Sanctions

Sanctions Are Genocidal, And They Are The U.S.’s Favorite Weapon

June 18, 2019 Justin Podur, Independentmediainstitute.org Educate! Genocide, Latin America, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

After withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran last year and resuming sanctions last November, the White House in April announced that its goal was to “drive Iranian exports to zero.” To make this drive happen, the White House stopped allowing (my emphasis) countries like India, China, Japan, Turkey, and South Korea to import Iranian oil: dictating to sovereign countries whom they can trade with. The dictating doesn’t stop there. Last December the United States had Canadian authorities detain and imprison a Chinese executive, the chief financial officer of telecom company Huawei.

US Sanctions In Venezuela: Help, Hindrance, Or Violation Of Human Rights?

June 16, 2019 Tanya L. Zakrison and Carles Muntaner, The Lancet. Educate! health, Sanctions, United Nations, Venezuela

The impact of the US sanctions on the Venezuelan population cannot be overstated. More than 300 000 Venezuelans are at risk due to a lack of lifesaving medications and treatment. An estimated 80 000 HIV-positive patients have had no antiretroviral therapy since 2017. Access to medication such as insulin has been curtailed because US banks refuse to handle Venezuelan payments for this. Thousands to millions of people have been without access to dialysis, cancer treatment, or therapy for hypertension and diabetes. Particular to children has been the delay of vaccination campaigns or lack of access to antirejection medications after solid organ transplants in Argentina. Children with leukaemia awaiting bone marrow transplants abroad are now dying. Funds for such health-assistance programmes come from the PDVSA state oil company. Those funds are now frozen.

How Venezuelans Turn To Collective Action To Defy US Blockade

June 5, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Create! Blockades, Collective, Latin America, Regime Change, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

A response in the form of collective action is part of how the Venezuelans resist to sanctions, with song, smiles, and confidence they seem to be undeterred to fight for the Bolivarian ideals, despite U.S. imperialism. As the United States government intensifies its unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela, its people have turned to one another to push ahead and deal with economic sanctions. Local Colectivos (Collectives) and demonstrations of popular support have come to represent the unbreakable will of the Bolivarian Republic.

95-Year-Old Woman Veteran On A Hunger Strike For Children Of Yemen, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela As Victims

June 5, 2019 By Ann Wright, Opednews.com Resist! Children, Hunger Strikes, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Sanctions, Veterans

Sally Alice Thompson is 95 years old and she is on a hunger strike for the children, children who are victims of the U.S. government's sanctions and war mongering on the countries where they live -- Yemen, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. She is a World War II Navy veteran, an anti-war activist and member of Veterans for Peace in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ms. Thompson has been involved in peace, and anti-nuclear issues for decades. In 1986, she walked across the United States in the Great American Peace Walk and a year later joined 200 other Americans who walked for peace from Moscow to St. Petersburg in the US-Soviet International Peace Walk.

Venezuela Is A Case Study In The Brutality Of U.S. Sanctions

June 3, 2019 By Gabe Levine-Drizin, Inthesetimes.com Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

On May 8, nearly a year to the day since the U.S. pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration slapped a fresh round of sanctions on Iran, whose economy is already reeling. The Iran sanctions are but the most recent example of a U.S. foreign policy tool that consistently causes or exacerbates humanitarian crises. For a preview of what Iran is likely to suffer, we can look to another country currently in U.S. crosshairs: Venezuela. The devastating effects of the Trump administration’s broad economic sanctions, first imposed against Venezuela in 2017...

Venezuela Sanction To Kill: How US Blockade Is Taking Venezuelans’ Lives

May 31, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! Blockades, Latin America, Regime Change, Sanctions, Venezuela

While continuous and intensified sanctions against Venezuela by the United States aim to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s administration they are mostly hurting the country's population, of which at least 40,000 deaths have been recorded, according to a study released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in April 2019. Sanctions against Venezuela by the U.S. intensified after Jan. 23 when opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido attempted to overthrow democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro.

US Sanctions Violate Human Rights & International Code Of Conduct, UN Expert Says

May 9, 2019 Staff, Ohchr.org Educate! Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

GENEVA (9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing serious concerns for up to 90 individuals who were all under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offences and are on death row. "The executions of two 17-year-old boys last week underlines our concerns that the Iranian authorities continue to give scant regard to international law which forbids executions of minors," said the experts. "These executions must stop."

National Lawyers Guild International Statement On The Venezuelan Embassy And U.S. Sanctions

May 6, 2019 Staff, Nlginternational.org Resist! National Lawyers Guild, Sanctions, Venezuela

The National Lawyers Guild International Committee unequivocally condemns the threats posed by the government of the United States and Washington D.C. Police Department to the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We also condemn the unilateral financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. government intended to force “regime change” in Venezuela by limiting people’s access to basic goods necessary for survival. As a legal organization committed to the promotion and defense of international law and human rights...

40,000 Dead Venezuelans Under US Sanctions: Corporate Media Turn A Blind Eye

May 6, 2019 Staff, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! Corporate Media, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

A new report on April 25 by a respected think tank has estimated that US sanctions imposed on Venezuela in August 2017 have caused around 40,000 deaths. This atrocity has been almost entirely blanked by the British ‘mainstream’ media, including BBC News. Additional sanctions imposed in January 2019 are likely to lead to tens of thousands of further deaths. The report was co-authored by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs for the US-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. CEPR was founded in 1999 ‘to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people’s lives.’

Report Finds US Sanctions On Venezuela Are Responsible For Tens Of Thousands Of Deaths

April 26, 2019 Staff, Cepr.net Educate! Latin America, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Washington, DC ― A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, finds that economic sanctions implemented by the Trump administration since August 2017 have caused tens of thousands of deaths and are rapidly worsening the humanitarian crisis. “The sanctions are depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines, medical equipment, food, and other essential imports,” said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR and co-author of the report. “This is illegal under US and international law, and treaties that the US has signed. Congress should move to stop it.”

The Iran Floods and U. S. Sanctions

April 21, 2019 Jan Oberg, Counterpunch. Educate! Drought, Flooding, Iran, Sanctions

You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions of Euro pledges by the perversely rich) that the Notre Dame fire did. However, if disastrous floods had hit 28 out of 31 provinces and affected 10 million people in some European country or in the US, I believe you would have heard about it from Day One. But now it is Iran. Only the Iranians. The situation is disastrous but not so much because thousands have died. Rather, because floods of this magnitude are likely to have terrible long-term consequences for agricultural and other production, infrastructure, energy production, transport and daily lives (see pictures below and on the links).

US Withholding $5 Billion Of Medical Supplies In ‘Criminal’ Measure

March 23, 2019 Paul Dobson, Venezuelanalysis. Educate! Pharmaceutical Drugs, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Merida – The US government is withholding US $5 billion which was meant for the purchase of medicines and raw materials used in medical production, President Nicolas Maduro claimed Wednesday. Speaking from Miranda State, Maduro denounced that US authorities “have ‘kidnapped’ US $5 billion [in] one of the most criminal, brutal, fascist economic measures which has been seen in the economic history of the world.” “Trump is the person responsible,” he added. US and European governments have been working on freezing Venezuelan assets in recent months...

US Sanctions Venezuelan Development Bank, Response To Arrest Of Guaido’s ‘Terrorist’ Aide

March 23, 2019 Staff, RT Educate! Sanctions, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on Venezuela's Economic and Social Development Bank and on four other institutions affiliated with it, calling in its statement for the release of Juan Guaido's Chief of Staff Roberto Marrero. Venezuelan authorities arrested the chief of staff to ‘interim president’ Juan Guaido on Thursday during a raid on a "terrorist cell" that planned attacks on the country's officials. The government also released images of two rifles allegedly seized by the Venezuelan Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) during the raid on Marrero’s house.

How US Sanctions Are Hurting Iran: A Firsthand Report

March 20, 2019 Medea Benjamin, Intrepidreport.com Educate! Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

With a recent delegation to Iran, we experienced first-hand the legendary Iranian hospitality. Iranians are particularly thrilled to meet Americans, but as we discovered, our government’s policies are hurting the very people who want to be our friends. As our 28-person delegation traveled through the country wearing messages on our jackets proclaiming “Peace with Iran” in English and Farsi, we were surrounded by people—from schoolchildren to storekeepers—who wanted to practice their English and talk to us. Their eyes lit up when they heard we were from America.

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