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.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.