{"id":320182,"date":"2017-08-04T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-approves-new-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T02:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T01:42:33","slug":"trump-approves-new-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-approves-new-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump approves new sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump approves new sanctions against Russia<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Bill Van Auken<br \/>\n    <br \/>3 August 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump signed into law sweeping sanctions legislation that targets Russia, as well as Iran and North Korea, with punishing economic measures that will serve to ratchet up war tensions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The legislation threatens to escalate dangerous US conflicts not only with the three targeted countries, but also with Washington\u2019s erstwhile imperialist allies in Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed the legislation, which was passed by overwhelming votes of 98-to-two in the Senate and 419-to-three in the House, behind closed doors with no public ceremony or press coverage. He accompanied his action with not just one, but two, so-called \u201csigning statements.\u201d The first, while couched in fairly sober legal language, contained an expansive interpretation of presidential powers and condemned the legislation as \u201csignificantly flawed\u201d and for containing \u201cunconstitutional provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indicating that the White House intends to interpret the law as it sees fit, the statement added that Trump, \u201cwill give careful and respectful consideration to the preferences expressed by the Congress in these various provisions and will implement them in a manner consistent with the President\u2019s constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second statement was essentially an amended version of the first, ginned up by Trump himself to express his belligerent narcissism and including some crude barbs against the US Congress and its Republican majority. Criticizing the legislation\u2019s imposition of limits on the administration\u2019s negotiating any alteration of the sanctions imposed against Russia by the Obama administration last December over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/03\/sanc-a03.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump approves new sanctions against Russia By Bill Van Auken 3 August 2017 On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump signed into law sweeping sanctions legislation that targets Russia, as well as Iran and North Korea, with punishing economic measures that will serve to ratchet up war tensions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-320182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}