Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Who Controls Afghanistan’s Sovereign Assets?

January 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Austerity, Global Economics, Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Afghanistan Update by Black Alliance for Peace, Solidarity Network, November 18, 2024 Editor’s note: This is not only about Afghanistan’s “Sovereign” Assets. For the purposes of trade, international banks have to keep a slush fund in dollars in a western bank, since money doesn’t always travel at the same rate, moving money from bank to bank, business to business. In[…]

What’s Left in Latin American and the Caribbean: Year 2024 in Review

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Latin America, Multipolar World, New Pink Tide, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, South America, US Foreign Policy, US Intervention, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Roger D. Harris and John Perry, published on Internationalist 360º, December 26, 2024 The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already slackened by 2023 compared to its rise in 2022, when it was buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil. Then, progressive alternatives had sailed into power[…]

How the U.S. and Its Allies Destroyed a Sovereign State

December 31, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, coup, Featured, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperial Wars, Israel, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, Syria, Turkey, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

by Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, December 30, 2024 The Bronx Anti-War Coalition posted the following article on its website on Dec. 27, 2024. A version of this article was presented on a webinar on Syria organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition. The fall of Syria as a sovereign state and the chaos engulfing the country are[…]

From Relative “Peace” to Chaos: The First Phase of a New War Returns to Syria

December 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Occupation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 12, 2024 The fall of the Syrian government is being heralded by Western liberals and “leftists.” The collapse is not the liberation that is being presented by the US and its corporate media partners. Liberals and their Western allies, among the social-imperialist left in the U.S. and Europe, are celebrating the[…]

Sanctions, Syria and the Need for Solidarity

December 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 16, 2024 The following article is based on a talk given at the “Americas Without Sanctions” hybrid meeting. This program was held in-person at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., on December 10, 2024 — Human Rights Day. In addition, more than 400 people registered for the Zoom. The program[…]

UNAC Response to the Overthrow of the Syrian Government

December 11, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Featured, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

UNAC Statement, December 10, 2024 This is a moment to salute and remember the martyrs and resistance fighters in Syria, who for decades and against all odds held firm against U.S. imperialist domination. Because imperialism has no solutions the struggle will regroup and break forth again and each time at a higher level. After the U.S. backed surge of mercenaries[…]

The Economic War Against Syria

December 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Economic Collapse, Humanitarian Aid, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, US Foreign Policy

by Roberta Rivolta, published on Counter-Hegemonic Studies, December 4, 2024 As ancient as economic wars may be, the use of embargoes as means of coercion experienced a significant acceleration only at the end of the Cold War. While the collapse of the USSR reduced the risk that a targeted nation could fall into the Soviet Union sphere of influence, the[…]

They Lied About Gaza And They Are Lying About Syria

December 3, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Hybrid Warfare, Palestine, Racism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Substack, November 30, 2024 Al-Qaeda affiliates with a history of receiving western funding have reactivated in Syria along with Turkish-backed fighters to recapture significant amounts of territory in the war-ravaged nation. It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening in the moment, but I will say it’s mighty convenient how Russia being tied up in Ukraine[…]

Cuba’s Economic Crisis: US Sanctions and the Problem of ‘Overcompliance’ 

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Collapsed States, Cuba, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Joy Gordon, published on LaMonde Diplomatique, October 7, 2024 Cuba has faced many economic crises, but the current one is different. It is far worse than even that of the early 1990s, when Cuba lost all trade with the Soviet bloc, and at the same time the US imposed severe new economic measures against the island nation. In the[…]

A Conversation With Venezuelan Ambassador in Damascus – Latin America and Palestine

November 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Global South, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Political Analysis, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Vanessa Beeley, published on Substack, October 28, 2924 Two days ago I had the privilege to have a conversation with the Venezuelan Ambassador at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Syrian Arab Republic – Dr. Jose Gregorio Biomorgi. You can watch a previous interview with Dr. Biomorgi that I did in 2019 when Venezuela was[…]