Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

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

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.

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

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.