The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country to the other within the space of minutes, crossing channels, crossing oceans, crossing continents. But still, we can't compete with the might and power and wealth of those who dominate, control, and own the means of the production of information today.

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

I think the Americans fished out the same condom but found it had too many holes in it.

In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there is a tradition of writers being quite engaged. Particularly in the Arab world you have had very, very strong traditions of literature and poetry and most of the writers have been deeply committed to the cause of the Arab nation.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.