Crush Castroism Now to Finish Islamic Iran
Julio M. Shiling - 04-17-2026Crush Castroism Now to Finish Islamic Iran Leer en Español The Islamic Republic of Iran is reeling. Its senior leadership has been decapitated, its missile factories and air defenses lie in ruins,...
Cuba’s Spy State Next Door: Time to End the Castro Regime
Julio M. Shiling - 04-09-2026Cuba’s Spy State Next Door: Time to End the Castro Regime Leer en Español The recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirming that communist Cuba has functioned as a...
Remember the Combative Christ During Holy Week
Julio M. Shiling - 04-01-2026Remember the Combative Christ During Holy Week Leer en Español A dangerous distortion has crept into Christian theology across Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions alike. Jesus is recast...
Helms-Burton Locks in Regime Change for Cuba
Julio M. Shiling - 03-27-2026Helms-Burton Locks in Regime Change for Cuba Leer en Español As Donald J. Trump advances his second term with a bold initiative in Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is playing a central role in...
Cuba’s New “Investment” Law: Castroism’s Piñata
Julio M. Shiling - 03-22-2026Cuba’s New “Investment” Law: Castroism’s Piñata Leer en Español On March 16, 2026, communist Cuba’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga,...
U.S. Force, or Threat of it, Must Be Used in Cuba
Julio M. Shiling - 03-14-2026U.S. Force, or Threat of it, Must Be Used in Cuba Leer en Español Cuba is not merely authoritarian. It is a totalitarian regime. For over six decades, the Castro-Communist apparatus has exercised...
The Shield of the Americas Summit: A Shield in Defense of Freedom
Julio M. Shiling - 03-06-2026The Shield of the Americas Summit: A Shield in Defense of Freedom Leer en Español The Shield of the Americas Summit, convened by President Donald J. Trump, will be held this Saturday, March 7,...
Cuba’s Dictatorial Transition Should Not Fool Anyone
Julio M. Shiling - 02-21-2026Cuba’s Dictatorial Transition Should Not Fool Anyone Leer en Español President Donald J. Trump’s January 29, 2026, Executive Order declaring a national emergency over Cuba and authorizing tariffs...
Castro-Communism’s Last Stand
Julio M. Shiling - 02-06-2026Castro-Communism’s Last Stand Leer en Español Donald J. Trump has elevated regime change in Cuba to a cornerstone of U.S. regional policy, framing it as essential to national security. Public...
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The Islamic Republic of Iran is reeling. Its senior leadership has been decapitated, its missile factories and air defenses lie in ruins, and its conventional military capacity has been gutted. Yet, the regime refuses to fall. Instead, it has pivoted to classic asymmetric warfare: proxy provocations, hostage diplomacy, and relentless media manipulation. Tehran understands that its survival now depends less on battlefield victories than on narrative control. It needs the world’s cameras fixed on Iran, Beirut, and the Persian Gulf so it can play the victim, drag out negotiations, and portray the United States as the desperate party begging for a deal.
This is not speculation. It is the Vietnam playbook updated for the 21st century. The communists in Hanoi never defeated U.S. forces in open combat, but they won the war in American living rooms. Iran is betting the same strategy will work again. Every day the Middle East dominates the news cycle is another day the ayatollahs buy to regroup, rearm through smuggling networks, and wait for American political fatigue to set in. The result is already visible. Washington looks anxious for any face-saving agreement, while Tehran smells weakness. Nothing short of full regime change can assure the West of an end to the possibility of a nuclear jihadist state.
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The recent announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirming that communist Cuba has functioned as a persistent and sophisticated espionage actor against the United States and Western democracies since 1959 should surprise no serious observer of the Cold War. Post-Cold War geopolitics. Yet its timing is critical. As the administration of Donald Trump signals an increasingly assertive posture toward Havana—consistent with the strategic direction outlined in the November 2025 National Security Strategy—the report serves not merely as a historical clarification but as a strategic warning.
For decades, the Castro regime has embedded intelligence operations into the very fabric of its statecraft. From the early consolidation of power under Fidel Castro to the present dictatorial leadership of Miguel DĂaz-Canel, espionage has not been ancillary—it has been central. Cuban intelligence services penetrated U.S. institutions, cultivated assets across Latin America, and coordinated with adversarial regimes to undermine democratic systems. What is particularly striking in the FBI’s findings is the regime’s sustained commitment to espionage even during periods of acute economic hardship, including the so-called “Special Period” following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was not opportunism enabled by Soviet subsidies. It was ideological and strategic consistency.
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A dangerous distortion has crept into Christian theology across Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions alike. Jesus is recast as a passive, non-violent conformist—soft-spoken, endlessly tolerant, a gentle shepherd who never raised His voice or challenged the status quo. This caricature serves a purpose: it neuters the Gospel’s call to confront evil and comforts those who prefer a faith that never offends, never fights, never draws a line. Yet the historical record of Holy Week shatters this illusion. Jesus Christ was neither passive nor conformist. He was a warrior for truth, intolerant of evildoers and their enablers, and He displayed that combativeness with unmistakable clarity from Palm Sunday to Good Friday. Far from a docile figure, He embodied the very spirit of righteous confrontation that Scripture demands of every believer.
Jesus was Himself a Jew, born into the majoritarian Jewish population of first-century Judea. So were His disciples. They lived and worshiped within the covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Their mission was not to reject Judaism but to fulfill its prophecies. The established high priests, scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees—who claimed to speak for the faith—had become the very hypocrites Jesus exposed. They did not represent the faithful remnant of Israel. They represented a corrupt religious elite that had traded divine authority for political power and financial gain. Jesus came to call His own people back to authentic covenant fidelity while simultaneously extending salvation to the nations. Christianity, born from Judaism, is therefore not anti-Jewish. It is the completion of Israel’s story. But completion required confrontation.
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As Donald J. Trump advances his second term with a bold initiative in Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is playing a central role in crafting U.S. foreign policy. The administration has already escalated pressure through a sweeping oil blockade. U.S. authorities are actively blocking oil shipments to the regime—via seizures of tankers, threats of tariffs on any nation supplying fuel, and targeted sanctions—while allowing limited deliveries to Cuba’s non-state sector to avoid societal collapse, even if these actors are regime-connected.
This maximum-pressure campaign has intensified the island’s energy crisis, yet speculation persists in some quarters about possible future economic liberalization or similar deals with Havana., without instituting radical political changes Some fear premature easing of sanctions; others hope for quick relief. Both groups should rest easy. Any American president, including Trump, is strictly bound by the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996—better known as the Helms-Burton Law. This statute codifies the U.S. embargo into law and makes its lifting contingent on verifiable, irreversible democratic reforms in Cuba. No executive whim, no back-channel deal, no “humanitarian” exception can bypass it without triggering legal and congressional roadblocks.
- Cuba’s New “Investment” Law: Castroism’s Piñata
- U.S. Force, or Threat of it, Must Be Used in Cuba
- The Shield of the Americas Summit: A Shield in Defense of Freedom
- Cuba’s Dictatorial Transition Should Not Fool Anyone
- Castro-Communism’s Last Stand
- The U.S. Imperative in Toppling Cuba's Communist Regime
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