Independent development can be a virus that can infect others.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

...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.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.