The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.