Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

People tend to rally around power.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

States are not moral agents.

A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."