Latest Int. Relations

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  Fisk: The Shias are winning in the Middle East – and it’s all thanks to Russia

  Just as Erdogan has become pals with Putin, the Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers have been embracing in Ankara with many a promise that their own talks will produce new alliances
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  Chomsky: Global Struggles for Dominance

  Interview on ISIS, NATO and Russia
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  Hallinan: Dangerous Seas: China & The U.S.

  Simple demographics are shifting the balance of economic and political power from Europe and the U.S. to Asia
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  Bennis: Team Refugee and the Normalization of Mass Displacement

  As refugees take the Olympic stage, the wars that sent them running for their lives continue apace
• Prentoulis: Lexit delusionaries

  The Brexit campaign brought together a number of narratives, none of which signals any progress towards social justice and democracy
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  Amin: Brexit and the EU Implosion: National Sovereignty — For What Purpose?

  The defense of national sovereignty, like its critique, leads to...
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  Swanson: But, Mr. Putin, You Just Don’t Understand

  The purpose of war is indeed war itself. The justifications are always pretexts
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  Bello: Superpower Conflicts Are Driving Tensions in the South China Sea

  The Philippines won a huge legal victory against China on a long-running territorial dispute. But Manila's alliance with Washington may make it all for nothing
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  Cockburn: Turkey, once the great hope of the Middle East, is left weak and unstable

  Erdogan thrives on crisis and confrontation, of which the failed coup is the latest example. But a state of permanent crisis is weakening and destabilising Turkey
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  Cole: Russian & Iranian Press deplore Hillary Clinton Hawkishness; Israelis complain she’s Dove

  How is the international press responding to the Democratic National Convention and the formalization of Hillary Clinton’s status as the party’s standard-bearer in the presidential campaign?
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  Fisk: Qatar exerts huge control over British business, but it could be heading for an ‘Arab autumn’

  Investments by Qatar’s state-owned companies in Britain are the largest in western Europe
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  Halimi: Provoking Russia

  One reason could be that it enables the US to prevent any rapprochement between them, and ensures, after Brexit, that its most biddable ally, the UK, remains closely bound to Europe’s military destiny
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  Savio: How Did We Arrive at This Chaos?

  The real problem is that since the failed Cancun Summit in 1981, countries have lost the ability to think together
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  Gordon: The Trojan Drone

  An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance
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  Cole: Nice, France, Attack: A Gandhian Response to Serial Killers

  You want to reply effectively to Nice? Reject fear and reject hate
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  Rasmus: Brexit

  What are the forces behind "Brexit" and what's coming next ... for Britain and the rest of the world?
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  Falk: Why Arms Control is the Enemy of Nuclear Disarmament

  By encouraging a new norm against first-use of nuclear weapons, Obama could help ensure, for this generation and those to come, that nuclear weapons are never used again
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  Cole: The Real Problem with the Iraq War: It was Illegal

  The Bush-Blair war of aggression in turn authorized many others, and other countries have sometimes openly cited the Iraq War as justification for their own belligerence
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  Prashad: End of exceptionalism

  The U.S. does not have the economic or political power to thrust its agenda on a multipolar world and this is not because, as Donald Trump claims, of the policies of Barack Obama
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  Bacevich: Presidential Candidates Push American Supremacy, Not National Defense

  Interview on how both parties are committed to maintaining U.S. global hegemony through military power