It was exactly belligerency such as this by the United States that precipitates a hatred of us leading to war. We goaded Japan into attacking us by embargoing their rubber imports and the embargo of Cuba creating the missile crisis, to name two. No, the US is not a reliable trading partner, and now one that can't pay its bills and will kill you if you complain.
With boots-on-the-ground - many of them state national guard - in as as many as one thousand overseas bases now, our foreign bullying could become national suicide. Rothschild not withstanding. He'll have moved on to greener pastures.
Published: 2 September, 2011, 18:09
The EU is to impose an oil embargo on Syria, freezing almost all business between Damascus and the EU, Syria's main trading partner. The embargo will take effect on September 3.
A statement made on Friday said the ban covers purchase, import and transport of oil and other petroleum products from Syria amid continuing violence in the country. The EU also prohibited financial or insurance services involved in such transactions. The embargo will take effect immediately details of the sanctions are published in the official EU newspaper.
The decision will halt more than US $4.2 billion a year in Syrian crude oil and petroleum products being exported to Europe.
The decision was made during a non-formal meeting of MFA heads of 27 EU countries that took place in the Polish city of Sopot. The embargo was earlier approved by heads of the Permanent Mission of the EU countries in Brussels.
"This is trying to hit the oil that's a critical financial lifeline to the regime," an EU official was quoted as saying.
Four more Syrian individuals and three entities were added to the list of those targeted by an EU asset freeze and travel ban.
On August 24, an EU decision on sanctions aimed at 15 Syrian officials and five companies came into effect. Their active assets were frozen and they were banned from entering the EU.
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, added her voice to growing calls for UN Security Council sanctions against Assad, measures currently blocked by Russia and China.
“The violence must stop and he needs to step aside,” she said to The Daily Telegraph.
The director of the Center for Research on Globalization, Michel Chossudovsky, says that the new round of sanctions is just another step toward a NATO-led military intervention in Syria.
“It is a part of a road map which eventually is intended to lead into some kind of military intervention,” Chossudovsky claimed. “I think what is happening now is the sanctions stage of something which has been planned… which according to many analysts is a military
intervention in Syria – which in essence would engulf the whole region.”
