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Marco Rubio calls on Cubans to partner with CIA as Trump promises to 'take care of Cuba'

Rubio urged those disappointed by Cuba's government to "seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discreet partnership with the CIA," without elaborating further.

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in New York, US, September 23, 2026.
Anti-Zionist protesters hold placards that read "Gaza ceasefire" and "Macron: Stop genocide. Embargo now," during a protest in Paris, France, October 2, 2025; illustrative.

Transnational political actors, far left networks capitalize on France's student riots

A masked students attempts to kick a tear gas canister, amid clashes with French riot police during a protest by French high school and university students near Lycee Paul Eluard high-school to demand the hiring of substitute teachers, increased resources and better learning conditions.

Teacher doused in petrol as students set fire to schools in protests raging across France

A police officer stands in front of posters for the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam outside the National Convention Center in Hanoi on January 19, 2026.

Three arrested on terrorism, forgery charges in Vietnam, including Norwegian, Australian citizens


Hebrew-speaking Chinese reporter sways Israeli ‘hearts and minds’

In an opinion piece on the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, an Israeli academic warns that Israelis respond a little too well to Hebrew speaking Chinese media stars.

A man wears a mask as he walks past a mural showing a modified image of the Chinese Communist Party emblem in Shanghai, China after the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, January 28, 2020

Chinese court sentences Early Rain Church pastor to nine years for subversion

Wang Yi, pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church, was among dozens of the church's members and leaders detained by police in December 2018, most of whom were subsequently released.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (front row, center) and fellow delegates raise their hands as they take a vote at the closing session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing, China October 24, 2017

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union in Real Time

‘Pravda,’ the Communist Party’s main newspaper, wrote about the estimated six million Jews murdered in December 1944 – before ‘The New York Times’ acknowledged this number.

MEMBERS OF the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.

U.S. envoy blasts German minister for comparing U.S. with communist China

The comparison is “an insult to the thousands of American troops who help ensure Germany’s security and to the millions of Americans committed to a strong Western alliance.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives the ambassador of U.S. to Germany, Richard Grenell, in Meseberg, Germany July 6, 2018

Anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall poses fresh challenges for German Jews

Although the fall of communism liberated Jewry, the striving for freedom continues

A SECTION of the Berlin Wall in Berlin. It was one of the iconic symbols of the Cold War

Mike Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party

Pompeo said the United States had long cherished its friendship with the Chinese people, adding the Communist government was not the same thing as the people of China.

Secretary Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem

For the love of justice

In For the Love of Justice, my father incisively comments on many of these tumultuous events, bringing to them the personal experiences and emotions of one who lived through most of them.

Leo Lovell in a contemplative mood

Newly discovered account of 1933 Reichstag fire casts doubt on Nazi narrative

The seat of the German parliament was burned down on February 27, 1933. Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe was convicted of arson and executed.

The Reichstag building burns, February 27 1933

Book review: Consistent inconsistency

Susan Linfield takes a look at eight intellectuals who have addressed the question of Zionism and the Left.

NOAM CHOMSKY is accused by the author of numerous inaccuracies and the projection of ‘a crippling ideological rigidity.’

Middle Israel: The Prague Spring at 50, a status report

Freedom’s victory was inspiring, but tyranny – cunning, brazen and techy – is back on the attack.

People stand near a Soviet-made military vehicle as they watch a documentary on the Soviet Union-led occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies to halt former Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms in then Czechoslovakia, broadcasted on a disp