It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have been started, how many countries have been destroyed? So now ISIS is the new evil - but how did that evil begin? Is it more evil to do what ISIS is doing, which is to go around massacring people - mainly, but not only, Shi'a - slitting throats? By the way, the US-backed militias are doing similar things, except they don't show beheadings of white folks on TV.