There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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

I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.

China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

I don't use the social media but I can see the effects in my own correspondence. I get a ton of correspondence. It used to be hard copy and now it's a very limited amount of actual letters people write. So it's mostly email.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.