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Sanctions

Why Can We Visit Kim Jung Il but Not Old Havana?

Jake Colvin | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Orbitz, Obama Cuba, US-Cuba Relations, Cuban Embargo, Cuba Travel Ban, Travel, Cuba, Travel to Cuba, US-Cuba Policy, Havana, World News
Jake Colvin

Restricting travel to Cuba severely limits the positive impact Americans can have abroad through everyday activities and interactions.

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Do Sanctions Just Add Insult to Injury for the Burmese People?

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: Jim Webb, Sanctions, JADE Act, Ruling Junta, Smart Sanctions, Burma, Myanma, World News
Russ Wellen

While visiting Japan and Indonesia in February, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted that 14 years of U.S. sanctions on Burma have made little impact on its ruling junta.

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LinkedIn Alienates Syrian Users: Why Now?

Jillian York | Posted 05.19.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Sanctions, Linkedin, Cuba Sanctions, Linked In, Sanctions Against Iran, World News
Jillian York

LinkedIn is making a political point against Syria - and when people in other countries start boycotting this site, they'll realize they've shot themselves in the foot.

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Obama Renews Iran Sanctions; Ahmadinejad Calls Them "Childish"

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Obama Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sanctions Against Iran, Iran Sanctions, Iran, Bush Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

Speaking to Congress Thursday, President Obama announced renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran, thus adhering to a precedent that began in 1995. According t...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Nuclear Program, Clinton, Economy, Missile, Iran, Drugs, Obama, Tibet, Non-Military Goods, Ceasefire, Taliban, Nato, Bribe, Kurds, Turkmenistan, Security, Pakistan, Swat, Mexico, United States, Uzbekistan, Us, Nukes, Instablity, Human Rights, State Department, Guam, Mosul, Qaeda, China, North Korea, Foreign Affairs Roundup, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: American Economic Leadership Recognized Facts: US President Barack Obama made his first address to Americ...

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Or Supply Your Own Punchline...

Merrill Markoe | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Sanctions, Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Politics News
Merrill Markoe

Bush said, "no regime should ignore the will of its own people and calls from the international community without consequences."

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Bush Expands Sanctions Against Zimbabwe

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 08.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Elections, Robert Mugabe, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, George W. Bush, Sanctions, Home News

WASHINGTON — President Bush signed an executive order on Friday to expand sanctions against what he calls the "illegitimate" regime of Zimbabwe'...

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Fault Lines Emanating From Zimbabwe

Joe Lauria | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Darfur, Zalmay Khalilzad, Sudan, Zimbabwe Violence, Zimbabwe, United Nations, Russia, Zimbabwe Elections, China, Robert Mugabe, Sanctions, Africa, Diplomacy, Politics News
Joe Lauria

The vetoed sanctions resolution against Zimbabwe at the Security Council has exposed international tensions that divide the West from Africa, Russia from the West and the US from South Africa.

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The Uselessness of Sanctions

Simon Jenkins | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economic Sanctions, UN Sanctions on Zimbabwe, Sanctions, Divestment, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Simon Jenkins

Economic sanctions are coward's war. Their champions can find hardly a shred of evidence in their favour; they are the last refuge of stupidity in foreign policy.

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Ahmadinejad Calls Bush's Nuclear Bluff

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Bush, Afghanistan, Middle East, Sanctions, Iraq, Iran, Nuclear, Oil, Iaea, Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

If people are lamenting over gas prices approaching five dollars, I guarantee you that they will top off $10.00 at the pump and more than $200 a barrel within hours of an attack on Iran.

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