America Reawakens: Combatting the Far-Left Threat
Julio M. Shiling - 07-18-2026America Reawakens: Combatting the Far-Left Threat Leer en Español In a landmark address before representatives from more than 70 countries at the U.S. State Department's Ministerial Conference on...
11J at Five: Cuba's Real Unfinished Revolution
Julio M. Shiling - 07-10-202611J at Five: Cuba's Real Unfinished Revolution Photo: REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini Leer en Español Five years have passed since July 11, 2021 (11J), when thousands of Cubans took to the streets in...
America's 250 th Anniversary: Recovering the Soul of the Republic
Julio M. Shiling - 07-02-2026America's 250 th Anniversary: Recovering the Soul of the Republic Leer en Español The celebration of America's 250th anniversary is more than a commemoration of national independence. It is an...
The Castroist “Reforms”: The Potemkin Façade
Julio M. Shiling - 06-19-2026The Castroist “Reforms”: The Potemkin Façade Leer en Español The Cuban dictatorship’s announcement of 176 economic and social “transformation” proposals should not be mistaken for a historic...
The 1940 Constitution: Cuba’s Democratic Bridge
Julio M. Shiling - 06-12-2026The 1940 Constitution: Cuba’s Democratic Bridge Leer en Español The possibility of a successful democratic transition in Cuba rests upon two historic advantages that distinguish the Cuban case...
Castroism’s Empire Crumbles
Julio M. Shiling - 06-05-2026Castroism’s Empire Crumbles Leer en Español For decades, opponents of economic pressure against the Castro-Communist regime insisted that sanctions did not work. According to this conventional...
Honoring Pedro Luis Boitel and the Demand for Accountability
Julio M. Shiling - 05-22-2026Honoring Pedro Luis Boitel and the Demand for Accountability Leer en Español This coming Monday, May 25, 2026, marks the 54 th anniversary of the death of Pedro Luis Boitel, a courageous Cuban...
The CIA Director’s Visit to Havana: An Ultimatum in Broad Daylight
Julio M. Shiling - 05-15-2026The CIA Director’s Visit to Havana: An Ultimatum in Broad Daylight Leer en Español The sight is repulsive on its face. A high official of the United States government, the world’s leading...
The End of Sherritt: A Victory for Helms-Burton and the Power of Targeted Sanctions
Julio M. Shiling - 05-08-2026The End of Sherritt: A Victory for Helms-Burton and the Power of Targeted Sanctions Leer en Español After more than three decades of open defiance, Sherritt International—the Canadian company...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the national police force of the U.S. serving in federal law enforcement, involving intelligence and counterintelligence functions. Additionally, although its main function is domestic, the FBI also has overseas operations through embassies and other diplomatic representations. If Theodore Roosevelt, who authorized the development of the institution (originally called the Bureau of Investigation) in 1908, would see what it has become, he would, highly likely, demolish it. Teddy’s reasoning would, logically be, that today’s FBI is an existential threat to American democracy.
What is akin to the admission heard around the world, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed to podcaster, Joe Rogan, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed at the FBI’s urging. This occurred barely weeks before the 2020 presidential election. Nearly two hours into the three-hour conversation on the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on August 25, Zuckerberg exposed this dangerous ploy by the nation’s premier law enforcement authority that ultimately benefitted the Democratic candidate and now president. The social media tycoon stated that he took the FBI’s warning about being “vigilant” serious. When asked by Rogan as to the degree of censorship that Facebook exercised, Zuckerberg affirmed it was “meaningful”.
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‘In Exile, The More You Try To Forget, The More You Remember’: Cuban Writer Zoé Valdés
AUTHOR JULIO M. SHILING AND TOMÁS LUGO
AS PART OF OUR series of short interviews, our contributor Julio M. Shiling talked with award-winning Cuban writer, poet, screenwriter, columnist and staunch defender of freedom Zoé Valdés about her career as an author and her history of struggle against the Castro brothers’ communist regime.
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Cuban communism has been consistent in many things. Among the uniformities have been the prioritization of doing anything and everything needed to remain, non-democratically, in power. True to its apocalyptic tyrannical nature, praxis has always been tailored to accommodate survivorship interests. This includes sidestepping the respect of basic natural and human rights, as well as not implementing rational economic courses to move Cuba away from destitution. Two other fundamental factors have characterized the Castro regime’s rule: (1) a dependency on foreign benefaction arrangements, and (2) partaking in morally reprehensible (and illegal) activities searching for hard currency.
A parasitically reliance on Soviet subsidies, complicit foreign investors, Western banks, Venezuelan oil, and remittances have been some of the schemes which have provided Castro-Communism with cash for its extravagant regime-sustenance expenditures. Among the abominable activities that the Marxist dictatorship has engaged in is the pillaging of Cuban national wealth, international neo-slavery work agreements, data and information sales from espionage, and drug trafficking. These disgraceful undertakings provide massive sums of money which needs to be made “legal”. In other words, the sixty-three-year-old Cuban dictatorship has serious money laundering problems.
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The U.S. is a partly free country. There is no longer government in power, but a regime. In America today, one is free as long as you do not cross ideological parameters that the ruling elite has established. This Orwellian description is not surreal or a conspiracy theory. It is based on facts, which are drawn from seminal characteristics of non-democratic regimes to arrive at its conclusion. Here is the evidence.
What exactly does America’s woke regime consist of?
The premier dream of the Bolsheviks was to take the communist revolution to America. Fleeing Nazi Germany, the Frankfurt School’s exile in the U.S. gave the German Marxists access to American key educational and cultural institutions. The pilgrimage from classical, economic-based Marxism to the critical, culturally dominant transition of Marx and Engels’s political religion was decades in the making. The fall of Soviet communism made it the only official game in town to attain power in democratic societies.
- Castro-Communism’s Decomposition
- The FBI Has Become The American Left’s Political Police
- Cuba 69 Years After Moncada Barracks
- The Pope’s Relationship with Cuba’s Dictator Is a Disgrace to Christianity
- Important Lessons From the Cuban Uprising of July 11, One Year Later
- The Principles of America’s Independence
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