Sanctions

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,[…]

Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course

June 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Paths to Emancipation, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, United Nations

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 28, 2025 Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence. On May 24th, Eritrea celebrated its 34th Independence Day. From September 1, 1961, to May 24, 1991, the Eritrean people waged a 30-year war to free themselves from the Ethiopian empire, first under the control[…]

Russia Sends $62M to Cuba, Crippling U S Blockade Strategy

April 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Cuba, Global Alliances, Global Trade, Humanitarian Aid, Political Analysis, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Hegemony

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Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

March 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Diplomacy, Global South, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, US Hypocrisy, US Intervention

by Helen Yaffe, published on Jacobin Magazine, March 8, 2024 The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South. On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s[…]