Economic sanctions lead to half a million civilian deaths a year, according to a study in The Lancet. Those imposed unilaterally and illegally by the EU and U.S. are the most lethal.
What the United States did to Chile between 1970 and 1973 is precisely what they have been doing to Venezuela since Trump’s 2017 “maximum pressure” campaign.
If anything, it is Cuba that has been the victim of international terrorism emanating mainly from the U.S., write Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan.
Priti Patel, who will soon decide whether to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher, has links to a group that has attacked Assange in the media for a decade, Matt Kennard reports.