Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.

What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done.

I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.