While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

States are not moral agents.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its principal architects, the powerful. It serves "the vile maxim of the masters: all for ourselves and nothing for anyone else". Those are the basic rules of the world.