Commentaries
- Turkey: Dilemma of the Kurds
- Britain’s Search for a Post-Hegemonic Identity
- Syria: No Win for the West
- Whose Interests are Served by the BRICS?
- End of the Road for Runaway Factories?
- The World Social Forum: Still Meeting Its Challenge
- After a Charismatic Leader, What?
- Should Non-Catholics Care Who is Named Pope?
- Turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt: Beginning or End of the Revolutions?
- The Very Risky Bet of Hollande in Mali: The Probable Long-Term Disaster
- The Structural Crisis: Middle-Run Imponderables
- Global Turmoil in the Middle Run
- Austerity – At Whose Cost?
- The Latest Palestinian Skirmish: A New Ballgame?
- Obama Won: What Will Happen Now?
- Mali: The Next Afghanistan?
- U.S. Foreign Policy and American Public Opinion
- The Korean Peninsula: The Future of a Geopolitical Nexus
- Does Al-Qaeda Still Matter?
- From Syria to Palestine: A Shift in Focus?
- The Economic Recovery That Isn’t Happening
- The LIBOR Scandal: Why is it Scandalous?
- A Coup in Paraguay: Who Won What?
- Nuclear Armament: Scandalous Hypocrisies
- Blowback, or Impossible Dilemmas of Declining Powers
- The World Class Struggle: The Geography of Protest
- European Elections: Is the Center Holding?
- May Day: The Return of the Trade-Unions?
- Limping Out of Afghanistan
- Elections in France and the United States:The Same and So Very Different
- Israel: Its Fantasies and Its Realities
- The Syrian Impasse
- The Bin Laden Trap: One Down, One to Go
- China and the United States: Rivals, Enemies, Collaborators?
- The World Left After 2011
- The United States versus Everybody
- The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice Movement
- The Paris-Berlin-Moscow Axis Back Again
- U.S. Withdrawal and Defeat in Iraq
- The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street
- How Would al-Qaeda Assess Its Achievements?
- The Social-Democratic Illusion
- The End of Jacobinism? Minorities, States, and Violence
- The World Consequences of U.S. Decline
- “Racing for the Lifeboats: Did the Euro Make It?”
- The U.S.-Pakistan Alliance: Ever More Shaky
- Humala’s Triumph in Peru: America’s Defeat (revised)
- The Coming Israeli Tsunami?
- The Political Quandary of Barack Obama
- Osama is Dead: What Difference Does This Make?
- War-Weariness in the United States?
- The Middle East: Allies in Disarray
- The Great Libyan Distraction
- Libya and the World Left
- The Wind of Change – in the Arab World and Beyond
- The World Social Forum, Egypt, and Transformation
- The Second Arab Revolt: Winners and Losers
- Self-Determination of Peoples? Which Self?
- End of the Recession? Who’s Kidding Whom?
- Mr. Putin Makes an Audacious Offer
- Shall We Discuss Poverty?
- Brazilian and U.S. Elections: Opposite Outcomes
- Currency War? Of Course
- Afghanistan: Does Anyone Want the Burden?
- Does Social-Democracy Have a Future?
- Democracy – Everywhere? Nowhere?
- Xenophobia All Over the Place?
- Contradictions in the Latin American Left
- Ponzi Solitaire
- Whose Taxes Are Going Up?
- Why McChrystal Did It
- Impossible Choices in a World Depression
- Iran and North Korea Again: The Perils of Brinkmanship
- The Anatomy of Fear
- Is Europe Imploding?
- Ahmadinejad says, Thank you America
- Winners and Losers in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock
- Ancient Dilemma of the Left: The Case of Brazil
- Greek Mess, Euromess, Western Nations Mess, World Mess?
- Chaos as an Everyday Thing
- The United States Misreads Brazil's World Policy
- How to Think About China
- U.S. Concerns: First Germany, Now Japan?
- Obama as a Black President
- Western Europe and Russia – Coming Together
- Obama, Bush, and Latin American Coups
- Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose
- The Olympics and Geopolitics
- Iran Again: Is Everyone Bluffing?
- U.S. Internal Politics and its Military Interventions
- The Firestorm Ahead
- Nuclear Proliferation – What If…
- The World Left and the Iranian Elections
- The Right Strikes Back!
- Obama's Very Limited Options
- What Kind of Two-State Solution?
- Obama versus Cheney, Center versus Right
- The Sinking Dollar
- Cuba and the United States: The Slow Thaw
- What Was the Point of the G-20 Meeting?
- Af-Pak: Obama's War
- Civil War in the United States?
- Guadeloupe: Obscure Key to World Crisis
- The Politics of Economic Disaster
- Remaking America: The Ambiguities of Obama
- Chronicle of a Suicide Foretold: The Case of Israel
- Cuba is Back!
- Pakistan: Obama's Nightmare
- Iraq: The Thirteenth Hour
- Obama's Victory – Fear and Hope
- Dramatic Consequences in Iraq?
- The Depression: A Long-Term View
- Bolivia: Defeat of the Right
- The New World Geopolitical Order: End of Act I
- Can NATO Survive Georgia?
- Geopolitical Chess: Background to a Mini-war in the Caucasus
- Afghanistan: Shoals Ahead for President Obama
- Has the 'Surge' in Iraq Worked?
- When the Tough Decide to Become Diplomatic
- Obama's Victory? How Big? How Far?
- How the War Will End in Iraq
- How Far Left Has Latin America Moved?
- Race, Gender, and Class in American Politics: Anything New?
- France Back in NATO? Is this for real?
- Wall Street is Really Predicated on Greed
- When Henry Kissinger Opines
- What Can He Change?
- Walking Away: The Least Bad Option
- 2008: The Demise of Neoliberal Globalization
- Kenya: Stable Democracy or Meltdown?
- What Have the Zapatistas Accomplished?
- A Major Reversal? The NIE Report on Iran
- False Choices, or Media Traps
- What Does Putin Want
- Last Call for a Two-State Solution?