Latest Int. Relations

• Singh: The U.S. “Obstructing Any Progress” at COP25

  The United States and other rich countries are obstructing the talks and trying to avoid their obligation to assist poorer countries already facing the worst effects of the climate crisis
• Kotz: Reinforcing the Trade War?

  Interview on how the U.S.'s hardened trade stance has nothing to do with human rights, despite new reports of the massive human rights violations of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China
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  Benjamin: NATO Should Be Obsolete

  In an age where people around the world want to avoid war and to focus instead on the climate chaos that threatens future life on earth, NATO is an anachronism.
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  Hallinan: Nuclear Lies & Broken Promises

  It is easy to blame the current resident of the White House for world tensions, except that the major nuclear powers have been ignoring their commitments on nuclear weapons and disarmament for over 50 years
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  Fisk: Pompeo Scorns the Law Because He’s Never Had to Follow It

  Did US secretaries of state always lie so brazenly, so frighteningly, so mendaciously, so utterly without conscience?
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  Hallinan: A New Middle East Is Coming

  The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old enmities—sometimes for new ones—and re-drawing traditional alliances
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  Falk: Declining Protection of Human Rights: Why?

  Under these conditions of menace and uncertainty there is every reason to struggle for what is necessary and desirable even if it seems presently impossible of attainment
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  Bond: Bretton Woods Institutions’ neoliberal over-reach leaves global governance in the gutter

  The 75th anniversary is a good time to ask whether such out-dated ideologies and their enforcers deserve to be retired, not (as the right-wing populist protectionists argue) so as to close the door on global governance, but to open it much wider in a way that serves people and planet, not multinational corporate profits
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  Prashad: The IMF Is Utterly Indifferent to the Pain It’s Causing

  No one within the IMF meeting will raise the question of democracy, both in terms of the IMF’s own functioning and in terms of the IMF’s relationship with sovereign countries around the world
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  Benjamin: The Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism

  It should be no surprise that the new governments installed by all these U.S. wars and coups are among the most corrupt regimes on earth
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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade War With China: Is It About to End?

  Trump’s trade wars are therefore best understood as a set of distractions. The end result doesn’t matter all that much to him politically, and is therefore not worth that much political risk
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  Halimi: The US’s new evil empire

  The US seems to have decided that it can’t take on China and Russia at the same time, so its principal geopolitical rival in the coming decades will be China
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  Falk: Amazonia, Climate Change, Syria, Yemen, Kashmir

  What these issues have in common is the inability of the global system of authority to save these national populations from experiencing prolonged tragedy as a result of the criminal behavior of the territorial government and, in some instances, its insurgent adversaries
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  Gerson: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

  Building on the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty
• Habib: How Iraq Is Standing Up For Itself, After Israeli Attacks

  Often trapped between Iran and the US, Iraq’s foreign policy experts have been playing a wily game to avoid it happening again – especially after suspected Israeli attacks inside the country
• Kotz: Roots of the U.S.-China Trade Conflict

  Every day, the news brings more stories of U.S.-China tensions. What led to the U.S.-China trade conflict? And what would a U.S. pro-worker policy toward China look like?
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  Falk: The World Order Backdrop

  Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, Ignoring Kashmir
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  Prashad: The G7 Countries Look Feeble

  Iran and Brazil Could Shore Them Up
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  Zeese: The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

  The myth of American Exceptionalism is being exposed
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  Baker: China Did Not Trick the US

  Trade Negotiators Served Corporate Interests