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

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

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.

In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in self-confidence, that in many cases they line themselves up fairly squarely behind the imperial project and that then creates a big vacuum in which the Islamists become the dominant power because they are the only ones then who are seen as resisting.

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.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

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.