Latest Int. Relations
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Purkayastha: Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO A Cover-Up for His Failure on COVID-19
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right wing precisely for these reasons
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Benjamin: U.S. Cold War China Policy Will Isolate the U.S, Not China
Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China
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Benjamin: King Joe and the Round Table: Biden’s America in a Multipolar World
If Biden is elected, it will be up to peace-loving Americans to demand a foreign policy that takes illegal military “options,” brutal sanctions and a new arms race off the table and replaces them with a new commitment to the rule of law and “Round Table” diplomacy
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Prashad: The U.S. and UK Are a Wrecking Ball Crew Against the Pillars of Internationalism
In both the case of the sanctions against the ICC and the theft of Venezuela’s gold, the United States and the UK demonstrate their disregard for international institutions and for international law
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Falk: Post-COVID Prospects Assessed
Are we going for more convergence or divergence? More nationalism and divisiveness or more connectedness?
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Mariniello: Will the ICC Investigation Bring Justice for Palestine?
Will the US succeed, once more, in blocking another international investigation?
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Falk: Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court
It should be appreciated that while geopolitical actors can get away with murder, their rogue behavior is a precedent for all states, and weakens what procedures exist to uphold the most basic norms of international law
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Pierson: Trump Sanctions the International Criminal Court
The ICC was established in order to end impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Trump’s executive order proves that that goal is still a long way off.
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Prashad: Ten-Point Agenda for the Global South After COVID-19
Economies that are not allowed to plan their use of resources have floundered before the virus
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Cole: Russia shoots down “Ridiculous” Trump demand for Arms Embargo on Tehran
The Neoconservative wing of the Trump administration, which is dying to drag the United States into a war with Iran, suffered an embarrassing setback on Monday when its latest flimsy scheme crashed and burned.
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Cook: Israel and the US step up efforts to intimidate the Hague war crimes court
A criminal suspect does not get to decide whether their victim can make a complaint, or whether the legal system should investigate. The same must apply in international law if it is to have any meaningful application.
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Cockburn: Brexit Crisis Led to Incompetent Leadership at a Time of Unprecedented Calamity
Now We are Paying for It
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Pilger: The CIA Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally’ Is History’s Warning In 2020
In Donald Trump's current provocations of China, the US bases in Australia are described as the "tip of the spear"
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Purkayastha: American Exceptionalism May Be Pushing World into Most Dangerous Period Ever
The U.S. continues to pour its money into military technology and its political energy into defense strategies against what it perceives as threats to its global hegemony from China and Russia—even during a pandemic
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Crossette: Trump Quits the WHO; the Victim is the United States
After Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of WHO on Friday, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than the image of the United States
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Feffer: Is It Time to Boycott the United States?
The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy itself warrant the same treatment?
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Falk: Arms Control & Disarmament: A Failed Marriage
The linkages between contagious disease and climate change is too evident to ignore
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No other country in the world is being subjected to the type of regime change strategy that the Trump administration is applying to Venezuela
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Kelly: Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws: A Humanitarian Message
One way to help others survive is to insist that the United States lift sanctions against Iran and instead support acts of practical care
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de Sousa Santos: Toward A New Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, I
By 1000 Words/Shutterstock.com Baruch de Spinoza, the great 17th...
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de Sousa Santos: The Age of Pardon or the Age of Aggression?
The anti-colonial struggles waged in Latin America (19th century) and then Africa and Asia (20th century) aimed to ensure historical justice, restore territories to their inhabitants and allow people to be the builders of their own future
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U.S. neocons are once again back in charge of U.S. foreign policy, driving the U.S. toward yet another war and attempt at regime change of a foreign government
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Cohn: Trump Moves the World Closer to “Doomsday”
It is incumbent upon all of us to resist the inexorable march toward nuclear winter
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Davies: The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire
This self-reinforcing vicious circle endangers us all, not least those of us who live at the heart of this corrupt and ultimately self-destructive empire
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Rasmus: Trade War for Real? Parts 2, 3
How China will respond to more U.S. tariffs and technology transfer is the crux of any U.S.-China trade agreement—or trade war
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Dolack: Trump Administration Takes Aim At The World
Trump trade policy is set by economic nationalists determined to deepen the dominance of U.S. corporate power at the expense of working people everywhere, U.S. working people not excepted. It is the height of naïveté to expect anything else
Int. Rel. Video
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Chomsky: International Solidarity in the Nuclear Age
Interview on the state of nuclear geopolitics, international solidarity and more
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Weisbrot: Trump Renews Venezuela Sanctions
Trump renewed Obama's sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US, violating international law in the process
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Prashad: Trump’s ‘America First’ a Defensive Strategy
Trump's "America First" Security Strategy is a defensive response to old rivals China and Russia reasserting their position in the world
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Bennis: Trump’s Threat is Illegal
Donald Trump's comments at the UN General Assembly violate international law, and the world should hold him to account
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Weisbrot: New US Sanctions Against Venezuela
US sanctions against Venezuela, which VP Pence announced Wednesday, target Venezuelan debt and will make borrowing more expensive, hurting the people Trump claims to help
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Pilger: The Coming War On China
Interview on a new documentary “The Coming War On China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III
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Abunimah: Democrats Out of Step on Israel-Palestine
Democratic politicians, even progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are out of touch with their supporters when it comes to defending Palestinian rights
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Chomsky: The Alien perspective on humanity
Interview on what an objective observer from out of space would see
Int. Relations Blogs
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Tripathi: When Netanyahu Crossed the Line
CounterPunch The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi...
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: Russia, China (and the US) Isolated at the UN
Russia and China may be isolated at the United Nations...
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: The Guantánamo Bay Files: Revealing the Mindset of the US Military
The release of the “Guantánamo Bay files” has sent shockwaves...
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: Syria: the Rule of Law vs. the Rule of Power in the Security Council
Since early this year, Syria has been rocked by pro-democracy...
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: So what is going on with Af-Pak? A review of a week’s coverage of the Afghan war
Anyone reading the news about Afghanistan last week would be...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel seems to have secured...
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: The NYT and the art of selective reporting: Women suicides by fire in Afghanistan
Last August, Time Magazine used as its cover a shocking...
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: Iranian Democracy and UN Sanctions
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi – the man who...
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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
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Rasmus: The U.S. Empire: Growing Stronger or Weaker?
Guests Zeese & Flowers argue the US Empire’s increasing aggressiveness and violence in recent decades are indications of its growing weakness, not strength, as challenges to it mount worldwide
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Sharma: Talk By Devinder Sharma in March 2011
Talk at an international meeting in New Delhi in March...
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Pilger: Support for Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been remanded in custody by a British...
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Chomsky: American Socrates on an Upbeat
Noam Chomsky, after all these years, retains the power to...