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- Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012
ZNet Article Obama hasn't given up on one impossible dream - restoring the United States to a position of unquestioned hegemony -
- Friday, Feb 17, 2012
ZNet Article The bottom line is that, however loud the rhetoric and however ugly the civil war, no one really, really wants Assad to go. So, in all probability, he will stay -
- Tuesday, Dec 06, 2011
ZNet Article We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, in which the runners have to use their energy wisely -
- Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011
ZNet Article The Occupy Wall Street movement – for now it is a movement – is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968 -
- Tuesday, Oct 04, 2011
Commentary The United States is clearly weaker geopolitically today than in 2001 -
- Tuesday, Sep 20, 2011
Commentary Social-democracy promised an ever-better future for future generations -
- Saturday, Jul 16, 2011
Commentary The weakness of the United States is that it doesn't have any real options in Pakistan -
- Friday, Jun 03, 2011
Commentary Barack Obama is by conviction and by personality the quintessential centrist -
- Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Commentary Fighting wars requires serious support in public opinion -
- Sunday, May 01, 2011
ZNet Article Keynote address at Points of Connection, The Vienna L'Internationale Conference, 27 October 2010 -
- Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011
Commentary Why the United States has created such an incredibly close alliance with Israel is a matter of much debate. -
- Friday, Apr 01, 2011
Commentary The entire Libyan conflict is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil. -
- Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011
Commentary There is so much hypocrisy and so much confused analysis about what is going on in Libya that one hardly knows where to begin. -
- Tuesday, Mar 01, 2011
Commentary In the middle of the French Revolution, Danton counseled "de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace." ("Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.") -
- Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011
Commentary The World Social Forum (WSF) is alive and well. -
- Thursday, Feb 03, 2011
Commentary The Arab Revolt of 1916 was led by Sharif Hussein bin Ali for Arab independence from the Ottoman Empire. -
- Saturday, Jan 22, 2011
Commentary One of the guiding mantras of the twentieth century was the self-determination of peoples, of nations. -
- Thursday, Dec 30, 2010
Commentary Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia visited Germany in the end of November. Before arriving there, he published an op-ed in the German newspaper, SüddeutscheZeitung, which commented on this interview under the headline, "Putin hugs Europe." -
- Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010
Commentary For the fifteen to twenty years that the Washington Consensus dominated the discourse in the world-system, poverty was a taboo word, even as it was increasing by leaps and bounds. -
- Thursday, Nov 18, 2010
Commentary On October 31, President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva won a sweeping victory in the Brazilian elections. On November 2, President Barack Obama was soundly defeated in the U.S. elections. -
- Thursday, Nov 11, 2010
Commentary Currencies are a very particular economic problem. For currencies are the one true win-lose relationship. -
- Thursday, Sep 09, 2010
Commentary The dictionary defines xenophobia as "fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign." It seems to be an endemic plague everywhere in the world. But it infects larger numbers of people only sometimes. This is o... -
- Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010
Commentary Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of el... -
- Sunday, Jul 04, 2010
Commentary Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he and his staff insulted the civilian leaders of his country. He was fired for insubordination by Pres. Obama. Even his defenders sai... -
- Friday, Jun 04, 2010
Commentary The United States has been clamoring for almost two decades that it is determined to prevent Iran and North Korea from becoming nuclear powers. In-between more urgent issues, the U.S. government regularly reasserts the importance of this objective... -
- Sunday, May 16, 2010
Commentary Fear is the most pervasive public emotion in most of the world today. This fear is not irrational, but it doesn't necessarily lead to wise ways of handling the presumed dangers. The way it operates can be clearly perceived in two notable events of... -
- Saturday, May 01, 2010
Commentary Europe has had its nay-sayers since it started on the long road to unification. There were many who believed it impossible. And there were many who thought it undesirable. Still one has to say that, in the long and sinuous path it has taken since ... -
- Friday, Apr 16, 2010
Commentary Relations between Iran and the United States have been turbulent for almost 60 years now. Before the Second World War, the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, sought to maneuver between the outside demands and pressures of Great Britain, the U.S.S.R.... -
- Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
Commentary On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Workers' Party) in Brazil, the principal independent left newspaper, Brasil de Fato, published interviews with four leading left i... -
- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
Commentary Everyone is discussing what Fortune magazine is calling the "Greek maelstrom" and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else. Whose fault is it? The Greek government is accused of cheating and allowing Greeks to live beyond their means. The E... - All Most Recent Content
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