Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Hands off Cuba!

September 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Statement from The U.S. Peace Council, July 14, 2021 The recent protests in Cuba over deteriorating conditions have a material basis that cannot be dismissed. No matter how heroic a people may be, socialism must provide for people’s material needs. The U.S. blockade of Cuba is designed precisely to thwart that and to discredit socialism in Cuba and anywhere else[…]

Yemeni FM Condemns IMF Decision to Disburse Millions in COVID $$ to Govt in Exile

September 6, 2021 UNAC Editor International Institutions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by NewsDesk, published in The Cradle, August 31, 2021 The Foreign Minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government (NSG) condemned the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 30 August to disburse $665 million worth of emergency reserves to the Saudi-backed parallel administration led by ousted President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. In a letter addressed to the IMF Managing Director,[…]

Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty

September 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, published on Common Dreams, August 30, 2021 Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in their country—and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S.[…]

U.S. Plans – Sanctions and Famine for Afghanistan

August 26, 2021 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Collapsed States, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, August 24, 2021 Aug. 23 — U.S. politicians and journalists are all feigning deep concern about leaving behind tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for them. Meanwhile, U.S. financial institutions are busy planning a horrendous crisis for all Afghans, including their loyal collaborators. The cynical decision to seize all of Afghanistan’s assets[…]

Why Hezbollah is Bringing Iranian Fuel to Lebanon

August 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lebanon, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Saudi Arabia, Shortages of Supplies, Syria, US Hypocrisy

by Radwan Mortada, published on The Cradle, August 23, 2021 With the war in Afghanistan winding down, US abuses of power and the incompetence of their puppets are bared for all to see. Lebanon’s economy is collapsing from similarly incompetent Saudi controlled and western manipulated politicians and financial officers, the Caesar sanctions on Syria, its primary trading partner, and a[…]

Let the Cuban People Live! End the Blockade and Sanctions!

August 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Barry Shepphard, published on Socialist Action, July 24, 2021 President Biden has not only kept all of Trump’s sanctions designed to severely harm the Cuban people, he has added two more. His response to the July 11 protests in Cuba was to call for the overthrow of the socialist Cuban Revolution. The July 11 protests of the Cuban government[…]

The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests

July 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Austerity, Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, Migrants, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores, published on CommonDreams, July 13, 2021 Protests erupted in various Cuban cities the weekend of July 11 over dire economic conditions and a surge in Covid-19 cases. They are the biggest protests to hit Cuba in three decades, and they may well continue in the coming weeks. They come on the heels of artists’[…]

A Tale of Two Countries

July 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Haiti, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Greg Godels, published on ZZ’s Blog, July 19, 2021 Two countries have made the front pages and lead stories in our lemming-like capitalist media: Haiti and Cuba. One country– Haiti– has earned the ire of the self-styled Western democracies by overthrowing its colonial slave masters and establishing a free state in 1803, the first country in history to liberate[…]

Hands off Cuba! End the Blockade!

July 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Economic Blockade, Featured, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, US Incited Protests

Statement by the United National Antiwar Coalition The United National Antiwar Coalition stands firmly with the Cuban people and their revolutionary government against any US intervention in Cuba’s affairs. We continue our calls to lift the punitive US blockade of Cuba that has caused humanitarian shortages [and been tightened] during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The recent disruptions inside Cuba have[…]

Let Cuba live! End the Blockade Now!

July 14, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Workers World Editor, published July 12, 2021 Today the capitalist media have turned their focus on anti-government demonstrators in Cuba, which the New York Times claimed to number in the “thousands,” in a country of 11 million people. How many thousands, if there were really that many, isn’t stated (nor were there any videos of such-sized crowds), but in[…]