@WikiLeaks Party Senate Candidate with Julian Assange 2013. Contributing editor @NatCounterPunch. Columnist @TheMandarinAU substack.com/@binoykampmark
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Jun 11
Beached Arguments: Pete #Hegseth, JD #Vance and European #Immigration - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/06/11/… #PeteHegseth #JDVance #Europe #Normandy
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Jun 10
Investigating the Foolish: The #AUKUS Public Inquiry is Announced - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/06/10/… #auspol
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Jun 4
The Hand-Me-Down Alliance: #Australia, #AUKUS and Op-Shop #Submarines - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/06/04/… #Virginiaclass #nuclearsubmarines #secondhand #auspol
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Jun 3
Not Much to See: The Release of the #UFO Files - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/06/03/… #UFOfiles #UAP
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Jun 2
Beyond the Yellow Line: #Israel Seizes More of #Gaza - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/06/02/… #occupation #Yellowline #palestinians #palestine
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(from @NatCounterPunch) #OpEd
Regime Change Through Indictment: Raúl Castro and the BTTR Flights
by Binoy Kampmark
“The indictment, which also nets five Cuban air force pilots, alleges that aircraft of the ostensibly humanitarian organisation BTTR (Brothers to the Rescue) were fired upon by Cuban MiG aircraft on February 24, 1996.
Three had taken off from South Florida heading to Cuba that day. Two unarmed civilian Cessna aircraft were destroyed, allegedly flying outside Cuban territory. Three American citizens and one resident of the US were killed. The charges include one count of conspiracy to kill US nationals, two counts of destruction of an aircraft and four counts of murder.
At the time, Castro was the Minister of Defence overseeing the Cuba Revolutionary Air and Air Defence Force (DAAFAR). He is said to have ordered the five pilots to follow and eliminate the three BTTR aircraft. The indictment does a superb job in making glaring omissions. There is no mention of the nervous mood of US officials at the time, notably those at the Federal Aviation Administration, State Department and White House.
No mention, either, of the compounding recklessness of the BTTR missions. The flights were intended to seek and assist Cubans sailing to the US and imperilled at sea. They were, however, unauthorised and deemed provocative to the Cuban government, not least because they also pursued a propaganda campaign in Cuban airspace.
FAA records made available by the invaluable offices of the National Security Archive and used in William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh’s Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana (2014) are not exactly glowing about the BTTR, led by its obstinate founder, José Basulto.”
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ALT https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/2825721.html#2825768 https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/28/regime-change-through-indictment-raul-castro-and-the-bttr-flights/
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Jun 1
Blood Libels and #Sexual #Violence: #Israel, Palestinian #Prisoners and The New York Times - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/06/01/… #Kristof #NewYorkTimes #bloodlibel #Palestinianprisoners
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May 28
Regime Change Through Indictment: Raúl #Castro and the BTTR Flights - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/28/… #Cuba #RaulCastro #Trump #Rubio
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May 25
The Extortionate Expense of Golden Dome - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/25/… #GoldenDome #defence #defense #cost #Trump
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May 21
Mirrors of #Greed: #Elon Musk, #OpenAI and the #Tech Brat Battle - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/21/… #AI #artificialintelligence #musk #samaltman
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May 19
Another #cybersecurity wake-up call for the #education sector via @themandarinau themandarin.com.au/313202-cy… #Canvas #Instructure
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May 19
The Great Fleecing Tournament: Pricing, Problems and the 2026 FIFA World Cup - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/19/… #dynamicpricing #FIFAWC26 #infantino #tickets
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May 18
Exiting the #Oil Cartel: The United Arab Emirates Leaves OPEC - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/18/… #UAE #OPEC #energy
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May 16
An address to the #Melbourne #Unitarian #Church on #internationallaw, #rules and whether it still matters. #IranWar
Unitarian Half Hour - 16 May 2026 omny.fm/shows/unitarian-half…
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May 14
The impotence of the #UN, so to speak, is occasioned by the very #nuclear powers that make it so...
The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless thecipherbrief.com/nuclear-a…
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May 14
'The response to the #hacking of Canvas shows laziness, indifference and an almost tortious neglect about the welfare and #privacy of #students and staff.'
Caveat #Canvas: #ShinyHunters Hacks the #Education Sector - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/14/…
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May 11
A truly #postmodern event...
Open or Closed? The #Hormuz Strait eurekastreet.com.au/article/… via @eurekastreet #IranWar #StraitofHormuz
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May 8
The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli #Piracy and #Abduction on the High Seas - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/08/… #globalsumudflotilla @gbsumudflotilla
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May 6
'If #artists are to be reduced to the same culpability as their political leaders, what does it say about their #art?'
#Brussels, #Russia and the Venice Biennale: Art as Politics and Hypocrisy - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/06/… #VeniceBiennale @la_Biennale
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