There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns - which are just part of the special forces operations and so on - all of these operations are terror operations.

Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.