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Archives for April 2019

New Report Reveals US Sanctions Have Cost 40,000 Venezuelan Lives

Economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs conclude that US sanctions “would fit the definition of collective punishment.”

Ricardo Vaz
By Ricardo Vaz
sanctions

The Washington DC-based Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) published a report Thursday on the effects of US sanctions against Venezuela. The 27-page paper was authored by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, who determined that sanctions have “inflicted very serious harm to human life” in Venezuela. “The sanctions are depriving

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Voices from Inside the Besieged Venezuelan Embassy

“If [the U.S. invades the Venezuelan Embassy] tomorrow, it will send a message to the world that no embassy is safe in the United States… it’s a message that ‘if you don’t bow down to us, do what we tell you, put in the government that we’d like, we will take your embassy.”  – Kevin Zeese

Alexander Rubinstein
Wyatt Reed
By Alexander Rubinstein
And Wyatt Reed
Medea Benjamin | Venezuelan Embassy

VENEZUELAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON -- A group of activists banding together as the “Embassy Protection Collective,” in defense of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, defied orders by the U.S. government to vacate the premises by the 25th of April. Later in the morning, the Trump administration's special envoy to Venezuela, Elliot

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Nationalist Pols Push Sri Lankan “Patriot Act” on Fearful Populace Following Easter Attacks

Current efforts by top Sri Lankan politicians to exploit the chaos following the Easter attacks will likely spell disaster for Sri Lanka’s religious minorities who are themselves the most frequent victims of state-sponsored and religiously motivated terrorism in the island nation.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Sri Lanka Blasts

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA -- Still grappling with the fall-out from the deadliest terror attack in its history, Sri Lanka’s already dysfunctional government is struggling to come to terms with how the attack came to pass and who exactly is to blame. Since the attacks, for which Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility, Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala

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Death Can be a Slow Traveler: Peltier, Mumia and Rap Brown

While movements such as the Black Panther Party, the BLA, AIM and MOVE still resonate among some in a new generation of activists, many of their former members, now riddled with poor health and buried in prison, have been all but lost to the passage of time.

Stanley Cohen
By Stanley Cohen

When the history of our times is recorded, any volume on domestic political prisoners must, per force, begin with the legendary ones of conscience. To these icons of principle, determination and courage we owe much. It is, after all, not by mere default that they risked, and often paid, all to demand the gale of change sweep away generations of

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Yemen Continues Military Progress as Native Mercenaries Abandon Saudi Coalition

Native Yemeni mercenaries, including officers and sheiks, have abandoned the Saudi Coalition and returned to their homes after being offered general amnesty by the Houthi-allied Yemeni army.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen | Coalition mercenaries

AL-DALI, YEMEN -- Throughout Yemen, drivers are queuing up for hours hoping to get a can of fuel from overcrowded petrol stations. The fuel shortage comes as the Saudi-led Coalition and its allied mercenaries in Aden are preventing tankers laden with oil from entering Hodeida port, Yemen’s largest entry point. Nine tankers have been prevented from

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Joe Biden Launches Campaign with Charlottesville Condemnation after Supporting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

While working behind the scenes to shape the post-Maidan Ukrainian government to their liking, powerbrokers in Washington — Biden included — have done all they could to downplay the U.S. role.

Alexander Rubinstein
By Alexander Rubinstein
Ukraine | Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden launched his candidacy for the American presidency on Thursday morning with the release of his first campaign video, ‘’America Is An Idea.’ The first word from the candidate’s mouth -- “Charlottesville,” a town now synonymous with neo-Nazi hate in the U.S. -- is the overwhelming focus of the ad, which attacks Trump

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