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Sadly, international relations are overwhelmingly about war and imperialism, economic violation and racism. ZCom's International Relations Watch is partly about reporting on and analyzing such phenomena, partly about contributing to overcoming such phenomena.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Germanos: WHO Chief Blasts ‘Grotesque’ Vaccine Inequality
Rich Nations Block Speedy End of Global Pandemic
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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
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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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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
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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
ZMag Int. Relations
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Chomsky: Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Global problems of this scale require global cooperation
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Benjamin: Will the World Community Condemn the Murder of Iran’s Nuclear Scientist?
Photo by Johnny Silvercloud Israel used all four years...
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Purkayastha: The World Can Show How Pharma Monopolies Aren’t the Only Way to Fight COVID-19
After making America sick again, Trump is trying to compensate for his administration’s failure by buying Gilead’s production for the next three months for the U.S., leaving nothing for the rest of the world
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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
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
Intro / Classics
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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: Afghanistan’s Minerals: Hope or Despair?
Why we should view the discovery of Afghan minerals with...
Int. Rel Audio
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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...