[Peace-discuss] Sanctions, their effects.

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Presently the USA effectively starves people in poor countries
by use of the immoral production of so-called biofuels.

Precious foodstuffs are converted to automobile fuels.

There is little or no net production of energy,
but a massive amount of biological energy is taken
out of the global marketplace.

On 10/14/13 20:32, Karen Aram wrote:
> Thank you for this. Truly disgusting, we think people who starve 
> animals to make them angry and agressive killers, are barbaric and 
> cruel.....
>
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> 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 majorities, and can be repealed only from there.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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