New @PushbackShow: Crippling US sanctions imposed under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged Syrian civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, UN Special Rapporteur @AlenaDouhan says. Video/transcript: thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-… via @TheGrayzoneNews
The US economic warfare against poor, war-ravaged Syria is egregiously ignored in the US media & political system. I asked the UN rapporteur on sanctions, Alena Douhan, if US sanctions on Syria are similar to the genocidal US sanctions on Iraq in 1990s. She says yes: 
According to the UN Special Rapporteur, US sanctions on Syria are so crippling that they prevent import of staples like *toothpaste*, under the pretense that toothpaste could have a military use. They also seriously hinder the import of medicine & medical equipment. Pure sadism:
As the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions tells me at @TheGrayzoneNews that US sanctions on Syria are illegal & causing mass suffering (thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-…), ex-US envoy James Jeffrey brags that the US "crushed the [Syria]’s economy through sanctions." foreignaffairs.com/articles/middl…
FYI: in addition to ignoring the OPCW whistleblowers, @theintercept & @democracynow have produced a total of zero coverage on the impact of the US' sadistic Caesar Act sanctions on Syria. TI, co-founded by author of "Dirty Wars," continues to whitewash the Dirty War on Syria.
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