Sanctions

US Caused $4.5 Billion In Losses To Cuba Over The Last Year

September 21, 2019 Staff, Telesur Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Sanctions

The U.S. economic blockade has caused over US$ 138.8 billion in losses to Cuba since the 1960s. Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Friday presented a report on the impact caused by the U.S .blockade policy on the Cuban economy over the last year. "The U.S. blockade against Cuba impacts, as never before, on the everyday life of every Cuban family, in every sector of our economy, in every social development project in the country," Rodriguez said and anticipated that his country will insist on the elimination of such arbitrary policy before the international community.

Iran To Avoid US Sanctions By Bypassing SWIFT, Ditching Dollar In Trade Transactions

September 20, 2019 By Tim Korso, Sputniknews.com Educate! Global Finance, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

The international SWIFT network banned Iranian banks from its system soon after the US imposed sanctions against the country in November 2018. The ban was preceded by Washington's threats to slap sanctions on the financial network too if it were to continue working with the Islamic Republic's financial institutions. Iranian Central Bank (CBI) head Abdolnaser Hemmati said in a statement on 18 September that the country is planning to evade American economic sanctions by switching entirely away from the dollar to national currencies in mutual trade and by bypassing SWIFT.

Open Letter to Congress: Why the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 Must Be Opposed

September 18, 2019 K.J.Noh, Kevin Zeese, and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Educate! China, Hong Kong, Sanctions, US Regime Change

This Open Letter urges Members of Congress to oppose HR 3289, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign affairs on June 13th, 2019. The bill “directs various departments to assess whether political developments in Hong Kong justify changing Hong Kong's unique [i.e. preferential economic and trade] treatment under U.S. law and to determine whether China has eroded Hong Kong's civil liberties and rule of law as protected by Hong Kong's Basic Law.”

Challenging Times For Citizen To Citizen Diplomacy In Russia

September 15, 2019 Ann Wright, World Beyond War. Create! citizen diplomacy, Crimea, Russia, Sanctions

Whenever you go to one of the countries the U.S. considers its “enemy,” you can be sure to get a lot of flak. This year I have been to Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Russia, four of the many countries upon which the U.S. has put strong sanctions for a variety of reasons, most of which have to do with the countries refusing to allow the U.S. to dictate political, economic and security issues. (For the record, I was in North Korea in 2015; I haven’t been to Venezuela yet, but intend to go soon.) Many, especially family, have asked, “why do you go to these countries,” including the FBI officials who met me and CODEPINK: Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin at Dulles Airport upon our return from Iran in February 2019. The two young FBI officers asked if I knew there were U.S. sanctions on Iran for support for terrorist groups.

US Sanctions Are Designed To Kill

September 9, 2019 Kevin Cashman and Cavan Kharrazian, Jacobinmag.com Educate! Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently visited the Group of Seven (G7) at the invitation of French president Emmanuel Macron, in what was seen as an overture to the Trump administration to negotiate over sanctions that have plagued the Iranian economy. Back in 2018, after months of increasingly hostile rhetoric, the US government withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or “Iran Deal,” and imposed a “maximum pressure” campaign that included unilateral, economy-wide sanctions.

World Watching The Fate Of Iranian Tanker

August 21, 2019 By Vijay Prashad, Asiatimes.com Educate! Iran, Oil, Sanctions, US Imperialism

At 11:30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained about six weeks previous by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar officials. The British claimed that the ship, then named Grace 1, was taking its cargo of 2.1 million barrels of oil to Syria. There are European Union sanctions against trade with the Syrian government. It is based on these sanctions that the British seized the Iranian vessel.

Punishing The World With Sanctions

August 19, 2019 Philip Giraldi, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Sanctions, US Imperialism

Sanctions are economic warfare, pure and simple. As an alternative to a direct military attack on a country that is deemed to be misbehaving they are certainly preferable, but no one should be under any illusions regarding what they actually represent. They are war by other means and they are also illegal unless authorized by a supra-national authority like the United Nations Security Council, which was set up after World War II to create a framework that inter alia would enable putting pressure on a rogue regime without going to war. At least that was the idea, but the sanctions regimes recently put in place unilaterally and without any international authority by the United States have had a remarkable tendency to escalate several conflicts rather than providing the type of pressure that would lead to some kind of agreement.

China Ignores New US Sanctions And Increases Support For Venezuelan Oil

August 15, 2019 Paul Dobson, Venezuelanalysis. Educate! China, Oil, Sanctions, Venezuela

Mérida – The Venezuelan government has announced the expansion of Chinese investment in the country’s oil industry, with the aim of increasing production by 120,000 barrels per day. The investment, which authorities say is worth US $3 billion, financed the construction of a new oil blending plant inaugurated last Thursday as the first part of the two-stage plan. The “Jose” plant, which is located in Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, is to be run by the Sinovensa joint venture, which is 49 percent owned by China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and 51 percent by Venezuela’s PDVSA state-run oil company. The facility will blend extra-heavy grades from Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt into the exportable Merey crude, which is popular in Asian markets. Sinovensa currently produces 110,000 barrels per day (bpd), a figure which officials claim will increase to 165,000 bpd with the addition of the new blending plant.

The Spoils of Economic War: How The US, Saudis Profit From Sanctions On Venezuela And Iran

August 12, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, Venezuela

The United States has been playing the role of the world's economic bully. So far, the U.S. has imposed sanctions against Afghanistan, Burundi, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, China, Cyprus, Haiti, Libya, Lebanon, Belarus, Crimea, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe. But if unilateral harassment has proven itself historically ineffective at achieving conventional geopolitical objectives, why does the U.S. insist on bullying Venezuela and Iran?

International Day Of Action To Protest The Increased US Blockade Of Venezuela

August 11, 2019 Popular Resistance. Resist! Blockade, Sanctions, Solidarity, Venezuela

On Monday, August 5, President Trump signed an Executive Order that worsens the US blockade of Venezuela. The order can be used to basically go after any person or entity that supports the Maduro administration. It also includes restrictions on travel for people who support the current government. Here is Popular Resistance's statement about the blockade. While the order has language saying it won't impact access to food and medicine, just two days after it was signed a ship carrying 25 thousands tons of soy was held up in Panama. Citing the blockade, the Maduro government decided not to send representatives to the next round of talks with the opposition in Barbados. Instead, millions of Venezuelans were urged to sign a document that will be delivered to the United Nations denouncing the blockade. Saturday, August 10, was declared a World Protest Day against the Venezuelan Blockade.

US Sanctions Threaten Famine In Venezuela, Leading Economist Warns

August 8, 2019 Aaron Maté, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Famine, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Sanctions, Venezuela

Top Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez says the Trump administration’s sanctions have cost Venezuela $16.9 billion per year – and caused food shortages that threaten hundreds of thousands of deaths. Guest: Francisco Rodríguez, Chief Economist at Torino Economics in New York, former head of the Venezuelan National Assembly’s Economic and Financial Advisory Office, and former adviser to opposition Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcon.

Popular Resistance Expresses Solidarity With Venezuela Against US Blockade

August 6, 2019 Popular Resistance. Educate! Regime Change, Sanctions, United Nations Charter, Venezuela

On August 6, 2019, at the same time that National Security Adviser John Bolton is leading a US delegation in Peru to organize opposition to the elected government of Venezuela, the White House released a statement about a new executive order signed by President Trump that creates a blockade on Venezuela. And it imposes a travel ban, under the discretion of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, to block anyone from entering the United States who supports the elected government of Venezuela. Popular Resistance opposes the illegal actions being taken by the United States, including this latest blockade, and urges the United States to end the unilateral coercive economic measures and threats of military attack, which violate the United Nations Charter.

Economic Sanctions Will Kill Tens Of Thousands Of Innocent Iranians

August 3, 2019 Muhammad Sahimi, Lobelog.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions

The illegal economic sanctions that the Trump administration has imposed on Iran are ruining its economy by increasing the inflation rate—from nine percent before the sanctions to 35-40 percent today—as well as unemployment, and forcing countless numbers of small businesses to close. Whereas Iran’s economy grew by 12.5 percent in 2016, it has shrunk by six percent in the first six months of 2019. These are the results that President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor John Bolton constantly brag about.

‘US Economic Terrorism Will Backfire’: Iranian Foreign Minister Calls For Unity In Nicaragua

July 24, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Nicaragua, Sanctions

The Grayzone reports from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution that ousted a US-backed dictatorship. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has just arrived here from Caracas, Venezuela, where he was attending the international summit of the new Non-Aligned Movement, where Iran, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, among other nations, were discussing ways to get around crippling US sanctions that are being imposed on all of these countries. We asked Minister Zarif several questions about the US economic warfare and the recent seizure of several oil tankers.

What Sanctions Mean For My Iranian-American Family

July 23, 2019 By Mina Shahinfar, Otherwords.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

As innocent people suffer, break-ins are on the rise — including at my grandparents’ house. “What’s wrong?” I asked my mother, as I saw her broken expression. She was on the phone, speaking with my grandparents in Iran. “A terrible thing has happened,” she replied. My grandparent’s home in Tehran had been broken into. The thieves took everything they could carry — my grandmother’s jewelry, my uncle’s prized watch collection, his wedding band, and some cash. Perhaps the only thing left untouched was the grand, ornate Persian rug in their living room.

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