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McCoy: The Demolition of U.S. Global Power
Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East
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Feffer: Good Deals on Diplomacy?
From North Korea to Russia to the Middle East, there's no shortage of deal-making needed. But beware the fine print of anything with Trump's insignia
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Grossman: Fire and Riddles at Hamburg
I wonder whether those so horrified today were sickened then at US attacks on others’ sovereignty
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Zeese: Power Dynamics Changing
As US power is waning on the world stage, there is an opening for people power in solidarity across borders to grow
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The U.S. mainstream media remains obsessed over Russia’s alleged “meddling” in last fall’s election, but the real test of bilateral cooperation may come on the cease-fire in Syria
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Grossman: Big Shots in Hamburg
The current policy is to suffocate Russia economically, blocking its vital oil and gas export routes to western Europe and ruining the economy with sanctions
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The Qatar ‘crisis’ is about taming the one Gulf nation which has the potential to outshine the Saudi kingdom and dictate the outcome of the Syria war
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Escobar: On a Collision Course
Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel will definitely be on a collision course at the G-20, with Merkel emphasizing discussions on climate change, refugees and no trade protectionism, much to Trump’s disgust
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Krugman: Oh! What a Lovely Trade War
Trump doesn’t understand international trade issues. Worse, he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.
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Chomsky: Trump and the State of the Union
Ridicule is not enough. It’s necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don’t recognize the nature and significance of the issues for other reasons
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Corbyn: Brexit, Yemen and the Gulf crisis
Interview on the Grenfell Tower, Theresa May, Al Jazeera and the GCC.
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Ahn: Americans and South Koreans Want Peace
Korea's new pro-engagement president may not have to be as deferential to Washington hardliners as his predecessors
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Engler: Election Interference Hypocrisy
Perhaps it is time for a broader discussion about election meddling
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Cook: Egypt-Saudi Red Sea islands deal
Tel Aviv could use diplomatic capital gained in its approval of Tiran and Sanafir deal for support on Palestinian issue
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Rodríguez Parrilla: Cuba will not make concessions
Press conference by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Relations of Cuba, in Vienna, Austria, June 19, 2017
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Chomsky: Undermining Our Survival
As I mentioned, the policies being formulated and enacted are drawn from the playbook of the most reactionary fringe of the Republican establishment. The abject service to private wealth and power is accompanied with an authoritarian and fundamentalist program to transform U.S. society
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Herman: Foreign Engagement v. Aggression
The United States has been intervening and fighting wars abroad almost continuously since World War II. This has involved frequent aggressions, using standard definitions of the word, with many of them extremely destructive. But these cannot be designated “aggression” in our well-honed propaganda system
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Dangl: The Implications of Bolivia’s Referendum
Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, who rose to prominence as a union leader among coca farmers and as a dissident congressperson, has won three general elections, including a 2014 victory with over 60 percent of the vote, and is now in his tenth year in power
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Herman: Anti-Terrorism Rally in Paris?
Hypocrisy runs deep in the imperialist and colonial-settler states. The United States has regularly and deliberately bombed and killed journalists in states under attack, including Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among others
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The United States government routinely tells its subject citizenry and the world of America’s grand commitment to freedom and democracy. Putting aside the inconvenient problem of its own domestic oligarchy and plutocracy, let’s have a look at some of Washington’s “democracy”-loving key allies
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Herman: The Fool, the Demagogue, and the Former KGB Colonel
The fool is John Kerry, rushing around between Washington and Tel Aviv, assailing Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, and, of course, denouncing the Russians for “aggression”...
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Solomon: Heard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of International Law?
Unfortunately, during the last five years, no world leader has done more to undermine international law than Barack Obama.
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Davies: Checkmate In The Great Game
The June 15-16 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)...
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This is an abridged version of a longer Q&A prepared...
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Albert: On Libya & Unfolding Crises
SHALOM/ALBERT: What are U.S. motives in international relations most broadly...
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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
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Cohen: Why Is The Western Media Ignoring The New Cold War?
Interview on Russia, NATO, and our mainstream media's refusal to report on the New Cold War
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Varoufakis: Privatization, Human Rights & Capitalism
Interview on privatization, human rights, media, experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform
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Greenwald: “The Assassination Complex”
During one five-month period, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets
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Varoufakis: Massive IMF Bailouts are “Ponzi Austerity” Scheme
Negotiations between Greece and international creditors hit an impasse over the bankers’ demands for extra austerity measures
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Chomsky: German Weapons Exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia and the Refugee Crisis
Interview on the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighboring states as well as the European continent
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Wallach: Signing of TPP Marks Only Beginning of the Fight
The Trans-Pacific Partnership encompasses 12 Pacific Rim nations, including the United States, and 40 percent of the world’s economy
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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...