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.

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

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

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

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

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.

The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.