Al Mayadeen In an exclusive interview for Al Mayadeen, the Cuban President touches on the Cuban Revolution, its challenges, and achievements, as well as US manipulations. Part II: Havana and the World: Al Mayadeen Interviews the Cuban President Part I Al Mayadeen Media Network Chairman Ghassan Ben Jeddou conducted an exclusive interview with Cuban President Miguel…
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The US Blockade and its Effects on Cuban Medicine
Carlos L. Garrido Rural health care in Cuba (Photo by Carol Foil, 2009). The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world.1 It is innovative, preventative, people-oriented, comprehensive, community-centered, internationalist, and, of course, de-commodified—treating healthcare as a human right, not a profitable commodity. However, in spite of its extraordinary successes,…
Why are No Sanctions Imposed on the Perpetrators of the Ukrainian Conflict?
Vladimir Danilov A year has passed since the West instigated the start of Moscow’s special military operation (SOF) to denazify the criminal Ukrainian regime. It has been a year of difficult confrontation between Russia and the West, united in its Russophobic desire to “inflict a crushing strategic defeat on Moscow,” as stated by the US,…
U.S. Sanctions Against Zimbabwe Condemned as “Crime Against Humanity”
Jeremy Kuzmarov The U.S. is blaming Zimbabwe’s government (which it is conveniently trying to overthrow) for the tragic humanitarian crises afflicting its suffering people. But the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism has now placed responsibility directly on the harsh economic sanctions that the U.S. has been imposing on Zimbabwe for the last 22 years. Just two…
Western Sanctions Will Mean that More Syrians Die after the Earthquakes
Eva Bartlett Syrian quake survivors stay at tents following 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes centered in Turkiye’s Kahramanmaras, in Salqin district of Idlib, Syria on February 09, 2023. © Photo by Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The economic stranglehold and selective approach to aid will lead to more death and displacement Following the devastating…
US is Brutally Politicizing Humanitarian Aid
Jeremy Kuzmarov Brutally politicizing humanitarian aid, Biden assists Turkey but refuses to mobile aid and rescue workers to save thousands in northern Syria because of U.S. vendetta against Bashar al-Assad Government. At 4:17 a.m. on February 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 21,000 people in what was the deadliest…
While Cuba, Venezuela and China are Rushing Aid to Earthquake-Hit Syria, US Maintains Sanctions
Peoples Dispatch Syrian Red Crescent members conducting a rescue operation. (Photo:@SYRedCrescent/Twitter) The US Treasury has issued a 180-day waiver on certain sanctions imposed on Syria to allow for earthquake relief. However, the US and its allies have yet to offer meaningful assistance to Syria even as Venezuela, China, Palestine, and others have dispatched aid and…
The United Nations and Unilateral Coercive Measures
Alfred de Zayas Continuing violation of the human rights of targeted populations by powerful states and how to demand accountability. – Oral statement of 28 January 2023 at the Opening of the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism and Sanctions. The scourge of unilateral coercive measures (UCM’s) on the enjoyment of human rights by billions of human…
By the Numbers: The De-dollarization of Global Trade
F.M. Shakil Data suggests that US dollar reserves in central banks are dwindling, as is the influence of the US on the world economy. This presents a unique opportunity for regional currencies and alternative payment systems to enter the vacuum. The imposition of US trade restrictions and sanctions against a number of nations, including Russia, Iran,…
Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy
John Perry A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum.(1) Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they could be legally imposed on South Africa by a resolution of the UN General Assembly…
Moscow and Beijing Could End US Sanctions Hegemony
Observateur Continental Sanctions have long been the U.S.’s favorite economic weapon, but the era of U.S. hegemony is coming to an end. Washington’s permissive use of punitive measures has provoked resistance from the world. Russia and China have won at least one victory in the fight against sanctions. Sanctions have long been America’s favorite economic…
U.S. Spreads Misery Across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity
Jeremy Kuzmarov …Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect. The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On November 14, the Biden…
Canadian Sanctions on Zimbabwe Launched after Failed NATO Plot to Install US Military Base
Christian Shingiro A Zimbabwean police officer and election official check a voter’s ID, during 2008 election. Image Credit: Time Magazine A high-ranking member of the Zimbabwean Communist Party has exclusively informed The Canada Files of a Canadian-backed, NATO plot to put a US military base in Zimbabwe, which was thwarted in 2008. Canada has punished…
Sanctions and National Dialogue in Venezuela: Their Indissoluble Linkage
Yoselina Guevara L. On Tuesday, December 6, the National Dialogue Forum in Venezuela was held online, organized by the Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Quito, the Consul Pedro Sassone and the collaboration of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, Ecuador Chapter, and CPAZ Coordinating Committee for Peace, Sovereignty…
How the US War on Cuba Harms the American People
Dylan James A worker at the National Center for Bio-preparations, Biocen, inspects vials of the Cuban-made VA-Mengoc-BC vaccine for meningococcal disease as they are packaged in Bejucal, Cuba, July 15, 2022. | Ramon Espinosa / AP Americans Could Beat Lung Cancer if U.S. Lifted the Blockade of Cuba The Cuban government has established an extensive network…
U.S. Sanctions Haiti
Lallan Schoenstein Jimmy Cherizier addressing a rally of Haiti’s poor in La Saline, one of Port-au-Prince’s poorest shantytowns. Photo:Jean Wesley Amady Crime has played a dominant role in Haiti since the Taíno and Arawakan people were decimated by Spanish and French colonialists, and its earliest workers were kidnapped from their homes in Africa and exploited…
The Geopolitics of Famine
Scott Ritter Most geopolitical analysts can agree that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has detrimentally impacted the global economy. This is especially true when it comes to food security, with supplies disrupted, prices skyrocketing, and shortages created that run the risk of causing famine. The US and European Union have accused Russia of “weaponizing food”…
New US Sanctions are Designed to Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens
John Perry The Biden administration has announced new sanctions which are intended to hit the poorest Nicaraguans – both in their pockets and in the public services on which they depend. This latest attack on a small Central American country is, as usual, dressed up as promoting democracy: the sanctions will “deny the Ortega-Murillo regime the…
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