There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all critical of the states he worships, and of power generally (except, of course, the power of enemies, which we must denounce, imitating the commissars who are his models, though he doesn't understand it).

Melting of the huge Antarctic glaciers, proceeding more rapidly than anticipated, threatens a rise in sea level that will drive tens of millions from the low-lying plains of Bangladesh alone, with disastrous consequences elsewhere.