Latest Int. Relations

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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
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  Ellner: The Radicalization of U.S. Policy on Venezuela

  The Trump administration’s escalation included financial sanctions against the Venezuelan government and measures against the nation’s oil industry
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  Rasmus: Trump’s Déjà vu China Trade War (Part II)

  Part II of the analysis of Trump’s Déjà vu China-US trade ‘war’ from last March 2018 through mid-January 2019
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  Bond: Jim Yong Kim’s mixed messages to the World Bank, and the world

  Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist...
• Davies: The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire

  A self-reinforcing vicious circle endangers us all, not least those of us who live at the heart of this corrupt and ultimately self-destructive empire
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  Ellner: What If Bernie Sanders Opposed Sanctions Against Venezuela?

  The politically-charged questions Sanders would likely get from the press, along with his possible responses
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  Nevins: The Problem with Border Security

  Agents are effectively given license to act as judge, jury, and executioner, particularly when firing their weapons into Mexico
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  Swanson: Isolationism or Imperialism?

  You Really Can’t Imagine a Third Possibility
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  Grandin: U.S. Policies Punished Central Americans

  Interview on U.S. policy in Central America
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  Prashad: Yemen remains on the precipice of a large-scale famine

  The UN and U.S. Senate weigh in, but will their actions be enough to bring peace?
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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade Policy Towards China

  A Distraction to Benefit the Rich
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  Falk: On the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  I do not think the Declaration is obsolete or even anachronistic, although it needs to be updated in various ways to take account of the distinct human rights challenges posed by the realities of the digital age
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  Pilger: New Cold War & looming threats

  Interview on U.S.’ aggression in the Asia-Pacific region and the decline of its global dominance and says that a “new Cold War beckons isolation for the U.S. and danger for the rest of us”
• Gonzalez: New Global Movement Against Far Right

  Interview on launching a movement with Senator Bernie Sanders and others to fight right-wing forces around the globe
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  Feffer: Trump Turns the G20 into the G19

  On everything from climate to trade to the international order itself, the failure of the White House’s powers of persuasion were on full display at the G20
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  Rasmus: A US-China Trade War ‘Armistice’?

  Trump ‘Blinks’ at G20 Meeting and Retreats
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  McCoy: Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster

  Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power
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  Falk: G20 Meeting and U.S./Russia Relations

  Trump’s recent behavior is responsive to growing pressures on his leadership from within the American political system, especially due to his low popularity with the public