Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.

The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.