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.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

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

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

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