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

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.

The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.

The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

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