What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.