Sanctions and Economic Warfare

US Business Community Calls on Biden to End Tariffs on Chinese Goods as Inflation Accelerates

November 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars

by Paul Antinopoulis, published on InfoBrics, November 17, 2021 The US business community called on President Joe Biden to cancel tariffs on goods imported from China, especially since tariff sanctions only accelerate inflation in the US. Dozens of professional associations, including the Semiconductor Industry Association, Farmers Federation, Chamber of Commerce, and about 20 other organizations signed a letter on behalf[…]

Cubans Say They Are More Excited About School Reopening Than Regime Change

November 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism

by Medea Benjamin, published on MintPress News, November 16, 2021 HAVANA — “If you build it, they will come,” said Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams. In Cuba, they didn’t come. Dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers, had been working feverishly for months to turn the unprecedented July 11 protests into a crescendo of government opposition on[…]

Why is the US fueling the November 15 Cuba protests?

November 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, published on the Orinoco Tribune, Nov 13, 2021 On September 20, letters began to arrive at eight Cuban municipal or provincial government headquarters announcing the holding of “peaceful” marches on November 15 by a group called Archipiélago. The motivation for these marches was a call for change. The letter was not a formal request to occupy the busiest streets[…]

Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US

November 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Nicaragua, Paths to Emancipation, Political Analysis, Regional Solutions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, Venezuela

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 10, 2021 Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua[…]

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns RENACER ACT on Nicaragua as Bipartisan Criminality

November 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Black Alliance for Peace Statement, November 4, 2021 The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the efforts of Congress to manipulate the electoral process in Nicaragua through illegal sanctions, subversion and the coordination of a deliberate misinformation campaign meant to delegitimize the country’s elections even before they take place. As part of that effort the U.S. House of Representatives passed the[…]

U.S. role exposed Masses resist Sudan coup

November 5, 2021 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Austerity, Civil Resistance, Economic Collapse, International Aid and Debt, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Sudan

by Sara Flounders, published on International Action Center, November 2, 2021 Incredible exposure of U.S. actions to humiliate and impoverish the Sudanese people and destabilize Sudan. And the hypocrisy of it all. The U.S. wants Sudan to pay sanctions to U.S. victims of their wars when they don’t have money to eat. Of course the US would never consider doing[…]

Alex Saab’s Statement Before Being Extracted from Cape Verde by United States Regime

October 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

Letter from Alex Saab, published on Orinoco Tribune, October 21, 2021 Editorial note: This letter was read—with tears in her eyes—by Camila Fabri, Alex Saab’s wife, during a demonstration in repudiation of the second kidnapping of the Venezuelan diplomat from Cape Verde by the US, held in Caracas’ Plaza Bolívar on Sunday, October 17, attended by a crowd of indignant[…]

The United States Is Doubling Down On Deadly Sanctions

October 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Featured, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression

Produced by Sanctions Kill and Popular Resistance, published on Popular Resistance, October 21, 2021 New Treasury Report Ordered by President Biden Shows US is Intensifying its Economic Warfare Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic. Washington, DC – The 2021 Sanctions Review Report released by the United States Department of the Treasury on October 18 is an ominous warning. This unsigned report should[…]

The Syrian Charity Scam

October 20, 2021 UNAC Editor International Charities, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Paul Larudee, published in Covert Action Magazine, October 20, 2021 Are major charitable organizations supporting terrorist organizations through tax-deductible donations while denying aid to those they claim to serve? Doctors Without Borders, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, the International Rescue Committee, the Syrian American Medical Society, the White Helmets, Syrian Forum USA, Islamic Relief USA, CARE, the Syrian American[…]

U.S. Illegally Extradites Venezuelan Diplomat from Cabo Verde to the U.S.

October 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

News Release from the Free Alex Saab Committee, published on Workers World, October 18, 2021 The Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab was renditioned and kidnapped to the U.S. on October 16 without waiting for a final extradition decision. The action was taken in secret, without notifying his defense team and without relevant documentation. Saab had been imprisoned in Cabo Verde since[…]