‘We impose these things and then that’s it’: McGovern tears into US sanctions policy
In a wide-ranging hearing, experts and members of Congress took a close look at whether this foreign policy tool is even effective.
In a wide-ranging hearing, experts and members of Congress took a close look at whether this foreign policy tool is even effective.
If Americans want to show solidarity with the people of these countries, the best thing we can do is stop standing on their necks.
Moscow’s regional reach is limited but Washington needs a long term plan for reengagement in the Western Hemisphere.
Washington’s acrimonious relationship with Caracas serves neither country’s interests, opening up oil trade can help bring down prices.
By restricting the meeting to democracies, the president omitted countries key to addressing the agenda’s top issues.
The Mexican president is the first to follow through on a boycott after the White House confirmed its snub of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
US neighbors say the president’s reported “democracy vs. autocracy” invite list is a no-go and are willing to forgo the whole thing.
Crippling sanctions have yet to topple Nicholas Maduro — yet they punish the very people we supposedly want to liberate.
As the US looks for other oil sources amid the Russian ban, the alternatives to a negotiated settlement for Maduro and the opposition are becoming less attractive.
Washington is exacerbating an economic crisis that’s hurting ordinary people who are being treated as pawns.
Aside from avoiding U.S. sanctions, Iran’s new president needs to mollify hardliners and separate himself from his predecessor.
Emerging details suggest that President Moïse’s assassins were Colombians hired by a security firm in Florida. Sound familiar?
The administration may be overhauling punitive sanctions — but some countries will still be treated differently than others.
The administration says it seeks a ‘democratic transition” — while making no move to lift economic sanctions crippling the country.
Despite his weekend claims, he was the most partisan, anti-diplomatic secretary of state in recent memory.
There’s a more constructive way forward that doesn’t involve the military or incendiary rhetoric.
Criticism of Donald Trump’s foreign policy often ignores the illiberal and undemocratic underbelly of Pax Americana.
It would be senseless for the U.S. to try to stop the petroleum transfer. It would be condemned by nearly every other country in the world as an abuse of U.S. power, with both Iran and Venezuela benefitting from political sympathy.
Suspending all sanctions now will not only help combat the coronavirus, but it will also create the conditions to resolve our differences diplomatically.
The White House has consistently deluded hardline elements of the Venezuelan opposition with the possibility of a quick and easy military solution.
The military-industrial-complex needs an enemy … and your tax dollars.