Sanctions in the Era of Pandemic

Millions of people in the United States have long known what it is like not to be able to buy food, or soap, or toilet paper. Some because they came here from much poorer places, others because they are among the 140 million poor or low-income people living in the country today.

Source: Sanctions in the Era of Pandemic | Portside

Despite the Siege, Venezuela Controls the Coronavirus

Venezuela is under siege. The USA and its allies unleashed unjust economic sanctions against the country that have resulted in Venezuela unable to sell its oil (its main source of revenue), and to buy food or medicine in the international market. It has stopped airlines traveling to Venezuela and the country is unable to make More

Source: Despite the Siege, Venezuela Controls the Coronavirus – CounterPunch.org

‘Too Little, Too Late’: Critics Pan Trump Plan to Sanction Turkey

“Trump’s statement on hitting Turkey with sanctions over the military operation in Syria does not mention the Kurds once.”

Source: ‘Too Little, Too Late’: Critics Pan Trump Plan to Sanction Turkey | Common Dreams News

Venezuela blah blah on the left: the need to complete the revolution…//ZCommunications » Explanations for the Current Crisis in Venezuela

We have often suggested a way out of the Venezuelan impasse which is finally a judgment on the left’s inability to specify a real socialist system. The Venezuelan system is overanalyzed: the failure is that of international socialism to offer a viable path to its own definitionless abstraction. The Bolivarian revolution is really a revolution manque that senses the dangers of stalinism and balks at the threshold. Continue reading “Venezuela blah blah on the left: the need to complete the revolution…//ZCommunications » Explanations for the Current Crisis in Venezuela” →

Venezuela: US sanctions leave millions without water

On May 26, journalists from the Real News Network (RNN) interviewed residents and local representatives from the barrios in Caracas about the impact of US sanctions on critical water supplies.