Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

Bradley Manning should be regarded as a hero. He is doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population know what the government, the people who rule you are doing. They want to keep it secret of course.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.