Posted by Yves Smith
Yves here. It is instructive to see that a law professor who served as an expert witness for Naftogaz, the Ukrainian national oil and gas company, after Russia seixed its operations in Crimea, is concerned enough about the prospect of the Biden Administration selling confiscated Russian assets to speak up and advise against it.
However, I have my doubts that the US has been as scrupulous about not selling assets of sanctioned and belligerent nations as Professor Stephan suggests. Iraq owned a magnificent, very wide townhouse on East 80th Street between Park and Lexington as its embassy. It was promptly seized after the war started and sold within a couple of years. I sincerely doubt the proceeds were remitted to the new government.
No, Biden Can’t Just Sell Off Seized Russian Yachts and Central Bank Assets to Help Aid Ukraine – International Law and the US Constitution Forbid It
Tag: Patriot Act
[2002] The First Amendment: A Wartime Casualty?
McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates
By Ted Galen Carpenter, Responsible Statecraft, 4/11/22
A troubling pattern has developed over the decades in which foreign policy hawks smear their opponents and thereby seek to foreclose discussion of questionable U.S. policy initiatives.
McCarthyism re-emerging stronger than ever in Ukraine policy debates
[2018] The Biggest Secret
By James Risen
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
The Biggest Secret
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The Brahmins of Democracy: Communists vs. Patriotic Socialists
Michael Millerman goes over the article:
The Brahmins of Democracy: Communists vs. Patriotic Socialists.
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COVID-19 and 9/11 (Never Forget?)
In response to the events of September 11, 2001, the emergency use authorization (EUA) concept was created. The ostensible idea was to empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the use of potentially life-saving products (e.g. medicines, etc.) after a terrorist attack. However, the EUA designation was not put into effect until late 2020 — for the COVID-19 “vaccines.”
COVID-19 and 9/11 (Never Forget?)
Philip Zelikow, 9/11 Commission Leader, Leads COVID Commission
“To win the war against this alien invader, we have to win the war globally… this is an opportunity for America to offer a new kind of leadership for a new kind of world crisis… “
Philip Zelikow, 9/11 Commission Leader, Leads COVID Commission
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