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Dems liberal progressive rising star Tulsi back in news and timely as lately there has been lot of focus on children's safety by both major political parties (both major parties probably for the first time in US political history also happen to be anti-wars/interventions).
July 22, 2020
Tulsi Gabbard Wants To Know If U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Children
And she might have just forced the Trump administration to come clean about it.
by Matthew Petti
Sanctions are a U.S. policymaker’s best friend.
The Treasury is currently blocking over eight thousand individuals around the world from the U.S. economy, as part of thirty-five different sanctions programs, some of them dating back decades. And there are near-total U.S. economic blockades on North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Syria.
But the U.S. government has never had to publicly measure the success of these sanctions—whether they actually pressure hostile governments without harming civilians.
That may change next year, if Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D–Hawaii) has her way. The foreign policy maverick has successfully passed an amendment to the military budget in the House of Representatives forcing the President to collect and publicly report data on the impact of U.S. sanctions worldwide every year.
The amendment still has to pass the Senate, but if it makes it into the military budget, it will almost certainly become a part of U.S. law.
“Too often U.S. sanctions are levied against another country in the attempt to ‘punish’ that country’s leader without consideration of what the real impact of those sanctions are,” Gabbard said in a statement. “In reality, these sanctions are like a modern-day siege, most impacting the sanctioned country’s citizens, limiting their supply of food, water, medicine and basic supplies they need to survive, resulting in great sickness, suffering, and death.”
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/s...w-if-us-sanctions-are-killing-children-165342
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July 22, 2020
Tulsi Gabbard Wants To Know If U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Children
And she might have just forced the Trump administration to come clean about it.
by Matthew Petti
Sanctions are a U.S. policymaker’s best friend.
The Treasury is currently blocking over eight thousand individuals around the world from the U.S. economy, as part of thirty-five different sanctions programs, some of them dating back decades. And there are near-total U.S. economic blockades on North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Syria.
But the U.S. government has never had to publicly measure the success of these sanctions—whether they actually pressure hostile governments without harming civilians.
That may change next year, if Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D–Hawaii) has her way. The foreign policy maverick has successfully passed an amendment to the military budget in the House of Representatives forcing the President to collect and publicly report data on the impact of U.S. sanctions worldwide every year.
The amendment still has to pass the Senate, but if it makes it into the military budget, it will almost certainly become a part of U.S. law.
“Too often U.S. sanctions are levied against another country in the attempt to ‘punish’ that country’s leader without consideration of what the real impact of those sanctions are,” Gabbard said in a statement. “In reality, these sanctions are like a modern-day siege, most impacting the sanctioned country’s citizens, limiting their supply of food, water, medicine and basic supplies they need to survive, resulting in great sickness, suffering, and death.”
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/s...w-if-us-sanctions-are-killing-children-165342
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