Webinar: US Sanctions: A Brutal But Failed Weapon of War

The US Empire is now sanctioning 40 countries, most visibly Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. These sanctions, a violation of international law, are explicitly aimed destabilizing and overturning countries that defy US hegemony. Sanctions are a devastating weapon of choice, deliberately causing widespread starvation, disease, and poverty in the targeted countries. In every case, the poorest and the weakest – infants, children, the chronically ill and the elderly – suffer the worst impact of sanctions. This webinar will discuss the deadly effects of US sanctions as a weapon of war and explain how nations are building new forms of resistance and survival.

The largest number of sanctioned countries are in Africa, deliberately disrupting development. Throughout West Asia strangling U.S. economic sanctions in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen go hand and hand with U.S. / Israeli bombing.

But US sanctions, along with Trump’s tariffs and wars, have failed to reverse the decline of the US Empire. They are accelerating a unified global resistance and movement towards multipolarity, as can be seen in the growing influence of BRICS and regional trade alliances. The failure of sanctions inevitably pushes the US into military and covert actions attempting to overthrow governments that will not capitulate or compromise their sovereignty.

This webinar will discuss the deadly effects of US sanctions as a weapon of war and explain how nations are building new forms of resistance and survival.

Presenter

Sara Flounders is a political writer, activist and anti-war organizer since the 1960s. She helps coordinate the International Action Center (IAC), United National Antiwar Coalition(UNAC) and the SanctionsKill Campaign.