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To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

All evidence points to the US determination to release the full might of its military prowess on unseating the Islamic Republic. In the absence of massive ground invasion this goal is only achievable by total annihilation of the entire infrastructure

US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next

Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price.

Israeli Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman argues that in order for the growing recognition of the state of Palestine to be meaningful, it must be accompanied by sanctions for Israel’s permanent illegal occupation.

A study by the Center of Economic and Policy Research has revealed that, between 1971 and 2021, US and EU sanctions killed 38 million people around the world.

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Sanctions are becoming the preferred weapon of the United States and some allies — not because they are less destructive than military action, but more likely because the toll is less visible.

The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.