International Law

U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage that is Deadly, Illegal and Ineffective

June 19, 2019 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies, June 17, 2019 While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration has been sabotaging Iranian oil shipments since May 2, when it announced its intention to “bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying the[…]

U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Illegal under UN and OAS Charters, and US Laws

June 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, International Law, Venezuela

Add Newby Editorial Staff, Countercurrents, June 7, 2019 Sanctions imperialism has imposed on Venezuela are illegal. The UN and Organization of American States (OAS) charters, and U.S. laws find this illegal action. Media reports said: The unilateral economic sanctions is an explicit violation of international law protected under the UN, OAS charters, human rights stipulations, and even U.S. law. Despite[…]

Gangster Politics: U.S. War Threats Intensify on Iran

May 23, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Featured, Iran, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

Image from US Embassy Correspondence, Tiblisi, Georgia by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World and IAC blogs, May 21, 2019 May 20 — Another U.S. initiated crisis reached an ominous level this past week with President Trump’s announcement that Iran suddenly presented a new, unspecified threat, serious enough to send a U.S. Naval aircraft carrier battle group churning toward the[…]

Showdown at the Venezuelan Embassy

May 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Protest, Resistance, Venezuela

Photo by Alex Rubenstein by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance, May 15, 2019 This article describes a tense showdown and small victory that took place Monday evening between the embassy protectors and federal authorities, and concludes with URGENT ACTIONS people can take to resolve this dispute and stop a US-orchestrated coup. (Writing on Day 36 of the[…]

Requium for the Fourth Estate

April 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Journalism, Political Prisoners, Whistleblowers

by Ray McGovern, from Consortium News, April 11, 2019 It is a very sad day for the rule of law. Today’s broad-daylight manhandling and kidnapping of Julian Assange from political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London demonstrates in bas-relief that in today’s Anglo-America, the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights are now “quaint and obsolete,” to use the[…]

How the ICC Intends to Violate a UN Security Council Decision and Try Bashar al-Assad

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor International Law, Middle East Wars, Syria

Everyone believed it to be impossible for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try the Syrians, since China and Russia exercised their vetos against a Western draft resolution to do so. But no! A piece of legal sleight of hand may make it possible to dodge the decision of the Security Council. The Court hopes to incriminate President Bachar el-Assad,[…]

Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

February 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Claire for Counterpunch by Michael Hudson, published on CounterPunch Blog, February 8, 2019 The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Just as the Vietnam War drove the United States off[…]

Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals the Nature of Bipartisan Police State

January 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Iran, Political Prisoners, Racism

Editor’s note: Marzieh Hashemi has since been released, though this does not excuse the treatment she has been subjected to. by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 23, 2019 The only reason our sister is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated. “Even the Bill of Rights doesn’t provide protections when[…]

Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou

December 10, 2018 UNAC Editor China, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Christopher Black, from New Eastern Outlook, December 8, 2018 “It is clear the US is pushing the battle line to our door … We can completely regard the US arrest of Meng Wanzhou as a declaration of war against China.” So read an editorial in the Global Times of China on December 6, the day after Meng Wanzhou, chief[…]

Green Party Urges International Criminal Court To Prosecute Israel For Crimes Against Palestinians

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel-Palestine, Resistance

Above: Delegation at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands on November 19, 2018. From left to right Margaret Flowers, Green Party co-chair, member of the Green Party Peace Action Committee and Green Party of Maryland, Miko Peled, Green Party US member, Dirk Adriaensens of the Brussells Tribunal, Diane Moxley of Green Party International Committee and Green Party of New Jersey, Stephen[…]