When Did Starvation Become an Acceptable Tool of Foreign Policy?

On September 15, 1970, Richard Nixon infamously instructed the CIA to “make the economy [of Chile] scream” (CIA Director Richard Helms actual note of the conversation can be seen here). But “the economy” is an abstraction; the reality of economic warfare is a starving population. Sanctions and embargoes are euphemisms for blackmail and hunger. In […]