The White House opposes the Hague-based court’s investigation of not only Afghanistan but also alleged crimes committed by Israeli officials against Palestinians.
Trump Sanctions Top ICC Officials Probing US War Crimes in Afghanistan
Tag: U.S. sanctions
US Wars Kill More Like a Python Than a Tiger
Caitlin Johnstone describes the slow, suffocating strategy used by the side with all the resources and all the time in the world, the side which knows it can just relax and wait for the other side to starve to death.
US Sanctions Russian Research Institute that Developed COVID-19 Vaccine
A Russian government spokesperson called the decision “the sanctions theater of the absurd,” Ben Norton reports.
Biden’s Vision for Venezuela Indistinguishable from Trump’s
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iranian Tankers & the Age of Interdiction
Two forms of interdiction — the steady expansion of U.S. sanctions and our stunning drift toward unmasked censorship — have begun to intersect.
COVID-19: Trump Weaponizing Virus by Intensifying Sanctions on Iran & Venezuela
Economic and medical warfare during the pandemic amounts to a crime against humanity, writes Marjorie Cohn.
COVID-19: Ventilators Not Bombs
Once we get past the Covid-19 crisis, the world’s most gargantuan military machine cannot go back to normal, writes Kevin Martin.
Latest Episode in Juan Guaidó’s Venezuela Regime-Change Reality Show
Leonardo Flores reports on a farcical scene that was just the latest chapter in an absurdly bungled coup attempt.
Full-Scale War Avoided & Trump Goes Right Back to Warmongering
It is impossible for the U.S. and Iran to de-escalate as long as the U.S. is deliberately attacking Iran’s economy with the goal of igniting a civil war, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Iran’s ‘Only Crime Is We Decided Not to Fold’
Pepe Escobar reports on a searing account by Iran’s foreign minister of his country’s relations with the U.S.