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The Moral Depravity of U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2025
Truth speaks to power in many different tones of voice.
– James A. Smith, The Idea Brokers [1990]

 

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January 9, 2025
The Moral Depravity of U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes
In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela. Quoting a State Department statement issued in January 2021, she points out that the Cuban communist regime is a murderous supporter of terrorism that lets …
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