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US sanctions

One third of the world’s oil reserves under US Sanctions

Tom Winter Feb 13, 2020 0

Venezuela has suffered the most from the sanctions; its daily production decreased to little more than a fourth, down to 0.75 million barrels.
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Eurasia

Allseas will not resume work on Nord Stream II project

Tom Winter Jan 1, 2020 0

After the United States imposed sanctions on the pipelines, the Swiss pipe-laying company immediately shut down its work in the Baltic Sea
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Eurasia

Huawei Looks to Reverse FCC Order Barring US Companies from Using Federal Funds to Buy Its Products

Drago Bosnic Dec 5, 2019 0

Shenzhen, China - Chinese tech giant Huawei filed a complaint seeking to overturn an FCC ruling that bans American firms from using an $8.5 billion federal fund to buy electronics…
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Latin America

The Cold War Never Stopped: US Pressures UN Members to Vote Against Cuba Anti-Blockade Resolution

Drago Bosnic Nov 6, 2019 0

HAVANA - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused the United States of exerting pressure on Latin American countries to oppose the United Nations draft resolution against the…
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Russia

“Dumb, Dumber, Deutschland:” following the US sanctions helps US, hurts Germany

Tom Winter May 26, 2019 0

If the federal government's kowtowing to the US were not so obvious, one would have to ask at this point whether our government actually takes its citizens seriously at all.
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Russia

US becoming good customer for Russian oil

Tom Winter May 23, 2019 0

“Ironically, the Russians benefit from the collapse of Venezuela: one hostile sanctioned country replaces the other hostile sanctioned country in supplies to the United States,"
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United States

The siege of Venezuela

Tom Winter Mar 25, 2019 0

Of course, it needs no class in Greek history to know the goal of a siege: block all incoming supplies so that the inhabitants faced the choice: die starving, or surrender. So in…
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