Day: March 18, 2026

The Organizer of an International Humanitarian Flotilla Delivering Aid to the Desperate and Starving People of Cuba

We begin with the head of an international humanitarian effort underway to alleviate the suffering of the Cuban people whose country is falling apart all around them as they run out of food, water, gas and electricity while garbage piles up and cars and motorcycles are abandoned on the side of the roads. Joining us from Mexico City is David Adler, General Coordinator of the Progressive International who previously served as foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders in his campaign for US president, policy director of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and the co-founder of its Green New Deal for Europe campaign. He recently helped organize the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, leading to his arrest and detention in a prison camp in the Naqab Desert by Israel. He is now organizing the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, an international coalition delivering humanitarian aid by air, land and sea to Havana, Cuba on this coming Saturday March 21.

Possible Scenarios to End the US/Israeli War on Iran and a More Likely Escalation of Attacks on Oil and Gas Terminals and Storage Facilities

Then we explore possible scenarios to end the US/Israeli war on Iran as well as the likelihood the war will escalate after Israeli strikes on a major Iranian gas field that could lead to reciprocal strikes against vulnerable Saudi, Qatari and other Gulf oil and gas terminals and storage facilities. Resulting in windfalls for the remaining oil producers, the US and Russia, and energy crises for China, Japan, South Korea and Europe along with everyone else. Joining us is Steven Simon, who served on the National Security Council staff as senior director for Middle Eastern and North African affairs and also worked on the NSC staff on counterterrorism and Middle East security policy. Currently a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Distinguished Fellow at the Davidson Institute for Global Security and professor of political science at Dartmouth College, he is the co-author, among other books, of The Age of Sacred Terror and his latest book is Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East. He has an article at Responsible Statecraft we discuss, “Like Iraq, key intelligence before Iran strikes was ignored” as well as at War on the Rocks, “Drinking from the Bitter Chalice in the Middle East, Again.“