Unilateral Coercive Measures

Jill Clark-Gollub
Growing Calls to End Unilateral Coercive Measures
29 Apr 2026
The United States has made economic coercive measures, sanctions, its primary foreign policy tool, committing war by other means with a comparable death toll.
Navid Farnia , Nina Farnia
Iran v. US Imperialism: An Interview with Navid Farnia & Nina Farnia
11 Feb 2026
A discussion on the protests in Iran, US imperialism, and Iranian resistance.
Al Mayadeen English
Bessent Admits Engineering Dollar Shortage to Destabilize Iran
11 Feb 2026
The US Treasury Secretary admits Washington engineered a dollar shortage in Iran, triggering currency collapse, economic unrest, and foreign-backed riots against that state.
John Perry
Nicaragua’s Economy “Weathers Multiple Shocks” Including US Attacks
11 Feb 2026
Nicaragua has built a resilient economy against the odds. Now, that success is being met with escalating economic attacks from the U.S.
Jill Clark-Gollub , Margaret Flowers
First International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures
10 Dec 2025
Unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, are weapons of mass suffering. This new international day marks a global rejection of the West’s economic warfare against sovereign nations.
Roger D. Harris
Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions
26 Nov 2025
Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has already claimed thousands of lives.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eritrea Celebrates Freedom
09 Aug 2023
Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history.
Helyeh Doutaghi , Corinna Mullin , Nina Farnia
We Charge Imperialism: The International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures
14 Dec 2022
The International People's Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism will convene in 2023. This position paper describes how sanctions are used as a tool of imperialism.