draft-riot-lviv/
www.rt.com/russia/644014-ukrainian-press-gang-odessa-taxi-assault/
www.rt.com/russia/644274-ukraine-red-cross-driver-conscripted/
www.rt.com/russia/644302-press-gang-ukraine-tear-gas/
From The Busker on Substack, August 21st – "In Kamenskoye, a woman pleads with a TCC ‘recruitment’ officer not to take her husband. She was ignored - but the picture sums up a Ukraine under dictatorship." –
simplicius76.substack.com/p/plans-revealed-for-massive-ukrainian
www.rt.com/africa/644335-ukrainian-troops-involved-terrorism-sahel/
www.rt.com/africa/602235-ukraine-denies-mali-rebel-attack-involvement/
www.rt.com/africa/602265-niger-sever-ukraine-ties/
www.rt.com/africa/603497-kiev-support-rebels-africa/
eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/nord-stream-and-the-patriotic-idiots
eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/a-stream-of-suffering
eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/decoding-nord-stream-ii
www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/broken-ukrainian-family-tells-weird-rescue-story.html
Vintage ? – www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604
www.rt.com/russia/643753-ukrainian-nazi-commander-ss-insignia/
www.rt.com/news/644216-russian-photographer-award-ukrainian-complaints/
zanzibar.substack.com/p/la-finlande-sautodetruit-pour-lotan
andrespiqueras.com/2026/07/31/crisis-en-el-flanco-sur-de-la-otan/
www.rt.com/news/644384-denmark-deploys-conscripts-greenland/
zanzibar.substack.com/p/ceuta-outre-la-concretisation-de
zanzibar.substack.com/p/ceuta-2-parce-quil-y-a-encore-beaucoup
www.rt.com/news/643733-eu-ceuta-migrants-response/
www.rt.com/news/643773-us-israel-staged-spain-migrant-crisis/
www.rt.com/africa/643829-spain-morocco-trade-blame-deadly-ceuta-crisis/
www.rt.com/africa/644208-spain-rejects-moroccos-claim-sovereignty-ceuta-melilla/
www.rt.com/africa/644242-how-europe-betrayed-madrid-to-punish-sanchez/
www.rt.com/africa/623165-france-confirms-identity-national-arrested-mali-coup-plot/
www.rt.com/africa/632046-neo-colonial-operations-of-paris/
www.rt.com/africa/644249-mali-pardons-french-national-convicted-coup-plot/
www.rt.com/africa/613396-africa-close-fren%D1%81h-military-bases/
www.rt.com/africa/618737-sahel-alliance-freedom-fight/
jeremykuzmarov.substack.com/p/the-cia-and-mossad-helped-bring-idi
www.rt.com/news/644281-hungary-fidesz-orban-magyar/
www.rt.com/news/643665-germany-afd-voter-suppression/
www.rt.com/india/644356-pakistan-imran-khan-hospital/
www.rt.com/news/643766-us-politicians-public-profanity/
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-cuban-missile-crisis-never-really
www.lahaine.org/mm_ss_mundo.php/cuba-contra-el-apartheid-una-historia-silenciada
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/05/on-slow-violence-in-cuba/
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/rubios-new-mccarthyism-targets-cuba
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-state-departments-100-page-case
isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-communism-is-haunting
the307.substack.com/p/israeli-shin-bet-disappears-russian
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/pro-palestine-academics-have-been-fighting-the-new-mccarthyism/
insurgente.org/el-partido-comunista-de-mexico-expreso-queremos-ganar-la-presidencia-en-2023/
trackingpower.substack.com/p/how-canada-leads-the-way-in-closing
trackingpower.substack.com/p/uk-tribunal-says-anti-zionism-is
"New State Department Video Celebrates Monroe Doctrine! Support HRes. 1056 to Annul the Doctrine!" – actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEhFQ0I
jeremykuzmarov.substack.com/p/special-forces-training-center-at
threesonorans.substack.com/p/tucson-bought-this-land-so-it-could
threesonorans.substack.com/p/they-killed-her-with-a-tomahawk-this
threesonorans.substack.com/p/federal-court-rejects-tohono-oodham
www.rt.com/news/643912-army-gps-jamming-plane-crash/
www.commondreams.org/news/taylor-farms-cyclospora-outbreak
www.rt.com/news/644377-eu-food-production-down-droughts/
www.rt.com/news/644239-romania-nuclear-shut-danube-drought/
www.rt.com/russia/644350-tornado-western-russia-nizhny-novgorod/
neuburger.substack.com/p/more-on-the-next-super-el-nino
jonathancook.substack.com/p/thatcher-warned-in-1989-of-a-climate
www.hawriver.org/news/pipelines-and-data-centerswww.fwpcoa.org/content.aspx
blog.se.com/datacenter/2026/05/22/pfas-phase-out-liquid-cooling-us-data-center-operators-must-do/
www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/north-carolina-data-center-zoning-debate/
? – www.chronicle.com/article/its-not-too-late-to-save-the-stacks/
www.rt.com/russia/644306-roscosmos-satellite-solar-eclipse-video/
www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/locking-up-the-felines-cat-curfews-down-under/
annemichael.blog/2026/08/18/hornworms/ (many others here in August)
triangleland.org/natural-habitats/in-search-of-the-neuse-river-waterdog
triangleland.org/natural-habitats/meet-the-neuse-river-waterdog
downtowndurham.com/event/iron-pour-kick-off-party-third-friday-at-the-foundry/
www.eventbrite.com/e/history-high-noon-maco-light-tickets-1992826411442
There will be an in-person booksale at the FODL's Books Among Friends (in the Shoppes of Hope Valley, 3825 South Roxboro Street, Durham, NC 27713) August 21st-22nd: fodlnc.org/events/
And at the Chapel Hill Public Library August 21st-23rd: friendschpl.org/big-book-sales/
From The Scrap Exchange –
"Third Friday Durham Celebrates The Scrap Exchange's 35th Birthday with Giant Mongo Puppet, Cardboard Art, Live Music & More at CCB Plaza!
August 21, 6:00 - 9:00PM"
The 2026 Friends of Mongo Annual Member Party will be November 8th.
"Artist Jason Lord presents a pop-up installation, 'The Ministry of Cardboard' to The Artisan Market at 305 and Durham Sculpture Studio (facing CCB Plaza on Chapel Hill Street) for Third Friday Durham. Jason originated the project while he was the Artist in Residence at The Scrap Exchange this spring and summer. Watch a beautiful video by Tamara Galiano about Jason and his cardboard world. "
From palestinecampaign.org –
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From Voices for Justice in Palestine –
From Sustainable Carolina at UNC –
Next Week | Annual Sustainability Social
The new school years kicks off with our annual Sustainability Social on Thursday, August 27. Find us, and more than 30 other University units, student organizations and community groups in the Student Union Great Hall from 9 am - 12:30 pm. This event is open to everyone — students, staff and faculty!
From solidaritycollective.org –
June Delegation Report Back
International Relationship Building. A Cuban Solidarity Perspective in Healthcare, Sustainability and Art
We will meet virtually next Thursday, August 27, at 6:00 pm CT/7:00 pm ET to talk with the delegates who were part of our June delegation to Cuba. We will be talking about what they learnt regarding the Cuban healthcare system and the ways people continue making art and producing food for their communities, even under the U.S. blockade and its devastating effects on the Cuban people.
Sign up here and learn more about Cuba and the ways we can be in solidarity with the Cuban people.
zoom.us/meeting/register/Xooe8Mc4TuaGNSbULYC1lg#/registration
From UNAC –
China’s National Unity vs. U.S. Social Hierarchy
Responding to U.S. war propaganda
Sunday, Aug 30, 2026
11 am ET, 8 am PT, 4 pm London, 11 pm Beijing
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MLytt6lfRgWB0okCYbaVzw#/registration
From Bike Durham –
If you are in a crash, what do you do?
On Tuesday, September 1, at 6:30pm, we're gathering at the Center for Documentary Studies to answer exactly that. Ann Groninger, North Carolina’s BikeLaw attorney who has spent years representing cyclists, will walk us through the essentials: what your rights are on the road, what the law actually says, and the steps to take if you are ever hit.
P.S. We’re capping attendance at 50 people, so register today!
The Eno River Association's 60th Anniversary Celebration will be September 12th at the Dplex Plaza and Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham.
From Lisa Savage ( went2thebridge.substack.com/p/easternmost-witness-for-palestine ) –
There will be an anti-war vigil Saturday, September 12th at 1:30pm in Wiscasset, Maine, by the the Route 1 bridge, close to Red’s Eats.
Paperhand Puppet Intervention's "The Wild Wisdom of the World" show is going on August 7th to September 27th at the Forest Theatre at UNC and November 6-8th at the Diana Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in Asheville, NC.
www.paperhandpuppet.org/wild-wisdom
Slightly edited; might get cut off.
Sent out in the morning on August 17th and posted at: nepajac.org/McCarthy.htm.
The New McCarthyism, Cuba and Communism
A UNAC statement
8/3/ or 8/20/26
A new McCarthyism is being designed in Washington that puts all democratic rights in jeopardy. The House Ways and Means Committee has issued subpoenas demanding that three peace and justice organizations turn over internal communications, membership lists and financial records. This demand came 1 day after the release of a State Department report called “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism” claiming that Cuba is the center of global terrorism and it comes after a recent Trump speech claiming that the biggest threat to the country is Communism. The State Department report names 43 people and organization including Democratic mayors, members of congress, a Labor Union and numerous journalists and organizations across the movement including the National Lawyers Guild, IFCO/Pasters for Peace, Code Pink, Black Lives Matter, The Democratic Socialists of America and many more. The subpoenas are issued against, Breakthrough News, The People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
This is an attack on all who dare opposed the government’s wars, their attacks on immigrants or any of their social and political policies. It comes right before the November midterm elections for which the Trump administrations is trying to limit our voting rights as well as our freedom of speech. And it comes as the Trump administration has imposed an extreme blockade on the people of Cuba denying them fuel and other necessities of life. The real center of global terrorism is the U.S., which has killed millions in recent years through its wars, its support for genocide in Gaza as well as killing of suspected immigrants and protesters on our streets.
On July 16, President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio held a “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism” at the State Department which brought together representative of 66 countries to organize against left-wing movements, worldwide. This move takes the reactionary policies of the U.S. government and tries to institutionalize them internationally. It is an attempt to destroy all opposition to the ever increasing aggressive and undemocratic policies of the Imperialist countries as their white-supremacist system of dominance are increasingly being challenged by Global South countries and working people throughout the world.
Their right-wing FOX news outlet has conducted an “investigation” which claims there is a global conspiracy and a network of over 2,000 nonprofits, activist groups, think tanks and media organization worldwide that is behind the anti-Israel demonstrations as well as the actions against the Cuba blockade, ICE raids and data centers. They try to say that our views are not our own but simply a conspiracy of these 2,000 organizations. It is reminiscent of the witch hunts of the 1950s when we were told that our ideas are not real but simply a product of communist propaganda.
If we want to be free to exercise our democratic rights we must join together, support all individuals and organizations that are under attack and never give an inch to this move towards fascism and war.
Stop government attacks!
Hands off Cuba!
End the wars at home and abroad!
Sent out in the early evening on August 19th.
NLG Calls for Greater Solidarity Amidst Government Infiltration of Movements
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Sent out in late afternoon on August 4th.
JLS Calls for National Prison Strike, NLG & Prison Abolition Committee in Solidarity
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Sent out in the afternoon on August 5th.
NLG Urges Washington State Supreme Court to Do Right by Bar Exam Takers
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Originally posted at: www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2026/08/19/veterans-peace-will-not-be-intimidated-us-government-surveil
Veterans For Peace Will Not Be Intimidated by U.S. Government Surveillance
August 19, 2026
Veterans For Peace (VFP) is not surprised by news reports that our Twin Cities VFP Chapter 27,* along with activists and organizations associated with Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN), was targeted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for surveillance. The Trump regime has repeatedly shown itself to be lawless and to have no respect for truth or the well-being of people in our country or around the world.
This latest attack on civil society organizations includes teachers, state government and small-business workers, and veterans, all of whom were exercising their constitutional right to protest against the state-sponsored terror of violent, racist ICE attacks in their community.
The DHS surveillance operation, dubbed Operation Puppet Master, sent undercover agents into houses of worship, libraries, schools, and union halls, and obtained organizations’ financial records. It is yet another example of how the current regime tramples the Constitution. While spying on protected speech, DHS is blocking investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Rene Good at the hands of its own agents.
As veterans who pledged to defend the Constitution, we have an obligation to speak out against violations of people’s rights, and we will continue to do so. These repressive tactics, which are intended to intimidate and instill fear, only strengthen our resolve. We are not afraid. We support Minneapolis Veterans For Peace in its efforts. We call on all our chapters and members to protect one another and defend our neighbors from illegal and unconstitutional attacks by an out-of-control government.
These domestic attacks are coinciding with an illegal and deeply unpopular war against Iran, heightened U.S. intervention against Venezuela and Cuba, and attempts to undermine the integrity of upcoming midterm elections. We call on people across the nation to join together to oppose authoritarian repression in the U.S., to defend our elections, and to resist U.S. militarism around the globe, including the huge proposed increase in the already bloated Pentagon budget.
PEACE AT HOME, PEACE ABROAD!
*CLICK HERE to read the statement released yesterday by Twin Cities VFP Chapter 27.
Sent out the morning of July 28th and posted at: www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2026/07/30/veterans-peace-condemns-marco-rubios-threats-against-cuba-an (July 30th)
Veterans For Peace Condemns Marco Rubio’s Threats Against Cuba and Against U.S. Peace and Solidarity Activists
July 30, 2026
Veterans For Peace condemns the recent report by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, accusing Cuba of interfering in the internal affairs of the U.S. and, conversely, accusing U.S. peace and solidarity activists of being agents of a foreign country, Cuba. Talk about turning things on their head!
It is the U.S. that has waged an economic war against Cuba for 64 years with a blockade that prevents it from normal trade relations with the U.S. and other countries, stunts its economic development, and denies it access to medicines and other essentials.
It is the U.S. CIA that organized a failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, setting the stage for the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that almost led to a nuclear war. It is the U.S. that is currently enforcing a deadly oil embargo on Cuba, and it is the U.S. president and secretary of state who are openly threatening a U.S. military invasion of Cuba. What has Cuba ever done to the U.S.? Cuba is being punished for declaring its independence from U.S. imperialism and for attempting to develop a socialist economic model that is not based on exploitation and profiteering.
We reject the Trump administration’s sudden return to “anti-communism” as a means of undermining the credibility of its political opponents — whether from the Democratic Party or actual left-wing organizations. If this is an attempt to intimidate those who are organizing for a just and peaceful world, it will not work. We will not be intimidated. If Trump’s and Rubio’s sudden obsession with “communists” and “political terrorists” is telegraphing their intention for a clampdown on dissent in the U.S., we take this very seriously.
Will the racist ICE attacks on people of color be expanded to suppress all political dissent? Will the private prisons built with ICE’s billions become concentration camps for peace activists? Will the pretext of foreign interference be used to cancel or undermine the midterm elections? Will illegal and unpopular U.S. wars abroad be accompanied by fascist repression in the United States?
As veterans and active duty military, we swore an oath to “defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.” We take this oath very seriously — more so than ever as the domestic enemies of our democracy ominously rear their ugly heads. We will resist.
Many Veterans For Peace members have visited Cuba, and we have made friends in Cuba. We are very concerned that the U.S. blockade — made even more devastating by Trump’s oil blockade — is causing great suffering in Cuba, including many needless deaths. We reiterate our longtime demand for an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba.
Veterans For Peace will not be intimidated. We stand in solidarity with Cuba and with all those who struggle for human rights and democracy in the U.S. We will support active-duty military members who refuse to participate in an illegal invasion of Cuba. We also encourage service members to refuse illegal orders to support racist ICE raids or to suppress our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly in the U.S. Peace at Home, Peace Abroad!
Originally posted at: www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2026/08/10/veterans-peace-us-calls-freedom-el-salvador-veterans
Veterans For Peace in U.S. Calls for Freedom for El Salvador Veterans
August 10, 2026
Veterans For Peace call for the freedom of El Salvador's civil war veterans of the Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador, who similar to us, were organizing to defend their country's democracy and the hard-fought achievements of El Salvador's 1992 Peace Accords.
They were arrested on unfounded accusations in June of 2024 after announcing peaceful protests to the Bukele government's inauguration for an unconstitutional second term.
Their trial starts on August 11, after two years of political imprisonment without access to visits or communication with their lawyers or families.
We call on Judge 3 of the First Organized Crime Tribunal to rule according to truth rather than to political pressure from the Bukele government.
The world is observing!
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