Proven: US sanctions are deadlier for children than Tomahawk cruise missiles.

by Mike Treen August 9, 2026August 9, 2026Comments are Disabled

By Eugene Doyle, Solidarity.co.nz US unilateral sanctions, the kind being imposed on Cuba today, are deadlier for children than war according to a major piece of research published in The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal. Totally ignored by the mainstream media, the report has bombshell findings that should call into question the use of …

NZ anti-war protesters call for independent foreign policy and peaceful planet

by Mike Treen June 29, 2026Comments are Disabled

COMMENTARY: By Liz Remmerswaal Up to 1000 people joined a March for Peace in Auckland last weekend to demand that Aotearoa New Zealand become a voice for peace rather than a complicit partner in US-led illegal wars. To Read More

End the genocidal siege on Cuba! June 10, 2026

by Mike Treen June 26, 2026Comments are Disabled

10 Jun New Zealand Cuba Friendship Society Media release The New Zealand Cuba Friendship society condemns the United States’ latest slew of sanctions on Cuba’s sovereign leadership as well as family members of Cuba’s former leaders. These sanctions come just weeks after USA’s extrajudicial indictment of Raul Castro, Cuban revolutionary and former president of Cuba …

Open Letter: For peace and sovereignty in Cuba and the world, March 2, 2026

by Mike Treen June 25, 2026Comments are Disabled

We the undersigned, express our grave concern at the escalating threat to peace and international law following recent US military action against Venezuela and at open threats made by the Trump administration against other sovereign nations, including Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Iran. In this dangerous context, Cuba once again faces a heightened menace to its …

Understanding Cuba’s health system benefits New Zealand

by Mike Treen June 23, 2026June 23, 2026Comments are Disabled

In the last few months of my employment as Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists in 2019, I was asked by many members what I would be doing once I finished work. My response was that while I wasn’t sure, I would be having a long break in and around the Caribbean, …

Cuba’s unending embargo

by Mike Treen June 23, 2026Comments are Disabled

Cuba has been under US trade sanctions since 1962 and the past few months have further challenged the Caribbean nation, with tightened economic blockades by America. University of Canterbury lecturer Josephine Varghese and Ambassador Luis Morejon Rodriguez talk to Kadambari Raghukumar in this Here Now episode. Click here to read more