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Joy Gordon

Joy Gordon is the Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Chair in Social Ethics at Loyola University-Chicago. She has published extensively on the topic of economic sanctions, including Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions (Cambridge: Harvard

MER Article

The Enduring Lessons of the Iraq Sanctions

The economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations Security Council, from 1990 to 2003, may well lay claim to be the worst humanitarian catastrophe ever imposed in the name of global governance. The unconscionable human damage done by those sanctions is routinely dismissed as the unintended consequence of

Joy Gordon • 14 min read

Current Analysis

Scandals of Oil for Food

Rep. Ralph Hall opened a set of Congressional hearings on July 8 with a dramatic flourish, denouncing "the deaths of thousands of Iraqis through malnutrition and lack of appropriate medical supplies." "We have a name for that in the United States," the Texas Republican told a subcommittee of the Hou

Joy Gordon • 10 min read