One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In today's world it's not easy to suppress information. Technology has helped us a great deal.

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

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.

I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three together. I would say that Syriza and Podemos are movements which have come out of mass struggles. In the case of Podemos, directly out of tariqaliextremehuge mass movements in Spain, which started with the occupation of the square. In Greece, as a response to what the EU was doing there, punishing it endlessly, for the sins of its ruling elite.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.