Commentaries

My first commentary appeared on October 1, 1998. It was published by the Fernand Braudel Center (FBC) at Binghamton University. I have [...]

U.S. superdiplomat Henry Kissinger is famously said to have asked, “Who do I call if I call Europe?” The question is repeatedly [...]

Two leading actors in the modern world systems – Donald Trump and Theresa May of England – sound like broken records. They [...]

We all want to know what the future portends for us about anything important. We all tend to believe the future will [...]

On April 15, 2019, a fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame was a tragedy for people all across the world, and [...]

Epistemology, especially statistics, is the study of how we measure things and how we know if our measurements are correct. Ontology is [...]

For a worldwide struggle to capture the surplus-value there is always a choice. One can give priority to short-term gains. Or one [...]

Two of my regular readers sent me indications that I was not clear in my explanation of what I was talking about [...]

Every compromise has losers. Every compromise has dissenters. Every compromise includes a betrayal. Yet no political struggle can end without a compromise. [...]

Class struggles are eternal, but how they are fought depends on the ongoing state of the world-system in which they are located. [...]

When the United Nations proclaimed its Charter in 1945, it included therein a special privilege for five member states – the power [...]

It was I believe Colin Powell who said that sending in troops in a dispute was easy, but extracting them almost impossible. [...]