Unilateral Coercive Measures

The Criminality of Unilateral Sanctions

by Prabhat Patnaik, published on MR Online, September 1, 2024 DURING Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions, that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions. Let us for a moment forget the[…]

The Criminal War on SYRIA Continues

September 12, 2023 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Statement, Syria, U.S. Aggression, US Incited Protests

A couple of things that may have been left unsaid: HIghly publicized protests in Southern Syria are small and instigated by imams affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and other U.S. backed Islamist Organizations. Currently, a bill passed in the U.S. Congress, likely to be confirmed in the Senate this year, to extend the so-called Caesar Civilian Protection Sanctions, which are[…]

Biden Calls Cuba “Terrorist” While The People Demand An End to U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba

June 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Global Trade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

By Calla Mairead Walsh, published on Socialist Action, May 29, 2023 When the Devil rules, no good work goes unpunished. [jb] Thousands of Cubans gather to celebrate the country’s National Rebellion Day, a yearly commemoration of the Cuban revolution. While Biden doubles down on Cuba’s designation as a so-called “State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the US people are increasingly calling for[…]

US Still Imposing Illegal, Unilateral Sanctions on Eritrea

April 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Eritrea, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12 2023 Yemane Ghebreab, advisor to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, explains how US economic sanctions impact the Eritrean people. The Ethiopian army decisively defeated the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in November 2022, after a two-year war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced over five million people.[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Latin America and the Caribbean – Between Cooperation and Intervention

November 24, 2022 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Latin America, Regional Solutions

by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla con Salsa, October 30, 2022 The military, economic, diplomatic and psychological war between the Russian Federation and NATO has revealed several weaknesses in the ability of the United States and its allies to maintain their dominance in the world. A remarkable fact has been that practically no government in Latin America and the Caribbean[…]

U.S. Hybrid war Against Venezuela Goes to Court: The Case of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab

November 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

by Roger Harris and John Philpot, published on Pressenza New York, October 3, 2022 As Venezuela’s special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the U.S. has flouted this principle of international law. Judicial overreach on[…]

High-Value US Asset “Fat Leonard” Arrested in Venezuela – Possible Prisoner Swap

October 6, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Venezuela

by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, October 6, 2022 The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in US military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the US Navy out of at least $35 million. The culprit goes by the moniker “Fat Leonard.” He tips the scales[…]