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Sadly, international relations are overwhelmingly about war and imperialism, economic violation and racism. ZCom's International Relations Watch is partly about reporting on and analyzing such phenomena, partly about contributing to overcoming such phenomena.
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Latest Int. Relations
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Venezuela Sends Oxygen and Doctors to Brazilian Amazon, Mexico Cedes Vaccines to Poor Countries, U.S. and Russia Refuse to Join COVAX
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Baroud: By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?
Unquestionably, the storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy
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Klare: President Biden’s China Conundrum
Can He Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?
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Prashad: The Country Where Liberty Is a Statue
The global reaction to the events of 6 January shows that the authority of the United States is greatly dented
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Benjamin: The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage Against Cuba
The real motive behind this move is to offer a parting gift to the Cuban exile community and its allies that have been loyal supporters of the Trump administration
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Cockburn: The UK is Out of the EU
But the Balance of Power in Europe has Tipped Permanently Against It
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Maduro: “I intend to reconcile the Venezuelans”
Interview on domestic policy, economics, and international policy
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Adler: Biden’s International ‘Summit for Democracy’ Not a Very Good Idea
The US must move past outdated foreign policy ideas and resist traveling further down a failed course that divides the world into hostile camps, and prioritizes confrontation over cooperation
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Falk: From Counterterrorism to Geopolitics: Reviving the U.S. Deep State
Although it is the highest political priority to be done with Trump and Trumpism, the renewal of ‘bipartisan foreign policy’ under the guidance of the American version of the deep state is not good news
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Baker: China, Christmas, and the Coronavirus
We lost an opportunity to have worldwide cooperation in the development of vaccines, bringing in not only Europe, but China
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Wrigley: Trump’s Illegal Moroccan Bribe Could Throw North Africa Into Chaos
Trump bribed Morocco into normalizing relations with Israel by turning the US into the only country in the world to recognize Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara
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Driver: Scary ‘R’ Us 3 – The Exaggerated Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The term WMD is propaganda to confuse chemical weapons with nuclear weapons, in order to exaggerate a threat
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Chow: Post-Election Reflections on Sinophobia in U.S. Politics
The last 12 months have seen a sharp rise in anti-China sentiment and, consequently, anti-Asian racism
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Gallup: Building Global Unity through Tolerance and Universal Rights
For our continued existence on our home planet and for a potential interstellar existence, we must realize what it means to be world citizens who exercise tolerance in all aspects of our lives
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Engler: Canada, Haiti and Hong Kong
Progressive Canadians should hold off on criticizing Beijing’s policy towards Hong Kong until they have produced an equal number of statements critical of Canada’s role in Haiti
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Countess: Building back a better Africa policy should not mean going back to old ways
The bottom line is that U.S. Africa policy will be most productive if U.S. policymakers are willing to learn and collaborate rather than to preach or dictate
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Benjamin: Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?
The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last days in office to sabotage Biden’s chances of successful diplomacy with Iran
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Wittner: Is the Nationalist Tide Receding?
A Pew Research Center poll of 14,276 people across 14 nations during the summer of 2020 found that 81 percent believed that “countries around the world should act as part of a global community that works together to solve problems”
ZMag Int. Relations
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Benjamin: Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?
Photo by Johnny Silvercloud Israel used all four years...
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Purkayastha: The World Can Show How Pharma Monopolies Aren’t the Only Way to Fight COVID-19
After making America sick again, Trump is trying to compensate for his administration’s failure by buying Gilead’s production for the next three months for the U.S., leaving nothing for the rest of the world
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No other country in the world is being subjected to the type of regime change strategy that the Trump administration is applying to Venezuela
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Kelly: Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws: A Humanitarian Message
One way to help others survive is to insist that the United States lift sanctions against Iran and instead support acts of practical care
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de Sousa Santos: Toward A New Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, I
By 1000 Words/Shutterstock.com Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th...
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de Sousa Santos: The Age of Pardon or the Age of Aggression?
The anti-colonial struggles waged in Latin America (19th century) and then Africa and Asia (20th century) aimed to ensure historical justice, restore territories to their inhabitants and allow people to be the builders of their own future
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U.S. neocons are once again back in charge of U.S. foreign policy, driving the U.S. toward yet another war and attempt at regime change of a foreign government
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Cohn: Trump Moves the World Closer to “Doomsday”
It is incumbent upon all of us to resist the inexorable march toward nuclear winter
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Davies: The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire
This 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
Int. Rel. Video
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Chomsky: International Solidarity in the Nuclear Age
Interview on the state of nuclear geopolitics, international solidarity and more
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Weisbrot: Trump Renews Venezuela Sanctions
Trump renewed Obama's sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US, violating international law in the process
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Prashad: Trump’s ‘America First’ a Defensive Strategy
Trump's "America First" Security Strategy is a defensive response to old rivals China and Russia reasserting their position in the world
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Bennis: Trump’s Threat is Illegal
Donald Trump's comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account
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Weisbrot: New US Sanctions Against Venezuela
US sanctions against Venezuela, which VP Pence announced Wednesday, target Venezuelan debt and will make borrowing more expensive, hurting the people Trump claims to help
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Pilger: The Coming War On China
Interview on a new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III
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Abunimah: Democrats Out of Step on Israel-Palestine
Democratic politicians, even progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are out of touch with their supporters when it comes to defending Palestinian rights
Intro / Classics
Int. Relations Blogs
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Tripathi: When Netanyahu Crossed the Line
CounterPunch The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi...
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: Russia, China (and the US) Isolated at the UN
Russia and China may be isolated at the United Nations...
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: The Guantánamo Bay Files: Revealing the Mindset of the US Military
The release of the “Guantánamo Bay files” has sent shockwaves...
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: Syria: the Rule of Law vs. the Rule of Power in the Security Council
Since early this year, Syria has been rocked by pro-democracy...
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: So what is going on with Af-Pak? A review of a week’s coverage of the Afghan war
Anyone reading the news about Afghanistan last week would be...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel seems to have secured...
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: The NYT and the art of selective reporting: Women suicides by fire in Afghanistan
Last August, Time Magazine used as its cover a shocking...
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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
Int. Rel Audio
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Rasmus: The U.S. Empire: Growing Stronger or Weaker?
Guests Zeese & Flowers argue the US Empire’s increasing aggressiveness and violence in recent decades are indications of its growing weakness, not strength, as challenges to it mount worldwide
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Sharma: Talk By Devinder Sharma in March 2011
Talk at an international meeting in New Delhi in March...
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Pilger: Support for Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been remanded in custody by a British...
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Chomsky: American Socrates on an Upbeat
Noam Chomsky, after all these years, retains the power to...