Latest Int. Relations

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  Falk: Respecting International Law: A Practical Argument

  Although this is a deplorable state of affairs as the planet burns and vulnerable people suffer from ecological hazards and predatory geopolitics, it is the time to heighten struggle, and not sit home in despair
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  Klare: World War III’s Newest Battlefield

  U.S. Troops Head for the Far North
• Amorim: Iran Diplomacy and Brazil’s Sharp Turn to the Right

  Interview on the enormous effort Brazil put into securing a nuclear deal with Iran, how it was ignored, and how current president Bolsonaro is following an extreme right agenda
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  Falk: The Decline of International Law

  Reflections of a True Believer
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  Falk: Contesting Nuclearism

  The goal of nuclear disarmament will never be reached so long as arms control and nonproliferation of nuclear weaponry are seen as the pillars of global stability in the nuclear age
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  Chomsky: America Has Built a Global Dystopia

  Interview on the incredible global failure to address the climate crisis, as well as the nuclear arms race, which are both leading humanity to a precipice that may be impossible to walk away from
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  Prashad: What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting

  Beneath the storm and stress of the shifts in the balance of power lie myriad struggles
• Purkayastha: Current U.S. approach to nuclear weapons can only lead to armageddon

  Arms control provides the only path to peace
• Essertier: Cutting Off Lifelines of North Koreans is a Siege, Not “Sanctions”

  The sanctions against North Korea are firmly in place, not because everyone loves Washington and wants to cooperate with them, but because U.S.-based multinational corporations control about half of all the world’s wealth
• Weiss: ICC will likely throw out Palestine’s case for war crimes

  “The battle is going to be played out behind closed doors and in the court of public opinion"
• Centeno: We Can’t Obtain Immigration Justice in a World of Borders and Nations

  The criminalization of migrants ensures that capitalism thrives. When you have 11 million people with no legal status, you create a labor pool that is vulnerable, cheap and exploitable
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  Cohn: Palestinians Decry ICC Prosecutor’s Delay of Israeli War Crimes Investigation

  In a significant development for Israeli accountability, Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeks to launch an investigation into war crimes committed in Palestine
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  Bello: Good Riddance to the WTO

  Rich countries embraced trade multilateralism when it suited them, and now they’re abandoning it. That may not be such a bad thing
• Challand: Trump and Israeli-style Disdain for International Law

  A look at the Trump Administration’s disrespect for the rule of law in general and international law in particular
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  Baroud: From a blessing to a curse

  How UN resolution 2334 accelerated Israel’s colonisation in the West Bank
• 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?