The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

If you see what passes as the news on the networks in the United States, there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world, not even of neighboring countries like Mexico or neighboring continents like Latin America.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.