What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to go to his head and is behaving more and more like a despot. Sooner or later this will provoke political uprisings throughout the country as happened after Gezi.

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

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

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.