Seth Sandronsky

3 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Seth Sandronsky

In the world of business, economic certainty is a key, not the only one, to profitability. In contrast, economic certainty aids profitability. Thus, President Trump’s on-and-off-again tariffs, or taxes, on imports of foreign goods from the rest of the world’s nations can harm the profitability of businesses of all sizes. However, size matters.  To wit, the bigger the amount of capital a business holds, e.g., large corporations, the less risk there is from economic uncertainty.

3 weeks ago | morningstaronline.co.uk | Seth Sandronsky

I BEGAN to read this book as the governments of Canada, France and Britain publicly declared that the Palestinian people’s suffering under Israel’s 19-month onslaught is intolerable.

4 weeks ago | counterpunch.org | Seth Sandronsky

I began to read Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart (Knopf, 2025) as the governments of Canada, France and the UK publicly declared that the Palestinian people’s suffering under Israel’s 19-month onslaught is intolerable. A cynic might say that this recent opposition is more about public relations to shield the global public from images of Palestinian kids being killed and starved in Gaza.

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Seth Sandronsky

Intan Suwandi is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Illinois State University and the author of Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism (Monthly Review Press, 2019). I requested her views on how and why the world trading system helps the corporations in Europe, Japan and the U.S. (the ruling Triad of modern capitalism) and harms the Global South, an underreported viewpoint. That critique is the special focus of her book.

1 month ago | counterpunch.org | Seth Sandronsky

Institutions, private and public, wield immense power over the lives of people in and out of the U.S. Thus, people’s organized actions to change institutions are by definition David and Goliath-like power struggles. For America, that holds true in the main because the political donor class uses its deep pockets to influence the three branches of  government. Voters lack such influence.