Latest Int. Relations
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Escobar: Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration
The Trump administration’s maneuvers are a testament to how China’s New Silk Road, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), threaten the US establishment.
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Interview on the future of NATO that considers Trump’s brazen challenges and the tepid responses of European political leaders, and what this interplay signifies for the future of world order
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Chomsky: Survival of Organized Human Life at Risk
Humans beings, right now, this generation, for the first time in history, have to ask, “Will human life survive?”
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Hallinan: NATO: Time to Re-Examine an Alliance
It is time NATO went the way of the Warsaw Pact and recognize that the old ways of thinking are not only outdated but also dangerous
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Baker: Europe Pays the Price for Increasing Inequality
If Mr. Stoltenberg and his colleagues don’t want to be in the business of kowtowing to Trumpian buffoons, they should start thinking about policies that ensure the benefits of growth are broadly shared
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Russian money saved Trump when his projects were on the verge of collapse. Will it now be the cause of his political demise?
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Klare: Entering a 1984 World, Trump-Style
Or Implementing the Sino-Russian Blueprint for a Tripolar World Order
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Feffer: What’s Behind Trump’s Assault on Europe
Trump is attacking Europe and siding with Russia for political — and not just personal — reasons
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Greenwald: Is Trump-Putin Summit a “Danger to America”?
Or Crucial Diplomacy Between Nuclear Powers?
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Smith: The deadly dangers of the ‘special relationship’
The ties which bind the 'special relationship' between the UK and the US are a toxic mix of militarism and free trade
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Plesch: An Urgently Needed Summit Strategy
Here's what Donald Trump should really be talking about with Vladimir Putin and NATO
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Jacobs: U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution
The United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations
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Cohn: Indefinite Detention of Migrants Violates International Law
Pursuant to its “zero-tolerance” policy, the Trump administration separated some...
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Hewitt: Unarmed civilian protection
Nonviolent peacekeeping allows people to see humanity visibly manifested; unarmed peacekeepers must be decent and kind, they must listen actively and make all parties to a conflict feel as though they matter
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Cohn: In Upholding Muslim Ban, the Supreme Court Ignored International Law
The Supreme Court’s opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, affirming Donald Trump’s Muslim...
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Koeppel: America’s Regime Change Toolbox
Since the end of the 19th century, when the U.S. embarked on empire, it has, one way or another, overthrown almost all the governments it didn’t like
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Engler: Trump Threatens Canada
Instead of responding to Trump’s belligerence by ramping up military preparedness —which the US president demanded in a letter to the Prime Minister last week — we should be debating the point of a Canadian “defence”
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Vargas: Mexico Can be Counterweight to US Foreign Policy in Latin America
AMLOs ambitious plans for the oil sector, together with Vasconcelos’ progressive international relations doctrine could shift the balance of power in the region and be a major foreign policy defeat for Trump
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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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Dolack: Trump Administration Takes Aim At The World
Trump trade policy is set by economic nationalists determined to deepen the dominance of U.S. corporate power at the expense of working people everywhere, U.S. working people not excepted. It is the height of naïveté to expect anything else
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Kuzmarov: Secret Teams in Another Deadly Imperial War?
Since the end of the Cold War, this undercover infrastructure has only expanded as the brutal destabilizing operations continue. Yemen is but the latest playground, with severe consequences yet again.
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Dika: Syria and the Politics of International Law
Moral posturing by the United States and its allies fall on deaf ears in the Middle East
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Idelson: Daniel Ellsberg’s New Nuclear Wakeup Call
Can we step back from the danger of extinction of all life on earth? Without complete dismantling of everyone’s nuclear arsenal?
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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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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...