Outrage after Meta suspends No Kings Instagram account during protests

‘Meta owes us an explanation,’ group says as organizers fear censorship after account goes dark for several hours…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/no-kings-instagram-account-suspended-during-protests

 

Rubio calls for new Cuban leaders as blackout underscores economic crisis | PBS News

The administration is looking for President Miguel Díaz-Canel to leave as the U.S. continues negotiating with the Cuban government, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of talks between Washington and Havana. No detail has been offered about who the administration might like to see come to power. 

Many Cubans do not believe that Díaz-Canel holds much power in Cuba, anyway, as opposed to revolutionary founding father Raúl Castro and his family.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/rubio-calls-for-new-cuban-leaders-as-blackout-underscores-economic-crisis 

 

Cuba’s electrical grid collapses amid US oil blockade

Ten million people left without power in latest of outages that sparked violent protest last weekend…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/cuba-electrical-grid-collapses-amid-us-oil-blockade

 

 

Russians enraged by plans to cut mobile internet on New Year’s Eve - The Washington Post

"Thank you, Big Brother! Finally, someone has decided what I should watch. Otherwise, I would have chosen for myself, like a fool," one reader posted on the Telegram channel of Astra, an independent news site. "Next year, we are looking forward to a power outage so that we can take a break from the harmful light of electric bulbs and sit by candlelight, like in the good old days."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/31/russia-mobile-internet-blackout-moscow/

Russia’s Economic Blackout Will Change the World - The Atlantic

…The immediate consequences are already breathtaking. On both sides of this new iron curtain, commodity prices are skyrocketing and economic indicators are falling. Oil is at all-time highs, and the Nasdaq is in bear territory. Nickel prices went vertical, and the ruble crashed by 50 percent. Wholesale energy prices in Europe have blown past historic records, and a European recession looks almost certain. Yesterday, the economist Mark Zandi put the odds of a U.S. recession this year at "one-in-three." …

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/russia-economic-sanctions-wheat-oil/627004/