sanctions
US Seizes Cargo Ship Trying to Deliver Food to Venezuela
August 7, 2019
The US continues to escalate its anti-Venezuela measures this week, having announced Monday night that sanctions have grown to an economic embargo,...
Driving Venezuela Towards Famine
By Daniel Larison
July 13, 2019
Warnings of famine are increasing in Venezuela, and U.S. sanctions are responsible for driving the country over the edge:
In...
Tanker Seizures and the Threat to the Global Economy from Resurgent...
By Craig Murray
27 Jul, 2019
The British seizure of the Iranian tanker off Gibraltar was illegal. There is no doubt of that whatsoever. The Iranian...
US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero
By Pepe Escobar
July 27, 2019
All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS)...
In Missile Deal With Russia, Turkey Shows There’s No Need to...
If Washington doesn’t impose sanctions on Ankara, it will be seen as a paper tiger and Europe will receive further justification for avoiding sanctions...
The dialectics of economic warfare
A paper delivered to the Moscow academic economic forum (MAEF)
by Dr. Leo Gabriel
from the Institute for Intercultural Research and Cooperation in Vienna, Austria
It...
US Special Envoy Tells Europe: Choose Between Us and Iran
By Jason Ditz
Posted on June 28, 2019
Having spent weeks hyping up the idea of a threat posed by Iran against the world, US...
Iran and Trump on the edge of the abyss
By Elijah J. Magnier
June 23,2019
Iran is pushing US President Donald Trump to the edge of the abyss, raising the level of tensions to new...
Trump imposes new sanctions amid continuing war threat against Iran
By Bill Van Auken
25 June 2019
President Donald Trump and his treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, unveiled Monday what the US administration had touted as...
Iranians say their ‘bones breaking’ under US sanctions
NASSER KARIMI and MOHAMMAD NASIRI
Associated Press
June 24, 2019
As the U.S. piles sanction after sanction on Iran, it's the average person who feels it the...