Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Biden Should Make Normalizing Relations with Cuba “A Priority”

June 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Cuba, Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin, June 1, 2021 Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban-American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo created a group called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, to unite Cuban[…]

Eyewitness report: Syrians Celebrate Election Outcome

May 30, 2021 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Democracy and Consent, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Kobi Guillory, published on Fightback News, May 28, 2021 Damascus, Syria – On Wednesday, May 26, election day in Syria, crowds flocked to polling places to cast their votes. A delegation of observers from the U.S., South Africa, France and Palestine visited polling locations east of Damascus in the war-torn Ghouta region to witness the voting and celebrations taking[…]

Government Report Documents US Responsibility for Venezuela’s Humanitarian Dilemma

May 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris, published on Resumen English, May 1, 2021 Venezuela was once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America. The popular classes enjoyed major advances from the Bolivarian Revolution initiated by Hugo Chávez. Today Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis with severe humanitarian consequences. The US government blames the crisis on the mismanagement and corruption[…]

“The Most Unkindest Cut of All” A Rejoinder to “Syria and the ‘Anti-Imperialism’ of Fools”

May 16, 2021 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, May 14, 2021 A nice research piece that soundly rebuts an outrageous attack from the faux left on UNAC and other anti-imperialist antiwar organizations and press outlets. [jb] “Erasing people through disinformation: Syria and the ‘anti-imperialism’ of fools” is the title of a pitiful and tragically flawed signed statement that appeared on the[…]

World Police: Washington Seeks to Imprison Foreign Businesspeople for Violating Illegal US Sanctions

May 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Imperialism, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Stansfiield Smith, published on The Grayzone, April 27, 2021 In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign business people for circumventing its unilateral sanctions. Washington’s targets include Venezuelan national Alex Saab, North Korean Mun Chol Myong, and Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. (Aquí se puede leer este artículo en español.) The United States[…]

Killing Yemen

April 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Imperial Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by Yanis Iqbal, April 16, 2021 The Yemeni city of Marib is in the thick of fighting between Houthi rebels and loyalists of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government. Marib is the capital of Marib Governorate, lying roughly 100 miles northeast of the country’s capital in Sana’a. It was established after the 1984 discovery of oil deposits in the region and contains[…]

EU-UN Conference Raises Donations to Maintain Syrian Stalemate

April 2, 2021 UNAC Editor International Aid and Debt, Migrants and Refugees, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, April 2, 2021 The European Union has co-chaired with the United Nations a conference on ‘Supporting the Future of Syria and of the Region‘, March 29-30. This is the fifth EU donor conference on Syria claiming to pursue a peaceful and sustainable future for all Syrians. However, the actual focus is not on[…]

Yemen Can’t Wait!

March 31, 2021 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Yemen

by Azza Rojbi, published on Medium, March 29, 2021 February 15, 2021, marks one year since the Saudi-led coalition’s horrific air raid on a residential area in Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf. The bombing killed 35 people, including 25 children, and 18 children were amongst the 23 injured. According to the Yemen Data Project, “During 2020, air raids in #Yemen[…]

Venezuela Denounces Freezing of Its Assets for Acquiring COVID-19 Vaccines

March 28, 2021 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

Published on Resumen LatinAmerica, March 25, 2021 The government of Venezuela presented a report this Wednesday concerning the looting of Venezuela’s assets located in other countries, a situation that has made acquisition of vaccines against COVID-19 more difficult, and which was caused by the machinations carried out by Juan Guaido. Venezuelan Executive Vice-president Delcy Rodriguez stated that the blockade of[…]

SSM: Remarks on the 10th Anniversary of the Syrian War

March 12, 2021 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

Expanded Statement by Ken Stone on behalf of Syria Solidarity Movement, March 12, 2021 The February 25th, 2021, US bombing of Syria signaled the new US regime’s intention to continue its war of attrition on Syria. It is merely the latest stage of a hybrid war that began when the Arab Nationalist Movement came to power in 1963. Since 2011, Washington[…]