[Peace-discuss] Sanctions, their effects.

[Karen Aram]

Thank you for this. Truly disgusting, we think people who starve animals to make them angry and agressive killers, are barbaric and cruel.....
 
From: mkbrussel at comcast.net
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:01:07 -0500
To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Sanctions, their effects.

>From an article by Patrick Cockburn: http://www.zcommunications.org/a-very-perfect-instrument-by-andrew-cockburn.html


…In consequence, many of the “truly biting” measures cited by Cohen have come from Capitol Hill, passed with crushing bipartisan majorities, and can be repealed only from there. Certain members, such as Senators Mark Kirk of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey, as well as Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have emerged as pacesetters on the issue. Behind these public figures stand an assortment of more shadowy aides, such as Kirk’s deputy chief of staff Richard Goldberg or Royce’s foreign-policy adviser Matthew Zweig. They in turn work closely with powerful outside players in the world of sanctions, most notably a group called the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, chaired by former CIA director James Woolsey.…
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