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Washington Blocks Palestinian Leaders From Attending UN General Assembly

August 30, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
In an unprecedented move, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 29 August revoked visas for Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly in New York in September. The State Department justified the move by citing PA payments to the families of Palestinian martyrs, President Mahmoud Abbas' plan to use a "constitutional declaration" to declare an independent Palestinian state at the General Assembly meeting, and Palestinian efforts to hold Israel accountable for war crimes in international courts. "The Palestinian Authority must also cease its attempts to circumvent the negotiations through international legal campaigns, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure unilateral recognition of a possible Palestinian state," the State Department said in a statement.

Australia: Tens Of Thousands Rally To Demand Sanctions On Israel

August 24, 2025 Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
Tens of thousands of Australians rallied in more than 40 cities and towns on Sunday to protest Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, with participants calling for sanctions on Tel Aviv, local broadcaster SBS reported, Anadolu reports. Palestine Action Group organizers said the demonstrations aimed to pressure the federal government to sanction Israel and impose an arms embargo. Josh Lees, a rally organizer, estimated crowds of “about 40,000 here in Sydney, 50 or 60,000 in Melbourne, 10,000 in Hobart, thousands in Perth and Brisbane and everywhere else.” In Brisbane, police put the turnout at 10,000, while organizers claimed closer to 50,000.

Dutch Foreign Minister Quits Over Cabinet Refusal To Punish Israel

August 24, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned on 22 August after he failed to secure harsher sanctions against Israel during a cabinet meeting with fellow ministers. “I see that I am insufficiently able to take meaningful additional measures to increase pressure on Israel,” Veldkamp said after a cabinet meeting of the caretaker government in which the Gaza genocide was debated. Veldcamp is a member of the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) party, which rules the Netherlands as part of a coalition with the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). Veldcamp said the steps he had proposed were “seriously discussed.” However, he failed to win the support of NSC’s coalition partners.

Unilateral And Illegal Sanctions Kill Half A Million Civilians Per Year

August 1, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. , , , ,
Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read about war, it is disconnected from our lives, and many of us want to stop listening to anything about the human misery caused by weapons or by sanctions. The scholasticism of the academic and the hushed tones of the diplomat are silenced as the bomb and the bank wage war against the planet. After authorising the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) on 6 August 1945, US President Harry S. Truman announced on the radio: ‘If [the Japanese] do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth’.

Rethink Sanctions: They’re Killing As Many People As War Does

July 25, 2025 Mark Weisbrot, CEPR. , , , ,
Broad economic sanctions, most of which are imposed by the U.S. government, kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people each year — disproportionately children. This week the Lancet Global Health journal published an article that estimated that number at about 564,000 annually over a decade. This is comparable to the annual deaths around the world from armed conflict. Sanctions are becoming the preferred weapon of the United States and some allies — not because they are less destructive than military action, but more likely because the toll is less visible.

Europe’s Betrayal Of Gaza

July 23, 2025 Medea Benjamin, Consortium News. , , , ,
While the U.S. government has given Israel carte blanche to commit genocide, many of us held out hope that Europe would be different — more principled, more bound by its own human rights commitments. But Europe has proven no better; it has been complicit through trade deals, a steady flow of weapons, and brutal crackdowns on pro-Palestine protesters across the continent. At the July 15 meeting of the European Union-Israel Association Council, European foreign ministers had a chance to act, but they refused to take punitive action under the agreement’s human rights clause.

Iran Agrees To Nuclear Talks With European States

July 20, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , ,
Iran has agreed to hold nuclear talks with the UK, France, and Germany, an informed source told the semi-official Tasnim News Agency on 20 July. “Tehran and the European troika have come to an agreement in principle on the resumption of the talks about Iran’s nuclear program, but the timing and location of the negotiations are under debate,” the Iranian source said. “The decision as to which country will be hosting the upcoming talks has not been finalized yet,” the source added. The report goes on to say that “Iran was considering a request from the EU3 about the resumption of talks on the nuclear issue and the removal of sanctions.”

European Union Refuses To Sanction Israel Over Genocide In Gaza

July 16, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The EU has decided against imposing sanctions on Israel over its war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, which have continued unabated on a daily basis.  “The EU Council failed yesterday to take a decision on Israel´s violation of the Association Agreement´s Human Rights clause. But this is in itself a decision: Europe decides not to punish Israel's continued war crimes and allows the Gaza genocide to proceed unabated,” said former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on 16 July.  Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Affairs Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin described the lack of action as “shocking and disappointing.”

Spying On Iran: How MI6 Infiltrated The IAEA

July 3, 2025 Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. , , , , , , , ,
A notorious British MI6 agent infiltrated the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on London’s behalf, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The agent, Nicholas Langman, is a veteran intelligence operative who claims credit for helping engineer the West’s economic war on Iran. Langman’s identity first surfaced in journalistic accounts of his role in deflecting accusations that British intelligence played a role in the death of Princess Diana. He was later accused by Greek authorities of overseeing the abduction and torture of Pakistani migrants in Athens. In both cases, UK authorities issued censorship orders forbidding the press from publishing his name. But Greek media, which was under no such obligation, confirmed that Langman was one of the MI6 assets withdrawn from Britain’s embassy in Athens.

Standing Up To Sanctions

June 20, 2025 Rohan Mehra, QS Insights Magazine. , , ,
We often hear about countries sanctioning one another as a punitive measure in place of military action, to spare lives and civil infrastructure. But there is strong academic criticism of the effectiveness of sanctions, with a key concern being that, even broad economic actions can have disastrous consequences to real people just trying to live and work. Some of these consequences are straightforward: sanctions can reduce access to fuel, food, power and so on, but they also impact some areas of society with wide reaching and lasting effects. Education, in particular, can suffer greatly, affecting lives in a worrying number of ways.

EU Sanctions Red. Media For Covering Crackdown On Palestine Protests

May 22, 2025 The Red, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , , , ,
The EU Council’s latest sanctions, intended to deter Russia’s war with Ukraine, include red. media founder Hüseyin Doğru, and AFA Medya (which operates red.), citing their coverage of Germany’s pro-Palestine protests which the council claims “supports” Russia. Since the EU began rolling out one sanctions package after another in the wake of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the targeting of Doğru marks the first time the EU has used this weapon in the service of Germany’s crackdown on Palestine solidarity, a crackdown which has been condemned by UN officials and human rights groups.

Britain, France, and Canada Threaten Israel If Gaza War Is Not Halted

May 21, 2025 Juan Cole, Scheer Post. , , , , , , , , ,
Britain, France and Canada issued a statement on Monday, demanding that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu cease its military campaign against the people of Gaza and halt its months-long blockade of food and medical aid, which has left the Strip on the verge of widespread famine. The three threatened Tel Aviv with “concrete steps” should it fail to do as they insist. The three NATO powers went further than a 22-nation petition to Israel to halt its food and aid blockade issued on Monday, which they also signed. The other 19 countries apparently declined to go so far as to demand an end to the war, as well.

The Human Cost Of Syria Sanctions

May 20, 2025 Rick Sterling, LA Progressive. , , , , ,
On May 13, Trump announced he is ordering the removal of sanctions on Syria. Some of the U.S. sanctions can be quickly terminated because they were issued by Executive Order. Other sanctions, including the extremely damaging 2019 "Caesar" sanctions, were imposed by Congressional legislation and may require Congressional action to terminate. The Syrian people are joyous at the prospect of the end of their country's economic nightmare. In 2010, before the conflict began, Syria was a middle-income country with free education, free healthcare, and no national debt. It was largely self-sufficient in energy and food. After fourteen years of war, occupation, and strangulating Western sanctions, the U.N. reports that "nine out of ten Syrians live in poverty and face food insecurity".

The Hypocrisy Of US Imperialists And Syrian Reactionaries

May 16, 2025 Bronx Anti-War Coalition, Workers World. , , , ,
The Trump regime’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria exposes the true purpose of sanctions: to deliberately impoverish ordinary citizens, force regime change and extend U.S.-led imperial control. For 15 years, the United States imposed draconian sanctions on the Assad government, isolating Syria from international banking, trade and essential sectors such as energy, health and education, with the explicit intent of undermining its self-sufficient socialist economy. These measures were designed to demoralize ordinary Syrians and force a change in leadership by targeting the elected coalition government of Syria under President Assad, who had defended the Palestinian cause and refused to normalize relations with the Zionist entity.

Iran, United States Begin Indirect Nuclear Talks In Oman

April 13, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Indirect talks between Iran and the US have begun in Oman regarding Iran's nuclear program and economic sanctions imposed by Washington on Tehran as a result of it. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi leads the Iranian delegation, while Steve Witkoff, the US President's Special Representative for the Middle East, will represent the US side. Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidy will mediate. Iran maintains that these talks are solely about nuclear issues and has rejected negotiations regarding any of its defense capabilities, such as its missile ballistic program. "What is clear now is that the negotiations are indirect and, in our view, only on the nuclear issue, and will be carried out with the necessary will to reach an agreement that is from an equal position and leads to securing Iran's national interests," Araghchi stated Saturday.
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