Latest Int. Relations

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  Jorden: COVAX Agreement

  Venezuela Sends Oxygen and Doctors to Brazilian Amazon, Mexico Cedes Vaccines to Poor Countries, U.S. and Russia Refuse to Join COVAX
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  Baroud: By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?

  Unquestionably, the storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy
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  Klare: President Biden’s China Conundrum

  Can He Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?
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  Prashad: The Country Where Liberty Is a Statue

  The global reaction to the events of 6 January shows that the authority of the United States is greatly dented
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  Benjamin: The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage Against Cuba

  The real motive behind this move is to offer a parting gift to the Cuban exile community and its allies that have been loyal supporters of the Trump administration
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  Cockburn: The UK is Out of the EU

  But the Balance of Power in Europe has Tipped Permanently Against It
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  Maduro: “I intend to reconcile the Venezuelans”

  Interview on domestic policy, economics, and international policy
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  Adler: Biden’s International ‘Summit for Democracy’ Not a Very Good Idea

  The US must move past outdated foreign policy ideas and resist traveling further down a failed course that divides the world into hostile camps, and prioritizes confrontation over cooperation
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  Falk: From Counterterrorism to Geopolitics: Reviving the U.S. Deep State

  Although it is the highest political priority to be done with Trump and Trumpism, the renewal of ‘bipartisan foreign policy’ under the guidance of the American version of the deep state is not good news
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  Baker: China, Christmas, and the Coronavirus

  We lost an opportunity to have worldwide cooperation in the development of vaccines, bringing in not only Europe, but China
• Wrigley: Trump’s Illegal Moroccan Bribe Could Throw North Africa Into Chaos

  Trump bribed Morocco into normalizing relations with Israel by turning the US into the only country in the world to recognize Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara
• Driver: Scary ‘R’ Us 3 – The Exaggerated Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction

  The term WMD is propaganda to confuse chemical weapons with nuclear weapons, in order to exaggerate a threat
• Chow: Post-Election Reflections on Sinophobia in U.S. Politics

  The last 12 months have seen a sharp rise in anti-China sentiment and, consequently, anti-Asian racism
• Gallup: Building Global Unity through Tolerance and Universal Rights

  For our continued existence on our home planet and for a potential interstellar existence, we must realize what it means to be world citizens who exercise tolerance in all aspects of our lives
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  Engler: Canada, Haiti and Hong Kong

  Progressive Canadians should hold off on criticizing Beijing’s policy towards Hong Kong until they have produced an equal number of statements critical of Canada’s role in Haiti
• Kampmark: “I Told You So. You Damned Fools”

  75 Years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Countess: Building back a better Africa policy should not mean going back to old ways

  The bottom line is that U.S. Africa policy will be most productive if U.S. policymakers are willing to learn and collaborate rather than to preach or dictate
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  Cockburn: Gangsterism as Foreign Policy

  Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm
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  Benjamin: Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?

  The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, likely by Israel with the go-ahead from the US administration, is a desperate attempt to use Trump’s last days in office to sabotage Biden’s chances of successful diplomacy with Iran
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  Wittner: Is the Nationalist Tide Receding?

  A Pew Research Center poll of 14,276 people across 14 nations during the summer of 2020 found that 81 percent believed that “countries around the world should act as part of a global community that works together to solve problems”