Latest Int. Relations

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  Benjamin: U.S. Sanctions

  Economic Sabotage That Is Deadly, Illegal, and Ineffective
• Dolack: Look to U.S. executive suites, not Beijing, for why production is moved

  Empty public rhetoric aside, Trump administration policy on trade, consistent with its all-out war on working people, is to elevate corporate power
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  Cohn: Trump’s New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People

  Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has...
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  Falk: Empowering and Liberating International Law and the United Nations

  A look at Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (2019) by Noura Erakat and For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2018) by Ayça Çubukçu
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  Cole: Iran was screwed over by the US

  This civilian nuclear enrichment for fuel is what Iran has been doing for the past 16 years. It is very different from making a bomb, which requires a whole set of other technologies
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  Zeese: Showdown at the Venezuelan Embassy

  Federal Authorities Back Down After Threatening to Evict Peace Activists Inside
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  Cole: Sowing Chaos

  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told NBC that Iran is an active threat to US interests and “sowing chaos” in the Middle East. It strikes me that exactly the opposite is true
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  Halimi: US foreign policy as bellicose as ever

  The Times is in the vanguard of those preparing psychologically for conflict with Russia. There is almost no remaining resistance to its line
• Minter: To Fund African Development, Curb the Looting of African Wealth

  Where does Africa’s stolen wealth end up? Among other places, Trump Tower
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  Feffer: A Farewell to Arms Control?

  With Trump and Bolton at the helm, the international arms control regime is effectively dead. But could that spark a new movement for disarmament?
• Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela

  More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Coles: The Battle for Latin America

  How the U.S. Helped Destroy the “Pink Tide”
• Gilbert: Defending Venezuela: Two Approaches

  Internationalism can take the right-wing path of empty or formal defense, in which the content of the Bolivarian process is ignored, or it can take the left-wing path, in which sovereignty is defended along with the social project
• Immerwahr: Trump Wants to Maintain US Empire But Without the Alliances

  His vision is of a country that is confined to the borders of the contiguous United States, a wall built high around it, and bristling with fortress defenses
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  Bennis: Trump’s Embrace of Netanyahu Will Haunt the Middle East for Years

  The flurry of favors the president did for Bibi could constrain U.S. policy — and hurt people in the region — for years to come
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  Boyle: International Criminal Court Caves In To Americans Torturing Around The World

  My good faith advice today to Third World States who are not yet parties to the Rome Statute is not to join the International Criminal Court
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  Prashad: Venezuela’s future depends on China, Russia

  If China and Russia are able to withstand the US pressure – and build alternative financial mechanisms – then a multipolar order can come into being. If they fail, then the world will remain under unipolar dominance
• Lee: US bars entry to International Criminal Court investigators

  The United States will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere
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  Cohn: Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his government committed war crimes...
• Alperstein: A Modest Proposal: Don’t Start a Nuclear War

  No one wants a nuclear war, ever. Why don't we have a policy against starting one?