Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.