Latest Int. Relations

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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade War With China: Is It About to End?

  Trump’s trade wars are therefore best understood as a set of distractions. The end result doesn’t matter all that much to him politically, and is therefore not worth that much political risk
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  Halimi: The US’s new evil empire

  The US seems to have decided that it can’t take on China and Russia at the same time, so its principal geopolitical rival in the coming decades will be China
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  Falk: Amazonia, Climate Change, Syria, Yemen, Kashmir

  What these issues have in common is the inability of the global system of authority to save these national populations from experiencing prolonged tragedy as a result of the criminal behavior of the territorial government and, in some instances, its insurgent adversaries
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  Gerson: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

  Building on the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty
• Habib: How Iraq Is Standing Up For Itself, After Israeli Attacks

  Often trapped between Iran and the US, Iraq’s foreign policy experts have been playing a wily game to avoid it happening again – especially after suspected Israeli attacks inside the country
• Kotz: Roots of the U.S.-China Trade Conflict

  Every day, the news brings more stories of U.S.-China tensions. What led to the U.S.-China trade conflict? And what would a U.S. pro-worker policy toward China look like?
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  Falk: The World Order Backdrop

  Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, Ignoring Kashmir
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  Prashad: The G7 Countries Look Feeble

  Iran and Brazil Could Shore Them Up
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  Zeese: The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

  The myth of American Exceptionalism is being exposed
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  Baker: China Did Not Trick the US

  Trade Negotiators Served Corporate Interests
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  Kuzmarov: Russian Blast Points to Danger of New Nuclear Arms Race

  A new mobilization is now urgently needed in favor of arms control which can be modeled on the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s
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  Koerner: Washington Escalates Venezuela Sanctions into Full-Fledged Embargo

  The latest measures amount to a total trade embargo impacting both US and foreign entities
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  Prashad: There Must Be Bones Under the Paved Street

  Withdrawal from the INF treaty is only one sign of danger. Another is that the various nuclear powers – led by the United States – have once more placed their nuclear weapons at the heart of their military strategy
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  Feffer: Trump: Out of the Graveyard and into the Pyre?

  Even if Trump manages to end the war in Afghanistan, he’s fueling other wars that will be even more devastating
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  Rasmus: The Global Currency War Has Begun

  China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band
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  Rasmus: The Escalating US-China Trade War

  Failing to get China to capitulate in trade talks this...
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  Cockburn: No-deal Brexit could lead to economic cold war with the EU

  Turning Britain into a ‘Singapore on Thames’ used to sound impractical. But in the context of a permanent hostile relationship between Britain and the EU, it is now far more feasible
• Weisbord: US Leaders Can Now Be Prosecuted for Illegal War

  Interview on the legacy of the Nuremberg trials and the ways in which Donald Trump may have already violated international law by engaging in crimes of aggression
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  Prashad: The U.S.-Iran Standoff

  The United States has had a sanctions regime in place against Iran for decades, almost since the Iranian Revolution of 1979
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  Falk: Geopolitical Crimes: A Revolutionary Proposal

  When we think about international relations in a general way we typically presuppose a state-centric world order. I find this misleading