This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

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.

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

The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

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

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.