A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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

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

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What will probably happen, if this continues, is that Syria will be partitioned into probably three regions; a Kurdish region - which is already forming - that could pull out and join in some fashion the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, maybe with some kind of deal with Turkey.

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts and chosen Divinities - and we should not fail to see that the terms are appropriate, if anything too kind.