The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

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

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

We [ with Edward Herman] believe that the empirical evidence we review there - and elsewhere, in a great deal of joint and separate work - lends substantial support to the conclusions; whether that is true is for others to judge.

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