US sanctions on Venezuela: tool for democracy or siege tactic?
On 1 September, a group of US senators wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressing the lack of democratic guarantees for the coming (...)
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Street Beat: July 27 to Aug. 2 - Laguna Beach Local News
Trespassing. James Louis Durand, 63, of Laguna Beach was arrested on suspicion of trespassing and refusing to leave the property. He was held on a $500 bail.
Source: lagunabeachindy.com
History As It Happens: From Saddam to the sanctions
An Iraqi native who now works as a professional peace builder reflects on life under Saddam Hussein and the devastating economic sanctions on the 1990s.
Source: washingtontimes.com
The Invisible War
Sanctions aim to hit a space where the enemy-state is weakened but the people of the nation remain unscathed. No such space exists.
Source: guernicamag.com
Iraqi Women's Activism—20 Years After the US Invasion
"No, no, your voice is not shameful, your voice is a revolution!” Thousands of Iraqi women shouted these words in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square in October 2019. The unprecedented scale of women’s participation helped turn what could have been just another wave of popular protests, which had grown more common over the past decade, into an uprising. Thawra Tishreen (the October Revolution) saw ordinary people demonstrating against the political class and the system that had been put in place following the US-led invasion in 2003.
Source: merip.org