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

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.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

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

Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.