Latest Int. Relations
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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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Koerner: Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach
Venezuela’s armed forces will escort the vessels upon reaching territorial waters.
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Weisbrot: Lives Depend on Argentina’s Debt Talks
Creditors should accept the reality that unsustainable debt burdens only lead to worse crises up the road. At this crucial moment in the global pandemic and recession, many lives may depend on this understanding
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Chew: Stop the $2 Billion Arms Sale to the Philippines
Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the US government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Rodrigo Duterte’s repressive regime. The sale would only pour further fuel on an already dire human rights catastrophe
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Baroud: ICC Investigation of War Crimes in Occupied Palestine
Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has, once and for all, settled the doubts on the Court’s jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in occupied Palestine.
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Bennis: Sanctions in the Era of Pandemic
From Venezuela to Iran, Washington's illegal and inhumane economic sanctions are putting millions of lives at risk
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Ross: Deadly US policy on Covid-19 will split the world in two
The US is now a deadly threat to every person on the planet – that is the inevitable result of Washington’s decision to lift even its very limited lockdown despite the fact the virus continues to rage with full force within the American borders
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Cole: Your Crazy Uncle Sam strikes again, Vetoing Global Peace to own the ChiComs
On Friday, the US used its veto power to block a United Nations resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic
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Abunimah: Ilhan Omar backs Israel lobby campaign against Iran
In an unexpected move, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has reportedly signed on to a letter circulated by AIPAC, the powerful Israel lobby group on Capitol Hill
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Fisk: Trump is Igniting a Cold War With China to Try to Win Re-election
The purpose of Trump’s lies is not to convince by rational argument but to dominate the news agenda by outrageous allegations
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Prashad: Why Did the World Health Organization Wait Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic?
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic
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O'Toole: Trump has destroyed the country he promised to make great again
The world has loved, hated and envied the US, Now, for the first time, we pity it
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Cole: Trump failed on Coronavirus, now wants to “shoot down” tiny Iranian Skiffs
I doubt that Trump’s tweet will last longer than his memory of calling the coronavirus a hoax has. He’s just seeing if he can get a rise from his base by … acting like a scoundrel.
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Frank: The pandemic is a fire drill for our planet’s future
Climate change will mean one emergency after another, year after year, as heat waves, floods, fire and storms blow cascades of failures through our systems
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Gold: De-Funding the World Health Organization
Unethical, Cruel, and Dangerous for the World
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Chomsky: “Gangster in the White House”
Interview on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism
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Cohn: Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus
As the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela
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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
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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...