Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?

What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what the reality is; they concocted an image that you worship.

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.