If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A bombing was planned [in Syria], which would probably make the situation worse, but would at least establish US credibility.

In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.