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

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it.

The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.

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

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.