The UN Special Rapporteur talks about the devastating impact of economic sanctions on countries and people. By Cira Pascual Marquina, February 9, 2024, Original post 9in two parts) here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/on-unilateral-coercive-measures-part-i-a-conversation-with-alena-douhan/ Dr. Alena Douhan is a professor of International […]
by William LeoGrande, original post here: https://www.wola.org/2021/05/biden-inaction-aggravating-cuba-food-crisis/ If President Biden wants to support human rights in Cuba and empower the Cuban people, he can start by alleviating the food crisis by ending Trump’s prohibition on remittances and restoring […]
By Hekmat Aboukhater, original post here: https://popularresistance.org/deconstructing-h-r-3202-the-israel-lobbys-persistent-role-in-sanctioning-syria/ On February 13, the U.S. House of Representatives deliberated on Resolution 3202, the “Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act of 2023.” The following day, the House passed the bill with a 389 to 32 bipartisan majority. […]
by Tim Anderson. Chapter 9 in his 2023 book West Asia After Washington (Clarity Press) The one successful revolution of the so called ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 has been ruthlessly suppressed and misrepresented, not only by the interventionist […]
UNICEF report, Feb 2022, special attention to Syria, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea (DPRK). Full PDF below, original post here: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/media/2531/file/%20UNICEF-Global-Insight-Sanctions-and-Children-2022.pdf
Excerpt from Rania Khalek’s interview with UN expert Alena Douhan. Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_W6Z8Q77kA
Sanctions or Siege? PPTs for a presentation by Dr Tim Anderson. English and Arabic materials. Sanctions as Siege Warfare, chapter three of Axis of Resistance (2019) by Tim Anderson
Presentation by Dr Tim AndersonDirector, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
By Tim Anderson Chapter 3 of: Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019). Full text below, PDF here: This paper studies the persistent use of economic ‘sanctions’ as a measure of hybrid warfare, and […]
Dr Alena F. Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions, is interviewed by Aaron Maté of The Grayzone about the unilateral coercive measures used against the Syrian people by the USA and the EU. Full PDF below and original […]
Chapter Three on ‘Sanctions’, from Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East’ (2019). “This chapter studies the persistent use of economic ‘sanctions’ as a measure of hybrid warfare, and so part of the composite aggression which includes […]
US Sanctions on #Iran, #Venezuela, #Cuba, #Syria and the rest are economic warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKqgKOmCmA
