Sanctions

The United States’ War Against Venezuela began in 2001

January 8, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Democracy, Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Monroe Doctrine, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

by Vijay Prashad, published on Socialist Action, December 31, 1025 The United States had no problem with Venezuela itself, nor with the country or its former oligarchy. The problem the U.S. government and its business class have is with the process initiated by President Hugo Chávez’s first administration. In 2001, Chávez’s Bolivarian process passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law,[…]

Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse

December 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Economic Collapse, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, International Law, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Social Impact, Venezuela

by Michelle Ellner, published on Common Dreams, December 25 2025 The loudest question in Washington right now is whether Donald Trump is going to invade Venezuela. The quieter, and far more dangerous, reality is this: he probably won’t. Not because he cares about Venezuelan lives, but because he has found a strategy that is cheaper, less politically risky at home,[…]

Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade

December 25, 2025 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Piracy, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela, Yemen

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, December 22, 2025 The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific under the banner of “drug enforcement,” killing over 100 people whose identities the U.S. has obscured. At the same time, the Trump administration has threatened a naval[…]

Who Is the Failed State? Cuba, Revolutionary Ethics, and the Moral Bankruptcy of Western Capitalism

August 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Global Economics, Haiti, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Poverty and Sanctions, Public Health, Public Health, Resistance, U.S. Hegemony, US Foreign Policy, War on the Poor

by Isaac Saney, published on Socialist Action, July 30, 2025 The Cuban revolution endures despite more than 60 years of U.S. attacks. One system exploits the people, while the other prioritizes their needs. Which nation deserves the label of “failed’? In an age where propaganda masquerades as truth and empire cloaks itself in the garb of “democracy,” few lies are as[…]

Unilateral And Illegal Sanctions Kill Half A Million Civilians Per Year

August 2, 2025 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Global Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, US Government Action, War and Weapons

by Vijay Prashad, from the Tricontinental Institute, published on Popular Resistance, August 1, 2025 Deadly Sanctions Are Mainly By The United States. A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year. Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are[…]

Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions, Says Ex-UN Special Rapporteur

July 27, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, United Nations, US Politics

by Marjorie Cohn, published on the LA Progressive, July 15, 2025 The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Note that all of Albanese’s recent reports are linked in this article. [jb] The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States[…]

Why Workers World Defends Iran

June 23, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Iran, Revolution, U.S. Aggression

Workers World Editorial, June 23, 2025 Why is it important for the worldwide movement to defend Iran? Is it because this country of 92 million people was recently bombed by the U.S.-backed zionist regime of Israel on June 12, followed by the bombing of its three nuclear reactors by the Pentagon on June 22? Is it because Iran has had[…]

The US Blockade on Cuba

June 8, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Cuba, Imperialism, Resistance, Revolution, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Adam Kendall, published on Resumen English, May 28, 2025 For many Canadians, the US blockade on Cuba is thought to be a relic of the Cold War, either a product of the Soviet era or something eased under Obama’s “Cuban thaw.” This misconception allows American imperialism to go unchecked and obscures the enduring reality of one of the longest[…]

Syria: A Case Study in the Devastating Effects of Economic Coercive Measures on a Population

June 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, coup, Featured, Statement, Syria, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

Statement by SanctionsKill and Syria Support Movement International SanctionsKill and the Syria Support Movement welcome the statement by US president Donald Trump ordering the lifting of economic sanctions on Syria.1 As stated in the Verdict of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism, economic coercive measures are: “inherently violent, designed to maintain economic inequality, continue the theft of wealth from[…]

Trump and Rubio Tighten the Noose on Cuba

June 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba, Global South, Imperial Wars, Paths to Emancipation, Poverty and Sanctions, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Manolo De Los Santos, produced by Globetrotter, June 6, 2025 The impacts of a tightened US blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the return of Trump with a vindictive Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, have deepened the crisis in Cuba, making international solidarity with the island more important than ever. Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis,[…]