Latest Int. Relations

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  Laforge: White House Gangster Wants to Avoid Nuclear-Armed Stigma

  In a fashion reminiscent of lawless dictatorships the world over, the Trump White House has written to countries that have adopted the treaty urging them to withdraw their ratifications.
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  Baroud: European Hypocrisy: Empty Words for Palestine, Deadly Weapons for Israel

  In practice, despite the seeming rift between Washington and Brussels, the outcome is, essentially, the same. The US and Europe are Israel’s largest trade partners, weapon suppliers and political advocates. 
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  Bacevich: Reframing America’s Role in the World

  The Specter of Isolationism
• MacLeod: IMF Seizes on Pandemic to Pave Way for Privatization in 81 Countries

  76 of the 91 loans the IMF has negotiated since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic come attached with demands for deep cuts to public services and policies that benefit corporations over people
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  Bello: How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt

  The IMF and the Bank would like the global South to believe that they are indispensable. They are not
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  Klare: Talking Tough and Carrying a Radioactive Stick

  The Nuclearization of American Diplomacy
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  Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction

  PI Council Member Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.
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  Benjamin: Biden Urged to Adopt a Good Neighbor Policy Toward Latin America

  Progressive groups see the need to push a new administration to make a positive contribution to the well-being of people throughout the hemisphere
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  Murphy: Trump goes nuclear against ICC

  The Trump administration in Washington has placed economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and another senior official at the Hague
• Knapp: Trump Regime vs. the ICC: the Wrong Side of “Sovereignty”

  If Trump and Pompeo don’t want US military personnel to do the time, they should stop sending US military personnel abroad to do the crimes.
• Wareham: Interview with Mary Wareham, Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

  Interview on lethal autonomous weapons and Wareham’s new HRW report, “Stopping Killer Robots,” an incisive survey of country positions and policies regarding lethal autonomous weapons
• and Greens of Greece: Joint Statement by the Greens of Turkey and Greens of Greece on recent tension in Eastern Mediterranean Sea

  “We, Greek and Turkish Greens, are both deeply concerned about the current build-up of tension in the Eastern Mediterranean.”
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  Hallinan: China & the US: 21st Century’s “Great Game”

  The U.S. has dominated the Pacific Ocean—sometimes called an “American lake”—since the end of World War II. Suddenly Americans have a competitor, although it is a rivalry that routinely gets overblown.
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  Cole: Trump walks Alone

  Former US Allies Britain, France, Germany join Russia and China in Forcefully Rejecting Trump Iran Sanctions
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  Bond: World Bank’s rating obsession will negate debt justice

  The World Bank and IMF continue squeezing poor countries on behalf of commercial lenders, failing to provide the debt cancellations desperately needed.
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  Benjamin: Don’t be Hoodwinked by Trump’s UAE-Israel “Peace Deal”

  The normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel, facilitated by the U.S., serves to prop up three repressive leaders — Trump, Netanyahu, and bin Zayed — and will cause further harm to Palestinians. It is both a shame and a sham
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  Cole: U.S. “Isolated”

  US Regime must learn from its Humiliation at UN, as Trump rejects Putin Plan
• Purkayastha: Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO A Cover-Up for His Failure on COVID-19

  The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right wing precisely for these reasons
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  Benjamin: U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China

  Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China
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  Feffer: How Covid-19 Could Upend Geopolitics

  This Changes Everything (or Nothing)