Latest Int. Relations

• Coles: The Battle for Latin America

  How the U.S. Helped Destroy the “Pink Tide”
• Gilbert: Defending Venezuela: Two Approaches

  Internationalism can take the right-wing path of empty or formal defense, in which the content of the Bolivarian process is ignored, or it can take the left-wing path, in which sovereignty is defended along with the social project
• Immerwahr: Trump Wants to Maintain US Empire But Without the Alliances

  His vision is of a country that is confined to the borders of the contiguous United States, a wall built high around it, and bristling with fortress defenses
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  Bennis: Trump’s Embrace of Netanyahu Will Haunt the Middle East for Years

  The flurry of favors the president did for Bibi could constrain U.S. policy — and hurt people in the region — for years to come
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  Boyle: International Criminal Court Caves In To Americans Torturing Around The World

  My good faith advice today to Third World States who are not yet parties to the Rome Statute is not to join the International Criminal Court
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  Prashad: Venezuela’s future depends on China, Russia

  If China and Russia are able to withstand the US pressure – and build alternative financial mechanisms – then a multipolar order can come into being. If they fail, then the world will remain under unipolar dominance
• Lee: US bars entry to International Criminal Court investigators

  The United States will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere
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  Cohn: Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his government committed war crimes...
• Alperstein: A Modest Proposal: Don’t Start a Nuclear War

  No one wants a nuclear war, ever. Why don't we have a policy against starting one?
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  Benjamin: How US Sanctions are Hurting Iran: A Firsthand Report

  Trump's economic strangulation is having devastating people on the Iranian people
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  Feffer: Trump’s Bromance with Kim Is Gross, But Let the Love Letters Continue

  Despite the failed summit, relations between the U.S. and North Korea are much better than they were 18 months ago.
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  Finkelstein: It Is Time to Indict Israel

  Interview on the growing push for ICC to file War Crimes charges
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  Weisbrot: Sanctions Will Kill Venezuelans

  The humanitarian crisis will get rapidly worse if the most recent sanctions continue
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  McCoy: What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?

  How Climate Change Could End Washington’s Global Dominion
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  Cohn: Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba

  The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of...
• Petersen-Smith: Progressives Should Support Open Borders — With No Apology

  Supporting freedom of movement isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s a political winner for the left
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  Wittner: U.S. & International Law

  The Trump administration’s campaign to topple the government of Venezuela raises the issue of whether the U.S. government is willing to adhere to the same rules of behavior it expects other nations to follow
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  Ellner: Regime Change: “Made In The U.S.A.”

  Trump’s unwavering backing of Juan Guaidó’s shadow government in Venezuela attaches a “made in the U.S.A.” label to all those positioned to govern should Maduro fall
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  Wittner: Pressuring Nuclear Disarmament

  Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament―Unless They’re Pushed to Do So
• Davies: Will Iran Sanctions Herald the Fall of the Imperial Dollar?

  It’s a good time for Americans to start thinking about how we can instead cooperate with all our neighbors in a smooth, peaceful transition to a sustainable, multipolar world