In a move that should surprise no one familiar with the ideological alliances of our time, the network of organizations funded by Marxist billionaire Neville Roy Singham has rushed to the defense of Raúl Castro following a U.S. Department of Justice indictment.
The charges against the aging Cuban revolutionary leader tie him to the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes, an act that claimed the lives of four Americans. Far from an isolated legal proceeding, this episode reveals a deeper truth: certain elements of the American left remain willing accomplices to communist regimes that oppress their own people while threatening U.S. interests.
The Trump administration’s decision to hold Castro accountable underscores a long-overdue reckoning with a dictatorship that has endured for decades through violence and ideological rigidity. Yet the swift condemnation from Singham-linked groups like Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the People’s Forum, and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research demonstrates how foreign-influenced networks operate within our borders to shield adversaries and undermine American resolve.
This coordinated response did not emerge in a vacuum. Singham, an American expatriate residing in China, has built a vast apparatus of nonprofits that consistently align with Beijing’s geopolitical aims and defend socialist experiments abroad. Investigations by outlets like Fox News have traced substantial funding flows from Singham to these entities, raising legitimate questions about foreign influence on American political discourse.
The 1996 incident itself stands as a stark reminder of the Castro regime’s brutality. Brothers to the Rescue, a humanitarian group aiding Cuban refugees, operated in international airspace. Cuban MiG jets destroyed the unarmed planes without warning, an act of aggression the DOJ now properly frames as murder.
Defending such an action requires a willful blindness to facts and a moral inversion that prioritizes ideology over justice.
The Hypocrisy of “Hands Off Cuba”
Code Pink’s declaration of “HANDS OFF CUBA!” while accusing the U.S. of fabricating pretexts perfectly illustrates the selective outrage of these activists. The same voices quick to criticize American actions often remain silent on Cuba’s documented human rights abuses, political imprisonments, and economic failures that have driven generations of Cubans to risk their lives fleeing to freedom.
PSL’s media arm argued that Castro acted within sovereign rights, conveniently overlooking the regime’s history of exporting revolution, jailing dissidents, and maintaining a one-party state that brooks no opposition. Such arguments echo decades of leftist apologetics for communism, from the Soviet Union to Venezuela, where promises of equality invariably deliver poverty and authoritarian control.
Manolo De Los Santos and Claudia De La Cruz of the People’s Forum went further, hailing Castro’s legacy while decrying U.S. “hypocrisy.” This rhetoric ignores the fundamental difference between a free republic defending its citizens and a dictatorship suppressing its people. The Singham network’s alignment with Havana fits a pattern of supporting regimes hostile to American liberty, often under the banner of “anti-imperialism.”
Tricontinental director Vijay Prashad’s involvement adds another layer. His positions at institutions linked to Chinese Communist Party influence operations suggest these defenses serve broader strategic interests beyond mere ideological sympathy.
Constitutional Principles and the Cost of Complacency
America’s founding documents affirm the right to self-defense and the duty to protect citizens from foreign harm. The DOJ’s action upholds this principle by pursuing accountability for the murder of Americans, regardless of how much time has passed. To dismiss it as warmongering is to invert justice itself.
The left’s defense of Castro reveals a troubling comfort with tyranny when it wears a socialist label. While preaching tolerance and human rights at home, these networks excuse repression abroad. This contradiction weakens America’s moral standing and emboldens dictators who view our internal divisions as opportunities.
History offers clear lessons. Communist regimes have consistently failed their citizens while enriching party elites. Cuba’s persistent poverty, despite its proximity to the world’s most prosperous nation, testifies to the bankruptcy of centralized planning and suppression of liberty. Yet for Singham’s allies, the revolution remains sacred, its failures always attributable to external forces rather than inherent flaws.
A Biblical Perspective on Justice and Tyranny
As the Scriptures remind us in Isaiah 1:17, “Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”
True justice demands accountability for the shedding of innocent blood, not excuses wrapped in revolutionary rhetoric. The defense of Castro’s actions stands in stark opposition to this divine call for righteousness.
The American people deserve leaders who confront tyranny rather than appease it through inaction. The Singham network’s mobilization should serve as a wake-up call about the forces arrayed against constitutional governance and national sovereignty. Holding Castro accountable is not provocation—it is the fulfillment of a long-delayed promise to victims and their families.
In defending communist strongmen, these activist networks expose their priorities. They value ideological solidarity over human freedom and foreign regimes over American interests. As the Trump administration applies pressure on Cuba, it does so in service of principles that have defined the nation’s better traditions: liberty, justice, and the defense of the innocent. The left’s response only confirms how far some have strayed from those ideals.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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