There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful.

I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.