Latest Int. Relations

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  Cole: Is Israel’s Netanyahu trying to derail Biden talks and Escape Jail?

  The BBC reports that a power outage and consequent explosion at the Natanz nuclear enrichment site in Iran on Sunday is being blamed by Iranian officials on sabotage
• Cullis: For true JCPOA re-entry, Biden must tear down this sanctions wall

  Trump’s sanctions will have to go if the Biden administration intends to have any policy success with respect to Iran
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  Prashad: Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

  Firing across the Ukraine-Russia border has stepped up, egged on by Biden’s full-throated support of Zelensky’s newly found anti-Russian ambitions
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  Feffer: International Law Uncanceled

  The Biden administration lifted sanctions against the International Criminal Court. It's not enough
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  Cole: How to understand Indirect US-Iran Nuclear Talks

  The US exaggerates the degree to which Iran is out of compliance with the JCPOA. It hasn’t militarized its civilian nuclear enrichment program in any way
• Walker: EU, WHO and Dozens of World Leaders Endorse Plan for Future Pandemic Treaty

  Leaders from dozens of countries around the world have signed onto a joint statement calling for the creation of an international treaty that would address pandemics that will come about in the future
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  Prashad: The Vaccine Must Be a Common Good for Humanity

  Nearly three million people have reportedly been killed by the novel coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) and upwards of 128 million people have been infected by the virus
• Abramsky: Rich Countries Are Using Vaccines as a Power Play — and Everyone Could Suffer

  In the long run, vaccine nationalism, and the protectionism of rich countries against poor countries, helps no one
• Johnson: Failure to ‘Vaccinate the World’ Creates Dangerous Opening for Covid-19 Mutations

  "We need a people's vaccine, not only to protect people in the world's poorest countries, but to ensure that people all over the world who've already been vaccinated aren't put at risk again."
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  Chomsky: Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Largely Indistinguishable From Trump’s

  U.S. policy might help create a more serious challenge by confrontational and hostile acts that drive Russia and China closer together in reaction
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  Wittner: Opposition to Abolishing Nuclear Weapons—and What Could Help to Overcome It

  People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security
• Germanos: WHO Chief Blasts ‘Grotesque’ Vaccine Inequality

  Rich Nations Block Speedy End of Global Pandemic
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  Cole: Yemenis face Famine of the Century

  Biden must pressure Saudis to Stop Port Blockade
• Geglia: Cuba Working on a ‘People’s Vaccine’

  The US and the world should get behind it
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  Pollin: The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal

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  Ghosh: The Political Economy of COVID-19 Vaccines

  Within a month of the regulatory approval being granted to the first three vaccines, advanced countries, accounting for only 14% of the world’s population, had placed orders for around 85% of the estimated entire production for 2021
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  Bennis: US Bombing in Syria Illegal; Biden Should Rejoin Iran Agreement Now

  The bombing of Syria was a violation of U.S. and International law. It was the U.S. that violated the nuclear deal with Iran and Biden should rejoin the agreement without new conditions
• Hassan: U.S. & Other Wealthy Nations Block Effort to Waive Vaccine Patent Rights

  Millions of us are basically going to have to wait for a vaccine, putting global immunity, as well as regional immunity, particularly in Africa, at severe risk”
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  Greenwald: Biden’s Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy

  That the U.S. opposes tyranny is a glaring myth. Yet it is not only believed but often used to justify wars, bombing campaigns, sanctions, and protracted conflict
• Beinart: American Exceptionalism as Magical Thinking

  The essence of American exceptionalism is that the United States possesses a virtue so intrinsic that it cannot be falsified by events