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Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty
amid tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration and mounting fears that the US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him.
Cuban Chargé d’Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera told The Hill that her country’s socialist government is open to negotiating with the US,
but that “the only exception is our sovere…

Cuban Envoy Draws 'Red Lines' Amid Specter of US Invasion and DOJ Targeting Castro Like Maduro | Common Dreams
Cuban Chargé d'Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera said her government is willing to negotiate with the US, but "the only exception is our sovereignty, independence, and right to self-determination."

Negotiation for People Who Hate Negotiation — https://www.brichapman.com/p/negotiation-for-people-who-hate-negotiation?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

How to Negotiate Without Being Pushy: The Empathy-Based Approach That Actually Works
Negotiation doesn’t have to be a battle of wills. Learn how to reach agreements through empathy, clarity, and mutual respect — even if you hate confrontation. This step-by-step guide shows you how to stay calm, connected, and confident in any negotiation.

Lindsey Graham Says U.S. Negotiations With Iran Have 'Hit a Wall' (Jenna Monnin/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/iran-war-negotiations-update-lindsey-graham
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p59#a260517p59

Stellungnahme der HTWK Leipzig zu #DNB & #Weimer:
"Stopp des Erweiterungsbaus der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig ist nicht nachvollziehbar"

Drug Companies Spurned by Supreme Court on Price Negotiation Law (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/drug-companies-spurned-by-supreme-court-on-price-negotiation-law
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p42#a260518p42

Trump convened a situation room meeting on the negotiations with Iran with Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Wiles, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Witkoff
( not Gabbard )
Mike Vlasic said:
... none of them could find the room, and they ended up drinking with Kash
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Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com)
Reportedly, Trump convened a situation room meeting on the negotiations with Iran with Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Wiles, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Witkoff.

Yesterday, Donald Trump, once again, tried to sell the world a wildly implausible and false story about the peace negotiations with Iran,
a story that made it appear that Iran had made major concessions to our STRONG and MIGHTY leader.
The Strait was open we were told.
The Iranians had agreed to give up their nuclear program our addled leader told the world.
Essentially what Trump sold to us was yet another imaginary Iranian surrender,
which, as the Iranians…

Trump's Ridiculous Story About The Iranian Negotiations Crashes And Burns, And The Strait Of Hormuz Is Closed Once Again
Our country is on an unsustainable path, and must change course

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer appeared to break with Donald Trump on Sunday over the issue of arms sales to Taiwan,
insisting there is “no change in American policy”
just days after his boss openly stated that he was using arms sales to the island as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China.
Doing so would violate decades-old foreign policy assurances for the island,
something that Trump acknowledged during remarks to reporters last week.
But Gre…

U.S. Trade Rep Appears To Walk Back Trump’s Taiwan Arms Sales Stance
Trump said he was using U.S. arms sales to Taiwan as a “negotiating chip” with China, upending decades-old foreign policy assurances for the island.

Every major party presidential nominee since Nixon had voluntarily released their tax returns
— Trump was the exception, not the rule,
and the “harm” he suffered was exposure to the same transparency his predecessors embraced without incident.
The original piece laid out why the whole thing was a scam:
Trump is the plaintiff,
the IRS and Treasury are the defendants,
and the DOJ defending those defendants is stocked with Trump’s former personal attorneys

Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked
Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn (who is currently …

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.