The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.

The situation in Turkey is extremely troubling. A panic-stricken regime, desperate to divide the Kurdish population from non-Kurds because it feared the rise of the HDP, has helped to create a huge crisis in the country. Can it be ended while Tayyip Erdogan remains in power? I don't think so. Erdogan may not be a "joker," but he is definitely a political plagiarist.

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

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

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

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."