Latest Int. Relations

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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  I do not think the Declaration is obsolete or even anachronistic, although it needs to be updated in various ways to take account of the distinct human rights challenges posed by the realities of the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
• Avery: A World Federation

  To save the future, we need a just and democratic system of international law; for with law shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste
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  Prashad: IMF is Back in Business in Latin America

  Just as Neoliberal as Always
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  Monbiot: Slavemasters

  The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end
• Menon: Shattering Europe?

  It’s telling that Trump favors the most anti-democratic European governments and movements, the ones that peddle bigotry, while choosing to pick fights with the leaders of Britain, Germany, and now France
• Hunt: With Nearly 400,000 Dead in South Sudan, Will the U.S. Change Policy?

  It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?
• Nahem: Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN

  The 2018 UN vote against the US blockade strengthens Cuba’s position in this volatile and explosive period in world and Western Hemispheric politics, and in the international class and national liberation struggles, that are now unfolding
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  Feffer: Is Korea’s Cold War About to End?

  The media is missing the real story on the peninsula. If that gives Koreans space to lead, maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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  Hallinan: Unwrapping Armageddon

  The Erosion of Nuclear Arms Control
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  Laforge: Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Could Become Law Next Year

  The TPNW places nuclear weapons in the same outlaw category as biological weapons, poison gas, land minds and cluster munitions, all of which are banned by treaties
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  Baroud: The UN ‘Sheriff’

  Nikki Haley Elevated Israel, Damaged US Standing
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  Falk: Rethinking Nuclearism

  The most effective tactics at the present time is to promote an educational understanding of why transformation is necessary and desirable, while management is unacceptable
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  Falk: Weaponized Communication at the UN

  Interview on the death knell of all prospects for a global rule of law
• Yakupitiyage: Without Food Security, There Is No Peace

  Though the task of tackling conflict-based hunger is not easy, the solutions are there. What is now required is commitment and collective action