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What Mearsheimer Gets Right — and Wrong — About 38 Million Sanctions Deaths
Image: The News Statesman John Mearsheimer recently stated that U.S. sanctions murdered around 38 million people between 1971 and 2021 – see the video below. It is a dramatic figure, and it has spread quickly because it captures, in one sentence, the enormous human cost of modern sanctions. I share his concern about the destructive […]
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Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year

Karen Paulina Biswell (Colombia), Nama Bú (We Exist), 2015. Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read about war, it is disconnected from our lives, and many of us want to […]