The internet is something created largely by public funding.

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

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.