Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Latin America and Caribbean, Year 2022 in Review – Challenges for a Pink Tide Surging Over a Volatile US Hegemony

January 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Argentina, Colonialism, coup, Democracy and Consent, International Aid and Debt, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Roger D. Harris, published on NicaNotes, January 12, 2023 2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US the unilateral authority to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states in the Western Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from meddling in what is viewed as Washington’s backyard. Two centuries later, the[…]

The More Than 400 Million of Another Infamy Against Cuba

January 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression

by Raúl Antonio Capote, published in Granma, January 12, 2023 After a year recognized as one of the toughest in revolutionary history, a new action has been added to the list of U.S. villainies against the Greater Antilles. After a year recognized as one of the toughest in revolutionary history, a new action has been added to the list of[…]

Threat of More U.N. Sanctions on Haiti

January 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Economic Collapse, France, Haiti, Indigenous peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, January 6, 2023 While the huge social, economic and political problems of Haiti have slipped out of the news, if anything they have intensified over the past few months. According to Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of BINUH (U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti), “Close[…]

Capitalists Wage Class War: Organize Resistance!

January 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Latin America, Middle East Wars, Militarism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy, War on the Poor

by Workers World Party, published on Workers World, January 10, 2023 Billionaire Warren Buffett admitted in a 2006 interview that he and his fellow billionaires waged class war against the workers. The U.S. federal government, representing the interests of the U.S.-based imperialist ruling class, makes it a global war against all workers and poor people and most nations. The U.S.[…]

The Longest War in U.S. History Has Left a Failed State in Afghanistan

January 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Policy

by Lisa Sorush published on CovertAction Magazine, December 29, 2023 We cannot forget Afghanistan. It is crystal clear evidence of the U.S. impunity heartlessness in destroying a Afghanistan is in the midst of a severe crisis as a result of the 20-year U.S.-NATO war which culminated in a return to the status quo—that is the return of the Taliban to[…]

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

January 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Book Review, International Law, Lawfare, Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Ukraine, Venezuela

by John Perry of Masaya, Nicaragua, published on the website of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA, January 10, 2023 A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum.(1) Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they[…]

U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity

January 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Review, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, Soft Power Imperialism, Trade

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 2, 2023 …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On[…]

Venezuela Fiercely Rejects US Senate’s Passing of BOLIVAR Act

December 30, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

Published on the Orinoco Tribune,December 19, 2022 Caracas, December 18, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—This Friday, December 16, the US Senate unanimously approved the Law to Prohibit Operations and Leasing with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela (BOLIVAR Act), presented by the ultra-conservative Floridian senator, Rick Scott. The discussion of the interventionist act in the lower house of the US Congress is still[…]

Silent Killer: The Seige of Yemen

December 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Global Trade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Richard Medhurst, published on Richard’s Substack, May 11, 2022 This article gives a useful elaboration of the way that sanctions work to undermine the economy of a targeted country and the welfare of the people who live there. Denial of fuel undermines all social services, not just personal consumption. This issue affects numerous other countries in the region,[…]

Anger as Miami Judge Rules Against Freedom for Alex Saab

December 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Staff at Fightback News, published December 27, 2022 Miami, FL – A Miami judge ruled against freedom for Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab on December 24. In a two-week-long hearing to determine Saab’s diplomatic status and his right to immunity from prosecution, Saab’s defense team presented stacks of evidence proving his status as a special envoy. The defense even used[…]