What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.