#economicwar — Public Fediverse posts
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#Trump’s Sanctions Disrupt #UNICEF Aid for #Pregnant #Women and Newborns
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/trump-s-sanctions-disrupt-unicef-aid-for-pregnant-women-and-newborns[from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
June 26, 2026“We’re not only being affected by the restrictions themselves, but what we call over-compliance,” said Pichón.
Banks, insurers, shipping companies and logistics providers have become so afraid of violating #US sanctions that they often refuse to work with #UN agencies trying to get #humanitarian aid to Cuba. Even when shipments arrive, fuel shortages in Cuba generated by the US oil #blockade hamper aid distribution.
Also:
- “The Blockade Is Why My Family Left Cuba”
- Supreme Court Deals Another Blow to Cuba
- New #Sanctions Target Banking, Mining, Steel
- #Doctors Respond to “Forced Labor” Accusations
- As Washington Wages #EconomicWar, #Vietnam Invests
#NoWarOnCuba
#USHandsOffCuba
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
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#Trump’s Sanctions Disrupt #UNICEF Aid for #Pregnant #Women and Newborns
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/trump-s-sanctions-disrupt-unicef-aid-for-pregnant-women-and-newborns[from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
June 26, 2026“We’re not only being affected by the restrictions themselves, but what we call over-compliance,” said Pichón.
Banks, insurers, shipping companies and logistics providers have become so afraid of violating #US sanctions that they often refuse to work with #UN agencies trying to get #humanitarian aid to Cuba. Even when shipments arrive, fuel shortages in Cuba generated by the US oil #blockade hamper aid distribution.
Also:
- “The Blockade Is Why My Family Left Cuba”
- Supreme Court Deals Another Blow to Cuba
- New #Sanctions Target Banking, Mining, Steel
- #Doctors Respond to “Forced Labor” Accusations
- As Washington Wages #EconomicWar, #Vietnam Invests
#NoWarOnCuba
#USHandsOffCuba
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#LetCubaLive
#news #politics #USpol -
What Is Driving Cuba’s Economic Crisis?
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/what-is-driving-cuba-s-economic-crisisApril 24, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]What happens when a small country is cut off from global finance, trade networks and investment flows in an increasingly interconnected world?
This week development economist Emily Morris breaks down the massive impact of the US #EconomicWar on Cuba in an interview with Belly of the Beast.
“If the U.S. were to lift sanctions, the Cuban economy, within five years, would be prosperous,” Morris says.
Also:
- Lawmakers Denied Meeting with Top US Diplomat
- Cuba Confirms Havana Talks with #Trump Administration
- “Vida”: A Community Project Helping Kids in Cuba’s Crisis
- Amid Shortages, Cuba Marks 65 Years of #Socialism
- #US #Military Drone Flies Along Cuban Coast
- #Spain, #Mexico and #Brazil Commit to Help Cuba
- Grenada Stands by Cuban #Doctors
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What Is Driving Cuba’s Economic Crisis?
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/what-is-driving-cuba-s-economic-crisisApril 24, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]What happens when a small country is cut off from global finance, trade networks and investment flows in an increasingly interconnected world?
This week development economist Emily Morris breaks down the massive impact of the US #EconomicWar on Cuba in an interview with Belly of the Beast.
“If the U.S. were to lift sanctions, the Cuban economy, within five years, would be prosperous,” Morris says.
Also:
- Lawmakers Denied Meeting with Top US Diplomat
- Cuba Confirms Havana Talks with #Trump Administration
- “Vida”: A Community Project Helping Kids in Cuba’s Crisis
- Amid Shortages, Cuba Marks 65 Years of #Socialism
- #US #Military Drone Flies Along Cuban Coast
- #Spain, #Mexico and #Brazil Commit to Help Cuba
- Grenada Stands by Cuban #Doctors
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Video - From Miami to Havana: Why This Cuban American Is Speaking Out
https://peertube.world/w/j3V8K63g6adySjvVGwLEmu[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
Cuban-American politicians have long been a driving force behind the US government’s #EconomicWar on the island. But many people of Cuban origin living in the US reject the hard-line policies that have ravaged the island’s economy and caused widespread scarcities and hardship.
Danny Valdes, a Cuban American born in #Miami, recently visited Cuba with the #NuestraAméricaConvoy to help bring #HumanitarianAid to the island.
“There is a very well organized and powerful right wing Cuban lobby, that even is in the halls of the Congress that gets to determine what #US policy is toward Cuba,” said Valdés. “But we feel like it's a very important time now to say, not in our name.”
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
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Video - From Miami to Havana: Why This Cuban American Is Speaking Out
https://peertube.world/w/j3V8K63g6adySjvVGwLEmu[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]
Cuban-American politicians have long been a driving force behind the US government’s #EconomicWar on the island. But many people of Cuban origin living in the US reject the hard-line policies that have ravaged the island’s economy and caused widespread scarcities and hardship.
Danny Valdes, a Cuban American born in #Miami, recently visited Cuba with the #NuestraAméricaConvoy to help bring #HumanitarianAid to the island.
“There is a very well organized and powerful right wing Cuban lobby, that even is in the halls of the Congress that gets to determine what #US policy is toward Cuba,” said Valdés. “But we feel like it's a very important time now to say, not in our name.”
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol -
Opinion | 'Economic Statecraft' Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All to See | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-statecraft"In an interview at Davos, Secretary Bessent explained in detail how US Treasury sanctions were deliberately designed to drive Iran’s currency to collapse, cripple its banking system, and drive Iran’s population into the streets."
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Opinion | 'Economic Statecraft' Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All to See | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-statecraft"In an interview at Davos, Secretary Bessent explained in detail how US Treasury sanctions were deliberately designed to drive Iran’s currency to collapse, cripple its banking system, and drive Iran’s population into the streets."
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Trump signed an executive order on Friday for a 25% tariff on trade with Iran.
The order was announced hours after Iran’s representatives held talks with a US delegation in Oman.
This is all part of the push for an all out war against Iran, starting with economic war, followed by military action, unless Iran accepts his humiliating conditions (aka capitulation).
#Iran #tRump #EconomicWar #Sanctions #Tariff #WarOnIran #WestAsia #USpol #Politics
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Trump signed an executive order on Friday for a 25% tariff on trade with Iran.
The order was announced hours after Iran’s representatives held talks with a US delegation in Oman.
This is all part of the push for an all out war against Iran, starting with economic war, followed by military action, unless Iran accepts his humiliating conditions (aka capitulation).
#Iran #tRump #EconomicWar #Sanctions #Tariff #WarOnIran #WestAsia #USpol #Politics
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"As demonstrators flood Iranian streets in ongoing protests which started late last month, United States President Donald Trump has threatened military intervention, arguing that he wants to “help” protesters.
He wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday: “Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!” He has since echoed those sentiments in other public statements.
But ignored in his claims of wanting to help Iranians is a fact: decades of US-led sanctions against Iran, including ones that were toughened under Trump, have played a central role in the country’s economic crises that were the primary trigger for the current spate of protests.
We unpack the impact of US sanctions on Iran and whether its track record in the country has been one of helping people."
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"As demonstrators flood Iranian streets in ongoing protests which started late last month, United States President Donald Trump has threatened military intervention, arguing that he wants to “help” protesters.
He wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday: “Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help!!!” He has since echoed those sentiments in other public statements.
But ignored in his claims of wanting to help Iranians is a fact: decades of US-led sanctions against Iran, including ones that were toughened under Trump, have played a central role in the country’s economic crises that were the primary trigger for the current spate of protests.
We unpack the impact of US sanctions on Iran and whether its track record in the country has been one of helping people."
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"China’s leaders have spent years preparing for Trump’s return and view the trade war as part of a much larger contest that is likely to last for decades. In the short term, Beijing’s priority is securing the concessions on advanced technology needed to accelerate semiconductor development in China and reduce reliance on imports. In the medium term, it aims to deepen technological capacity, diversify export markets, and capture a larger share of value-added exports in global supply chains to reduce U.S. leverage. In the long run, it intends to build an alternative global trading and financial architecture strong enough to strip the United States of its unilateral sanctioning power. Above all, China wants recognition that its core interests lie beyond even the threat of Western interference—that it has full freedom of action within its sphere of influence, including Taiwan and its regional periphery, and that it can engage economically with the world on terms no less favorable than those accorded to the United States or other great powers.
In essence, China is attempting a geopolitical feat without precedent. It seeks to obtain an equal place alongside the United States without triggering “the Thucydides trap’’—the tendency for rising and established hegemons to come to blows. Unlike earlier revisionist powers, China intends to complete its ascent through the steady accumulation of economic power and influence rather than through military conquest. To succeed, it must not merely draw even with the United States but surpass it in some areas, to the point that any U.S. refusal to acknowledge its superpower status appears absurd to the rest of the world.
As this protracted struggle unfolds, conventional side-by-side comparisons of economic data or military capability are unlikely to provide a clear indication of which side is ahead, which is slipping behind, and why."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-long-economic-war-zongyuan-zoe-liu#
#China #EconomicWar #USA #Empires #Imperialism #Superpowers #PoliticalEconomy -
"China’s leaders have spent years preparing for Trump’s return and view the trade war as part of a much larger contest that is likely to last for decades. In the short term, Beijing’s priority is securing the concessions on advanced technology needed to accelerate semiconductor development in China and reduce reliance on imports. In the medium term, it aims to deepen technological capacity, diversify export markets, and capture a larger share of value-added exports in global supply chains to reduce U.S. leverage. In the long run, it intends to build an alternative global trading and financial architecture strong enough to strip the United States of its unilateral sanctioning power. Above all, China wants recognition that its core interests lie beyond even the threat of Western interference—that it has full freedom of action within its sphere of influence, including Taiwan and its regional periphery, and that it can engage economically with the world on terms no less favorable than those accorded to the United States or other great powers.
In essence, China is attempting a geopolitical feat without precedent. It seeks to obtain an equal place alongside the United States without triggering “the Thucydides trap’’—the tendency for rising and established hegemons to come to blows. Unlike earlier revisionist powers, China intends to complete its ascent through the steady accumulation of economic power and influence rather than through military conquest. To succeed, it must not merely draw even with the United States but surpass it in some areas, to the point that any U.S. refusal to acknowledge its superpower status appears absurd to the rest of the world.
As this protracted struggle unfolds, conventional side-by-side comparisons of economic data or military capability are unlikely to provide a clear indication of which side is ahead, which is slipping behind, and why."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-long-economic-war-zongyuan-zoe-liu#
#China #EconomicWar #USA #Empires #Imperialism #Superpowers #PoliticalEconomy -
"Trump has a standard ploy. He said, well, of course we can roll back the tariffs that would threaten to destabilize your economy; but we want a “giveback”. This is a simple protection racket, is what we call it in the United States.
Trump has said, well, if you follow certain US policies, and if you will agree to transplant your industry to the United States and help us industrialize, take your automobile plants, your industrial manufacturing, your key industries.
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Yes, Volkswagen, just like Hyundai in Korea, and Nissan [in Japan], all these countries; your companies can continue to make profits, but you’ll make them by offshoring your production from your home country to the United States.
And so he has extracted promises for them to shift to the United States, and promises to roll back tariffs in exchange for their support of US policies.
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Both Trump and Secretary of State Rubio said, this is not serving us anymore; we can't compete in a fair market. We're not going to be fair, because we don't have to be, because other countries have become so dependent on the American market, that we can punch them in the face, and destabilize their economies, if we want.
They really don't have a choice but to surrender. That was what America believed.
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And these deals actually serve as an object lesson for saying, well, you have the new international order that is being defined by the SCO and the BRICS meetings — and the alternative, just look at what the United States has done to Europe, Japan, and Korea, that is the alternative."
https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/trump-economic-war-us-allies-michael-hudson
#USA #Trump #Tariffs #BRICS #EconomicWar #TradeWar #Geopolitics #PoliticalEconomy
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"Trump has a standard ploy. He said, well, of course we can roll back the tariffs that would threaten to destabilize your economy; but we want a “giveback”. This is a simple protection racket, is what we call it in the United States.
Trump has said, well, if you follow certain US policies, and if you will agree to transplant your industry to the United States and help us industrialize, take your automobile plants, your industrial manufacturing, your key industries.
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Yes, Volkswagen, just like Hyundai in Korea, and Nissan [in Japan], all these countries; your companies can continue to make profits, but you’ll make them by offshoring your production from your home country to the United States.
And so he has extracted promises for them to shift to the United States, and promises to roll back tariffs in exchange for their support of US policies.
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Both Trump and Secretary of State Rubio said, this is not serving us anymore; we can't compete in a fair market. We're not going to be fair, because we don't have to be, because other countries have become so dependent on the American market, that we can punch them in the face, and destabilize their economies, if we want.
They really don't have a choice but to surrender. That was what America believed.
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And these deals actually serve as an object lesson for saying, well, you have the new international order that is being defined by the SCO and the BRICS meetings — and the alternative, just look at what the United States has done to Europe, Japan, and Korea, that is the alternative."
https://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/trump-economic-war-us-allies-michael-hudson
#USA #Trump #Tariffs #BRICS #EconomicWar #TradeWar #Geopolitics #PoliticalEconomy
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#China - #US #EconomicWar #Beijing Defiant; #Kiev Troops Lose Retreat All Fronts, US Pulls Out Of Key Base
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxTvdJ0fECM
#Ukraine #Russia #Donbas #NATO #UkraineRussiaWar #NATORussiaWar #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaNATOWar #AlexanderMercouris #TheDuran
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Der globale Handelskrieg nimmt Fahrt auf.
Trump schlägt 200 Prozent Zölle auf EU Alkoholimporte vor.
#handelskrieg #zoelle #importzölle #usa #trump #europa #wirtschaft #wirtschaftspolitik #europe #news #nachrichten #economicwar #economics
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Der globale Handelskrieg nimmt Fahrt auf.
Trump schlägt 200 Prozent Zölle auf EU Alkoholimporte vor.
#handelskrieg #zoelle #importzölle #usa #trump #europa #wirtschaft #wirtschaftspolitik #europe #news #nachrichten #economicwar #economics
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More #Trump #lies #misinformation #BS!@!! #Canada actually subsidizes the #USA NOT the other way around. #Economist Jim Stanford at the #Canadian Centre for Future #Work identifies 3 unusual features of 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 trade that privileges the USA: them
1. Below-market-price energy
2. Untaxed digital service imports
3. Reverse interest loans
https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/01/12/whos-subsidizing-whom/ -
More #Trump #lies #misinformation #BS!@!! #Canada actually subsidizes the #USA NOT the other way around. #Economist Jim Stanford at the #Canadian Centre for Future #Work identifies 3 unusual features of 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 trade that privileges the USA: them
1. Below-market-price energy
2. Untaxed digital service imports
3. Reverse interest loans
https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/01/12/whos-subsidizing-whom/ -
Quoting Historian Dr Eli Cook on "Shameless Capitalism", unrestrained plutocracy and doubts about long-term strength of the US against China: "Despite all the criticism I have of the Chinese Communist Party and the harsh exploitation of workers there, China has become a manufacturing superpower, and a huge one. And what does Trump produce? Virtual currencies."
In an interview, historian Dr. Eli Cook from the University of Haifa, discusses Donald Trump's presidency as embodying an era of blatant plutocracy, where the wealthy openly exert power without shame, a trend continuing since the 1980s but now without pretense. He points to Trump's wealth, the creation of $TRUMP Coin, and the swift alignment of major corporations as evidence.
Despite warnings from outgoing President Biden about this growing oligarchy, no significant opposition has emerged. Dr. Cook anticipates economic tensions with China, a new phase of nationalistic neo-liberalism, and raises concerns about potential imperialist conflicts arising from US-China rivalry, with regional implications including in the Middle East. He also questions the long-term strength of the US against China's manufacturing dominance.
Dr Eli Cook is an Assistant Professor of American history at Haifa University in Israel. An historian of American capitalism, his Harvard University Press book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life, has been awarded two prizes for best book in intellectual history in 2017.
Hebrew https://zoha.org.il/134927/
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#Capitalism
#Plutocracy
#Trump
#USPolitics
#GlobalPolitics
#China
#Neoliberalism
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Quoting Historian Dr Eli Cook on "Shameless Capitalism", unrestrained plutocracy and doubts about long-term strength of the US against China: "Despite all the criticism I have of the Chinese Communist Party and the harsh exploitation of workers there, China has become a manufacturing superpower, and a huge one. And what does Trump produce? Virtual currencies."
In an interview, historian Dr. Eli Cook from the University of Haifa, discusses Donald Trump's presidency as embodying an era of blatant plutocracy, where the wealthy openly exert power without shame, a trend continuing since the 1980s but now without pretense. He points to Trump's wealth, the creation of $TRUMP Coin, and the swift alignment of major corporations as evidence.
Despite warnings from outgoing President Biden about this growing oligarchy, no significant opposition has emerged. Dr. Cook anticipates economic tensions with China, a new phase of nationalistic neo-liberalism, and raises concerns about potential imperialist conflicts arising from US-China rivalry, with regional implications including in the Middle East. He also questions the long-term strength of the US against China's manufacturing dominance.
Dr Eli Cook is an Assistant Professor of American history at Haifa University in Israel. An historian of American capitalism, his Harvard University Press book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life, has been awarded two prizes for best book in intellectual history in 2017.
Hebrew https://zoha.org.il/134927/
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#Capitalism
#Plutocracy
#Trump
#USPolitics
#GlobalPolitics
#China
#Neoliberalism
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Où l'on apprend que les USA ont voulu tuer économiquement la Russie tout juste après la dissolution de l'URSS.
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State Crime.
https://radicalglasgowblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/state-crime.html
So here we are in Great Britain, a country that can afford to throw £millions into prolonging a blood bath in Ukraine but spouts no money to afford to eradicate child poverty at home… Again the dice is loaded against you if you come from a larger family. 42% of children living in families of 3 or more children are living in poverty. Of course we shouldn't forget, the adult poverty that lives along side this tsunami of child poverty…
#StateCrime #PovertyMaintained #CapitalismSupport #LaborCoercion #impoverishment #homelessness #weaponized #economicwar #ClassWar -
A National Assembly deputy outlines a possible solution to stagnation of salaries in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s Economic Policy: A Conversation with Tony Boza (Part II)