The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

All media depend on advertisement to survive.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.