Commentaries

A prestidigitator is a public actor who seeks to make viewers believe that what they see is what he is really doing, [...]
An institution called the G-7 held its annual meeting on June 12-13, 2018 in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada. President Trump attended in the [...]
On May 12, 2018, Muqtada al-Sadr's list unexpectedly won a plurality in the Iraqi legislative elections. This event shook up the entire [...]
Since he became president, Donald Trump has insulted just about everybody with whom he has interacted. The one exception seems to have [...]
April 23, 2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Columbia student uprising in 1968. Since I was involved in the events in [...]
On April 7, 2018 in Brazil Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva was arrested and taken to prison in Curitiba to begin a [...]
People everywhere make claims and complain regularly about corruption and about national security. There is virtually no country in the world where [...]
Two extremely unexpected events occurred regarding the Korean Peninsula in the first week of March 2018. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, offered [...]
The idea of holding the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea seemed destined to fail. The interests of three key actors - [...]
The most fluid arena in the modern world-system, which is in structural crisis, is arguably the geopolitical arena. No country comes even [...]
Politicians everywhere have hidden parts of their political and personal itinerary. Sometimes the exposing of such "secrets" causes disillusionment and/or reduced support [...]
The New York Times has been suggesting that major bondholders - both national and private banks - are discreetly reducing their bond [...]