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  • Blockading 1.5 million malnourished Palestinians prevents Gaza from becoming an Iranian naval and missile base.

    Eric Margolis: Israel: Fiasco at Sea 2010

  • Blockading 1.5 million malnourished Palestinians prevents Gaza from becoming an Iranian naval and missile base.

    Eric Margolis: Israel: Fiasco at Sea 2010

  • Blockading ports wont work as pirates use very small boats out of any old river bar or even beach launched to run between larger vessels that are in varying states of siege.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009

  • Blockading is an act of war – and what the Empire is trying to do to the American people by blockading; credit, jobs, political rights, health care, education and our whole government and economy is precisely BLOCKADING our lives.

    "Empire, Elitism, Externalities, and Extinction" 2009

  • Blockading ships, on encountering a commercial vessel approaching or leaving a blockaded port, were first to determine the nationality of the vessel.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • Blockading roads not only inconveniences people, it is an illegal activity that will result in the arrests of the participants.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Blockading the highways was a form of protest and therefore not criminal, he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Blockading taxi drivers arrested in Port Elizabeth

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Employed on the _Planter_, a steamer plying in Charleston harbor as a transport, which he took over Charleston Bar in May, 1862, and delivered her and his services to the U.S. Blockading

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 Various

  • Blockading of neutral harbours in violation of international law.

    Germany, The Next Republic? 1930

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