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.

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

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.

If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then use that to restructure the Eurozone and make it a zone where only strong countries are allowed in. There would then be two tiers within the European Union, which is in fact already happening. But you cannot simply get rid of German control by raising the specter of the Third Reich. That's ahistorical.

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

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

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