Europe is being subjected to the kinds of programs that devastated Latin America for many years. Latin America has thrown them out and is pulling out: It's successful; it's democratizing; it's economically developing; and it's free from the shrapnel of US imperialism for 25 years. Meanwhile, Western Europe is destroying itself systematically, destroying itself going in the opposite direction.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental control. They're not yet burdened by the needs of trying to put food on the table in a pretty repressive environment, often, and they're free to explore, to create, to invent, to act, and to organize. Over and over through the years, student activism has been extremely significant in initiating and galvanizing major changes. I don't see any reason for that to change.