Month: Nov 2019

USA now Sanctions 39 States, 1/3 of humanity

US Applies More Than 8,000 “Sanctions” to 39 Countries, Affecting 1/3 of Humanity

01 Friday Nov 2019 Posted by friendsofsyria

***The US has a huge unfair advantage..It can ”just print money”..that is.. go into unlimited debt because it controls the world money system. But it is run by Corporations and wastes these Trillions on the Military while millions in US struggle in poverty.. and then blames and ”sanctions” the rest of the world, condemning us to misery.***

The imposition of arbitrary measures or “sanctions” by the United States against numerous countries around the world was denounced by the Venezuelan delegation present at the XVIII Summit of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

@NoSanction.. #MareaAntimperialista #NoMoreTrump #ManosFueraDeCuba

The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations Organization, Samuel Moncada, denounced the economic terrorism executed by US President Donald Trump, which affects a third of humanity with more than 8,000 measures in 39 countries.

The measures constitute a “threat to the entire system of international relations and is the greatest violation of human rights in the world,” said the Venezuelan official.

It’s Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/22/its-time-to-call-economic-sanctions-what-they-are-war-crimes/It is time that the imposition of economic sanctions should be seen as a warcrime, since it involves the collective punishment of millions of innocent civilians who die, sicken or are reduced to …

For the diplomat and representative of the government of Caracas, the social upheavals present in the Latin American region and the rest of the world “are the clearest evidence of the extremist perversion imposed by the power factors in Washington.”

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Now is the time to rise up for Rojava #RISEUP4R0JAVA

Now is the time to rise up for Rojava

Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been betrayed by the US, giving the Turkish state a green light to carry out atrocities in Northern Syria, writes Amber Huff and Patrick Huff

October 25, 2019 · shared from Red Pepper with thanks

Protests have been taking place around the world, including in London

The military alliance between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Northeastern Syria and Washington was always one of mutual desperation. The US needed to appear to have a credible Syrian ground game in the eyes of its rivals. Kurds in Rojava needed US airpower and other protections. There was never a political or ideological alliance – only a tactical one.

The US betrayal of the SDF and Rojava has long seemed inevitable. It would be yet another in a century-long series of betrayals of the Kurds by imperial powers in the perennial struggle to control the Middle East. But when it came in early October, Donald Trump’s order to withdraw US forces from Northeast Syria came as a surprise. It comprised the geopolitical equivalent of tossing an incendiary grenade into a lake of petrol.

Now, after sacrificing more than 11,000 fighters in the struggle against ISIS, the SDF and the Kurds find themselves once again abandoned and betrayed by the US. Trump’s rash decision to let somebody else ‘figure the situation out’ was taken as a green light by Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to launch his long-anticipated invasion, occupation and ethnic cleansing campaign in Rojava.

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