Overwhelmed with pride and awe for my wife who dedicated countless hours and tears to this organizing effort.

She was laid off before this day could come, but her commitment hasn't waned a bit. Solidarity with the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers ✊
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

NEW in the April #SanctionsWatch:
Republicans consider Cuba travel & remittance ban
US & Iran begin nuclear talks
US outlines conditions for Syria sanctions relief
Poll finds US majority reject sanctions that harm civilians

Read & subscribe 👇
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@michael-galant.bsky.social and Pedro Labayen have the latest updates, showing frozen assets and a drastic cut in foreign aid, deepening Afghanistan’s economic woes. More in this month’s #SanctionsWatch.

Migrants should be welcomed to the US. But they also shouldn't be starved into leaving their homes in the first place.

Economic sanctions are incompatible with reducing migration to the US.

Read the issue brief here: cepr.net/publications... (7/7)

In 2022, the CBP encountered more Cubans than any other nationality besides Mexico. Shocking for such a small country.

Venezuela is the single fastest-growing country of birth of immigrants in the US since "maximum pressure" began in 2017. (6/7)

In Venezuela, "maximum pressure" sanctions were the leading cause of an economic crisis equivalent to THREE great depressions.

Per CEPR Senior Fellow Francisco Rodriguez, >4 million of the 7 million migrants that left Venezuela did so because of sanctions. (5/7)

In the case of Cuba, Trump-Biden sanctions have fueled a humanitarian crisis that led to the emigration of TEN PERCENT of the population in just 2 years. (4/7)

Now, first-of-its-kind research by Jerg Gutmann, Pascal Langer, and Matthias Neuenkirch confirms the logical conclusion:

US-EU sanctions increase migration from targeted countries by >20%!! (3/7)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We already know for a fact that:
(1) Adverse economic conditions fuel migration.
(2) Economic sanctions can have devastating economic and humanitarian consequences. (2/7)
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The evidence is clear: economic sanctions catastrophically harm civilians, which in turn fuels migration to the US.

NEW issue brief from me and Alex Main for @ceprdc.bsky.social 🧵 (1/7)
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Giving Bluesky another try. Twitter is just nazis and thirst traps, and I'm too weak to break free from the prison of social media altogether.

Barbie, Oppenheimer — I hear we’re all fighting about movie politics so I wrote about the great tradition of radical, anti-colonial filmmaking that is Third Cinema

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/third-cinema-global-south-film-anti-imperialism-decolonization

The Assad Anti-Normalization Act would “punish millions of innocent Syrians.”

“The Biden administration should be lifting economic sanctions on Syria, not imposing new ones. The Syrian people have suffered enough.”
https://t.co/kZa2wC26m5

Bob Menendez claims sanctions aren’t to blame for economic problems in 🇨🇺 & 🇻🇪

Today, 50+ leading scholars including Jayati Ghosh, Ha-Joon Chang, Jomo, and Martin Guzman told him to “stop spreading the false narrative”
https://t.co/tL13dGdysm

Gonna start posting like this to see if it works here too

Nothing to see here, just Biden nominating Elliot fucking Abrams
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html

Everyone should read Economic and Monetary Sovereignty In 21st Century Africa. Very glad to be able to run this excerpt.
https://progressive.international/blueprint/3d6b855b-c0ff-474f-b041-096a9c6a51bd-ben-gadha-kaboub-koddenbrock-mahmoud-samba-sylla-africas-money-in-an-nieo/en/

Just bought a paper snowflake from a neighborhood kid - price DOUBLED over the course of the conversation. Money supply can’t explain that. “Greedflation” is real. Isabella Weber vindicated.

Just joined. Who’s gonna claim the first viral neo-Andean architecture post