Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

U.S. Bill Proposing Sanctions on Venezuela Passes House Foreign Affairs Committee

By Z.C. Dutka | Venezuelanalysis | May 9, 2014

Santa Elena de Uairen – A Human Rights bill proposed by Florida Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, which includes sanctions on the Venezuelan government, cleared its first legislative hurdle this morning after passing the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Isolation: Another Vote on Washington’s Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations

Annually, a near-ritual unfolds in the Fall Session of the United Nations General Assembly: the assembled states and governments dutifully, in near-unanimous consensus, vote in favor of a Resolution on the “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo by the United States of America Against Cuba.”

US Congress: Occupied Israeli territory by Prof. James Petras

Israel Buys the US Congress:  Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace NegotiationsJames Petras jpetras@binghamton.edu“Pro-Israel Policy groups such as AIPAC work with unlimited funding to divert US policy in the region (Middle East)”  --Jack Straw, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party “The United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to spur the country to end its nuclear program”    --Sheldon Adelson, biggest donor to the Republican Party and major fundraiser for pro-Israel political action committees,  speech at