Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity

States are not moral agents.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.

The market is regarded as democratic because everybody has a vote. Of course, some have more votes than others because your votes depend on the number of dollars you have, but everybody participates and therefore it's called democratic.