WASHINGTON TIGHTENS INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AS THE CORONAVIRUS RAVAGES THE WORLD
President
Nicolás Maduro asked Trump to lift the sanctions against Venezuela in order to
help the nation face the coronavirus. Trump’s response was to reinforce them by
ordering even harsher ones. Yesterday the U.S. froze the assets of a company in
the Middle East that was “caught” purchasing petroleum from Iran. It is mind
blogging and outrageous that Washington is actually stepping up sanctions
against both Venezuela and Iran, especially given the fact that the latter
nation is one of the world’s hardest hit by the coronavirus, an occurrence
which itself is the result of the sanctions. Some of the progressive media that
I access skirts this issue. For instance, a few days ago the Young Turks (whose
podcast I often download and like a lot) made reference to the conflict
between Iran and the U.S. in the Middle East with no mention of the sanctions.
This video by Code Pink’s Michelle Ellner lays the facts out clearly.
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