Latest Int. Relations

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  Kuzmarov: Russian Blast Points to Danger of New Nuclear Arms Race

  A new mobilization is now urgently needed in favor of arms control which can be modeled on the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s
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  Koerner: Washington Escalates Venezuela Sanctions into Full-Fledged Embargo

  The latest measures amount to a total trade embargo impacting both US and foreign entities
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  Prashad: There Must Be Bones Under the Paved Street

  Withdrawal from the INF treaty is only one sign of danger. Another is that the various nuclear powers – led by the United States – have once more placed their nuclear weapons at the heart of their military strategy
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  Feffer: Trump: Out of the Graveyard and into the Pyre?

  Even if Trump manages to end the war in Afghanistan, he’s fueling other wars that will be even more devastating
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  Rasmus: The Global Currency War Has Begun

  China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band
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  Rasmus: The Escalating US-China Trade War

  Failing to get China to capitulate in trade talks this...
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  Cockburn: No-deal Brexit could lead to economic cold war with the EU

  Turning Britain into a ‘Singapore on Thames’ used to sound impractical. But in the context of a permanent hostile relationship between Britain and the EU, it is now far more feasible
• Weisbord: US Leaders Can Now Be Prosecuted for Illegal War

  Interview on the legacy of the Nuremberg trials and the ways in which Donald Trump may have already violated international law by engaging in crimes of aggression
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  Prashad: The U.S.-Iran Standoff

  The United States has had a sanctions regime in place against Iran for decades, almost since the Iranian Revolution of 1979
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  Falk: Geopolitical Crimes: A Revolutionary Proposal

  When we think about international relations in a general way we typically presuppose a state-centric world order. I find this misleading
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  Bello: A Major Diplomatic Defeat for Duterte

  And His Allies in Beijing
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  Prashad: Trump Murdered the Iran Deal

  And Europe Isn’t Too Happy About It
• Petersen-Smith: Iran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is.

  If a war breaks out, it won’t be because the Trump administration “bumbled” into one
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  Cole: Trump Breached Iran Deal to Spite Obama

  Former British ambassador to the US Kim Darroch alleged in a diplomatic cable that Trump’s motivation in breaching the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was motivated by nothing more than spite
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  Hallinan: Weaponizing Water in South Asia

  During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan...
• Hannah: Here’s one way Democrats can defeat Trump: be radically anti-war

  For too long, Democrats have accepted the national-security establishment consensus. Voters are desperate for a different kind of foreign policy
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  Cole: Europe Implements New Currency Exchange with Iran

  European and other companies can now do business with Iran while avoiding US Treasury Department sanctions
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  Hiro: Keep America Great (Don’t Count on It!)

  Two Years Later, Trump Has Failed to Reverse America’s Decline
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  Tax: Supporting dictators is not anti-imperialism

  Why do so many Western leftists side with dictators in the name of anti-imperialism? A new book seeks to moved beyond the old “the West and the rest”-binary
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  Cohn: Iran Had the Legal Right to Shoot Down US Spy Drone

  The New York Times is reporting that on June 20, President Trump ordered...