In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.

If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.