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"The challenges we face today, from drug trafficking to mass deportations to mass migration to climate change, cannot be solved through domination and military intervention. They require real partnerships based on mutual respect and mutual collaboration." - @velazquez.house.gov
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🚨 NEW EPISODE of CEPR's Expert Video Series "From D.C. Across the Americas" This week, Francesca Emanuele on the oil siege of #Cuba "The claim that Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. security is an absurd premise that does not withstand serious scrutiny."
🚨 NEW EPISODE of... "From D.C. Across the Americas" This week: co-director @MarkWeisbroton US sanctions "The US has enormous power over the international financial system, which makes US sanctions much more powerful, and therefore, deadly." FULL VIDEO: https://tinyurl.com/2w648f6w
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CEPR hosted a Hill briefing last Friday titled: "Cuba in Crisis: What Congress Needs to Know" Here, former Obama aide @rhodesben.bsky.social discusses how sanctions hamstring Cuba's economic reform and why @democrats.org should be more outspoken on the use of sanctions as collective punishment.
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🚨 NEW EPISODE From D.C. Across the Americas 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 This week, CEPR research fellow Mario Osorio analyzes the recent Petro-Trump meeting, where U.S.-Colombia relations go from here, and why everyone should pay attention to Colombia's upcoming elections in May. Full video: https://tinyurl.com/25ehnnjk
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The most pathetic magical thinking bullshit for mass murder and land theft going. Stop saying “antisemitism” when you’re a raging Islamophobe and ethnosupremecist who’s creating antisemitism. And then they invoke the name of Christ to do it while slaughtering humans. This is religion on fascism.