Image source: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times The revelations about César Chávez’s sexual misconduct with girls and women have been devastating. As those of you acquainted with my writings know, I approach most topics from a macro-sociological perspective. This includes my last essay on today’s accelerated implosion of the U.S. social formation, which is generating state violence and social & political chaos under the weight of innumerable pathologies spread by the MA

The United States under Trump: against the world and its own people. By Gonzalo Santos [1] Abstract This essay attempts to analyze the current conjuncture in the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of the historical sociology of the world-system. It seeks to demonstrate that the internal crisis in the US and its renewed imperialist policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (and Greenland) are intimately related as the result of two hist

The Project 2028 supported by the 50501 People's Movement is excellent as far as it goes, restoring & deepening American democracy, extending the social contract, reining in the plutocracy, and restoring the free press; but it is not as comprehensive, audacious and bold as it needs to be - it falls short of including audacious proposals on two urgent, unavoidable, strategic sets of issues: (1) the international geopolitical & geo-economic questions of peace and just global go