Latest Int. Relations
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Chomsky: ‘The growth of right-wing forces is ominous’
Interview on on a wide range of topics, including the Donald Trump presidency, the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the declining U.S. power, and rising right-wing politics in the world
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Falk: The U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council
We all benefit from a robust and legitimated institutional framework for the promotion and protection of vital human rights
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Chomsky: Fascism, Showmanship and Democrats’ Hypocrisy in the Trump Era
Interview on the latest developments in Trumpland and their consequences for democracy and world order
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Weisbrot: Embarrassing Defeat for US
At the OAS, 19 member states voted in favor, 4 against, and 11 abstained when the U.S. tried to have Venezuela sanctioned
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Monbiot: Trump was right. The rest of the G7 were wrong
When this devious, hollow, self-interested man offers a better approximation of the people’s champion than any other leader, you know democracy is in trouble
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Rasmus: South America’s ‘Made in the USA’ Growing Crisis
How Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela are destabilized
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Falk: Toward Benign Global Leadership in a Post-Trumpist World Order
The peoples of the world deserve and require a politics that recognizes what is necessary and aspires and acts to attain what is desirable
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Feffer: Trump’s Korean Shell Game
The U.S. and North Korean leaders are both playing a long con designed to maintain their own short-term political survival
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As Yemeni civilians’ lives become increasingly desperate, they become increasingly isolated, their suffering made invisible by a near-total lack of Western media interest or attention
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Feffer: The Bolton Administration Has Already Begun
The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks
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Hudson: Gambling with the future of the planet
Jettisoning the Iran deal risks nuclear escalation at a delicate time in Middle East relations
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Rasmus: Is the US-China Trade War for Real?
The US trade offensive targeting China was set in motion at least a year ago, in spring 2017. It surfaced last August 2017
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Ellner: Support for Governments Under Imperialist Siege
Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc.: Just how far do we go?
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de Sousa Santos: A time of chaos
The war in Syria is part of a much broader geopolitical game, whose future looks very uncertain
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Swanson: How Suzy Hansen Lost Her U.S. Exceptionalism
Suzy Hansen’s book Notes on a Foreign Country is the...
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Swanson: The Decline and Fall of the State Department
The State Department cables reveal an institution dripping with contempt for humanity, democracy, peace, justice, and the rule of law
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Cockburn: We should be skeptical
None of the arguments currently being used in Britain and the US to smear those skeptical of the governmental and media consensus are new
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Swanson: Dear World, The U.S. Is Just Not That Into You
From outside the United States, the U.S. government looks like an endless war machine
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Chomsky: Undermining Our Survival
As I mentioned, the policies being formulated and enacted are drawn from the playbook of the most reactionary fringe of the Republican establishment. The abject service to private wealth and power is accompanied with an authoritarian and fundamentalist program to transform U.S. society
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Herman: Foreign Engagement v. Aggression
The United States has been intervening and fighting wars abroad almost continuously since World War II. This has involved frequent aggressions, using standard definitions of the word, with many of them extremely destructive. But these cannot be designated “aggression” in our well-honed propaganda system
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Dangl: The Implications of Bolivia’s Referendum
Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, who rose to prominence as a union leader among coca farmers and as a dissident congressperson, has won three general elections, including a 2014 victory with over 60 percent of the vote, and is now in his tenth year in power
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Herman: Anti-Terrorism Rally in Paris?
Hypocrisy runs deep in the imperialist and colonial-settler states. The United States has regularly and deliberately bombed and killed journalists in states under attack, including Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among others
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The United States government routinely tells its subject citizenry and the world of America’s grand commitment to freedom and democracy. Putting aside the inconvenient problem of its own domestic oligarchy and plutocracy, let’s have a look at some of Washington’s “democracy”-loving key allies
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Herman: The Fool, the Demagogue, and the Former KGB Colonel
The fool is John Kerry, rushing around between Washington and Tel Aviv, assailing Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, and, of course, denouncing the Russians for “aggression”...
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Solomon: Heard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of International Law?
Unfortunately, during the last five years, no world leader has done more to undermine international law than Barack Obama.
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Davies: Checkmate In The Great Game
The June 15-16 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)...
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This is an abridged version of a longer Q&A prepared...
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Albert: On Libya & Unfolding Crises
SHALOM/ALBERT: What are U.S. motives in international relations most broadly...
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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
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Chomsky: The Alien perspective on humanity
Interview on what an objective observer from out of space would see
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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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: Iranian Democracy and UN Sanctions
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi – the man who...
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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
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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...