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.

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

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.

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

If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then use that to restructure the Eurozone and make it a zone where only strong countries are allowed in. There would then be two tiers within the European Union, which is in fact already happening. But you cannot simply get rid of German control by raising the specter of the Third Reich. That's ahistorical.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.