This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The actual Chemical Weapons Convention. Not the version that [Barack] Obama presented in his address to the nation and that media commentators repeat. What he said is that the convention bars the use of chemical weapons. He knows better. And so do the commentators. The Chemical Weapons Convention calls for banning the production, storage and use of chemical weapons, not just the use. So why omit production and storage?

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview with the Wall St Journal in which he said the social contract's dead; we finally got rid of it.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.