Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.

The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

Workers in different countries can easily be played off against each other.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire to grow coca, but their other means of livelihood have been wiped out.