Publications

The Nation: The US and European elite need each other as the global hegemony tries to hang on to its unelected position.

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The Real News: Mark Weisbrot imagines the advice and counsel that Ambassador Shannon might offer to the new secretary of state Mike Pompeo, based particularly Shannon’s leading role in US policy in this hemisphere in the twenty-first century.

The Nation: Mark Weisbrot argues that fears of a U.S.–China trade war are overblown, warning that Trump’s real danger lies in his escalating militarism and war-hawk advisers.

March 20, 2018, Mark Weisbrot

The Nation: Mark Weisbrot warns that the U.S. is illegally aiding Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, urges the Senate to end involvement under the War Powers Resolution, and cautions that a new “compromise” bill could prolong the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The New York Review of Books: Mark Weisbrot argues that Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s lead in Mexico’s 2018 presidential race offers a chance for economic and political reform, despite opposition from the country’s corrupt elite and U.S. interests seeking to maintain the status quo.

The Sacramento Bee: A bipartisan Senate bill, led by Sanders, Lee, and Murphy, seeks to end unauthorized US military support for Saudi Arabia’s devastating war in Yemen, which has caused a humanitarian crisis and tens of thousands of civilian deaths.

US News & World Report: The Trump administration, influenced by Senator Marco Rubio, is actively pursuing regime-change efforts in Venezuela—including sanctions, economic pressure, and election interference—to weaken Maduro’s government, while disregarding opposition leaders who could win fairly and undermining the democratic process.

February 2, 2018