Latest Int. Relations

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  Ellsberg: To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them

  Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent
• Stender: U.S. pushes China tensions to the brink with new moves on Taiwan secession

  War only benefits Wall Street and the weapons manufacturers who cash in on death and destruction. The working class should resist the drive to war and the propaganda offensive launched by the corporate media
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  Bond: The latest Bretton Woods bean-counting scandal nearly evicts IMF director Georgieva

  “Torture the data until they confess” (or until you’re busted), economists profess
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  Ellsberg: Milley, China and the Danger of Nuclear War

  Gen. Milley’s call to China may have prevented a near catastrophe, as happened in 1983 when the Soviet Union believed Reagan had gone mad and planned a first strike
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  Falk: The UN after 75: What Next?

  We are left with the haunting question of whether pressures toward unity and global public goods can replace geopolitical rivalry and ambition in the years ahead
• Stangler: U.S. Sanctions Blamed as Venezuela Laments Frozen Order for Medicine

  One of Portugal’s largest banks is holding up a $12.7 million order to fund shipment of medical supplies and vaccines to Venezuela
• Letman: Support for Nuclear Ban Treaty Is Rising

  Nuclear Nations Are on the Defensive
• Cirincione: Biden Bends to the Nuclear Bureaucracy

  A top-level Pentagon official has reportedly been dismissed for the crime of being skeptical about our nuclear weapons policies
• Sarkar: ‘Vaccine Apartheid’: Africans Tell UN They Need Vaccines

  “No one is safe unless we are all safe.” That message was repeated throughout the day to world leaders assembled at the UN, as the inequity of vaccine distribution came into sharp focus
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  Hallinan: Looking Back: 50 Years of Foreign Policy

  The world desperately needs an international health treaty to confront future pandemics and must guarantee that it includes the poorest countries on the globe
• Prabhala: Stop Exporting Indian-Made Vaccines to Rich Nations

  More than a dozen civil society groups in India have written an open urging Johnson & Johnson to cancel export of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine doses to rich countries and instead focus on distributing them in the Global South
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  Weisbrot: Republicans blocking desperately needed pandemic relief for the world’s poor

  Allowing the IMF to issue $1.5 trillion in special drawing rights would save countless lives and wouldn’t cost U.S. taxpayers a dime
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  Cockburn: Trumpism and Bidenism Have Much in Common

  Old alliances are breaking apart as tectonic changes take place in the way the world works
• Driver: The Violence of Colonialism and the Exploitation of Africa

  Many African nations are ruled by leaders backed by the US, Britain or France, or constrained by IMF/World Bank/WTO policies
• Páez victor: Hush, Hush (Venezuela is Winning!)

  So let us celebrate these negotiations. They are a triumph of México, Norway, Netherland, and Russia; a triumph of the Venezuelan government
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  Chomsky: Who Rules Asia?

  We have an enormous responsibility today to prevent the kinds of conflicts that are coming, that are brewing, that are developing
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  Engler: Canadian Imperialism in Africa

  Canadian imperialism in Africa has had a rare social media moment
• Hudson: George Soros dreams of turning China into a neoliberal grabitization opportunity

  George Soros is obviously upset that President Xi is not Boris Yeltsin, and that China is not following the kleptocracy dependency that warped Russia’s economy
• McCarthy: What a truly humanitarian response in Afghanistan would look like

  While there are no guarantees of success in the short-term, here are five proven steps that can be taken to mitigate violence as the Taliban consolidate power.
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  Bacon: At the End of this Hated War, We Need Truth

  The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention